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Jeremiah
(From Forerunner Commentary)

God chose Jeremiah to serve Him in a momentous period of His people's history. Among other things, God charged Jeremiah with nothing less than destroying and throwing down the Davidic monarchy from its seed grounds in Palestine, and replanting it in the West (see Jeremiah 1:10). Charles Whitaker Servant of God, Act One: Going Around, Coming Around

Jeremiah 1:4-5  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Jeremiah had a history even before he was born! Before Jeremiah's conception, God had a plan for him. Then He formed him and set him apart as a prophet while still in the womb. God clearly infers personal human life in Jeremiah going all the way back to conception, though he was unaware of God's activity. John W. Ritenbaugh Murder?

Jeremiah 1:5  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) This verse shows how far ahead God was planning. The key prophet during the sixth-century Axial Period is Jeremiah, and God prepared him from his conception. John W. Ritenbaugh Prophets and Prophecy (Part 3)

Jeremiah 1:6-10  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Above all others, Jeremiah is the "Axial Man," prepared by God. God told him that he was a prophet not only to Israel and Judah, but to many other nations and kingdoms, and his job was to root out, pull down, destroy, throw down, build, and plant. Jeremiah 25:15-30 greatly fleshes out Jeremiah's commission. John W. Ritenbaugh Prophecy and the Sixth-Century Axial Period

Jeremiah 1:6-10  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Above all others, Jeremiah is the "axial" man prepared by God. God told Jeremiah, a prophet not only to Israel and Judah but to the nations and kingdoms, to root out, pull down, destroy, throw down, build, and plant. Many of us understand this verse in light of Jeremiah's influence on the destruction of Judah and the replanting of David's dynasty in Ireland. However, Jeremiah 25:15-29 shows that his responsibility extended much farther than Israel and Judah. John W. Ritenbaugh Prophets and Prophecy (Part 3)

Jeremiah 1:9-10  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Jeremiah 1:9-10 recounts God's commission to Jeremiah, at the time a teenager. Jeremiah's task was so important that God had prepared him for it from his conception (verse 5). He encouraged Jeremiah by telling him not to fear those to whom he would be sent, "for I am with you to deliver you" (verse 8). He ends His commission in verse 19, assuring Jeremiah that the people to whom he would be sent will "fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you. For I am with you, . . . to deliver you." Jeremiah was destined to carry on God's work over the objections of entire nations and kingdoms (note the plurals). As Solomon writes in Ecclesiastes 3:2-3, God knows full well that there is "a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted; . . . a time to break down, and a time to build up." God did not only use Jeremiah in His purpose to root out, pull down, destroy, and overthrow the Perez-centered monarchy, but also to plant and build a Zerah-Perez monarchy. Charles Whitaker Searching for Israel (Part Nine): The Migration of a Monarchy

Jeremiah 3:12-13  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Jeremiah, pleading for Israel to repent, to "acknowledge your iniquity" (verse 13), asks that his words be proclaimed "toward the north." Jeremiah, remember, lived at the time of Judah's fall to the Babylonians, some 130 years after the Kingdom of Israel had been forcibly moved out of its homeland. So, he was not writing to Israelites domiciled within a hundred miles north of Jerusalem—residing in and around Samaria. No, he is addressing a people living somewhere else further north. Charles Whitaker Searching for Israel (Part Eight): The Scattering of Ten-Tribed Israel

Jeremiah 15:10  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Notice how he describes himself. The life of a prophet of God was not easy. For Jeremiah, life was exceedingly difficult, and because of it, he was feeling very sorry for himself. John W. Ritenbaugh Prophets and Prophecy (Part 2)

Jeremiah 15:18  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) By "my wound incurable," he means his heart. John W. Ritenbaugh Prophets and Prophecy (Part 2)

Jeremiah 25:15-30  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) This is a tremendously broad commission to lay on one man's shoulders! His ministry embraced the totality of the biblical world, and some verses can be understood to encompass the entire world. Many of these nations had existed from the time God scattered the people by confusing the languages at Babel (Genesis 11). Did Jeremiah actually, in person, deliver this warning to these nations? We do not know because records are so rare. Jeremiah's writings include specific prophecies against Egypt, Philistia, Moab, Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Elam, Kedar, Hazor, and Babylon. Did he deliver these prophecies in person, or does the duality principle apply so that the literal fulfillment will occur in a time like ours, when rapid transportation and communication systems exist?   John W. Ritenbaugh Prophecy and the Sixth-Century Axial Period

Daniel 9:24  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) This verse introduces the prophecy. Basically, Gabriel says that, within the seventy weeks, all of these things—the whole plan of God—will be fulfilled. "Weeks" is the Hebrew word shabua, meaning "sevens." In his prayer, Daniel mentions Jeremiah's prophecy of seventy years of captivity (verse 2), but Gabriel says it will not be just seventy years but seventy times seven years. Richard T. Ritenbaugh 'Seventy Weeks Are Determined...'

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