Chapter twenty-five took place 23 years into Jeremiah’s ministry, in the year that Nebuchadnezzar took his first captives from Jerusalem (605 B.C.). He claimed that he had warned the leaders and people of Judah for that long to repent, turning back to God, but they did not listen (Jeremiah 25:1-11). Unlike the past messages which […]
Chapter twenty-two seems to continue from chapter twenty-one, with Jeremiah going to see King Zedekiah. It is not until Jeremiah 22:18 that we discover this chapter has actually gone twenty years back in time to King Jehoiakim, son of godly King Josiah. Because Josiah followed God’s law, God promised that he would die in peace,
Chapter twenty reveals some information about the long-anticipated kingdom of God that had remained a mystery to this point. First, Satan will be imprisoned during this period, unable to “deceive the nations” (Revelation 20:1-3). Second, this kingdom should not be confused with the eternal state, as so many of the Hebrew prophets did. Instead, John
