Join me for an exciting class on “Jeremiah’s New Covenant,” which builds upon the teachings of my recent class, Passover from Moses to Jeremiah. Jeremiah recognized the importance of the covenant that God made with the Exodus generation. However, he also acknowledged that Israel had turned away from God and rejected that covenant. What Israel […]

The biblical story of the Exodus is arguably the greatest story ever told. God acts against Egypt and its unnamed Pharaoh to deliver the children of Israel from slavery. According to sources that make up our Pentateuch, elements of this great deliverance were to be commemorated yearly in the Festivals of Pesach and Chag HaMatzot […]

When Jeremiah was instructed to write his original scroll, God expressed that perhaps the House of Judah would repent when they heard all He intended to do to them. God then made an extraordinary promise. What was that promise, and does the phrasing of that promise provide a clue as to what was contained in […]

On a cold wintery day in 604 BCE, the original Jeremiah scroll was cut up, piece by piece, and thrown into a fire until it was consumed. Beginning this week, Ross K Nichols attempts to reconstruct this ancient, precious scroll by following the clues in our present Book of Jeremiah. How much of the charred […]

The year is 605 BCE. It’s Jehoiakim’s 4th year and Nebuchadnezzar’s 1st. After defeating the Assyrians at Charchemish, the Babylonians pushed Egypt out of Judea, subjugated the King of Judah, and took captives. Meanwhile, Jeremiah is told to record all the words the LORD has spoken to him for the previous twenty-three years. Check out […]

While missed by most, one righteous family is ever present in the Book of Jeremiah. Three generations of THIS family represent the best of the Judeans in the Kingdom’s final years. They ARE … The Holy Family. Who they were and what they did is the subject of class thirteen in my ongoing series – […]

Featuring the biblical teaching of Ross K. Nichols. This series covers The World and Words of the Prophet Jeremiah. This teaching is class twelve of Ross’s ongoing series on The World and Words of the Prophet Jeremiah. We are studying the days of King Jehoiakim, and this class picks up at the beginning of the […]

In class eleven of our ongoing study of the World and Words of the Prophet Jeremiah, we begin to explore the days of the reign of King Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah. Jehoiakim’s reign is covered in the Books of Kings and Chronicles, by the prophet Jeremiah, and by one other biblical book (revealed in […]

After Josiah Ben Ammon died, the Kingdom of Judah passed to his sons. Hulda had predicted that the good king would die a peaceful death. He didn’t. He died from wounds he sustained in a battle at Megiddo with Egypt’s Neco. The writers of Kings and Chronicles inform us that his son Jehoahaz takes the […]

During the days of Josiah, in the eighteenth year of his reign, the king dispatched Shaphan, the scribe, with instructions to work alongside the High Priest Hilkiah on a project to repair the house of the LORD. During the restorative work, the High Priest reportedly discovered the scroll of the Torah that Moses wrote. This […]