WE are very thankful that so many of our young friends have answered “The Riddle,” and trust much blessing has resulted from looking up the scriptures. Many have gone into the subject very fully, which has much pleased us.
Rewards will be sent out shortly, as we have now heard from distant lands.
Jeremiah was the little prophet. He lived at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. Jeremiah 1:1-5.
God chose Israel. “Israel was holiness unto the Lord.” Jeremiah 2:3.
“For the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.” Deut. 9:5.
He gave them the law. “When Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book.” Deut. 31:24.
“I brought you into a plentiful country.” Jeremiah 2:7.
“A land flowing with milk and honey.” Jeremiah 32:22.
“Ye were the fewest of all people.” Deut. 7:7.
“The Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt that led us through the wilderness through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt, and I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof: but when ye entered ye defiled my land and made mine heritage an abomination.” Jeremiah 2:6,7
“I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto My words, nor to My law, but rejected it.” Jeremiah 6:19.
“Which My covenant they break.” Jeremiah 31:32.
Jeremiah prophesied in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah, and for many years after. Jeremiah 1:2.
In the eighteenth year of king Josiah.... Hilkiah the high priest said.... “I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord.” 2 Kings 22:8.
“My people have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters.” Jeremiah 2:13.
The Life of the Prophet.
“The word of the Lord came unto me saying: Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou comest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Then said I, Ah, Lord God, behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not I am a child, for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. Then the Lord put forth His hand, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said unto me: Behold I have put My words in thy mouth.” Jeremiah 1:4-9.
He was continually in danger of his life. (Jeremiah 11:21; 26:8.) He was put in the stocks (20:2,) shut up in the court of the prison, (32:2, 37:21,) put in prison (37:15,) cast into the dungeon, (38:6.) He could write in his old age: “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness: the Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in Him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.” Lam. 3:22-26.
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