Today is the 19th day of October.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian, and it is wonderful and a joy and an honor and a privilege to be around the

global campfire today together with you as we continue moving forward step by step day by day verse by verse on the grand

adventure that really is the Bible. A text that is unbelievable as we read it, it reads us, as we look into the situations that are dealt with in the

scriptures and so easily find ourselves in these stories and I'm grateful for that because it gives direction, brings clarity,

it actually shows where the roads we are on will end up leading if we'll pay attention.

And so I'm grateful.

We show up for each other every day and engage and take the next step forward. Right now we're

working through the book of Jeremiah in the Old Testament, today, Jeremiah chapters 33 and 34. While he was still confined in the guards courtyard, the word of the Lord came to

Jeremiah a second time. The Lord who made the earth, the Lord who forms it to establish it,

the Lord is his name. Say this, call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things

you do not know. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says concerning the houses of this city and the

palaces of Judas kings, the ones torn down for defense against the assault ramps and the sword. The people

coming to fight the Caldians will fill the houses with the corpses of their own

men that I strike down in my wrath and fury.

I have hidden my face from this city because of all their evil.

Yet I will certainly bring health and healing to it and will indeed heal them.

I will let them experience the abundance of true peace.

I will restore the fortunes of Judah and of Israel and will rebuild them as in former times.

I will purify them from all the iniquity they have committed against me.

I will forgive all the iniquities they have

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