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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.
Continue reading...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
Continue reading...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.”
Continue reading...Jeremiah 2:9-19, Forsaking the Source of Living Water
I was privileged years ago to attend Institutes in Biblical Counseling and hear the late Larry Crabbe do a devotional on this passage. He says of verse 13, Digging leaky wells highlights our desire for
Continue reading...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
Continue reading...Jeremiah 1:11-19, Jeremiah’s First Visions
In these first two messages, or more properly, visions, Jeremiah is not told to go tell anyone what he sees. It is as if this is a test to see that Jeremiah is actually getting God’s message, and it
Continue reading...Jeremiah 1:4-10, Jeremiah’s Call to Ministry
Stephen, the first Christian martyr, asked his persecutors, “Were there any prophets your ancestors did not persecute?” (Acts 7:52). The seer, the man of God (or woman of God, Exodus 15:20, Judges
Continue reading...Jeremiah 1:1-3, Introduction to Jeremiah’s Prophecy
If you were an Israelite living in Jeremiah’s time you would probably be very focused on international relations. You might be a poli-sci major by necessity. Your country was nestled between two competing
Continue reading...Daniel 12:1-13, The Time of the Great Tribulation
Beginning in chapter 10 Daniel has been given a vision or revelation about the near and far future of his people who have returned from Babylon/Persia to their homeland Israel. He has been told by the
Continue reading...Daniel 11:2-45, The Near and Far Antichrist
This very long and complex vision is a remarkably detailed prophecy of what will happen to the holy land in the future, something Daniel could not have known otherwise than by divine revelation. 11:2 “Now
Continue reading...Daniel 10:1-11:1, The Invisible War
“…there is an invisible world that is just as real as the visible world. There’s an invisible world. There’s a world that you can’t see and that I can’t see that’s just as real as
Continue reading...Daniel 9:20-27, The Seventy Weeks
Daniel has been confessing Israel’s sin and asking Yahweh for mercy and the return of his people to their land according to the prophecies of Jeremiah (25:11-13; 29:11). Yahweh sends an angel, Gabriel,
Continue reading...Daniel 9:1-19, Daniel’s Confession
Jeremiah 25:11-13 says, “11 This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 Then after seventy years are completed, I will
Continue reading...Daniel 8:1-27, The Vision of the Ram and Goat
We come across another little horn in this passage, but it is not the little horn we saw in chapter 7, which came out of the revived Roman empire, the fourth beast of chapter 7, the iron/clay feet of chapter
Continue reading...Daniel 7:15-28, The Interpretation of the Vision
Twice Daniel mentions how concerned, “anxious,” “alarmed,” and frightened he is of this vision of the four beasts. This must be due, in part, to the other unique aspect of this vision, which is
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