Day 164: April 2, 2026 – Jeremiah 33-37 and Proverbs 24

We find ourselves more in the narrative of the life of Jeremiah than we do in his prophecies. We see that he writes a scroll, the king burns it, and then he is commanded to write it again. The reason the king burns it is because the content is not flattering to the king. Jeremiah tells words of truth that do not complement the king, in fact they are words that put the kings existence into jeopardy. The king has the power to destroy the scroll, and so he does destroy the scroll. Jeremiah then goes to a city in Benjamin, could it be Bethlehem?, in order to claim his land and he is arrested there. Once again he pleads his case and he is kept in house arrest and given food even during the siege, which is more than what most people had at the time.

Jeremiah consistently did not give words that were encouraging to the people and the rulers because they were not times where there was much encouragement, except for the times that he tells the people that all this will be restored. But that restoration was going to be 70 years from now. Who wants someone around who is consistently telling bad news? That was the fate of Jeremiah’s ministry, to give bad news for the most part.