“Once the stroke of God is past, the air clears and a better spirit pervades the community,under Gedaliah’s kindly governorship. God’s blessing on the land again appears (Jeremiah 40:12). How quick He is to turn His anger away. He doth not willingly afflict the children of men. Slow to chide, and swift to bless is […]

“If people do the same in Egypt as they have done at home, the same punishment will overtake them. One marvels at the perversity of their hearts, to have learned so little from the sack of Jerusalem. But do we learn from the judgments God sends upon us? Do they make us repent, and learn […]

“Jeremiah’s horizon stretches to the heathen nations – here it is Egypt, and the outlook is dark, as it is for every God-forgetting nation. But in verses 27-28, there are promises full of comfort to God’s people – 27 “Do not be afraid, Jacob my servant; do not be dismayed, Israel. I will surely save […]

“Amidst his ministry to the nations, this spiritual giant has time  for a penetrating word for his scribe. Often the larger affairs of national prophecy can conceal petty ambitions in lesser men. Baruch wanted to be something – and instantly the discerning prophet pierced his heart with these searching and challenging words, “Should you then […]

“Here is a favourite trick people have, when they resist God’s will – they do not dare oppose God openly, they take it out on the Lord’s servants. Many honoured and faithful servants of God suffer agonies when the spleen of convicted Christians vents itself upon them, Friends, your quarrel is not with the servant, […]

“Jehoiakim started something here that has come into fashion again in our time – cutting up God’s Word with a knife! Note Jeremiah 36:24 –  ‘Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words’! Aye, men might well be afraid when they […]