Jeremiah: A Prophet's Anguish and Delight.

Midstream, December, 2000 by Stern, Philip

Jeremiah is known as a prophet of doom. Again and again he denounces his people for their sins, particularly that of idolatry. He predicts that their sinful ways will lead to disaster -- a disaster inflicted upon them by the furious God of Israel. As we read the book of Jeremiah, we sense that his audience was not receptive. He was threatened, persecuted, and thrown into jail; his first manuscript was burnt, and he was opposed by prophets who, in the name of the same Lord, prophesied the opposite of what Jeremiah preached.

Yet history vindicated Jeremiah, not Hananiah the false prophet (Jeremiah 28), and there were apparently those who listened to Jeremiah, because in a huge, grand, and tragic book, Jeremiah's prophecies against worshiping "other gods" Mil...

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