Jeremiah 35-36
Chapter 35: Blessings for Obedience
The Lord commands Jeremiah to go
and test the obedience of the Rechabites by essentially tempting them with
wine. However after having wine placed before them they tell Jeremiah and those
that are with him; “…We will drink no wine: for… our father commanded us… Ye shall drink
no wine…” (Jeremiah 35:6) So even after being tempted they resisted and
obeyed the commandment of the Lord. This is something we should learn from…
even after temptation and perhaps peer pressure or pressure from the world to
do something that goes against God’s commandments… WE CAN HAVE THE STRENGTH TO
SAY NO!
The Lord commends and blesses the
Rechabites, who obey the Lord by staying sober and not partaking of any wine. Their obedience is contrasted with Judah and
Jerusalem.
Chapter 36: Roll or Book
Word comes to Jeremiah in the
fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim. Using Baruch as his scribe, Jeremiah
writes down his prophecies. Baruch reads them publicly upon a fast day in the
temple, where the princes hear him, and decide to tell the king of what they
are preaching while at the same time advising both Jeremiah and Baruch to hide.
Jehoiakim has the roll thrown into the fire, and orders Jeremiah and Baruch to
be seized. The Lord conceals them and then later commands Jeremiah to rewrite the
roll, and denounces the burning of the roll.
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