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🗓️ 15 August 2024
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:07.0 | Jeremiah is in prison when we open today's reading. |
0:15.4 | King Zadakaya, the last king of Judah, didn't like some of Jeremiah's prophecies, |
0:20.1 | so he's punishing him. |
0:21.6 | This feels completely irrational to me. |
0:24.1 | Imprisoning the Prophet doesn't stop the prophecy from coming true. It's not like |
0:28.2 | Jeremiah was saying he was going to personally overthrow Jerusalem. Anyway, while Jeremiah is there, God gives him a |
0:35.4 | heads up to his cousin is going to try to sell him some land. Then just like that, |
0:39.6 | his cousin shows up with a deed and Jeremiah follows through. |
0:43.3 | What a boss move. |
0:45.2 | 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 |
0:51.2 | while he was in prison seems 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. |
1:01.1 | So is he a hypocrite? |
1:02.1 | No. His problem with the rich isn't their bank accounts. Being |
1:06.4 | wealthy isn't a sin. The problem is that they're oppressing people in order to get and stay rich. |
1:13.0 | Jeremiah buys the field and tells the scribe Baruch to put the paperwork in his safe deposit |
1:18.4 | face because he knows it's going to be 70 years before they're needed. |
1:22.0 | Jeremiah's boldness indicates that he really believes God is going to bring the people back to the land to live on it. |
1:28.0 | This wasn't a financial investment, this was an act of faith. |
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