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- Welcome to the RapidBull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The book of Jeremiah written by, well,
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- Jeremiah. This is a book that gives judgments on the nation of Israel and Jeremiah started his ministry in 640
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- BC under the reign of King Josiah. Now King Josiah was the last of the good kings and Jeremiah served five decades under five kings.
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- He paints a picture of Israel as they fall into demise under people's sin, the sin of the people that led to the ultimate destruction of the nation, and they gave themselves over to idolatry and what you end up seeing is that he preached over those 40 -50 year period and tried to bring them back to God's Word.
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- The spiritual condition for Israel was one where they worshipped idols, putting them up on high places, and they refused to obey
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- God. In fact, what they refused to do was to have that sabbatical year and for 70 of those
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- Sabbath years of where they were supposed to let the land rest, they refused and God used
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- Jeremiah to prophesy that there would be a country, a nation, the
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- Babylonians that would come in and take over Israel and that they would hold them in captivity for 70 years as a punishment and that through that period they would be eradicated of their idolatry.
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- That's exactly what happened in history. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.
