This weeks scripture comes from the book of Jeremiah. Its Chapter 31 verses 31-40. The book of Jeremiah is my personal favorite book of the Old Testament. In the scripture we read today, there is very vivid imagery about how Israel lays in ruins because of the exile. All of the things that Israel has done in sin has set them apart from the Lord, and despite the few men that still teach the word, Israel as a whole does not “hear” The Word Of God. Lets read the scripture and see exactly what God is telling the people through Jeremiah.
The time is coming,” declares the LORD,
“when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
32It will not be like the covenant
I made with their forefathers
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband tod them,e”
declares the LORD.
33“This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after that time,” declares the LORD.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
34No longer will a man teach his neighbor,
or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the LORD.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
35This is what the LORD says,
he who appoints the sun
to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
to shine by night,
who stirs up the sea
so that its waves roar—
the LORD Almighty is his name:
36“Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,”
declares the LORD,
“will the descendants of Israel ever cease
to be a nation before me.”
37This is what the LORD says:
“Only if the heavens above can be measured
and the foundations of the earth below be searched out
will I reject all the descendants of Israel
because of all they have done,”
declares the LORD.
38“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for me from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 39The measuring line will stretch from there straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn to Goah. 40The whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate, will be holy to the LORD. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.”
So from reading that we know that Israel is in a bad place at the time of this being written, but we also see that in this God is beginning to foreshadow the coming of Christ and forgiveness of all of the sins of Israel. In the past we have seen the covenant of the rainbow made with Noah, and the covenant made with the slaves being rescued from the pharaoh in Egypt. Both of those covenants were essentially broken by man. God is now telling the people of Israel that he will be giving us a permanent out, a way to always be able to come back to God and be forgiven.
God is telling us what our savior, Jesus Christ, will do for the people of Israel. Many of the people alive during this time fell VERY hopeless and abandoned. The sanctuary that God is providing through this savior is everlasting and can not be taken away, and will not be taken away.
We all sin, it’s what humans do, our current life was founded on the birth of sin through Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The good news is that as long as we recognize our sins, and make an effort to purge them and become closer to God through Christ, we will always have a place to do that.
The time is coming,” declares the LORD,
“when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
32It will not be like the covenant
I made with their forefathers
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband tod them,e”
declares the LORD.
33“This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after that time,” declares the LORD.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
34No longer will a man teach his neighbor,
or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the LORD.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
35This is what the LORD says,
he who appoints the sun
to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
to shine by night,
who stirs up the sea
so that its waves roar—
the LORD Almighty is his name:
36“Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,”
declares the LORD,
“will the descendants of Israel ever cease
to be a nation before me.”
37This is what the LORD says:
“Only if the heavens above can be measured
and the foundations of the earth below be searched out
will I reject all the descendants of Israel
because of all they have done,”
declares the LORD.
38“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for me from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 39The measuring line will stretch from there straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn to Goah. 40The whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate, will be holy to the LORD. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.”
So from reading that we know that Israel is in a bad place at the time of this being written, but we also see that in this God is beginning to foreshadow the coming of Christ and forgiveness of all of the sins of Israel. In the past we have seen the covenant of the rainbow made with Noah, and the covenant made with the slaves being rescued from the pharaoh in Egypt. Both of those covenants were essentially broken by man. God is now telling the people of Israel that he will be giving us a permanent out, a way to always be able to come back to God and be forgiven.
God is telling us what our savior, Jesus Christ, will do for the people of Israel. Many of the people alive during this time fell VERY hopeless and abandoned. The sanctuary that God is providing through this savior is everlasting and can not be taken away, and will not be taken away.
We all sin, it’s what humans do, our current life was founded on the birth of sin through Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The good news is that as long as we recognize our sins, and make an effort to purge them and become closer to God through Christ, we will always have a place to do that.
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