Jeremiah, The Weeping Prophet

The kingdoms of Judah and Israel had been divided for about 200 years eventually leading to the kingdom of Israel being overrun by the Assyrians and the people led into exile in 721 BC and then to the downfall of the kingdom of Judah and the exile to Babylonia in 587 BC. This was the world into which Jeremiah was born. It is hard to conceive that there was ever a time when The Old Testament could ever have been lost but that is exactly what had happened before Jeremiah’s time. The oral tradition, handed down from generation to generation, had been perverted to the point where there was no clear understanding of what the people of God were to believe or follow.

The division within the nation had not only split the kingdom and the family of David but also led to splits within the priesthood. Such divisions led to many strange practices.

In his lifetime Jeremiah would move through a period of history as catastrophic as the period in time in the first half of the 20th century. He began to prophesy in the last times of a great nation with its temples and priestly orders and kings. He would witness terrible strife and oppression and see the destruction of the nation’s whole life. He would be challenged to help them find meaning in the midst of such turmoil and be challenged in his own life to discover how to truly worship God when all the familiar places had disappeared.

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