Jeremiah 29 “A Letter to the Exiles”
Jeremiah 29 answers the question, ‘How should a child of God live in exile, when dropped into a culture that’s radically different than their own?’
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In 597 B.C., the armies of Babylon stormed Jerusalem and carried thousands of Israelites into exile, fulfilling the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah that Jerusalem would fall and Israel would be disciplined. Yet God did not leave Israel without a word of encouragement, without hope or without instruction. The letters from Jeremiah recorded here urge Israel to live their lives of exile in a way that would honor God.
This notion of being an exile also applies to God’s people today – citizens of heaven, residents of earth. So we can take God’s instruction for Israel then and apply it to us in our time, as we live, work and play in modern Babylon.
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