{"id":71393,"date":"2020-03-08T22:26:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T20:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=71393"},"modified":"2020-03-08T22:26:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T20:26:19","slug":"reverse-the-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/reverse-the-curse\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverse The Curse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"71393","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":38552,"related_cahpter":"433","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Behold, days are coming\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the depths of his despair, Jeremiah is revisited by a prophecy of consolation from the beginning of his career. In the early days of Josiah&#8217;s reign, Jeremiah wandered the streets of Jerusalem, prophesying that God would raise up a scion of the House of David, a faithful shepherd, who would gather all the scattered remnants of Israel from the north, and then they would dwell in their land in peace and security. At the time, the prophet was sure that this vision was about to be fulfilled \u2014blossoming like the almond branch he was shown \u2014 and that Josiah was the great hope. Now he is an adult well past fifty and has borne the suffering and frustration of a much older man. Yet his prophecy about the field in Anathoth transports him back to his childhood and hometown \u2014back to the faith that animated his first revelations. On the eve of Jerusalem&#8217;s destruction, Jeremiah hears God speaking words of comfort (33:10-11).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the mirror image of the terrible curse that Jeremiah cast upon the people of Anathoth (ch. 2). Then, when he had just accepted the verdict of a celibate life, his prophecy was interpreted as the seal of Israel&#8217;s destruction. Now, after all those bitter years, he repeats these same words, but inverted \u2014 as consolation. All these years after Josiah&#8217;s fall at Megiddo, after Jerusalem has deteriorated and reached the brink of destruction, Jeremiah utters a prophecy abstract and distant, but eternal:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBehold, days are coming \u2014 declares the Lord \u2014 when I shall uphold the good word I spoke about the House of Israel and the House of Judah. In those days and at that time, I will raise up a true scion of David, and he will do what is just and right in the land. In those days, Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell in security and be called &#8220;The Lord is our righteousness.&#8221; (33:14-16)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lau, Binyamin. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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