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🗓️ 16 August 2021
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:12.9 | Jeremiah is in prison when we open today's reading. |
0:16.0 | Kings et acai, the last king of Judah, didn't like some of Jeremiah's prophecies, so he's |
0:20.3 | punishing him. |
0:21.7 | This feels completely irrational to me. |
0:24.3 | In prisoning, the prophet doesn't stop the prophecy from coming true, but it's not like |
0:28.2 | Jeremiah was saying he was going to personally overthrow Jerusalem. |
0:32.2 | Anyway, while Jeremiah is there, God gives him a heads up that his cousin is going to |
0:37.0 | try to sell him some land. |
0:38.6 | Then just like that, his cousin shows up with a deed and Jeremiah follows through. |
0:43.5 | What a boss move. |
0:45.6 | Imagine buying real estate while you're in cell block A. |
0:48.5 | The fact that Jeremiah had access to this kind of money while he was in prison seems |
0:53.0 | to indicate that he was pretty wealthy. |
0:55.3 | The reason that is noteworthy is because he's been coming down pretty hard on the rich |
0:59.7 | in his prophecies. |
1:01.2 | So is he a hypocrite? |
1:02.5 | No. |
1:03.8 | His problem with the rich isn't their bank accounts. |
1:06.4 | Being wealthy isn't a sin. |
1:08.3 | The problem is that they're oppressing people in order to get and stay rich. |
1:13.9 | Jeremiah buys the field and tells his scribe Baruch to put the paperwork in his safe deposit |
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