Jeremias 30
Charles Spurgeon · Citado em PreceptAustin
Jeremias 30
Spurgeon - Think no more of Jeremiah as exclusively the weeping prophet; for the flashes of his delight make the night of his sorrow brilliant with an aurora of heavenly brilliance. Jeremiah 30:2 "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Write all the words which I have spoken to you in a book. Thus says the LORD - Again Jeremiah emphasizes these are God's words given to the prophet (cf "from the LORD" in Jer 30:1). Jeremiah uses the phrase thus says the LORD 151x in 150 (more than 1/3 of all the OT uses!) - Jer 2:2, 5; 4:3, 27; 5:14; 6:6, 9, 16, 21-2; 7:3, 20-21; 8:4; 9:7, 15, 17, 22-22; 10:2, 18; 11:3, 11, 21-22; 12:14; 13:9, 12-13; 14:10, 15; 15:2, 19; 16:3, 5, 9; 17:5, 21; 18:11, 13; 19:1, 3, 11, 15; 20:4; 21:4, 8, 12; 22:1, 3, 6, 11, 18, 30; 23:2, 15-16, 38; 24:5, 8; 25:8, 27f, 32; 26:2, 4; 27:2, 4, 16, 19, 21; 28:2, 11, 13-14, 16; 29:4, 8, 10, 16-17, 21, 25, 31-32; 30:2, 5, 12, 18; 31:2, 7, 15-16, 23, 35, 37; 32:3, 14-15, 28, 36, 42; 33:2, 4, 10, 12, 17, 20, 25; 34:2, 4, 13, 17; 35:13, 17-19; 36:29-30; 37:7, 9; 38:2-3, 17; 39:16; 42:9, 15, 18; 43:10; 44:2, 7, 11, 25, 30; 45:2, 4; 47:2; 48:1, 40; 49:1, 7, 12, 28, 35; 50:18, 33; 51:1, 33, 36, 58. God of Israel (49 uses are found in Jeremiah out of 199 verses in the OT) - In spite of the fact that they have sinned for centuries and the preceding chapters are filled with descriptions of their just retribution, God still associates Himself with them as the God of Israel. This title “the God of Israel,” shows God's special relation to and interest in Israel. The first use is in Exodus 5:1 = "And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.’” They are still "His people" even after millennia of rejecting Him and rebelling against Him! This is supernatural everlasting love (Jer 31:3)! Jehovah was and will always be the God of Israel, a truth which soundly trumps the tragic teaching of replacement theology or supersessionism! Jehovah Sabaoth said it and that settles it whether non-literalists believe it or not! God of Israel - 199 v - Ex 5:1; 24:10; 32:27; 34:23; Nu 16:9; Josh 7:13, 19f; 8:30; 9:18f; 10:40, 42; 13:14, 33; 14:14; 22:16, 24; 24:2, 23; Jdg 4:6; 5:3, 5; 6:8; 11:21, 23; 21:3; Ruth 2:12; 1 Sam 1:17; 2:30; 5:7f, 10f; 6:3, 5; 10:18; 14:41; 20:12; 23:10f; 25:32, 34; 2 Sam 7:27; 12:7; 23:3; 1 Kgs 1:30, 48; 8:15, 17, 20, 23, 25f; 11:9, 31; 14:7, 13; 15:30; 16:13, 26, 33; 17:1, 14; 22:53; 2 Kgs 9:6; 10:31; 14:25; 18:5; 19:15, 20; 21:12; 22:15, 18; 1 Chr 4:10; 5:26; 15:12, 14; 16:4, 36; 17:24; 22:6; 23:25; 24:19; 28:4; 29:10; 2 Chr 2:12; 6:4, 7, 10, 14, 16f; 11:16; 13:5; 15:4, 13; 20:19; 29:7, 10; 30:1, 5; 32:17; 33:16, 18; 34:23, 26; 36:13; Ezra 1:3; 3:2; 4:1, 3; 5:1; 6:14, 21f; 7:6, 15; 8:35; 9:4, 15; Ps 41:13; 59:5; 68:8, 35; 69:6; 72:18; 106:48; Isa 17:6; 21:10, 17; 24:15; 29:23; 37:16, 21; 41:17; 45:3, 15; 48:1f; 52:12; Jeremiah 7:3, 21; 9:15; 11:3; 13:12; 16:9; 19:3, 15; 21:4; 23:2; 24:5; 25:15, 27; 27:4, 21; 28:2, 14; 29:4, 8, 21, 25; 30:2; 31:23; 32:14, 15, 36; 33:4; 34:2, 13; 35:13, 17-19; 37:7; 38:17; 39:16; 42:9, 15, 18; 43:10; 44:2, 7, 11, 25; 45:2; 46:25; 48:1; 50:18; 51:33 Ezek 8:4; 9:3; 10:19f; 11:22; 43:2; 44:2; Zeph 2:9; Mal 2:16 (2x in NT = Matt 15:31; Luke 1:68) Note the repetition of synonymous terms - the word (Jer 30:1, saying (Jer 30:1), says (Jer 30:2), spoken (Jer 30:2). Whenever we read the living word, we are hearing the Living God speaking to us! Do we really understand that words on a page of the Bible are more than ink on paper, but are truly the Living God expressing Himself to us personally! When the Bible speaks, God speaks! Do we have ears to hear and hearts to obey? John
Jeremias 30
Spurgeon reminds us that "Behold is a word of wonder; it is intended to excite admiration. Wherever you see it hung out in Scripture, it is like an ancient sign-board, signifying that there are rich wares within, or like the hands which solid readers have observed in the margin of the older Puritanic books, drawing attention to something particularly worthy of observation." I would add, behold is like a divine highlighter, a divine underlining of an especially striking or important text. It says in effect "Listen up, all ye who would be wise in the ways of Jehovah!" In Jer 2:32 Israel had forgotten God days without number and yet now we see the everlasting love of God (Jer 31:3) manifest in His remembering them in the "days (that) are coming!" In short, they had repeatedly spurned Jehovah, but because of His unconditional covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (cp Abrahamic versus Mosaic), He would yet remember them (contrast what He promised not to remember in Jer 31:34)! Amazing love! Indeed, amazing grace! Days are coming (See discussion of "Last Days") - This section predicts that better days are coming for God's chosen people. And notice Jehovah does not just restrict His promise to Judah (Jer 1:18) but includes the northern kingdom of Israel which had been taken into captivity by the Assyrians more 100 years earlier in 722BC. As an aside these 10 northern tribes are often called the Ten Lost Tribes but here we see they are not lost to the all seeing eyes (Pr 15:3-note) of the omniscient One! Moody Bible Commentary (BORROW page 1148) - The phrase the days are coming is an eschatological marker, looking forward to the end times and goes beyond the immediate future of the return from Babylon (Jer 3:16; cf. comments on Jer 16:14-16; 23:5-6; 31:3, 31; 31:27; 50:1). However, as in all prophetic material one must keep in mind the principle of "foreshortening" or "telescoping." That is, though Jeremiah saw all these predictions as one continuous series of events, they were fulfilled over a long period with intervening gaps of time. Thus, for example, prophecies about the suffering Messiah and the ruling Messiah appear together, though they describe two different advents of Christ (e.g., Isa 9:6-7-note; Isa 61:1-2) separated by at least 2,000 years. In the same way Jeremiah described the restoration of Judah after the Babylonian captivity and the still-future restoration of Judah in the Messianic Age within some of the same passage (Jeremiah 31:15-20, cf. comments on Jer 50:1). Therefore one should be cautious in interpreting the various parts of Jeremiah's predictions about "the coming days" as having already been fulfilled at the return from the Babylonian captivity (see comments on Jer 50:1). Days are coming - This pregnant phrase is found 23x in the Scripture with 15 of the uses in Jeremiah. - 1Sa 2:31; 2Ki 20:17; Isa 39:6; Jer 7:32; 9:25; 16:14; 19:6; 23:5, 7; Jer 30:3; 31:27, 31, 38; 33:14; 48:12; 49:2; 51:47, 52; Amos 4:2; 8:11; 9:13; Lk 23:29; Heb 8:8. Note especially the 5 uses of days are coming in this section announcing coming comfort and consolation - Jer 30:3, Jer 31:27, 31, 38, Jer 33:14. Digression on Jeremiah 3:15-18 - Earlier in the book of Jeremiah Jehovah prophesied of better days when He promised "Then I will give them "shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding." (Jer 3:15) "In those days" they won't miss the Ark of the Covenant (Why? Because the symbol will be seen in the substance of their Savior) (Jer 3:16), and they will call Jerusalem "the Throne of the LORD and all nations will be gathered to it." (Jer 3:17, cp Ezek 43:7 which also picture the Millennial Temple as God's throne). And finally "In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel." (Jeremiah 3:18) So since 931BC the nation of Israel had been divided, but here God predicts their reunification as a nation under God, a fulfillment which awaits the return of their Messiah. Sadly the ESV Study Bible totally skips the millennium and interprets this passage as being fulfilled in the heavenly Jerusalem, an interpretation with which I strongly disagree (e.g., in Jer 3:16 God says to Judah "it shall be in those days when you are multiplied and increased in the land." - If taken literally, clearly He is referring to the land of Israel, the Promised Land, and in this context does not refer to heaven!) On the other hand I agree with the Reformation Study Bible which interprets in those days accurately writing "A future messianic age is now in view (cf. Isa 2:1–5)....The importance of the ark will be diminished because the Lord will be present in a new way....No longer is the ark the Lord’s throne (Ex. 25:22; 1Sa 4:4), but Jerusalem itself: the Lord rules the whole earth from the midst of His people (Zech. 2:10–12)." The Holman Christian Standard Study Bible adds an interesting note on Jeremiah 3:16 = "The future messianic era is signaled by the introductory phrase in those days (see also "in time to come," Jer 30:24; "the days are coming," Jer 31:27,31,38; and "after those days," Jer 31:33). Israel and Judah would multiply and increase in the land in this messianic era (Ed: Synonymous with the Millennium). The ark of the covenant, the most central and precious symbol at the heart of Israel's worship, will not even be remembered because something (Ed: Someone! Messiah Himself!) more significant will take its place." Hindson and Kroll are even more direct commenting on Jeremiah 3:16-18 that "The Old Testament prophets refused to accept the divided kingdom as final. Here, Jeremiah saw the reunification of both Israel (Jer 3:14) and Judah (Jer 3:18). This is a literal return to a literal Zion. The words of this passage are too plain and explicit to spiritualize (cf. Jeremiah 30–31) (KJV Bible Commentary). When - This is an expression of time. It means at that time (those days). When are those days? Paul explains "I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own estimation, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until (expression of time) the fulness of the Gentiles has come in; and thus all Israel will be saved (all the Jewish remnant = those that believe in the Messiah, the Anointed One, by grace through faith - Eph 2:8-9-note); just as it is written, “THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB.” “AND THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS.” (Ro 11:25-27-note) In the latter half (3.5 years, 1260 days, 42 months) of Daniel's Seventieth Week, specifically at the end of the period which Jesus designated as the Great Tribulation, (Mt 24:21, cp Rev 7:14-note) the Messiah "will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory." (Mt 24:30, cf Rev 19:11-16-note) Jesus explained to his Jewish disciples (Mt 24:1) that "unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect (Jews and Gentiles) those days shall be cut short." (Mt 24:22) Tony