| Week 1 |
| Day 1 |  | (Originally posted Sunday, December 29, 2013)
Overview Jeremiah 1:1-19. The Jeremiah Project begins today. 52 chapters in 52 weeks. Chapter 1 contains 19 verses arranged in 5 paragraphs. |
| Day 2 |  | (Originally posted Monday, December 30, 2013)
Jeremiah 1:1-3. The name Jeremiah (Hebrew pronunciation /yeer•muh•yah•HOOH/ ) may mean "Established [by] Yah[weh]" or "Will be thrown [by] Yah[weh]". We see Jeremiah's work spanned the reigns of four kings and ended with the exile. Established and thrown. |
| Day 3 |  | (Originally posted Tuesday, December 31, 2013)
Jeremiah 1:4-8. This passage, like life, starts and ends with the Name of God. Translated "LORD" in verses 4, 7 & 8, and "GOD" in verse 6, all are the same word, spelled Yodh-Heh-Vav-Heh (as seen in this picture, read right-to-left). In English we say "Yahweh" or "Jehovah". The Name is a word-fusion of the Hebrew words for "will be" and "was". It conveys Yahweh's ever-presence, His "foreverness". He knows us before we were. He tells us to do; we say we can't. He says, "I CAN. And I WILL. So FEAR NOT." Now go forth. |
| Day 4 |  | (Originally posted Wednesday, January 1, 2014)
Jeremiah 1:9-10 - The Noetic Poetic: Seven "Two"s and Six "To"s. Passages like this are a PRIME example of why I'm not a great fan of Bible paraphrases. Yahweh says what He says in very particular ways. It's not just WHAT He says, it's HOW He says it. Look at this diagram of the verses. The Hebraism of doubling is at various times a form of restatement and/or reiteration that appears over and over in the Bible. It gives a special kind of emphasis. It's like when we capitalize things TO REALLY UNDERSTAND THEIR IMPORTANCE!! This passage is in all caps from on high; today pray over why that is. Then go forth. |
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| Day 5 | (Originally posted Thursday, January 2, 2014)
(1/4) Jeremiah 1:11-12 - "The ayes/eyes/I's have it." There's so much going on simultaneously in these two verses, there's not space here to cover it all. Remember the Name of God, Jeremiah's name meaning, the Hebraism of doubling? All here and more. Suffice it to say, our God Yahweh loves art, nature, word play, and most of all people. To know Him better is to love same. Here are the verses in Hebrew, today's big picture. |  |  | (2/4) It has to be seen this way because it is simply invisible in English. God loves word play; the mind has to work to get it. We read "I see a rod of an almond tree," but the original word order is "rod almond I see" focus on "almond I". Hebrew pronunciation /shah•kehd ah•nee/ It looks like this, remember read right-to-left: |  | (3/4) Those two words are the first two from the right on the second line of the big picture. Now, we read "...I am watching over my word...", but original word order is "am over-watching I my word". Focus on "watching I" Hebrew pronunciation /soh•kehd ah•nee/ in the bigger picture, it is the two words from the left on the second line. It looks like this: |  | (4/4) Bottom line: Yahweh sees EVERYTHING. And He is interactive with His creation. That's us. He wants us to see more. How do I know that? And how do I know He loves art? Watch this. Draw two eyes and fill them with eyes. Now you have almonds. That is art that speaks! P.S. There's also some connections to the lampstand in the Tabernacle and Aaron's buddy rod... Now pray up and go forth. |
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| Day 6 |  | (Originally posted Friday, January 3, 2014)
(1/3) Jeremiah 1:13-19 - "Parental Guidance". Question: What do you do if you can see something horrible coming that is inevitable? Jeremiah saw just such a thing. As we saw yesterday, Yahweh sees EVERYTHING. He tells us He is watching over His word to perform it. The word of Yahweh is like a beautiful diamond, it is one stone, but it has many, many facets by which we see sparkles and shines. Three of those facets He is watching over are: 1.) Genesis 8:21, 2.) Genesis 12:2, and 3.) Exodus 19:6 | (2/3) Question: What kind of parent doesn't love their children enough to discipline them for the purpose of ensuring they become the best that they can become? As a parent, what would you do if your child proclaimed you were not their parent, but then they were content to stay in the shelter and protection and provision you provide? The idolatry that God's children were perpetrating in Jeremiah's time demonstrated that Israel was in desperate need of discipline. It's like when a child does this: |  |  | (3/3) Yahweh is a big God; if a day is as a thousand years to Him, then 47 years of Babylonian captivity is equivalent to 68 MINUTES in timeout. At the end of EVERY day, He is in charge. Let's just do what our Dad is telling us to do. |
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| Day 7 |  | (Originally posted Saturday, January 4, 2014)
Review Jeremiah 1:1-19 and REST!
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Week 2 begins tomorrow. |