“‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’” (Jeremiah 29:11). Christians often quote this scripture alone, without reading the whole chapter or book. If we understand its historic...
Jeremiah 29:11 is rich with meaning and promise: "For I know the plans I have for you..plans to prosper and not to harm, plans for hope and a future". Let's look at how we can trust God's plan, even through darkest moments.
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(Jeremiah 31:9). In the midst of the exile though, only Judah retained Hebrew and kept the Torah and only Judah remained the Son of God (Ezekiel 21:10). Then, when Judah massively turned to the Greek Septuagint, only those who retained Hebrew, and preserved every jot and tittle of ...
(because law is always communal and feelings never are). And that means that feelings are prisons, and that the many prison and pit stories in the Bible are essentially about the failure of one's words. The famous prisonersJoseph,Daniel,JeremiahandPaulwere all prisoners of the darkness of ...
The phrase "the host of heaven" is applied to the stars, which were sometimes worshipped by idolatrous Jews (Jeremiah 33:22;2 Kings 21:3;Zechariah 1:5); the name is applied to the company of angels because of their countless numbers (compareDaniel 7:10) and their glory. They are rep...
Jeremiah 34:8 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem to proclaim liberty to them: Jeremiah 34:15-17 15 Then you recently turned and did what was right in My sight—every man proclaiming li...
(Driver, Modern Research, etc., 85). These discoveries supply a grim comment on theories of those critics who maintain that incense was not used by the Hebrews before the time of Jeremiah. The form of the altar itself is as contrary to the principles of the Pentateuch law as any thing...
God has a special purpose for us all. When He created us, every single one of us, He created us with a particular purpose, a particular plan,a plan that will prosper us and not harm us, plans that will give us hope and a bright future[Jeremiah 29:11]. If the place we are in ...
First of all: the story of Isaac's sacrifice on Moriah is part of a tradition that very clearly abhors human sacrifice and specifically child sacrifice: 2 Kings 3:27, 16:3, 17:17-18, 23:10, Psalm 106:37-39, Jeremiah 7:31, 19:5, 32:35, Ezekiel 16:21. Then, as we often menti...