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... Introduction
Jeremiah is one of the great religious people who through their awareness of God reveal Gods meaning to the people. ...
(Jer 9:22-23)
This was essential to Jeremiah - and he could not rest on that alone but endeavors in his life to make these words a reality for all - that we too would understand and know God.
Jeremiah was driven by his awareness of God - the same passion that drove Moses and Isaiah and the Prophets. ... (I) Jeremiah: The Person.
Jeremiah came from the town of Anathoth, just north of Jerusalem. ...
Jeremiah become one of the great Biblical figures and despite the difficulties of his life his ministry covers a period of 45 years down to the fall of Jerusalem in 587 BCE and for several years after.
“Jeremiah lived in changing times. ... He died around 580 in exile in Egypt in the worst of times when Judah was no longer a nation, Jerusalem was in ruins, the temple had been burnt and Jews had been deported into exile in Babylon” (Peter F Ellis Jeremiah). ... (II) Jeremiah: The Personality.
Jeremiah is a radical voice. ...
“We gain a good picture of the man Jeremiah in his book because we see him through many eyes at slightly different angles. ... 366)
“ He had a great sensitivity both to what God asked and to what humans need to find - when the people refused to hear his words, Jeremiah felt the anguish personally. ... Human nature would tempt one to tell either King or Priest what they wished to hear: Jeremiah was not a pragmatist. ... Jeremiah’s prophetic nature is very deep. ...
Jeremiah had a tremendously deep awareness of God which impacted on his whole life and which reverberated through him and that awareness drove and energised his ministry. ... In 627 BCE Assyria was the greatest world power and by the time Jeremiah’s death in Exile in Egypt Babylon was the dominant nation. ... Jeremiah’s Message. ... Jeremiah rebukes them as less honourable than the people of the Northern State which had earlier collapsed. ... Jeremiah warns them that such meaningless words and practices are not acceptable to God. ...
To understand the chasm between Jeremiah and the people - one gets an excellent insight to the religious forces that he encounter - when towards the end of the book the people respond angrily to his criticism.
“then all the men who knew their wives were offering incense to foreign gods replied to Jeremiah in a louder voice” as for what you say of Yahweh we will not listen - we wanted to do all that we said we wanted to do; burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out wine to her as we did, we and our fathers, our Kings and princes in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. ... Justice
Jeremiah was driven by an extraordinary sense of justice - and took the commandments of Moses as one of respect for each person as a creation by God in his image and his preaching on justices for the person especial those who are in need preempts Christ’s teaching of the commandment. ...
False Witness and False Prophets
Jeremiah was a critical voice of the political authorities of his time and of the slavish mentality and behaviour of the people. ...
In Chapter 7 Jeremiah spells out in simple language what true Religion is - and he ties it back to Moses.
Approximate Word count = 2814
Approximate Pages = 11.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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