Wednesday March 8th 2017
key verse 40:2
GUEDALIA AND YOHANAN
It's the time of the end of Jerusalem owing to its disobedience. God releases Jeremiah. Guedalia is a man who lives an humdrum life.
1. Guedalia (chapter 40)
Jeremiah is saved by the hand of the leader who tells of God's punitive will (2). He gives the whole liberty to him to go everywere he wants but he recommends going to Guedalia, established by the king of Babylon. He is a unifier of people because all the Jews go to him. Even if Guedalia doesn't consult Jeremiah who takes refuge in him, certainly he knows God's will and wanted to do his politics according to God's will. So he urges the people to submit to Babylon and cultivate the land that is entrusted to them. He is a good politician. However he is a naïve person. When Yohanan predicts the plot of Ismael, an ammonite spy, he doesn't believe.
2. Yohanân (chapter 41)
Guedalia eats with the emissary, Ismael, and his men, sent by the king of the Ammonites. He is struck by them. Then, Ismael makes 80 men die coming from Silo to offer presents to Guedalia and throws them in the tank that Asa made in the past to Baecha. Then, he brings all people that remain. When Yohanân, a righteous man, hears the new, he goes with his men to punish Ismael. When the people encounter him, all the people go with him. Ismael flees. Yohanân, with fear, chooses to flee in Egypt with the people. He is humanly a righteous man but the fear paralyses him and makes him make a bad decision.
Prayer: Lord, help me to be obedient but not naïve. Help me to be more obedient to you than humanly righteous.
Bottom line: two opposites types
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