Introduction to Jeremiah and Repentance

Shalom friends, My name is Chadwick Harvey. Thank you so much for joining us tonight as we open up a series on the book of Jeremiah, a four-part series that we'll be going through the entire book by the order of the kings. I believe that's the best way to read it chronologically because it's not written in chronological form. So, we have to look at it from the reign of the kings. Tonight, we'll go through King Josiah's reign. In the next video, we'll go through King Jehoiakim. Then, in the third video, we'll go through King Zedekiah. And the fourth video will cover the Day of the Lord scriptures in Jeremiah 46-52, proving they are Day of the Lord scriptures, even though they happened in history as well.

I believe the book of Jeremiah is very important, like the rest of the biblical prophets, to understand the times we are living in. When we look at the promised land, the trajectory of what's going down in the Middle East, and understand the prophetic timeline we are on at the end of the age, Jeremiah has many end-time prophecies, like the time of Jacob's trouble in Jeremiah 30 and the new covenant in Jeremiah 31. He received much revelation that we can understand. Jeremiah 16 and 23 also contain end-of-age scriptures. We can gain a great glimpse of understanding and also help our Jewish and Israeli friends understand that Jeremiah would be saying the same thing today that he said to their ancestors. The same things are happening in the promised land today. Moses would say the same thing today. Elijah would say the same thing today. And the two witnesses will say the same thing they said when they were on earth before.

The book of Jeremiah is historical but also prophetic. It bleeds into end-of-age prophecies. We must read it carefully to understand the history and then the second coming events.

We are currently in the dire straits according to the biblical calendar: the three weeks of sorrow, from Tammuz 17th to the ninth day of Av. These two days became cursed days because bad things happened in history to the Jewish people due to their actions, like the golden calf incident on Tammuz 17th. The bad report intensified on the ninth day of Av. Both Temples were destroyed on the ninth day of Av, as was the city of Jerusalem, by the Babylonians and Romans. Yahweh wants us to remember and understand what happened to the people, their apostasy, and their idols. He wants us to remember because our temples could be destroyed as well.

Ultimately, for the Jewish people and Israelis, they need to understand what the Jewish prophets said because they are seeing these warnings come to fulfillment, like the fishermen and hunters, and the time of Jacob's trouble. Thus, we need to understand what this man was told by God to tell the people: to repent and come back to Him. That is the ultimate theme of the book of Jeremiah: repentance. This is for Jews, Christians, and all mankind, because of what this world is going through and what we are about to go through. Nothing is going to stop it; it's only going to escalate into further prophecies of the end of the age.

Many people dislike reading the book of Jeremiah because of what the prophet said. People say they love the biblical prophets until they read what they actually said from God, then they don't like them, or they call it legalism, or say it's in the past. Jeremiah would disagree with that based on the scriptures. His prophecies are for the end of the age, including the time of Jacob's trouble.

To set up the book of Jeremiah, we must understand that he dealt with the same things occurring today in the land. Jeremiah would say the same things today that he told the ancestors, that God told him to say. We should approach this with the heart posture of God and the prophet Jeremiah, who loved God and loved the people.

It's tough stuff what they were told to tell the people, but if we don't understand these tough things, we will fall into the same rebellion as the ancestors. Unfortunately, that's what we're seeing in the promised land today. On this channel, I stand with Israel and love the Jewish people, and I will stand with them through the end. While standing with them, we should share the truth with them as much as we can with our spiritual gifts, which is about repentance. It's all about love, and Jeremiah was about that as well. Unfortunately, the people were not about that towards him, Isaiah, or the other prophets; they were against the prophets.

We must understand that we will run into the same understanding because Yeshua said in Matthew 24 that they will take you to the courts and synagogues, and they will persecute Jewish believers. The government and the hierarchy of the Jewish people will persecute Jewish believers. That's why we need to be more balanced with political Israel and the believers of the Jewish people there, because they will be persecuted, just like Jeremiah, John, Peter, Paul, Stephen, and others. We must stand with our brothers and sisters there. We root for the Israeli government, but we must support our brothers and sisters, the Jewish believers who love Yeshua and are trying to stand up for the truth.