Welcome to the Book of Mormon Central Come Follow Me podcast with your host, Lynn Wilson and John Cho.

Hello, nice to be with you again to talk about the book of Jeremiah.

Right, we're doing Jeremiah this week.

So with our key questions here, how does this bring me closer to Christ?

How does the Book of Mormon help me understand the Old Testament?

And how does this help me live a more Christ-like life?

Jeremiah is full of those.

But what's the context here?

Who's Jeremiah and...

You know, I'm glad you thought that because I see Jeremiah as such a sad prophet.

I don't know if you've ever seen the paintings of Michelangelo's from the Sistine Chapel,

but he has a whole bunch of the prophets.

And Jeremiah is his saddest-looking prophet.

He is downcast.

He's looking down at the ground.

His hands are covering his face.

And then you read the text and you think Michelangelo knew his prophets.

You know, it is just such a tragic call because his call is to testify of the fall of his nation. But of course, there's always that glimmer of hope as he refers to the hope of the return, the restoration and things. But as far as historical context goes, Jeremiah prophesies to four kings. Now, Isaiah also was four or five kings, but

they listened to him. Unfortunately, these kings do not listen to Jeremiah. He's overlapping with

the very end of the historical books. So second kings, last two chapters, second chronicles,

last two chapters. And he overlaps

with these Josiah. Do you remember he was that really, really young king? He was eight years old.

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