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Jeremiah becomes aware of his prophetic message during the thirteenth year of Josiah’s reign, or 626 BCE. Josiah’s reformation is already under way, and the king is busy purging Assyrian culture from Israel and Judah. Jeremiah, a young man of about thirteen, is fully aware of the spiritual implications of the events unfolding in the vicinity. News of the demise of the Assyrian king and the rise of the Babylonian kingdom has already reached Anathoth. The balance of power remains unclear, the roles of heroes and villains have not yet been assigned, and the implications of the fall of one empire and the rise of another have yet to be discerned. Jeremiah, presumably, receives his first prophecy in Anathoth. God tells him: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born, I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations” (Jer. 1:5).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The expression “to the nations” does not mean, specifically, non-Israelites, but rather indicates that Jeremiah will be speaking to a much wider target audience. He will not be confined to the role of local prophet, concerning himself solely with the moral edification of his coreligionists. The map of the world will be forever before him, and he will prophesy the acts of God toward the nations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Already here, in Jeremiah’s prophetic initiation, we see that prophecy has been branded upon his being, irrespective of his free will. In response to his evasion of God’s word \u2014 “I do not know how to speak, for I am still a boy” (1:6) \u2014 God touches his mouth, saying: “Herewith I put My words into your mouth” (1:9). This is the defining moment of Jeremiah’s life. The insertion of God’s word into Jeremiah’s mouth makes prophecy an inextricable part of his being, whether he likes it or not. God then expounds upon Jeremiah’s role as “a prophet concerning the nations”:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI appoint you this day over nations and kingdoms: to uproot and tear down, to obliterate and destroy, to build and plant\u201d (1:10).<\/span><\/p>\n

The boy is appointed prophet at a fateful moment, as massive upheavals shake the known world. He does not yet know the names of these empires to be obliterated and built, uprooted and planted. He knows only that his hour has come, and that God controls the playing field.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/em>. 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