Category: Jeremiah

This false deity known as the Queen of Heaven is referred to only in the book of Jeremiah. Four times her name appears in Jeremiah 44 and then once she’s spoken of in Jeremiah 7. Let’s look at Jeremiah 7:16-20 to remind us of what God has already said of her there. KJV Jeremiah 7:16 ¶ Therefore pray…

In Jeremiah 44 we’re going to hear the last words (chronologically in this book) of the people, of Jeremiah, and of God. God: Jews in Egypt Will Be Punished| 1-14 To begin, in verses 1-14 the Lord has a message to his people who disobeyed him by fleeing Judah and instead going to live in…

In Jeremiah 43 we see a very familiar pattern unfolding once more in this book. That pattern is — the people disobeying and as a consequence, the Lord threatens to punish them. But let’s back up and see where we’ve been and how we got to this point in the book of Jeremiah. At the…

Jeremiah 42. Here we are in the 42nd chapter of the Old Testament book of Jeremiah. We’re in the midst of a “fiasco” – “a thing that is a complete failure, especially in a ludicrous or humiliating way.” This started in Jeremiah 40 and will end in Jeremiah 43. This fiasco — as we’ve seen…

Jeremiah 41. We’re in the second chapter of what I’ve labeled a “fiasco.” That fiasco started in Jeremiah 40. Gedaliah was appointed governor of Judah by Babylon. Then all the Jews who were scattered from the war started returning to Gedaliah. Things seemed to be going well. It almost seemed like maybe God was beginning…

We’re in Jeremiah 40 today. This chapter is the start of a new story that runs to the end of Jeremiah 43. When we went through the entire book of Jeremiah in two messages I called this section the Gedaliah/Johanan Fiasco. This chapter serves as the introduction to that fiasco. Let’s start with the first…

We’re in Jeremiah 39. Jeremiah 39 is the culmination of much of what we’ve already read throughout the first 38 chapters of this book. God has made many threats in an attempt to turn his people back to him. But they had refused over and over. So, you wonder – what will happen to those…