Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets"
Text: Jeremiah 7:25
SENDING OUT PROPHETS
For the longest time, God raised up prophets and sent them as His servants to proclaim His word. The dismal news was that with every passing generation, the people rejected His word with greater disdain.
“Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day,
I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets,
daily rising up early and sending them.
Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck.
They did worse than their fathers.
Therefore you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not obey you.
You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.”
Jeremiah 7:25-27
1. “Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day”
a) The prophet that God sent to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt was none other than Moses.
b) Until this day Jeremiah was the major prophet of the day.
2. “I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.”
a) Many prophets had been sent.
b) There were the non-writing prophets:
i) Elijah
ii) Elisha, etc
c) There were writing prophets:
i) Isaiah
ii) Jeremiah
iii) Ezekiel, etc
d) “Daily rising up early and sending them”
A moving description of how the Lord took the time and trouble to send out His servants the prophets.