This is who Jeremiah 29:11 was written to. Most of them hearing this message will be dead before they will be released. Not only do they have to live in captivity for 70 more years, but God also instructs them to seek peace while they are there. That’s bad news.īut God doesn’t stop there. And in Jeremiah 29 God is denouncing these false prophets and telling His people that they are going to have to wait 70 more years. In this time of captivity, there were false prophets going around claiming that God was going to release His people soon. We should read these words through that lens. That’s important thing to take note of, this passage is addressed to slaves living in enemy territory. When you rewind a little bit from Jeremiah 29:11 what you see is God talking to the nation of Israel through the prophet Jeremiah.ĭuring this time the Israelites are living in captivity in Babylon. The Bible teaches selflessness not a ME centered faith. Let me just say this, the common ways this passage is interpreted does not fit the Biblical narrative. To help us understand the meaning of Jeremiah 29:11 we will focus primarily on the first two in the list above.
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