Intro: in the first message I did in this series we started by looking at the prophet who wrote the words read for us this morning, the prophet Jeremiah and I contrasted him with Samuel who saw the birth of a great Jewish nation, Jeremiah saw the close. The many words he spoke from God about the sins of the people, the down fall of his kings, the destruction of his homeland and the coming captivity gained him no favor with anyone. In the first message we started with verse 31 and 32 of chapter 31 and looked at the first covenant or the old covenant God made with Israel which began with Abraham. We saw how the Jews are Gods chosen people and the favor He bestowed upon them, we also looked at how Israel broke this covenant and rejected God and followed idols even though He is the husband to them. There were many prophets like Jeremiah who reveled to the people the error in the things they were practicing and prophesied what would come if there practices continued, and when we looked at the prophetic fulfillment of the destruction of Israel and the Babylonian captivity, we left off with the question; Is this the end of Israel? Is God done with Israel? Has the church replaced Israel? We know the answer to all of these questions is NO, and though Jeremiah never saw the return of the Jews as Daniel did, we will still explain our answer form the words Jeremiah wrote and the rest of scripture. The verses we are looking at today are verses 33 and 34 of chapter 31 and we begin with point number 2. |
