September 23, 2020: Day 32 – Jeremiah 32

We find ourselves with another object lesson that God has told Jeremiah to take part in.  First of all, the chapter begins with Jeremiah being called into the office of the principal.  Zedekiah, the king of Judah, calls Jeremiah into the office and says: Why is everybody always picking on me?  

Okay, that’s not exactly how it went, but Zedekiah did ask Jeremiah why he was prophesying destruction against the land and specifically against the king himself.  Jeremiah explains.

I really didn’t want to do it, and I was looking for an opportunity to prophesy something different, but then the Word of the Lord came to me.  This is an object lesson.  Buy a field from your cousin and finish the deed.  I know that the Chaldeans own the land, but by you buying this land then you will show to all that what you have said so far will come true.  The Babylonians will take us all into captivity.  But then the day will come, not soon, but it will come, when we will come back and inherit the land again.  Look at vs.42.  This is the basic gist of this chapter: “Just as I have brought all this great disaster upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good fortune that I now promise them.”  Can we apply this to our current situation?