Bible Study #54 Major Prophets Series Jeremiah 35-52 (Bible Study With John Ogwyn)

"We are ready to finish up the book of
Jeremiah. The first 11chapters that we are going
to cover this evening, Jeremiah 35-45, provide
a historical inset to the theme of the prophecy.
What we primarily have in these chapters is a
historical account of the events of Jeremiah’s
ministry. We have the account of his warning to
the governmental leaders in his day, the story of
his subsequent arrest and, finally, the story of the
Babylonian invasion of Judah and subsequent
captivity of Jerusalem and Judah. We have the
account of those Jews who were left behind and
their electing to move to Egypt in spite of
Jeremiah’s warnings to the contrary. We have the
consequences of that.
These chapters deal primarily with contemporary
events and, yet, they also provide lessons for us
today. There is a lot of insight, a lot of things that
we can gain and learn from parallels with the
work that God did through Jeremiah, the work
that God is doing in our day and on out ahead of
us. Also, these historical inset chapters provide
kind of a summary or setting to help us to
understand the context in which Jeremiah was
writing.
One of the things about prophecy is that much of
it is dual. To a great extent, what the prophet was
writing or delivering had certain meaning and
application for his contemporaries,..." Read More!!