At this time, when the kingdom, with its ordinances of justice and of grace, bestowed by God, was being dissolved, the Lord, in order to keep His people from despair, declares that these two institutions, in accordance with His promise, shall not fall to the ground, but shall stand for ever. Historically, of course, the Davidic line did not return to the throne, so passages like this (and its parallel, Jeremiah 23:5-6), were in time interpreted to be speaking about the coming ideal ruler, the Messiah. He imparts righteousness to his church, for he is made of God to us righteousness; and believers are made the righteousness of God in him. THE CONTEXT Chapter 33 is the last chapter of the Book of Consolation (chapters 30-33)three hopeful chapters that promise redemption and restoration to Israel and Judah. Jeremiah 33:14 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the gracious promise that I have spoken to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 23583 Coordinates: 314641N 35149E / 31. . All the sacrifices were intended for the praise of God, but this seems to be meant of the spiritual sacrifices of humble adorations and joyful thanksgivings, the calves of our lips (Hosea 14:2), which shall please the Lord better than an ox of bullock. It shall not be a habitation of soldiers, not shall there be tents and barracks set up to lodge them, but there shall be shepherds; tents; for they shall hear no more the alarms of war, nor shall there be any to make even the shepherds afraid. Behar, BeHar, Be-har, or B'har ( Hebrew for "on the mount," the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 32nd weekly Torah portion ( , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the Book of Leviticus.The parashah tells the laws of the Sabbatical year ( , Shmita) and limits on debt . God will fulfill His promises for He is For God declares, that his promise would not be void, as its effects would shortly be evident, even when his mercy was known by the ten tribes and by the kingdom of Judah. The meaning of the Prophet is, that God would at length render evident the power of his word, by fulfilling it. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me. 1. The armies of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, are advancing on Jerusalem. He imparts righteousness to his church, for he is made of God to us righteousness; and believers are made the righteousness of God in him. The Hebrew word for saved is yasha . Five hundred years after God saved the Judeans from their Babylonian exile, a child would be born, and his parents would name him Yeshua, or Jesus, meaning God saves.. Hence the stability of the promises then appears, and is seen when God raises them up, they being before hidden and concealed from the faithful. "Judah mourns, And her gates languish; They mourn for the land, And the cry of Jerusalem has gone up. his person and office: that I will perform that good thing , to cause to sprout of grow, corresponds to the figure of the , under which the Messiah is represented in both passages. And yet, our Jewish sisters and brothers have wrestled and reckoned with this verse in their own tradition, and have come to different answers. Such is the object of this promise. Presently desolate Jerusalem and the cities of Judah would experience joy and thank God because He will have restored their fortunes as they had been formerly. After long waiting, a branch will sprout. (This new covenant came into being through the death of Jesus Christ. That has been fully taken care of. This prophecy parallels that of Jeremiah 23:1-8. The Lord began to speak to me about the month of October. We'll be going there for big barbecues and having a great time as we offer the sacrifices and as we sit and eat with the Lord in that glorious fellowship with Him. God has a gracious set of promises that he will fulfill. These guys who are telling you the church is going through the Tribulation have told you that He is, but listen to what God says about it. and my people they have despised, so that they are no longer a nation before them. It is promised that the country, which had lain long depopulated, shall be replenished and stocked again. In Jeremiah 29:10, on the contrary, "the good word" is specially referred, by the following infinitival clause, to the deliverance of the people from Babylon. The preacher should also acknowledge, however, that like Jeremiah, he or she speaks these words in a time when many are experiencing great loss: loss of job, of security, of home. How about all of those "kings" and "priests" which are promised here? There shall be common joy there, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; marriages shall again be celebrated, as formerly, with songs, which in Babylon they had laid aside, for their harps were hung on the willow-trees. Instead of priests alone being able to approach God, all will know God. For I will turn their captivity, and take pity on them.". Despite their sin, they are still the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and they are still his people (23-26). Who is that Branch of righteousness growing up out of David? pp. show to the prophet, ( Jeremiah How might you broaden your sermon about redemptive hope to include all of Creation, and not just humanity? 14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. 1. All rights reserved. The difference made in the repetition of that promise is really unimportant. In this prophecy, too, mention is made of the priests alone. Christ is here prophesied of, 1. 15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. Marcus Aurelius, As certainly as night follows day and day follows night, God will fulfil his covenant promises to the dynasty of David and the tribe of Levi. Verses 12-13 That the Prophet then might still support these, he bids them to extend their thoughts to a future time; and he had prefixed, as we have before seen, seventy years. 14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD. Ye are awry, he says, and not my word. (Ezekiel 18:25), But here the goodness of the word is to be taken for the deliverance of the people; for when God shakes the despisers of his Law with terror, his word is called evil on account of its effect. house of Israel and to the house of Judah; The Jews say that in the days of the Messiah all sacrifices shall cease but the sacrifice of praise, and to those days this promise has a further reference. The Davidic kingdom and the Levitical priesthood were the two pillars and bases of the Old Testament theocracy, on which its existence and continuance depended. This is one of the ways we as Christians make sense of verse 17 with its promise that Never shall there be an end to [the line of] David, a man sitting upon the throne of the house of Israel. The discrepancy between the recorded promises of God in Jeremiahs time and the lack of an Israelite king in Jesus time is perhaps one of the reasons why Luke and Matthew took such pains to record the parentage of Jesus through King David. 1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying, 2 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name; 3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. (mis. God of the promised Messiah, as we wait for the fulfillment of your promise, we watch, we listen, and we open our hearts for your Word. A demon, , is the agent in the Greek historian, and a demon is the agent in the case mentioned in the text, Luke 9:42. Jeremiah 33 Commentary | Already Promised To begin, in verse 14, the Lord points to the fact that he's already promised this kind of thing before. The prophetic word from God was realized in the person of Jesus Christ, the person that the disciples, the apostles, and the early Christian authors believed was the Davidic king who would sit on the throne of Israel nay, the throne of heaven! c. Praise the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for His mercy endures forever: Instead of the anguished cries of a city under judgment, they would hear the sound of people praising God for His goodness and ever-enduring mercy. Studying the book of Jeremiah 33; shows a significant summary of the history, time and relevant details according to the bible's acts based onBenson Joseph - Bible Commentary and reading parallely the bible's version New English Translation. This word of tenacious hope is spoken to counteract all of the life-sapping, despair-inducing evidence to the contrary. "And the word of Jahveh came to Jeremiah, saying: Jeremiah 33:24. THE RIGHTEOUS BRANCH; THE MESSIAH. The blessing promised to the people in the "good word" culminates in the promise, Jeremiah 33:15., that the Lord will cause a righteous sprout to spring up for David. The limitation of language itself has been frequently mentioned in my series of commentaries. Then also will I reject the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so as not to take any of his seed as rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. - The very same promise is given to the Levitical priests, i.e., the priests of the tribe or family of Levi ( as in Deuteronomy 17:9, Deuteronomy 17:18; Deuteronomy 18:1, etc.). Amen. Jeremiah now shews why God had promised that there would be a quiet habitation for shepherds, so that no one would by force take away their flocks. (u) "verbum bonum", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius. Then we may take the comfort of what we have when God has had his dues out of it. i. Both of these pillars were broken with the destruction of Jerusalem and of the temple; the theocracy the appeared to have ceased to exist. Many good words or promises are made before, concerning The descendant of David who will execute justice and righteousness in the land is the one for whom we wait in this Advent season. Professor and Elva B. Lovell Chair of Old Testament, A resource for the whole church from Luther Seminary. Their nobles have sent their lads for water; King Josiah was one of the most celebrated rulers of Judah's history. Show us signs of your presence: a light in the darkness, a voice in the silence, and a stirring deep within us. The people of Israel grew weary of Jeremiah's message of repentance, and even asked the king to silence him by putting him into prison. Or, "are coming" {t}; future times are respected; yet such as It may be helpful here to pause over the verse 16 word saved for a moment. miah 33:14-16 Commentary on First Reading by Kathryn Schifferdecker. This is the That son is the Son of God, the Messiah. Chapter 33 1 Jeremiah was still confined to the Court of the Guard when the word of Yahweh came to him a second time, as follows, 2 'Yahweh who made the earth, who formed it and set it firm -- Yahweh is his name -- says this, 3 "Call to me and I will answer you; I will tell you great secrets of which you know nothing. Jeremiah 33:20. "Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and hidden things, which you do not know" (Jeremiah 33:3). 33:1). The narrative lectionary is a four-year cycle of readings Read more. So God's promises now of restoration of the nation of Israel. 13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, "I will cause a Branch of righteousness to arise unto David ". . The Lukan travel narrative (chapters 9-19) begins with a notice of Jesus' resolve to go to Jerusalem and his inhospitable reception by a . He will remove all barriers and bring them into direct fellowship with himself (33-34). that good thing that came out of Nazareth: the good Shepherd that Much of this chapter is challenged by the critics who point out that Jeremiah 33:14-26 are missing from the LXX, and that the apparent prophecies of the endless succession of a Davidic line of kings and a restoration and perpetual continuity of the Levitical priesthood with its countless sacrifices are totally contrary to other . God has a plan. On the meaning of this promise, see the remarks on Jeremiah 23:5-6. As noted in the chapter introduction, the only difficulty here is the apparent promise of the perpetual succession of his descendants upon the throne of David and also that of the permanent, unending restoration of the Levitical priests with their animal sacrifices, events which are denied absolutely by other passages of the Word of God. Well, Christ himself said of the Twelve Apostles, "Ye shall sit upon twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel" (Matthew 19:28), a reference, of course, to the spiritual authority of the Apostles in God's Church. In the remaining nine occurrences of the phrase in the book, it points to a time of future blessing for Israel. "At the same time," says the LORD, "I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people." Thus says the LORD: "The people who survived the sword Found grace in the wilderness Verse 1. The days will come, though they are long in coming. These promises lead us to the gospel of Christ; and in that God has revealed truth to direct us, and peace to make us easy. And his salvation encompasses not just Judah and Jerusalem, but the whole world. This section consists of a small collection of messianic prophecies. That good thing - Better, the good word Jeremiah 29:10, with reference to the promise already given Jeremiah 23:5-6. Let us then learn to embrace his promises, so that none of us may look for this or that, but know that then only he will be propitious to us, when we lean on his word. (Revelation 1:5,6, KJV). Read full chapter Jeremiah 33:14 in all English translations Jeremiah 32 Jeremiah 34 New International Version (NIV) 1. The confirmations of these promises, which follow them in Jeremiah 33:19-26, are each introduced by separate headings, perhaps not merely to render them more prominent, but because the Lord revealed them separately to the prophet; but it by no means follows from this that they are later additions, without any connection. laid down his life for the sheep, preferable to the shepherds But they are wasting their time, as the city is going to be destroyed (4-5).Nevertheless, God will not forsake his people. Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. God shows him that the people of Jerusalem are desperate. By means of the apposition "the Levites," the priests are designated as the legitimate priesthood, established as such in virtue of God's choice of the tribe of Levi, in contrast with priests such as Jeroboam appointed, out of the common people, for the worship set up by him. And this mode of speaking is fitly adopted as to the promises of God; for they seem for a time to he dormant without any effect, or seem to disappear or vanish away. III. But taken together, the verses tip us toward a sense of kinship, a promise of God which is fulfilled in multiple ways and which includes ever more than we could possibly imagine. Time is like a river and its current is swift. That good thing which I have promised By my prophets: for those who have predicted the captivity have also foretold its conclusion, though not in such express terms as Jeremiah did. Grace Evangelical Church Buzzsprout-10942767 Mon, 11 Jul 2022 14:00:00 -0500 737 Dr. Young, DJY, Grace Evangelical, Grace Evan, Germantown, Memphis, Collierville, Bible, Jeremiah, Church, God full false Wednesday Night | The Exquisite Beauty of Christ and His Bride: Part 3 | Jim Umlauf Though the promise may sometimes work slowly towards an accomplishment, it works surely. December 2, 2012. 2. So here is God's invitation, challenge to Jeremiah, "Call unto Me." under the Gospel dispensation, and promised to them, who are As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who serve me. Explanation and Commentary of Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah heard this Word from the Lord while he was confined. In the midst of darkness, light is about to break in. Christ is our Lord God, our righteousness, our sanctification, and our redemption. By him Judah shall be saved from wrath and the curse, and, being so saved, Jerusalem shall dwell safely, quiet from the fear of evil, and enjoying a holy security and serenity of mind, in a dependence upon the conduct of this prince of peace, this prince of their peace. A model of repentance never fulfilled. God tells Jeremiah that he has not. It shall not be a habitation of beggars, who have nothing, but of shepherds and husbandmen, men of substance, with good stocks upon the ground they have returned to. The industry of the country, and their return to their original plainness and simplicity, from which, in the corrupt ages, they had sadly degenerated. Note: After the time of exile, Zerubbabel, a descendant of David in the kingly line, became governor of Jerusalem (Haggai 2:20-23; Matthew 1:12,Matthew 1:17), and Joshua, a descendant of Aaron, became high priest (Haggai 1:1). These are Christians, called by the apostle Peter "a royal priesthood" (1Peter 2:9), and of whom the prophecy declares that "They live and reign with Jesus Christ a thousand years!" Amen." Last week on Christ the King Sunday, we heard about the reforms of the great King Josiah. The word of God, when it denounces all kinds of death, and contains nothing but terrors, is always good, if goodness be taken for what is just and right; and hence God, by Ezekiel, reproves the Jews, because his word was bitter to them, and says, Are the ways of the Lord crooked and thorny? In fact, this promise helps us see the breadth of the hope promised by God to David and his line, which includes all who put their hope in the Branch. "The opening movement assigns to Jeremiah, while still imprisoned, a vision of the future based upon the elements in the siege. This if betokens the impossible; man cannot alter the arrangement in nature for the regular alternation of day and night. Jeremiah 33:14 New International Version 14 "'The days are coming,' declares the Lord, 'when I will fulfill the good promise I made to the people of Israel and Judah. God told Jeremiah that He has not rejected them. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. As this covenant of nature cannot be broken by men, so also the covenant of grace of the Lord with David and the Levites cannot be broken, i.e., annulled. Today we hear the story of the prophet Jeremiah, who was born in Josiahs time, but went on the prophesy during the darkest times of Judahs history. Notice there's no mention here of sin offerings. 114-16; and Jensen, p. Jeremiah 31 - The Glory of the New Covenant A. Some texts describe it as polluting Gods land (see Numbers 35) or even being the very reason for the exile, that the land might recover and heal (see also Ezekiel 36). Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse. Why are they having sacrifices after Christ has returned? He is the maker and former of Jerusalem, of Zion, built them at first, and therefore can rebuild them-built them for his own praise, and therefore will. "Transparent gold" is an impossibility. California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. He formed it, to establish it, and therefore it shall be established till those things be introduced which cannot be shaken, but shall remain for ever. Furthermore, it should be particularly noted that this chapter says nothing at all about any "succession" of Davidic kings, or any series of such rulers, but that he shall have "a son to reign upon his throne." When God renders punishment on Israel and Judah, some hold the notion that He has rejected them. Nam sacerdos erat quasi medius inter Deum et populum, rex autem representabat Dei personam.
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