Today is the third day of October. Welcome to the daily audio Bible. I am Brian and it's

great to be here with you today as we gather around the global campfire and move forward

together. So we have moved into a new week, we have moved into a new month. Now today,

as we finish the book of Isaiah yesterday, we're moving into a new book in the Old Testament.

We'll also be concluding a letter in the New Testament today, so movement is happening.

So when we get to the New Testament, we'll finish the book of Philippians. But now, here at the

beginning in the Old Testament, we have reached the beginning of the book of Jeremiah,

which is a part of the grouping of books known as the major prophets, just like Isaiah.

And Jeremiah is prophesying a couple of decades before and then through the Babylonian attack

and conquest, things that we read about when we were reading in the Second Kings and Second

Chronicles, Jeremiah is a prophetic voice during this time. And as with many prophetic voices and

prophetic books that are in the Bible, we have these oracles from God. And so like with Isaiah,

we're jumping around a lot because the things that he had to say were aimed in different

directions at different times. So it's not like a linear narrative story like this happened,

then this happened, then this happened, then this happened. Jeremiah is a book of prophecy.

So it's like this as well, but it's intriguing because we get a glimpse more into Jeremiah's mindset.

And he does not want to be doing some other things that he's invited to do,

especially at the time that he's invited to do them. And so there's an authenticity to Jeremiah

that we get to understand. And we get to see the frustration of a prophet who thinks nobody's

listening and he just wants to be released from the mission. And he wasn't just making it up,

Israel had turned her back on God. And for more than two decades, Jeremiah was one of the only,

if not the only voice warning the people that the direction they were going in wasn't going to

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