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Jeremiah 15:1-8
Chapter 15 records Jeremiah's second complaint. Here, the prophet experiences a crisis as major—if that could be—as the crisis Judah's king and people were experiencing. Jeremiah's was a crisis in belief so dangerous that it threatened his position as God's prophet. Chapter 15 opens with what can only be characterized as a sensational word-picture of God's rejection of Judah. Indeed, only a man after God's own heart, with a super-robust conviction of God's ultimate beneficence, could stomach such a mammoth calamity, seeing God's hand in it.
Charles Whitaker
A Tale of Two Complaints (Part Two)Related Topics: A Tale of Two Complaints | Calamity | Calamity, God Creates | Conviction of God's Ultimate Beneficence | God's Rejection of Judah | Jeremiah's Complaint | Jeremiah's Second Complaint
Jeremiah 15:1-4
The church has been purposely scattered by God. Nothing of this magnitude occurs without His permission! If He has given Satan His permission to be the actual "instrument of scattering, it still would never have happened if God did not agree that it needed to be done. Some think, "Satan came up with this idea, got into the flock, and scattered it." Could Satan do anything like this without God giving His permission? Impossible! And, if God gave His permission, then it was His will that it occur. Satan became merely an instrument of God's sovereign judgment.
John W. Ritenbaugh
Avoiding SuperficialityRelated Topics: God Scatters the Church | God's Sovereignty | Limitations to Satan's Power | Satan as God's Instrument | Satan as Tool of God | Satan's power Limited by God | Scattering of Church
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