Kingdom Refugees - Jeremiah 29:1-15 | Skip Heitzig
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- Опубліковано 29 жов 2023
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A refugee is a displaced person, someone forced to leave his or her country and live elsewhere. The people of Judea were refugees living in Babylon. They’d been kidnapped and taken hundreds of miles away. So Jeremiah sent them a letter giving instructions on how to live as God’s people on foreign soil. We should take his words to heart since we too are displaced from our eternal home.
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Powerful exposition. We are sojourners here on earth; our permanent home is made without hands by God in heaven. We believers eagerly wait for the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
a very wonderful presentation, our lives today are just like the israelis in babylon, we need to be patient in faith while we seek and hold onto God s plan for us
Thank you Jesus for your Love that pursues us!
That is my prayers for America, too. REVIVAL!!
So encouraging.
Thank you for teaching God's Scriptures and giving pace hope and love of God.
Thank God for the new Leader Johnson who claims he is a Christian and began with that claim.
The setting for Jeremiah 29 is about 617/616 B.C.E., right after King Nebuchadnzzar had taken "the good figs" back to Babylon (such as Daniel and his three Hebrew companions, and Ezekiel), while leaving "the rotten figs" (with the exception of a few, such as Jeremiah, Ebed-melech, and Baruch) in the land of Judah.(Jer 29:16, 17)
At Jeremiah 24, the account says: "Then Jehovah (God's name, see Isa 12:2, KJV) showed me two baskets of figs set before the temple of Jehovah, after King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar of Babylon had carried into exile (18 year old) Jec·o·niʹah (2 Kings 24:8) son of Je·hoiʹa·kim (who, in about 618 B.C.E., apparently had died during the siege of Jerusalem by King Nebuchadnezzar, 2 Kings 24:1; Jer 22:18, 19), the king of Judah, along with the princes of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metalworkers; he took them from Jerusalem to Babylon. One basket had very good figs, like early figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten."(Jer 24:1, 2)
Jehovah now tells Jeremiah: "This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says, ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard in a good way the exiles of Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chal·deʹans (as a protection when King Nebuchadnezzar returned some eight years later, in 609 B.C.E., and destroys the land of Judah with its inhabitants and its city of Jerusalem, 2 Kings 25:1-10)."
"I will keep my eye on them for their good, and I will cause them to return to this land. I will build them up, and I will not tear down; I will plant them, and I will not uproot. And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Jehovah."
"They will become my people, and I will become their God, for they will return to me (in a minor fulfillment in 537 B.C.E., Ezra 1:1-6, and rebuild the temple, being finished in 515 B.C.E., Ezra 6:15) with all their heart.(Jer 29:13)"
"But concerning the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, this is what Jehovah says: “So I will regard (about 21 year old) King Zed·e·kiʹah of Judah (2 Kings 24:18), his princes, the remnant of Jerusalem who are left in this land, and those who are dwelling in the land of Egypt."
"I will make them an object of horror and calamity to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach, a proverbial saying, a cause for ridicule, and a curse in all the places to which I disperse them. And I will send against them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and to their forefathers."(Jer 24:5-10)
So, when the Jews returned to Jerusalem in 537 B.C.E, and began offering up "burnt sacrifices" on a reconstructed altar to Jehovah God, on its former site, the Israelites also held the Festival of Booths (Num 29:10; Deut 16:13), that ran from Tishri 15-21, or from about October 1-7, whereby afterward, they "offered up the regular burnt offerings and the offerings for the new moons", though the temple foundation was yet to be laid.(Ezra 3:1-6)
True worship was supposed to have had a new beginning with the repatriation of the Jews from ancient Babylon, and it seemed to have started out that way, but years down the line, instead the Jews began marrying "foreign women" and by the time Ezra came to Jerusalem in about 468 B.C.E., he was told:
"The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands and their detestable practices, those of the Caʹnaan·ites, the Hitʹtites, the Perʹiz·zites, the Jebʹu·sites, the Amʹmon·ites, the Moʹab·ites, the Egyptians, and the Amʹor·ites."
"They have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons. Now they, the holy offspring (of Jehovah), have become mingled with the peoples of the lands (or "part of the world", see 2 Cor 6:14, in contrast to Jehovah's true servants being "NO PART of the world", John 15:19, marrying only loyal servants of Jehovah, see 1 Cor 7:39) The princes and the deputy rulers have been the foremost offenders in this unfaithfulness.”(Ezra 9:1, 2; see also Deut 7:3, 4)
So, who are "the good figs" and "the rotten figs" today ?
The Israelites made a covanaant with people who had deceived them to not destroy that people
Several hundred years later the king of Israel wiped out those people
Which brought judgment on his house