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Jeremiah 26-29
Sep. 26th, 2010 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolfpurplemoonJeremiah is put on trial because everyone thinks he is a false prophet, they are rather easily convinced that he's really talking to God when he repeats what he'd already been saying with more emphasis on the 'God told me to say it' and because a previous prophet who was killed also prophesied Jerusalem becoming an uninhabitable wasteland because of the sins of the people.
God wants all nations to submit to rule under the king of Babylon, until Babylon is destroyed by other enemies. Not sure what anyone is achieving through this temporary submission, but God will destroy anyone who refuses, so the benefit is to avoid getting destroyed. Nice motivation there.
A prophet who predicts that the servitude will only last two years is killed by God for lying. Jeremiah says that if you predict good things then it has to come true, because I guess if you predict bad things you can say that it was averted because God relented.
God tells Jeremiah to write a letter to the exiled people in Babylon, which begs the question that should have occurred to me earlier in this book, why is God only talking to Jeremiah when Jeremiah is alone? And telling him to go out and spread God's message. Why doesn't he tell everyone himself? This is part of why I am so sceptical about the truth of these prophesies, but mainly because they could easily have been written after the fact or the events that were predicted were only recorded in the pages of the bible.
God wants all nations to submit to rule under the king of Babylon, until Babylon is destroyed by other enemies. Not sure what anyone is achieving through this temporary submission, but God will destroy anyone who refuses, so the benefit is to avoid getting destroyed. Nice motivation there.
A prophet who predicts that the servitude will only last two years is killed by God for lying. Jeremiah says that if you predict good things then it has to come true, because I guess if you predict bad things you can say that it was averted because God relented.
God tells Jeremiah to write a letter to the exiled people in Babylon, which begs the question that should have occurred to me earlier in this book, why is God only talking to Jeremiah when Jeremiah is alone? And telling him to go out and spread God's message. Why doesn't he tell everyone himself? This is part of why I am so sceptical about the truth of these prophesies, but mainly because they could easily have been written after the fact or the events that were predicted were only recorded in the pages of the bible.
