{"id":1916,"date":"2016-05-11T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielgoepfrich.com\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2022-08-29T20:55:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T00:55:43","slug":"jeremiah-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/jeremiah-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremiah 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chapter twenty-four<\/strong> is one of the shortest chapters of the book; only chapters 45 and 47 are shorter. As with the almond tree and boiling water in chapter one, God used a common object (either literal or in a vision) to reveal a truth to Jeremiah. In this case Jeremiah saw two baskets of figs in front of the Temple; one basket contained good figs, the other nearly rotten figs. This vision took place after the second captivity (597 B.C.), when Nebuchadnezzar captured Jehoiakim\/Jeconiah and set up Zedekiah in his place.<\/p><p>God told Jeremiah that the baskets of figs represented two groups of Jews. The good figs represented those taken away into captivity. God made a wonderful promise that he would care for them there and would return them to the land of Israel. The bad figs represented <em>\u201cKing Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and the people who remain in Jerusalem or who have gone to live in Egypt.\u201d<\/em> They remained under God\u2019s curse for their wickedness and would be utterly destroyed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter twenty-four is one of the shortest chapters of the book; only chapters 45 and 47 are shorter. As with the almond tree and boiling water in chapter one, God used a common object (either literal or in a vision) to reveal a truth to Jeremiah. 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