Deliver of Jérémie

Context

The people Jew soil themselves with pagan orgies and rites . Jeremy must then announce the desolation of Juda and Jerusalem, of which the temple; are also announced the captivity of the people and other misfortunes.

The book of Jérémie is quoted on several occasions in the New Testament in the Gospel according to Matthieu in the chapters two, sixteen and twenty-seven Sept. Jesus Christ associated the words of Jérémie (7: 11) with those of the prophet Tests (56: 7); the boldness and the courage of Jesus led certain people to take it for Jérémie (Matthieu 16:13, 14). The prophecy of Jérémie relative to a new alliance (Jérémie 31:31 - 34) is taken again by the apostle Paul in the epistle with the Hebrews.

Summary

Chapters 1 to 6 contain the prophecies pronounced during the reign of Josias. Chapters 7 to 20 are marked prophecies of the time of Jojakim. Chapters 21-38 treat reign of Sédécias. Chapters 39 to 44 contain prophecies and describe the historical events which followed the fall of Jerusalem. Chapter 45 contains a promise with Baruc, scribe, which it would have the safe life. Finally chapters 46 to 51 are the prophecies pronounced against the foreign nations. Chapter 52 is a historical conclusion. The book of Jérémie contains also an allusion to the prémortelle existence of the man and with the preordination of Jérémie (I 1:4 - 5), the prophecy of the return of Israel of its dispersion, taking one of a city, two of a clan to bring back them to Sion, pleasant country where Israel and Juda could remain in safety and peace (I 3:12 - 19) and a prophecy of the Lord gathering Israel of the countries of north by sending “fishermen” and “hunters” to find them (I 16:14 - 21). This event of the last days will have proportions even more important than the Exodus of Egypt under Moïse (I 16:13 - 15; 23:8).

Jeremy is chosen by God to be used as prophet. It is ensured to profit from its support. The passage of the book of Jérémie 1:19 known as: “Undoubtedly they will fight against you, but they will not carry it on you, because `I am with you', it is there what Yahvé declares, `to deliver you'. ” .

Jerusalem is inaccurate

The city is represented like a woman prostitute with the foreign gods. Yahvé invites its people to return in particular because he is their owner (its husband with the illustrated direction). They can return on the condition of removing their things immondes if not, in the same way that the Juif S left God to serve as the false gods, God will make them serve as the foreigners in a country who is not theirs, in slavery. Indeed, they dedicate a worship with the god Baal by burning their sons and girls in the valley of Hinnom. This valley, according to Jérémie, will be called “the valley of slaughter” and the corpses of these people will become a food for the birds and the animals. This advertisement corresponds so that became this valley, while being synonymous with the Géhenne, symbol of total destruction.

The persecution of the prophet

Irritated by the preaching of Jérémie, the police chief as a chief of the temple puts the prophet at the stock S a whole night. Blow, Jérémie plans to give up prophesying, but it cannot keep silence. The word of Yahvé “becomes in its heart like an extreme fire, locked up in its bones”. A succession of tragic advertisements is then made: the king of Babylon will besiege Jerusalem which will be destroyed by the plague, the sword, the famine and fire. Concerning the kings, Yehoahaz will die in exile, Yehoïaqim will have a burial of ass and his/her son Yehoïakîn will die in Babylon.

A disagreement with the nations

Chapters 45 to 49 announce a succession of judgments. By means of three parallel prophecies, misfortune is announced for all the nations of the ground.

to start, Nabuchodonosor II is presented like the executant of the orders of God charged to devastate Juda and the nations neighborhood, and to continue by saying of Babylon that it “(…) will become the lonelinesses afflicted for indefinite times (…) ”. (Jérémie 25:12).
the vision of the cut of the wine of the fury of God is reserved for all the nations which “will drink it and oscillate and will behave like men taken of madness”. In addition to towns of Jerusalem and Juda, the Egypt, the Philistie, the Édom, Tyr, countries close and moved away, and finally “all the other kingdoms of the ground which are on the surface of the ground”.
God must be put “to howl of in top, against all the inhabitants of the ground”. This last prophecy forces the bringing together with prophecies of the book of the Apocalypse.