Dave Burnette's Commentary

Jeremiah Chapter 33

Written By: God through Inspiration
Penned By: Jeremiah
Date Penned: (627-586 BC)
Overview: To Urge God's People to Turn from Sin to God (c 1-52)
Theme: God's Judgement on Judah (c 1-45)
Message: God Promises Peace and Prosperity (v 1-26)

Jeremiah 33 Commentary 

(33:1-26) Justice and Mercy - When Jeremiah gave a dire prediction, he would follow it up with a promise of hope. God would restore Jerusalem, not because the people cried, but because it was part of his ultimate plan. The Babylonian disaster did not change God's purposes for his people. Although Jerusalem would be destroyed, it would be restored (both after the 70-year captivity and in the end times, when the Messiah will rule). God always tempers his justice with his mercy. God gave Jeremiah special revelation about the future, but we should not seek secret knowledge today (33:3). We now know through God's Word everything we need to live an abundant life of faith. 

(33:3) God Will Answer Prayer - God assured Jeremiah that he only needed to call out to God and God would answer (see also Psalm 145:18; Isaiah 58:9; Matthew 7:7). God is ready to answer our prayers, but we must come to him. Surely God could take care of our needs without our asking--but when we do ask, we are acknowledging that he alone is God and that he is all-powerful. We cannot accomplish in our own strength all that is in his domain to do. When we ask, we must humble ourselves, lay aside our willfulness and worry, and determine to obey him. 

(33:15-16) God Will Rule - These verses refer to both the first and second comings of Jesus. At his first coming he would set up his reign in the hearts of believers; at his second coming he will rule, executing justice and righteousness throughout the whole earth. Jesus Christ is the Branch of righteousness sprouting from David, the man after God's own heart. 

(33:18) Jesus is Our High Priest - As Jesus fulfills the role of king, he also fulfills the role of priest, maintaining constant fellowship with God and mediating for the people. This verse does not mean that actual priests will perform sacrifices, for sacrifices will no longer be necessary (Hebrews 10:4, 11-12). Now that Jesus is our High Priest, all believers are priests of God, and we can come before him personally (Hebrews 4:14-16). Now, instead of sacrificing animals, we sacrifice our entire lives to him (Romans 12:1-2).

 


Dave Burnette's Life Application


Remember to Pray

Each day we walk through the Bible chapter by chapter making an application of our text to help us grow in the Lord. Many applications can be made from each day's text. Today, we continue in the Book of Jeremiah with chapter 33. In our text today, we see that God promises peace and prosperity to Jeremiah even as he sits in jail. Even in his affliction, the Lord tells Jeremiah to "call upon Him, and He will answer him, and show him great and mighty things which Jeremiah does not know." In applying, the Lord reminds us to pray and seek Him as He hears and answers our prayers. How about you? Do you pray? Let us learn from our text today as the Lord instructs us to pray as He listens and will answer our prayers according to His Will and Purpose for our lives. 

 

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Jeremiah 33

Jeremiah 33

 1Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

 2Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;

 3Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

 4For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;

 5They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.

 6Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

 7And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

 8And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.

 9And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.

 10Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,

 11The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.

 12Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

 13In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.

 14Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

 15In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.

 16In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.

 17For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

 18Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

 19And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,

 20Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

 21Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

 22As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.

 23Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

 24Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

 25Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

 26Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.