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Jeremiah

00. Jeremiah: Introduction

01. Jeremiah: The Prophetic Calling of Jeremiah

02. Jeremiah: The Crisis Within and Without

03. Jeremiah: The Last Five Kings of Judah

04. Jeremiah: Rebuke and Retribution

05. Jeremiah: More Woes for the Prophet

06. Jeremiah: Symbolic Acts

07. Jeremiah: The Crisis Continues

08. Jeremiah: Josiah’s Reforms

09. Jeremiah: Jeremiah’s Yoke

10. Jeremiah: The Destruction of Jerusalem

11. Jeremiah: The Covenant

12. Jeremiah: Back to Egypt

13. Jeremiah: Lessons from Jeremiah


Welcome to an in-depth exploration of the Book of Jeremiah, written by Imre Tokic, PhD, LLD, edited for audio and produced by the Ambassador Group. Our narrators for this exploration are Byron Phillips and Lynette Newhart. Let's learn about the primary contributor to these explorations. The primary contributor for our explorations in the book of Jeremiah is Imre Tokic, PhD, who is the head of the Old Testament Department at the Adventist Theological College in Pesel, Hungary. He is a professor of Old Testament and Jewish religious sciences and also has a Doctor of Law, LLD degree.

And now, let's learn about a key phrase in the book of Jeremiah. Biblical Hebrew, like most languages, is sprinkled with idioms, words, or phrases that mean something different from what they immediately say. An example is miyatayn, which is composed of 2 Hebrew words, mi, which is the interrogative who, and yitayn, which means will give. So the translation is, who will give? In the Hebrew Bible, this phrase expresses the idea of a wish, of a desire, of Someone wanting something badly.

For example, after their escape from Egypt, the children of Israel, facing challenges in the wilderness, exclaimed, If only we had died by the Lord's hand in Egypt. Exodus 16 and verse 3. The phrase, if only, came from me-y-tayn. In Psalms 14 and verse 7, David utters, Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion. The Hebrew doesn't say, O, it says, Me-y-tayn.

In Job 6, 8, when Job exclaims, O that I might have my request, O is from Me-y-tayn. Another occurrence appears, this time in Deuteronomy 5, verse 29. Going over the history of God's providences, Moses reminds the children of Israel about their request that he, Moses, taught the Lord for them lest they die. According to Moses, the Lord, pleased with their request, then said, Oh, that there were such an heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always. The word translated O, yes, it is me-y-tain.

Incredible! Here is the Lord, the Creator God, the 1 who made space, time, and matter, the 1 who spoke our world into existence, the 1 who breathed into Adam the breath of life, uttering a phrase generally associated with the weakness and limitations of humanity. Talk about the reality of free will. Talk about the limits of what God can do in the midst of the great controversy. This use of me attain reveals that even God won't trample on free will, because the moment he did, it would no longer be free.

Now if ever 1 book of the Old Testament revealed the reality of God's desire for humans to obey him and the human tendency not to, it would be the book of Jeremiah, the topic of our exploration. Set against the background of great geopolitical changes in the ancient Near East, the book of Jeremiah recounts the ministry and message of the prophet as he, with passion and faithfulness, preached God's message to a people who, for the most part, didn't want to hear it. Starting with the Prophet's call, the book takes us through decades of biblical history as the Lord used this young and then old man to proclaim the basic truths that have been the foundation of the biblical message from the beginning. And of all the spiritual truths taught in the book, These words catch the essence of so much of what the Lord seeks from his people. Thus says the Lord, Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, Let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts, boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth.

For in these things I delight, declares the Lord." Jeremiah 9, verses 23 and 24. To read the book of Jeremiah is to take a journey, a spiritual journey that goes back and forth from the lowest depths of human depravity to the heights and grandeur and majesty of the Lord, The Lord who from those heights cries out to all of us, even in our fallen state, Mi-y-tayn, that such a heart would be in you. AmbassadorGroup.org Thank you for exploring with us. This media was brought to you by Audioverse, a website dedicated to spreading God's Word through free sermon audio and much more. If you would like to know more about Audioverse, or if you would like to listen to more sermons, please visit www.audioverse.org.

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