graphe arithmos

October 31, 1999

an unlikely alliance

Jeremiah 25
 
Verses 1-14 go over the importance of following God and not worshiping other gods. Judah got sent into captivity for it.

Jeremiah 26

Jeremiah was almost sentenced to death. De ja vu. Although some of the elders of the city steped in and defended Jeremiah. They mentioned that the other Kings that have heard the warning of Jerusalem’s destruction had taken head to the warning and started following God again. Thus they were saved, and so was Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 27
 
Nebuchadnezzar will reign whether you al like it or no. That was the main message of Jeremiah in this chapter. God was testing (by human standards) if Isreal would really listen to His commands. This may sound odd, but Nebie (k. Nezzar, sorry, Veggie Tales thing) was God’s servant. It even says so!

Verse 27:6:
“Now I will hand all your contries over to my
servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; I
will make even the wild animals subject to him.”

The punishment for not following Nebie was the entire country being wiped out.

October 21, 1999

figy figy figy

Jeremiah 24

There’s two baskets of figs. The good figs God would keep close to him. The Bad basket of figs, God would reject, and despose of them. The good figs in today’s terms, here holy and sinless. The Bad figs were evil and sinful.

October 20, 1999

and He wrote a warning

Jeremiah 23

The main jist of chapter 23 is a warning to priests. It basicly says don’t lead my sheap astray. God’s addressing the leaders of the Jewish faith here. If you do good you get rewards, If you do bad, you die. Not very uplifting is it? But these priests were worshiping other God’s and lieing to the people about what God wanted. That’s all, God bless and have a wonderful day!

October 19, 1999

fight not

Jermiah 21-22

There is a lot of text to basicly say, “Don’t fight God. Do as he says. Or face the consequences.” That’s bascily the message God gave to give to you all. Have a good day, and God bless you all!

October 18, 1999

jeremiah curses

jeremiah 20

Here is what i call a “Typical Jeremiah”, he gets beaten, thrown in jail, rejected, all for telling the truth. Well, this time he turn around and rebukes the people that did it to him. That’s verses 1-6, 7-18 take a turn that Jeremiah actually fell into very few times, but when he did, he went all out.

“Lord, why have you deceived me?”
“Well-”
“I wasn’t finished. I tell people your truth, but they insult me. I tell of there destruction, so they try to destroy me.”
“Are you done?”
“No! Then they actually plan my demise.”
“Anything else?”
“Yes. Thank you for making me a mighty warrior. But I just wish that you would strike them down in their evilness and bullying”
“You are very lucky I’m patient”
“What? Nevermind. Curse the day I was born! Curse anyone that had anything to do with it! Why did i have to be born, just see all of this shame sorrow?”

Remeber, that’s just my retelling of it. But this is basicly what Jeremiah said. He was mad, he wanted some thing to go his way, and it just wasn’t at that moment. So he complained. It didn’t get him anywhere. But I do know that God shed his grace on Jeremiah, because there’s about 30 more chapters to this book.