The Lord began to speak to me about the month of October. Promised what? This is ushered in 2. Christ is our Lord God, our righteousness, our sanctification, and our redemption. From the captivity to Christ is one of the famous periods, Matthew 1:17. Jesus himself presses his followers for this very connection in our optional Gospel reading for today, Mark 8:27-29. meant by the houses of Judah and Israel; for these phrases, as 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. thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. God told Jeremiah that He has not rejected them. Pastor Troy Brewer, OpenDoor Church, Burleson, TX. The promise in Jeremiah 33:14-16 has already been given in substance in Jeremiah 23:5-6, and in our verses it is only formally extended, and thereby made more prominent. A branch will sprout. This then is the import and the proper application of this doctrine. Jeremiah 33:14-16 EXEGESIS: JEREMIAH 30-33. under the Gospel dispensation, and promised to them, who are 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. Ed. No more sin offerings--that has been complete. 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. 4 for thus "The waters above the firmament" in the Creation narrative, for example, actually refer to "moisture in the atmosphere, or clouds"; but the Jews had no word for "vapor"; therefore, the waters (liquid) were beneath the firmament, and the waters (vapor) were above the firmament. 4. We are called to speak a word of hope and promise in a world often filled with fear and uncertainty, even despair. The armies of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, are advancing on Jerusalem. JEREMIAH 33. They shall never want one to bring and prepare an offering before the Lord. Notice there's no mention here of sin offerings. 16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness. Jeremiahs many prophecies of judgmentprophecies that have landed him in prisonare coming true. In the change from to in Jeremiah 33:14, we must not, with Hengstenberg, seek a real difference; for in Jeremiah these prepositions often interchange without any difference of meaning, as in Jeremiah 11:2; Jeremiah 18:11; Jeremiah 23:35, etc. This is ushered in with a "behold", as being a matter of importance, and deserving attention, and even as calling for admiration. 16 In those days Judah will be saved In short, the true application of prophetic truth is, that we never lay hold on, and really embrace the promises of God, except we look forward to the days that are coming, that is, except we patiently wait for the time prefixed by God: and further, except our faith leans on the promises, when they seem to he dormant, it is not firm, and has no roots or foundations; for as the root which nourishes the tree is not seen, but lies hid in the earth, and as the foundation of a house is not visible to our eyes, so ought our faith to be in like manner founded, and to drive deep roots into Gods promises, so that its firmness may not be in the air, nor have a visible surface, but a hidden foundation. Such is Advent faith, and Advent hope. Any reasonable person can see that the city is doomed. He is a branch of righteousness, not a usurper, for he grows up unto David, descends from his loins, with whom the covenant of royalty was made, and is that seed with whom that covenant should be established, so that his title is unexceptionable. ], "Days are coming" (Heb. which I have promised unto the Thus saith Jahveh, If ye shall be able to break my covenant (with) the day and my covenant (with) the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their proper time, Jeremiah 33:21. The narrative lectionary is a four-year cycle of readings Read more. Commentary on Jeremiah 33:14-26 (Read Jeremiah 33:14-26) To crown the blessings God has in store, here is a promise of the Messiah. 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. And we are made the righteousness of God in him. It is the same then as though he had said, that the favor of which he predicts could not be laid hold on, except the faithful held their minds in suspense, and patiently waited until the time of the promised deliverance came. Advent is a season that messes with our sense of time. As a king that shall protect his subjects from all injury. (90) So is the Vulg., suscitabo, I will awake, or rouse; and also the Sept. and the Targ. The institution of the priesthood is certainly not represented in the law as a covenant; it consisted merely in the choice of Aaron and his sons as priests by God, Exodus 28:1. In Jeremiah 33:14 it is designated as the establishment, i.e., the realization, of the good word which the Lord has spoken concerning Israel and Judah. As a king that shall be praised by his subjects: "This is the name whereby they shall call him" (so the Chaldee reads it, the Syriac, and vulgar Latin); "this name of his they shall celebrate and triumph in, and by this name they shall call upon him." A righteous Branch will spring up. "Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins, in his own blood, and made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. To these must be added Movers, who takes Jeremiah 33:18, Jeremiah 33:21-25 as later interpolations, and Hitzig, who treats the whole passage as a series of separate additions made in a later age. He it is that imparts righteousness to her, for he is made of God to us righteousness, and she, by bearing that name, professes to have her whole righteousness, not from herself, but from him. So the meal offering, the same thing. Such is the word of promise and hope in this text. 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. Orthodox rabbi and Jewish mystic. 3. He had been praying about it, but then God said, "Call unto Me, and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things, which you know not." God chose, but He's cast them off. And the burnt-offerings what about them? 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. There will come a time in the land of Judah when there shall once more be heard the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride (33:10-11). Genesis 9:9 with Genesis 8:22. 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. Not only shall Israel have priests, but priests out of the tribe of Levi, which was chosen by God for the sacerdotal office, as the medium of communicating His gracious gifts. Psalms 110:4) and are yet to be fulfilled in the reign of Messiah on earth." The house of David might be cut down, but God is able to bring life out of death. 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). 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 Tree of Life Version. 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. Voices of praise unto the Lord as they come into the temple again offering the sacrifices of praise. Jeremiah 13-14 - Speaking Through Signs A. Ultimately, they are combined in the highest sense in Christ (cf. This makes sense when we recall from Ezekiel 17:22-24. the prophecy of the transfer of the Davidic throne from Judah to Israel. 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. Hast thou not seen what this people have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the Lord hath chosen, these He hath rejected?' God responds to this lament with a promise of redemption and healing for Israel (Jeremiah 33:6-18). 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. (Note: The portion contained within Jeremiah 33:14-26 is wanting in the lxx; for this reason, and chiefly because of the promise of the eternal duration, not merely of the royal house of David, but also of the Levitical priests, and their innumerable increase, J. D. Michaelis and Jahn have considered it spurious. Jeremiah 33:19. Such is the object of this promise. (1-6) The droughts upon Judah. He is not a man that He should lie. We find this literally fulfilled at their return out of Babylon, Ezra 3:11. The transference of the name Jahveh Tsidkenu from the sprout of David to the city of Jerusalem is connected with the fact, that the name only expresses what the Messiah will bring to the people (see Jeremiah 23:6); the righteousness which He works in and on Jerusalem may, without changing the substance of the thought, be attributed to Jerusalem itself, inasmuch as Jerusalem reflects the righteousness which is bestowed on her by the Messiah. Jeremiah 33:14-16: After the Chaos Ends Jeremiah preaches that the end marks a beginning. 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. This if betokens the impossible; man cannot alter the arrangement in nature for the regular alternation of day and night. King Josiah was one of the most celebrated rulers of Judah's history. This is the All rights reserved. In the midst of impending doom, a sign of hope is enacted. A righteous Branch will sprout from the line of David. Jeremiah 33:14-18 (Jeremiah 33:14) The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. Nam, sine rege, erant veluti corpus truncum aut mutilum; sine sacerdote mera erat dissipatio. "As an Advent text, this passage not only calls us to reflect on the faithfulness of God in the past as He worked in Israel?s history, especially as that faithfulness worked out in the Coming of Jesus the Christ. So here is God's invitation, challenge to Jeremiah, "Call unto Me." It is a word of hope, but not nave hope. Israel sat on a trade route between two massive empires, Egypt and Babylon/Assyria (roughly modern-day Iraq). 17 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying . 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. language. 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. Jeremiah knew he had been called to preach a tough message. We occupy a uniquely powerful position to speak out against such acts, and it must begin with the way we preach from the Old Testament. But careful listeners will hear that when God promises to raise up a true ruler, the ultimate actions of this king are justice and righteousness for the whole land, not just the people. 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. 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