The Prophet Is Called
Before you were born I csanctified you;
I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
“Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’
For you shall go to all to whom I send you,
And awhatever I command you, you shall speak.
“Behold, I have bput My words in your mouth.
To broot out and to pull down,
To destroy and to throw down,
To build and to plant.”
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What Does Jeremiah 1:6 Mean?
Jeremiah 1:6-10
Above all others, Jeremiah is the "Axial Man," prepared by God. God told him that he was a prophet not only to Israel and Judah, but to many other nations and kingdoms, and his job was to root out, pull down, destroy, throw down, build, and plant. Jeremiah 25:15-30 greatly fleshes out Jeremiah's commission.
John W. Ritenbaugh
Prophecy and the Sixth-Century Axial Period
Jeremiah 1:6-10
Above all others, Jeremiah is the "axial" man prepared by God. God told Jeremiah, a prophet not only to Israel and Judah but to the nations and kingdoms, to root out, pull down, destroy, throw down, build, and plant. Many of us understand this verse in light of Jeremiah's influence on the destruction of Judah and the replanting of David's dynasty in Ireland. However, Jeremiah 25:15-29 shows that his responsibility extended much farther than Israel and Judah.
John W. Ritenbaugh
Prophets and Prophecy (Part Three)
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