Presents
Pamphlet #7043
JEREMIAH'S MYSTERIOUS COMMISSION
When Israel was driven out to
Assyria in 721 BCE
Judah had not yet sinned as a nation.
Through Hosea, God said,
"Though thou, Israel, play the
harlot, yet let not Judah offend" (Hosea 4:15).
But later "her treacherous sister
Judah feared not but went and played the harlot also,"
and God finally said, "The backsliding
Israel hath justified herself
more than treacherous Judah"
(Jeremiah 8:8-11).
And so, about 130 years after
Israel's captivity,
the time came when God drove
out the Jews, too,
into national captivity and
banishment.
For this purpose God raised
up a very special prophet,
whose real call and few, indeed,
understand.
This prophet was Jeremiah. He
was sanctified before he was born. (See Jeremiah 1:5.)
Jeremiah, when first given his
vital call and commission, was a young lad about 17.
Before he finally completed
it, he was an aged White haired patriarch.
The commission is recorded in Jeremiah 1:10:
"See," God says to Jeremiah,
"I have this day set thee over
the nations and over kingdoms,
to root out,
and to pull down, and to destroy,
and to throw down,
to
build, and
to
plant."
There it is!
Jeremiah was set over the nations,
more than one.
He was a Jew, of the tribe of
Levi, living in Judah.
He was set a prophet over Judah,
but not Judah alone.
Over the nations, Judah and
Israel!
He
was set over them to do two things:
to tear down something,
and then to build and to plant something.
Jeremiah was used of God as
a prophet to warn Judah of their sins,
and of the coming invasion and
captivity
at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar
of Babylon unless they repented.
He was used as a go between,
a mediator,
between the kings of Judah and
Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean king.
Yes, it is well known that Jeremiah was used in destroying
the kingdom of Judah.
But note it in your Bible!
He also was commissioned
to plant and to
build!
What was he to plant and build?
Why, naturally, that which was pulled down
and rooted out of Judah, the
throne of David.
He was set over the kingdoms,
Israel
as well as Judah.
He was used in throwing down
that throne from Judah.
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