Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to a year in the Bible. My name is Beth, and I am here with my co-host, Alexa.

Hey, friends, today

we're going deeper into the passage we annotated yesterday, Jeremiah 31, 31 through 34. We'll be looking

at the context of this passage and talk more about what it teaches us about God's character.

So Beth, can you help us understand where this passage fits in the overall biblical story?

Yes, so we have moved out of Isaiah and into Jeremiah, but like all of the prophets, the messages of these books, Isaiah and

Jeremiah, are actually pretty similar. Jeremiah lived right on the cusp of Judah's exile into Babylon,

and so he saw the kingdom fall. He saw the temple be destroyed,

the people be killed and exiled. And he also saw the disobedience and idolatry of the people

that actually led them to their exile. And so the book of Jeremiah is a collection of prophecies

telling the people why they are in exile and essentially telling them to get comfortable in Babylon

because their exile will last a very long time. But in the midst of all of this bad news

that Jeremiah is delivering, he's also proclaiming messages of hope. And so their exile would

be long, but it would end eventually. They were disobedient and broke God's covenant,

but God would eventually make a new covenant with them that could not be broken.

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