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In Jeremiah, chapter sixteen, verses two through ten, certain restrictions were put on Jeremiah’s life and ministry that would serve as object lessons for the people when the hour of judgment arrived. The first restriction was not to marry and have children, illustrating that in the coming affliction, many families would die, as in verses […]

In Jeremiah, chapter fifteen, verses nineteen through twenty-one, “Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as thy mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

In Jeremiah, chapter fifteen, verse sixteen, “Thy words were found, and I did eat them: and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord of hosts.” Jeremiah differed from the people in two fundamental ways. He loved the word of the Lord;

In Jeremiah, chapter fifteen, verse ten, “Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent to me usury, nor men have lent to me usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.” Jeremiah complained to the

In Jeremiah, chapter fifteen, verses one to nine, God responds to Jeremiah’s intercession in chapter fourteen, verses nineteen through twenty-two. Because the people had rejected God and kept on backsliding, the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile to Babylon were inevitable. God said He would ignore even the intercession of Moses and Samuel if they

In Jeremiah, chapter fourteen, verse seventeen, “Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grevious blow.” Once again, Jeremiah expresses deep sorrow over the

In Jeremiah, chapter fourteen, verse fourteen, “Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets that prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake I unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart. God’s

In Jeremiah, chapter thirteen, verse twenty-two, “And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.” When judgment came, the people had to know that it was happening to them because of their many sins; they were

In Jeremiah, chapter thirteen, verses one through eleven, “Thus saith the Lord unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it on thy loins, and put it not in water. So I got a girdle, according to the word of the Lord, and put it on my loins. And the word of

In Jeremiah, chapter twelve, verses sixteen through seventeen, “And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by thy name, The Lord liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people. But if they