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Jeremiah 14-17
Sep. 23rd, 2010 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolfpurplemoonSo, because Israel turned away from God there is now a severe drought that is also making life tough for the wild animals. That's what you call an appropriate punishment.
God tells Jeremiah that the other prophets he's seen and heard are false and is going to kill them for claiming they speak for God, the voice in your head would be quite likely to claim it is real and that the voices in everyone else's heads were false.
Being a prophet continues to make Jeremiah unpopular and he moans to God about how lonely and friendless he is, God then threatens to sack him as prophet if he doesn't stop whining. He gets protection from his enemies as part of his prophet gig, and God warns him not to get married or have children because his family would just die in all the punishment God is about to get around to giving out.
Jeremiah is to tell everyone that it's really important for them to observe the Sabbath, it's not clear if that will avert the disaster God is going to bring but everyone should not do any work on that special day anyway.
God tells Jeremiah that the other prophets he's seen and heard are false and is going to kill them for claiming they speak for God, the voice in your head would be quite likely to claim it is real and that the voices in everyone else's heads were false.
Being a prophet continues to make Jeremiah unpopular and he moans to God about how lonely and friendless he is, God then threatens to sack him as prophet if he doesn't stop whining. He gets protection from his enemies as part of his prophet gig, and God warns him not to get married or have children because his family would just die in all the punishment God is about to get around to giving out.
Jeremiah is to tell everyone that it's really important for them to observe the Sabbath, it's not clear if that will avert the disaster God is going to bring but everyone should not do any work on that special day anyway.
