Today, I am reading and commenting on  Jeremiah 45-48.

The passage tells us that Jeremiah made his prophecy against Egypt while Jehoiakim was king in Jerusalem, and the prophecy against the Philistines when Pharaoh was about to attack Gaza, but the passage contains no information about when he prophesied against Moab.  I find it interesting that these three prophecies are here at the end of the Book of Jeremiah, not where they fit into the book chronologically.  It seems to me that the Book of Jeremiah started out as the second scroll which Jeremiah dictated to Baruch, with some of Jeremiah’s other prophecies added on later.  The initial scroll was just prophecies against the people of Judah, because its purpose was to try to turn them back to God.  But Jeremiah had not just prophesied against the people of Judah.  God had given him messages concerning others as well.  We can learn a lot about how God speaks in this world from looking at the prophecies of Jeremiah.  Most of God’s messages are directed to those who claim to be His people, but He also sends messages and warnings to those who do not seek Him.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.