Prophet
Jeremiah
Jeremiah was born into a priestly family around 650 BC
He was the second of the four major prophets and foretold the destruction of the Holy City and the deportation of the people. He foretold the fulfillment of the new and everlasting Covenant in Jesus Christ.
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Jeremiah the Prophet
Around 600 a. C., Jeremiah is called by God to a difficult and dramatic mission. He must preach to his people and to his king Ioiakim, who have lost the way of the Covenant with God and have settled into wealth and lust by approaching false idols, the return to justice and faith. During his first ritual sacrifice, his reproachful words fall on deaf ears, indeed they become the cause of his persecution.
Therefore, gird up your hips, stand up and tell them all that I will order you; do not be frightened at their sight, otherwise I will make you fear in front of them. And behold, today I make of you as a fortress like a wall of bronze against the kings of Judah and his rulers, against his priests and the world of the land. They will make war on you but they will not win you, because I am with you to save you ". Oracle of the Lord". (Jeremiah 1,4-10,17-19).
From these words we can understand how Jeremiah was a shy and hypersensitive prophet; he would like to escape his fate, but how to do it if God himself puts his words on his mouth.
Jeremiah was really marked by the will of God (16: 1-4). "This word of the Lord came to me:" Do not marry, have no sons or daughters in this place, because the Lord says about the sons and daughters who are born in this place and about the mothers who give birth to them and the fathers who give them they generate in this land: They will die of excruciating diseases, they will not be regretted or buried, but they will be like manure on the earth. They will perish by the sword and by hunger; their corpses will be meals for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth".
Jeremiah never had any recognition for his work, he was never appreciated, he even had to be defended even from the snares of his own relatives. Throughout his life he was educated in pain and loneliness. Certain truths are accepted by men only after the prophet has suffered them in his own flesh. Certainly, Jeremiah's greatest pain was that of having been accused of treason, but he resisted and persevered, despite all these difficulties without resolution, because he was supported by a deep and firm faith.
