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Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Day 209: Jeremiah’s third message

Josiah was so good. So good. Why doesn't Jeremiah praise him more? 
Josiah’s reforms
2 Kings 23:15-20, 2 Chronicles 34:33
Jeremiah preaches in the Temple
Jeremiah 7:1-15
Birth of Ezekiel 622 BC
The people’s disobedience
Jeremiah 7:16-29
Vengeance threatened
Jeremiah 7:30-34
Bones to remain unburied
Jeremiah 8:1-3
The people’s stupidity
Jeremiah 8:4-13
The alarm of invasion
Jeremiah 8:14-17
Jeremiah’s lamentation
Jeremiah 8:18-22

Josiah continued with his reforms., which included protecting the tomb of the first prophet who warned Israel about false worship, back in the time of Jeroboam. Meanwhile Jeremiah gives his hardest message yet: to the people streaming in through the gates of the Temple to worship God, he issues a demand that they change their whole lives, giving up injustice as well as idolatry. Unless they do this, their renewed worship is pointless.
Jeremiah laments the moral sickness of his people. This repentance is only skin deep. It will not do.

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