Idolatry – A Thimble-full of Theology for Daily Living

Yahweh’s Answer to Habakkuk’s Complaint (Habakkuk 1:5-11)

I remember my younger son coming from a workout and jokingly saying in front of a mirror as he flexed, “I am a god.” When we are strong we can feel invincible, we can feel god-like, we may even worship

Jeremiah 14, The Drought

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/ By Randall Johnson

Did you know that the United States monitors drought throughout the nation on a map. “The Drought Monitor summary map identifies general areas of drought and labels them by intensity. D1 is the least

Jeremiah 11, Broken Covenant and Conspiracy

Jeremiah had been preaching the Lord’s message during the time of king Josiah’s reforms. In repairing Yahweh’s temple in Jerusalem, the covenant of Yahweh with His people had been discovered and

Jeremiah 10, Judgment on Idolatry

Idols and astrology. These were the adopted religion of Israel. Jeremiah makes a polemic, an attack, on this false worldview, and defends the worship of the true God. And he attributes to this idolatry

Jeremiah 7:1-19, Defiling the Temple You Trust In

Where would you go if you wanted to communicate with a large percentage of your community? Yahweh told Jeremiah to go to the temple gate, the place where the people of Judah entered the court around the

Jeremiah 5:1-19, Yahweh’s Eyes Look for Truth

The Pew Research Center polling in July of 2023 found that 66% of Americans say they place more importance on political candidates having similar political views to their own, 18% saying shared religious

Jeremiah 4:5-31, The Certainty of Coming Judgment

Apparently the call to sincere repentance in 4:1-4 was not heeded. Judah did not really want to follow Yahweh, did not want to give up her gods, her Ba’als, her sexual rituals, nor her dependence on

Jeremiah 3:19-25, A Further Appeal to Israel and Judah

God is speaking now to all Israel, Judah and Israel viewed as one nation. Though He has used the metaphor of Israel and Judah as His wives, Yahweh now speaks of the nation as one He would like to give

Jeremiah 3:12-18, God’s Appeal for Exiled Israel’s and Judah’s Repentance

Having said that faithless Israel was more righteous than faithless Judah, Yahweh makes an appeal to the exiled people of Israel in Assyria to repent and return to Him. This is indirectly also an appeal

Jeremiah 3:6-10, Comparison of Judah to Israel

King Josiah had legislated a top-down reform of Judah’s spiritual practices (2 Kings 22,23), removing idolatrous items from the temple, getting rid of idolatrous priests, tearing down the religious shrines

Jeremiah 3:1-5, Judah in Divorce Court

Yahweh is continuing Judah’s day in court, bringing charges against her. And it becomes apparent that this is really divorce court. Yahweh is justifying divorcing His people because they have been unfaithful.

Jeremiah 2:29-37, Blaming God

Yahweh is still picturing this as a court of law in which He has brought charges against His people. They try to bring counter charges. 29 “Why do you bring charges against me? All of you have rebelled

Jeremiah 2:20-28, Metaphors of Unfaithfulness

“A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two different ideas.”

Jeremiah 2:1-8, Yahweh’s Anguish at Israel’s Defection

This is the beginning of a lengthy message to Israel (Judah), Jeremiah’s first message, it appears. 2:1 The word of Yahweh came to me: 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This

Daniel 1:3-7, Training to Be a Chaldean

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/ By Randall Johnson

When I was 14 I began attending a new school. In each class they called roll and they had my first and last name on the roll. I went by my middle name but I answered, “here,” and so was being called

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