Jeremiah 36 FSI - HEAR, O EARTH

> [!title|noicon] **Jeremiah 36 Notes** > [[Jeremiah 35 FSI|<Prev]]   [\[Bible\]](Bible%20Books%20Navigation.md)   %%[[Jeremiah 37 FSI|Next>]]%% [[Jeremiah 36|Verse list view]] > [Jeremiah 36:1](Jeremiah%2036.md#^1) note > > This is now in the fourth year of Jehoiakim (see also [Jer 25:1](Jeremiah%2025.md#^1), [45:1](Jeremiah%2045.md#^1), [46:2](Jeremiah%2046.md#^2)) in the year 604 BC, 17 years before Judah and Jerusalem were destroyed by the armies of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, that God is speaking this Word to Jeremiah. ^jer36-1 > [Jeremiah 36:2](Jeremiah%2036.md#^2), [3](Jeremiah%2036.md#^3), [4](Jeremiah%2036.md#^4), [5](Jeremiah%2036.md#^5), [6](Jeremiah%2036.md#^6), [7](Jeremiah%2036.md#^7) note > > In this statement, God is saying something so profound and important that we just can't underscore it enough. God is showing in a very distinct, practical, positive way that cannot be misunderstood exactly where the Bible has come from. In [2 Timothy 3:16](2%20Timothy%203.md#^16) it is teaching us that *all scripture* is God-breathed and profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction and instruction in righteousness. It is NOT saying (as some falsely claim) that "only" the verses that are inspired are thus profitable. *Everything* in the Bible is God-breathed. So God Himself moved every individual scribe to write what they did in the Bible ([2 Pe 1:20](2%20Peter%201.md#^20), [21](2%20Peter%201.md#^21)). *None* of the Bible was written by human private interpretation or according to some overall theme, every word is specifically given and inspired by the Holy Spirit. In fact, the Bible even teaches that they themselves, the prophets and scribes whom the Lord moved to write the Word, could not understand much of what they were writing because it was reserved for our learning today ([1 Pe 1:10](1%20Peter%201.md#^10), [11](1%20Peter%201.md#^11), [12](1%20Peter%201.md#^12)), according to God's progressive revelation. So they wrote words down without knowing how it all harmonized together in the days before there was a completed Bible like we have today. > > So now comes the book of Jeremiah. And here in Jeremiah 36 God lays it right out, where Baruch, who must have been a secretary to Jeremiah "wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah *all* the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book" ([vv2](Jeremiah%2036.md#^2), [4](Jeremiah%2036.md#^4)). So this is the way God has given us the Bible. > > This gives us insight into the gigantic, root problem as to why people will not obey the Word of God, such as why many will not come out of the churches today, why they do not understand (or even want to understand) the timeline of history or why they really have no knowledge of what God's judgment plan is. It all starts with an attitude toward the Bible. One will never begin to have an understanding of the Bible until we have a very humble, intense attitude that THIS is the WORD of GOD. Even with highly regarded commentaries and theological books, invariably the writers do not understand the principle that every word in the original languages came from the Mouth of God. And at any moment that you have a lesser idea of any passage that it is absolutely True, you will not receive Truth from the Bible. > > The moment that you think that a number or some other word has a scribal error of some kind in the original languages, you have lost your trust in the whole Bible altogether because you have lessened its Authority. Or if you for a moment believe that whatever Luke or Paul wrote (or whoever else was a scribe for the Bible) reflects how much understanding they had to underpin the Bible's Truthfulness, you have lost the importance of the Word of God. Any understanding they had came from the inspired Word, the inspired Word does not come from their understanding. > > For example, how did Moses know what to write, say, about a conversation between God and Cain before Cain killed Abel? Or how could he write definitively about the 6 days of creation with any authority? Or how could he write about God's conversation with Noah in connection with the flood? How could he write any of that? Only because God gave him word for word, every word came from the Mouth of God, just as we see with Baruch here writing all the words that God gave to Jeremiah to declare. > > Study in progress 5.2026. > > ^jer36-2-7 Tags: #Old_Testament #Jeremiah #Gods_judgment_on_His_people #FSI