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Today's Bible Translation

Bible translation used in today's episode: Ch. 27-31 ESV

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Phil Colbourn

Podcast Introduction

This is Prophecy Friday, and we’ll read Jeremiah 27-31. The title is this episode is “Hope“.

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Comments on Jeremiah 29

In chapter 29, God told Jeremiah to send a letter to those people who had been taken into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar into Babylon. In essence, God told the people to settle in because they were going to be there for a while. Seventy years to be exact. He told them to go ahead and build homes, plant gardens, have families. And pray that their new hometown would do well, because they will do well when it does.

This was a letter of reassurance. God did not want his people to be discouraged or without hope. They were in a sort of time out because of their sins, but He was not abandoning them. In verse 11 he said, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.“

There are some who say that this verse only applied to those people at the time God gave this message to Jeremiah. They say it does not apply to us today. I could not disagree more. This message applies to all who put their faith in God through Jesus Christ. How do I know this? Listen to the words Jesus spoke in John 14:1-3: “Don't be worried! Have faith in God and have faith in me. There are many rooms in my Father's house. I wouldn't tell you this, unless it was true. I am going there to prepare a place for each of you. After I have done this, I will come back and take you with me. Then we will be together.”

What a beautiful promise! I’m looking forward to that day, but until that day arrives, I’m settled in here for the long haul.

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Steve Webb 0:00I could not disagree more.

Steve Webb 0:09Coming to you from Riverside, California, this is the Lifespring one year Bible in podcasting since 2004. I'm your og Godcaster. Steve Webb. This is the daily podcast and we're reading through the entire Bible in a year as you might expect with that title. This is prophecy Friday, and we'll read Jeremiah 27 through 31. I'm calling this episode Pope. Before we read, let's pray. Our heavenly Father, as we read your word today, as we come together as a family, I pray that You would bless our time together. I ask this in Jesus name, amen. Okay, let's begin.

Steve Webb 0:47Jeremiah, chapter 27. In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord. Thus the Lord said to me, make yourselves straps and yoke bars and put them on your neck, said word to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the sons of Ammon, the king of Tyre and the king of Sidon, by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah, give them this charge for their masters, Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, this is what you shall say to your masters. It is I who, by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth with a man and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me. Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, My servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve Him. All the nation shall serve him and his son that his grandson, until the time of his own land comes, then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave. But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this ...