Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. The Bible tells one big story of

redemption and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to finish, and exploring how all of it

points to Jesus. Hey everybody welcome to another episode of a year in the Bible with daily grace.

My name is Stephanie and I will be your host through the book of Jeremiah.

Before we dive in, let me give you some background information.

Chapter 1 versus 1 through 3 actually gives us a lot of this information. The author of this book is

Jeremiah who was a priest and a prophet. The next verses tell us where in the historical

timeline this account takes place. In the days of Josiah and

Jehovahum until the captivity of Jerusalem. This is a span of 50 years.

Jeremiah actually proclaimed the Israelites captivity of Babylon,

and so this is pre-Exile,

and then actually lived to see it happen.

So the first half of the book is a warning

about the judgment upon Judah, the southern kingdom.

And the second half goes over the judgment and offers hope as we see

pointers to the future restoration that God's people will experience in

Jesus Christ.

Chapter 1 offers a lot of information on Jeremiah.

Jeremiah actually tells us more about his own life than any other prophet. So in this chapter we read that God chose

Jeremiah before he was even conceived. We gather from the text that this exchange

happened when Jeremiah was young.

Bible Scholars estimate that he was probably in his early 20s.

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