The year was about 586 B. C. Jerusalem had been taken, the walls torn down, the temple destroyed, the people taken captive and deported. Because of Judah’s unfaithfulness to the covenant, Yahweh had given them into the hands of the Babylonians. Jeremiah, the prophet of Yahweh, had been allowed to stay in the land. […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on Suspect Submission“Why me, Lord?” tends to be a rhetorical question. Or maybe it’s no real question at all, just a lament, like “how are you” is just a form of greeting. But when “Why me, Lord?” becomes a real question, it often carries an edge to it. It’s spoken with an attitude. It comes with […]
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