Jeremiah's Bibliography
Jeremiah, also known as The Weeping Prophet, was chosen by God in 587 BCE to tell the people of the land about the impending doom and fall of Babylon and to tell them of their sins; "Announce and proclaim among the nations, lift up a banner and proclaim it; keep nothing back, but say, 'Babylon will be captured; Bel will be put to shame, Marduk filled with terror. Her images will be put to shame and her idols filled with terror.’ " (Jeremiah 50:2).
He was called to prophesy by the Lord, but resisted by saying he was an only child, and did not know how to speak. The Lord had then touched his mouth, putting the word of the Lord into Jeremiah's mouth. God then told Jeremiah to get ready. Jeremiah was a primarily preaching type of prophet, going to where the Lord had told him, standing up and speaking to those across the land.
About one year after the King of Judah, King Josiah, had turned the nation to repent against the widely spread idolatrous practice of Josiah's father and grandfather, Jeremiah's main purpose was to reveal the sins that the people of the land had commited, and to explain the impending destruction and downfall of Judah. "And when your people say, 'Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?' you shall say to them, 'As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.'" (Jeremiah 5:19). God's personal message to Jeremiah, "Attack you they will, overcome you they can't," (Jeremiah 1:19) was fulfilled, and what the Lord had said, actually happened.
Jeremiah was one of the four main prophets of the Old Testament. Those being;
He was called to prophesy by the Lord, but resisted by saying he was an only child, and did not know how to speak. The Lord had then touched his mouth, putting the word of the Lord into Jeremiah's mouth. God then told Jeremiah to get ready. Jeremiah was a primarily preaching type of prophet, going to where the Lord had told him, standing up and speaking to those across the land.
About one year after the King of Judah, King Josiah, had turned the nation to repent against the widely spread idolatrous practice of Josiah's father and grandfather, Jeremiah's main purpose was to reveal the sins that the people of the land had commited, and to explain the impending destruction and downfall of Judah. "And when your people say, 'Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?' you shall say to them, 'As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.'" (Jeremiah 5:19). God's personal message to Jeremiah, "Attack you they will, overcome you they can't," (Jeremiah 1:19) was fulfilled, and what the Lord had said, actually happened.
Jeremiah was one of the four main prophets of the Old Testament. Those being;
- Isaiah;
- Jeremiah;
- Lamentations and;
- Ezekiel