Today, I am reading and commenting on Jeremiah 51-52.

The first thing I want to write about is the end of chapter 51.  There it tells us that Jeremiah had written his prophecies against Babylon on a scroll which he sent to Babylon with Seriah, who went to Babylon with Zedekiah after the fall of Jerusalem.  There Seriah was to read the scroll aloud then tie a stone around it and throw it into the Euphrates River.  This makes this seem as a follow-on prophecy to the one which Jeremiah had sent to those who had been taken into exile earlier.  In that prophecy he told them to make themselves at home and seek the prosperity of the land in which they found themselves because they would be there for a long time.  Now, he tells them that they should not allow themselves to be completely assimilated, they should remain God’s people because in due time God was going to destroy Babylon.  We should keep this in mind today.  We should seek the prosperity of the society in which we live, which means seeking to draw them to the Lord.  However, we should not allow ourselves to lose our identity as the people of God, separate from the world around us.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.