The prophecy of Jeremiah has been a book of failure. As we come to the end of our study of Jeremiah we are taking a moment to look back at the failure of the people of Judah. They have traded the Lord for things that are not gods (Jeremiah 2:10-11). They have exchanged the fountain of living waters for broken cisterns that cannot hold water (Jeremiah 2:12-13). They have refused to listen to the Lord through the prophet Jeremiah through all the Babylon invasions. The book has been a shocking explanation of how the people stubbornly refused to listen to the Lord. One of the worst examples of this was the king of Judah cutting the word of the Lord, column by column, and throwing it into the fire (Jeremiah 36). While the book has frequently described the sins and the failures of the people, there have been glimmers of future hope. The Righteous Branch was promised to come, bringing justice and ruling in righteousness (cf. Jeremiah 23:5; 33:15). A new covenant is coming in which God’s law will be written on the people’s hearts and God will forgive their sins (cf. Jeremiah 31:31-34). So how will the prophecy of Jeremiah end? We are going see God’s final message through Jeremiah to the people as well as an account of what happened to the final kings of Judah. As we read Jeremiah 50-52 we are going to see God’s future hope that his people will be graciously freed. Open your copies of God’s word to Jeremiah 50-52 and we are going to read five pictures of future hope for God’s people. As we read, be thinking about how this hope was speaking to the future people of God being graciously freed, including God’s people today…
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