Jeremiah 29

In the last two chapter there's been a "Prophecy-Off" to the death between Jeremiah and Hananiah. You may recall that Hananiah dies at the end of last chapter, after predicting the return of King Jeconiah and his peeps and some of the temple stuff.

Now, Jeremiah is going to give a word about that stuff and those folks.

v.1-14 70-year promise of return.

v.15-19 a word against false prophets who echo hananiah's "positive" message of Jeconiah's return.

v.20-23 2 false prophets mentioned by name. Not nice.

v.24-32 Shemaiah the Nehelamite (Ne-Hell-am-ight) writes a letter to try to get a handle on Jeremiah. Calling for him to be put in the stocks, he just gets condemned by the Lord's next prophecy through Jeremiah.

Imagine, after the plots against Jeremiah, how this head priest Zephaniah has called Jeremiah in to read this lettter to him (v.29)
Imagine that. And there's Jeremiah, just letting him have it! Wow. He's hearing from God and speakin gwith full integrity.

We all need to press into God, so we have courage in the time of trial. We don't know when its coming. We just have to be ready.

Wow.

come on, let's hear it people.