Day 228 (Jeremiah 32-34) - Year 6
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Tara-Leigh Cobble
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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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