puddleglum
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Jeremiah 26 describes the fates of two prophets. One of them was Jeremiah. God told him to go to the temple and warn the people that Jerusalem would be destroyed if they did not repent. Here is the response to his message:
The priests and the prophets were the ones to whom God had given the responsibility of teaching the people his laws. They should have been the first to receive God’s message. Instead they were the first to want to kill the messenger.
They brought Jeremiah before the officials of the nation. The officials didn’t agree that Jeremiah should die.
God provided a protector for Jeremiah to keep him from being killded.
There was another prophet who preached the same message Jeremiah did.
The response to his message was different.
Two prophets preached the same message of judgment. God allowed one to be killed but protected the other. Why?
I read a commentary that said Uriah died because he fled rather than standing his ground as Jeremiah did. This might be the explanation but there are some things that make me doubt it.
Jesus told his disciples what to do when they were persecuted.
We must be willing to die for Christ’s sake, but if he provides a way for us to save our lives we should take it. Uriah was just doing what Jesus would late tell his disciples to do. Also, Jeremiah was in the custody of his enemies and couldn’t have fled even if he had wanted to.
Uriah wasn’t the only prophet to flee when his life was threatened. After Elijah won his contest with the prophets of Baal he was met with this threat.
Rather than killing him, God protected him, restored him to fellowship, and gave him more work to do.
God hasn’t told us why he allows one of his servants to be killed and protects the life of another, and we don’t need to know why. We belong to him and he can do to us whatever he wants. Our responsibility is to simply obey him and leave the results or lack of results in his hands. Whatever the outcome we can know that it is his will and he will work everything out for good.
The priests and the prophets were the ones to whom God had given the responsibility of teaching the people his laws. They should have been the first to receive God’s message. Instead they were the first to want to kill the messenger.
They brought Jeremiah before the officials of the nation. The officials didn’t agree that Jeremiah should die.
God provided a protector for Jeremiah to keep him from being killded.
There was another prophet who preached the same message Jeremiah did.
The response to his message was different.
Two prophets preached the same message of judgment. God allowed one to be killed but protected the other. Why?
I read a commentary that said Uriah died because he fled rather than standing his ground as Jeremiah did. This might be the explanation but there are some things that make me doubt it.
Jesus told his disciples what to do when they were persecuted.
We must be willing to die for Christ’s sake, but if he provides a way for us to save our lives we should take it. Uriah was just doing what Jesus would late tell his disciples to do. Also, Jeremiah was in the custody of his enemies and couldn’t have fled even if he had wanted to.
Uriah wasn’t the only prophet to flee when his life was threatened. After Elijah won his contest with the prophets of Baal he was met with this threat.
Rather than killing him, God protected him, restored him to fellowship, and gave him more work to do.
God hasn’t told us why he allows one of his servants to be killed and protects the life of another, and we don’t need to know why. We belong to him and he can do to us whatever he wants. Our responsibility is to simply obey him and leave the results or lack of results in his hands. Whatever the outcome we can know that it is his will and he will work everything out for good.