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Week 46
Day 1
(Originally posted Sunday, November 9, 2014)

Overview Jeremiah 46:1-28 - "Bibliologia Veracitica". This week begins a new throughline in the book of Jeremiah in which messages from Yahweh through him go out to various foreign nations. This week in particular, we'll read what He says specifically to Egypt. We'll see the difference between the big noise and the Still Small Voice.
Day 2
(Originally posted Monday, November 10, 2014)

(1/2) Jeremiah 46:1 - "To Whom It Concerns" or "Bridges". Review also Revelation 1-3. In order to carry on somewhat oriented in this project for the next six weeks, it will be helpful to look at these maps to get a handle on where these places are for which Jeremiah has messages from Yahweh to deliver. The ten nations named to which these messages from chapters 46 to 51 are addressed are Egypt, Philistia, Moab, Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar & Hazor, Elam and Babylon. In this first map we can see most of those places. Not seen are Egypt, which is to the SW, Kedar, Elam and Babylon. So you know where Egypt is, now locate Philistia, then Moab, then Ammon, then Edom, then Damascus...
(2/2) ...Now on this second map we can see Kedar in relation to Damascus which you found on the other map. Now find Elam way over to the east, and finally Babylon. This one verse today points these next six chapters, 46-51, in the direction of these peoples and territories. There is a heartbeat-like pattern from Egypt in the west to Babylon in the east, like evening (sun setting, death) to morning (sun rising, life). There is a sweeping sort of pattern from Egypt to Babylon, from Israel's past to what was at Jeremiah's time Israel's future in Babylon. These last seven chapters are a sort of mirrored bridge, at least in form if not in content, to the first three chapters of the Revelation, with chapter 52 of Jeremiah presenting a decision point not dissimilar from Revelation 1, and these 6 chapters with these messages to these peoples corresponding to the seven letters to the seven physical, historical, spiritual and archtypal churches.
Day 3

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(Originally posted Tuesday, November 11, 2014)

Jeremiah 46:2-12 - "Overextended". Today we read a tragedy in verse documenting the sound defeat of a nation living in its past days of glory still thinking they can proactively go out with the kind of strength and dominance they exercised back then. Yet Egypt does it anyway.
Day 4
(Originally posted Wednesday, November 12, 2014)

Jeremiah 46:13-24 - "Pyramid Powerless" or "The Beatdown Continues". Today we read a second poem that details a follow-up defeat of Egypt at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon. This time though, the locale is not some faraway place for the Egyptians like Carchemish, no, this time their defeat is happening in their own land. This is the end of their world as they've known it. Now they are primed to hear the core of what Yahweh has to say to them.
Day 5
(Originally posted Thursday, November 13, 2014)

Jeremiah 46:25-26 - "The Rest Of The Story" or "Dovetails". Review also Jeremiah 22:1-23 and Jeremiah 25:1-11. Today we see another side to the situation that was going on in Judah at this time about which we read so many weeks ago. Not only was Yahweh demonstrating again that He alone is God in Egypt, but He was also dealing directly with His own people in Judah, because they were at that time looking to Egypt as some sort of savior from Babylon.
So also in our lives. When God doesn't seem to be making sense, remember He sees ALL the angles, and He knows what He's doing. Trust Him, trust Him, trust Him.
Day 6

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(Originally posted Friday, November 14, 2014)

Jeremiah 46:27-28 - "The Heir Of The Potter Will Be Okay". Today we are reminded that Yahweh remembers who His covenanted people are, and He does indeed cherish and care for them, EVEN when that care requires a righting of wrongs, correction and discipline.

Here and now, as followers of Jesus Christ, we are His covenanted people under the NEW Covenant which Jesus established. He cherishes and cares for us, His people. He will never leave us or forsake us. And unlike Dumbledore, NO ONE can take Him out.
Day 7
(Originally posted Saturday, November 15, 2014)

Review Jeremiah 46:1-28 and REST in the understanding that
Some oppressors of Yahweh's people are kept around to bear His witness by their scars to science,
While others who have bullied His kids are kept around only in records like their dead giants.


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