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Episode: “Sounding the Alarm”
Idolatry was rampant, so the God of Israel promised destruction for the people of Judah who were living in sin. Jeremiah sounded the alarm, but no one listened. Likewise, many of those living around us today refuse to admit their sin or turn to the Lord.
Series: “Jeremiah”
Hope over the horizon
Known as the weeping prophet, Jeremiah received the assignment of warning his countrymen of the coming judgment and deportation at the hands of the Babylonians. A message of hope and deliverance is woven through Jeremiah’s writings.

Caption transcript for Jeremiah: “Sounding the Alarm” (2/9)

  • 00:02 David Hart: On today's program, destruction was coming to Judah
  • 00:04 because they had grown accustomed to living in sin.
  • 00:07 The Lord called Jeremiah to sound the alarm.
  • 00:11 Coming up next on "Our Jewish Roots."
  • 00:19 male announcer: In the 6th century BC, one man stood
  • 00:23 alone against the pervading wickedness of God's people
  • 00:26 in the land of Judah.
  • 00:29 The prophet Jeremiah was chosen by the Lord to warn of pending
  • 00:33 judgment that would come at the hands of the Babylonians.
  • 00:37 Visions of an exile left him heartbroken and in tears, but
  • 00:42 Jeremiah remained faithful to his calling and recorded a
  • 00:46 message that would speak to generations yet to come.
  • 00:51 Standing tall, with faith in God, he understood better days
  • 00:56 were coming, and there was hope over the horizon.
  • 01:05 David: Thank you so much for joining us today.
  • 01:06 I am David Hart.
  • 01:08 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
  • 01:09 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
  • 01:10 David: So, in our first program, God called Jeremiah;
  • 01:13 and in this program today, I think the people didn't think
  • 01:16 he was so called; rejected?
  • 01:18 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and speaking of program, it's our
  • 01:22 program, of course; but really, we're offering a telling of
  • 01:25 God's program, through Jeremiah, in our program called
  • 01:29 "Our Jewish Roots."
  • 01:31 And I use this book.
  • 01:33 People might wonder, "Well, what is it?"
  • 01:34 Well, it's a Bible that gives our Jewish roots, actually.
  • 01:39 It's the Hebrew text that I'm working from, and the
  • 01:42 traditional English rendering of the Hebrew, and then there's
  • 01:46 various Jewish rabbinical commentary underneath it.
  • 01:49 And I'm assimilating this and refracting it through a Jewish
  • 01:53 believing in Jesus prism, and this is what we're bringing
  • 01:56 to you, actually the way that the Hebrew people look
  • 02:00 at the biblical testimony.
  • 02:03 Kirsten: I absolutely love that you have highlighted
  • 02:05 parts of your Bible.
  • 02:08 That looks like the junior high Bible, or the Bible
  • 02:10 I had in junior high.
  • 02:12 It was yellow, orange, and then very few black letters.
  • 02:15 I love it though.
  • 02:16 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I think that a dull pencil is better
  • 02:18 than a sharp brain, and that is we underline, we make notes,
  • 02:23 and it's the way that I study.
  • 02:25 Kirsten: Yeah, I love it, it's great.
  • 02:26 David: Dr. Seif, more teaching from you in a bit; but
  • 02:28 right now, let's hear more of Jeremiah's story.
  • 02:34 announcer: A backsliding, obstinate people had refused to
  • 02:37 give ear to Jeremiah's voice of pending judgment.
  • 02:41 And the Lord said to Jeremiah, "Sound the shofar in the land."
  • 02:47 ♪♪♪
  • 02:55 [Jeremiah speaking in Hebrew]
  • 03:02 [male speaking in Hebrew]
  • 03:06 [Jeremiah speaking in Hebrew]
  • 03:16 [Jeremiah speaking in Hebrew]
  • 03:26 [Jeremiah speaking in Hebrew]
  • 03:35 [male speaking in Hebrew]
  • 03:40 [Jeremiah speaking in Hebrew]
  • 03:50 [Jeremiah speaking in Hebrew]
  • 03:59 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And Jeremiah said--
  • 04:01 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 04:05 "Blow the trumpet in the land."
  • 04:09 What did he have in mind?
  • 04:11 Is it half-time at a football game?
  • 04:13 Is it the drum and bugle corps?
  • 04:15 Is it a jazz festival?
  • 04:18 No, it is the trumpet of warning.
  • 04:24 In his day, he wanted to broadcast warning, because
  • 04:27 he saw trouble coming.
  • 04:31 I want to look at what the components of the trouble were,
  • 04:35 what precipitated that.
  • 04:37 But first, if you will, you know, I did quote the Bible in
  • 04:39 Jeremiah chapter 4, verse 5, where he says,
  • 04:43 "Sound the trumpet."
  • 04:45 I'm interested in who sounds the trumpet today.
  • 04:48 Used to be the church gave an alarm.
  • 04:52 That's muted, you know.
  • 04:53 Culture says you can't talk about politics.
  • 04:55 Used to be media, but even then I don't know if you can
  • 04:59 trust that all the time.
  • 05:00 And I'll get that in a moment.
  • 05:03 We want to sound the alarm to be sure.
  • 05:05 And what was the alarm in Jeremiah's day?
  • 05:09 He says in chapter 4, verse 6, he says--
  • 05:13 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 05:20 The Lord says, "I will bring trouble from the north--"
  • 05:25 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 05:28 "A great destruction."
  • 05:31 What a tough word to come from such a tenderhearted man.
  • 05:38 What seemed to be the problem?
  • 05:43 Well, he noted it previously in the text in chapter 4, verse 2.
  • 05:50 There he's swearing, "As the Lord lives."
  • 05:53 Here's what was wrong. He says--
  • 05:56 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 05:58 "In truth--"
  • 06:00 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 06:02 "In justice--"
  • 06:05 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 06:07 "In righteousness."
  • 06:10 What was lacking in the world?
  • 06:13 Truth, justice, and righteousness.
  • 06:19 That was his day.
  • 06:22 But can I just ask you the question rhetorically?
  • 06:24 Isn't that so much like our own day, as well?
  • 06:31 You can pick up a newspaper or listen to a radio,
  • 06:34 watch television to get the news, but the news
  • 06:37 is colored by all kinds of hues.
  • 06:41 The coloration of it sometimes obfuscates the story;
  • 06:46 that is, it blurs it.
  • 06:47 It hides it.
  • 06:49 And I don't know today if we can trust across the board that our
  • 06:53 news really is giving us the news, but rather it's giving us
  • 06:59 political views driven by particular agendas.
  • 07:06 And what about justice?
  • 07:09 We hear justice for this person, justice for that.
  • 07:13 Justice is a really good thing, and I believe we should stand
  • 07:19 for it, and I believe we should decry injustice.
  • 07:25 There should be no place for it.
  • 07:28 If you look at our founding documents and our culture,
  • 07:31 that there's a premium on justice for all, and
  • 07:35 that should be held inviolate.
  • 07:39 But quite frankly, I'm not sure that justice today itself or the
  • 07:44 language of what's just, equitable, and fair isn't
  • 07:48 succumbing to all kinds of political intrigue with the
  • 07:52 net result that there's injustice that is parroted
  • 07:56 in the name of justice.
  • 07:59 And then there's this little thing called righteousness.
  • 08:05 We live in a world today where it is in very high demand,
  • 08:08 but very short supply.
  • 08:11 To be sure, it relates to justice, but it harks to a kind
  • 08:14 of piety, as well, that was lacking in Jeremiah's day,
  • 08:19 because people were morally rudderless.
  • 08:23 It reminds me of our own day, to be sure.
  • 08:27 To review, then, what were the sins that invoked the
  • 08:32 ire of the Lord in the text?
  • 08:35 There's the lack of truth then, as today; the lack of justice
  • 08:41 then, as today; the lack of righteousness then, as today.
  • 08:49 Oh, this prophet saw trouble in the forefront, but he also saw,
  • 08:55 as we will see, good news over the horizon.
  • 09:05 [Jeremiah speaking in Hebrew]
  • 09:15 [Jeremiah speaking in Hebrew]
  • 09:25 [Jeremiah speaking in Hebrew]
  • 09:32 ♪♪♪
  • 09:37 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I've told my wife on more than one occasion,
  • 09:40 for the next few years I don't want to cue
  • 09:42 into the news too much.
  • 09:44 Why is that?
  • 09:45 Because I'm not expecting anything good.
  • 09:51 I say that because Jeremiah, in his own words, said much the
  • 09:57 same when he was reflecting on the events in his world
  • 10:02 in chapter 10.
  • 10:04 He says, "But I said, 'This is sickness.'"
  • 10:10 And I think of that, too.
  • 10:13 I'll explore the reason for that a little bit, as
  • 10:16 he gives a window into it.
  • 10:19 But he looked at the world that he lived in, and he said,
  • 10:22 "This is sickness."
  • 10:25 But he didn't just say that, he said that, and he followed,
  • 10:30 "And I must bear it."
  • 10:34 In effect, it was the cross he carried.
  • 10:40 And I tell Barri, "You know, I think we have to
  • 10:42 carry much the same today."
  • 10:44 A lot of godly people, similarly, are saying
  • 10:46 it's a sick world.
  • 10:48 We're going to have to walk through it, and pray through it,
  • 10:52 and see what God might do in it, because there's always hope, but
  • 10:57 the problem is the problem.
  • 11:01 And to give voice to the problem, if you look in chapter
  • 11:04 10 of Yirmeyahu, of Jeremiah, verse 14, I'll read it
  • 11:10 in the Hebrew first.
  • 11:11 It's not exactly the way the English works with syntax,
  • 11:15 but I'll give it to you.
  • 11:16 He says, [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 11:21 These people are brutish, or they're dull-hearted.
  • 11:25 They're not seeing things crisply, and
  • 11:29 they're without knowledge.
  • 11:33 That's what he's saying in the literature.
  • 11:37 I don't know if you've encountered people like that.
  • 11:40 I know Jeremiah is encountering people like that in his day.
  • 11:43 I've encountered people like that in my day, people
  • 11:46 that just don't seem to get it.
  • 11:49 They don't seem to be thinking clearly.
  • 11:52 In another world, as a police officer, I've had opportunity to
  • 11:56 be dispatched to a call for service, something out in the
  • 11:59 streets, something in a home.
  • 12:01 Someone is severely inebriated, they're intoxicated.
  • 12:05 And I think, what's the point in trying to reason with them.
  • 12:08 They're not gonna get it anyway, number one; and number two, even
  • 12:11 if they get it, they're going to forget it, because
  • 12:14 they're lacking capacity.
  • 12:18 This prophet gives voice to the fact that there's a lack
  • 12:21 of capacity, a kind of dullness, and it's spiritual.
  • 12:26 It comes as a result of living in sin so long, they just don't
  • 12:30 know the left hand from the right.
  • 12:32 There's a wound, there's a sickness, and the righteous were
  • 12:37 told they have to just endure it for the season.
  • 12:44 The analogy of sickness is employed in Jeremiah, as
  • 12:49 elsewhere in the older testament.
  • 12:52 Jeremiah is explicit in saying, listen,
  • 12:54 "Is there no balm in Gilead?"
  • 12:57 That is to say, "Is there no medicine for it?"
  • 13:01 Indeed, there is.
  • 13:03 The problem is people just don't want to take the medicine.
  • 13:08 They don't want to see the problem, never mind take
  • 13:11 a look at the solution.
  • 13:15 We live in a world today where there's so much blindness.
  • 13:18 To me, it's amazing, and I just feel--
  • 13:20 and I tell Barri, we just have to endure it.
  • 13:23 To me, there's a kind of sickness that's
  • 13:25 prevalent in the culture.
  • 13:27 People just don't want to hear truth.
  • 13:30 They'd rather just live a delusion.
  • 13:33 The net result is there's a judgment coming.
  • 13:36 And here in the heart and mind of the prophet, he's not
  • 13:39 an angry soul, I should say.
  • 13:42 He's more hurt, he's more sad than he is angry, but he sees
  • 13:47 there's pain, there's anguish; and for the time being,
  • 13:51 we're gonna have to bear it.
  • 13:55 ♪♪♪
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  • 15:13 David: Last Sunday after church, I had a man approach me and say,
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  • 16:30 David: Right now, Dr. Michael Brown is our guest teacher.
  • 16:32 We go to him right now.
  • 16:37 Dr. Michael Brown: Jeremiah really was a sensitive soul.
  • 16:40 As I studied his life for a period of years, writing a
  • 16:43 commentary on Jeremiah, one thing that struck me--
  • 16:45 because you think of his boldness.
  • 16:47 You think of his courage.
  • 16:49 You think maybe he was just this kind of tough and rough guy.
  • 16:52 But really, he was very sensitive, and it seems in some
  • 16:56 passages, like in the 15th chapter, he's lamenting, and it
  • 17:00 feels as if he's saying, "God, when I really needed you,
  • 17:05 when I was really hurting, you weren't there."
  • 17:08 It seems as if he feels, more than anything, let down by God,
  • 17:13 and he openly says it.
  • 17:15 But what's fascinating is God knows who the real man
  • 17:18 is on the inside.
  • 17:20 And rather than speaking a word of comfort and saying,
  • 17:23 "Oh, Jeremiah, I know you're going through a hard time, and I
  • 17:26 know it hurts," do you know that the Lord says to him?
  • 17:29 "If you repent, I'll still use you."
  • 17:32 Why didn't he say, "I don't want to be used, I want out"?
  • 17:35 But God knew what was inside the soul of Jeremiah.
  • 17:38 And often, that's the way it is with us.
  • 17:41 You know, we're waiting for God to kind of come with this little
  • 17:43 word, "And I know it's hard, and you're going to make it."
  • 17:47 Instead, he says, "Be strong. Be courageous.
  • 17:49 I have a calling on your life."
  • 17:51 There's often more of God inside of us than we realize,
  • 17:54 and more backbone inside of us than we realize.
  • 17:57 So, like Jeremiah, many of us may be sensitive souls,
  • 18:01 and may be hurting, and may be feeling, "God, where were
  • 18:03 you at the toughest times?"
  • 18:05 But when you read the whole of the book, and you see the
  • 18:08 triumph, you see God knows our limitations, and God meets us
  • 18:11 at our weakest and most hurting moment.
  • 18:14 ♪♪♪
  • 18:21 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Jeremiah was a tender soul.
  • 18:25 I've mentioned this elsewhere in this series,
  • 18:27 and I'll speak of it again.
  • 18:29 I mention it here because I want to alight upon the way
  • 18:32 that he speaks about women.
  • 18:36 I say this because if you look at the way women were treated in
  • 18:40 the northern kingdom of Israel, which was destroyed over
  • 18:43 100 years prior, women were more degraded in the southern kingdom
  • 18:50 and certainly in Jeremiah's world.
  • 18:53 Women are more extolled.
  • 18:55 All the more the image here, when Yirmeyahu, where the
  • 18:59 prophet in chapter 4, verse 31, he hears "kol bat Zion,"
  • 19:07 he hears the voice of the daughter of Zion,
  • 19:12 [speaking in Hebrew] in Hebrew,
  • 19:14 in anguish, in anguish.
  • 19:18 The verse reads, [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 19:21 "I've heard the voice of the daughter of Zion in anguish."
  • 19:30 It's a woman overwhelmed with pain that he uses to describe
  • 19:38 what's coming upon Judah.
  • 19:42 But the image of travail that's employed here is used elsewhere
  • 19:48 in Jeremiah; but it's not only used in Jeremiah, but the
  • 19:52 imagery is picked up in the newer testament, as well.
  • 19:57 For when you think of a woman in travail--and I don't want to be
  • 20:00 so bold to speak casually about women's experience in
  • 20:04 childbirth, because I know nothing of it, other than
  • 20:07 being an observer to it.
  • 20:10 I can't speak of it with any experience, other than
  • 20:13 seeing it, but I do know that out of the pain
  • 20:18 comes something pleasurable.
  • 20:21 There's new life that emerges out of the difficulties.
  • 20:27 And I mention this here 'cause the prophet sees a woman
  • 20:30 in travail, in anguish, screaming forth, but he is
  • 20:35 going to give voice to the new birth that's going to come
  • 20:38 of it, the new beginnings.
  • 20:40 In the Matthew gospel, chapter 2, you might recall the story
  • 20:44 of Rachel, who's crying over her dead, is used to envision
  • 20:52 something prophetically that's happening with the coming of
  • 20:55 Jesus in the city of Bethlehem.
  • 20:58 I trust you're familiar with the story in chapter 2,
  • 21:01 verses 17 and 18.
  • 21:03 The Matthean author, Matthew, is harking to a story in Jeremiah,
  • 21:09 where he's using that prophetic text of travail to point ahead
  • 21:13 to very new beginnings.
  • 21:17 Oh, to be sure, it's a tough story to tell, when we look at
  • 21:20 Jeremiah, and we need to tell it, and we will.
  • 21:24 It's a tough story.
  • 21:25 But we, as the prophet, see hope over the horizon.
  • 21:33 ♪♪♪
  • 21:42 Kirsten: This is only the second program in our series,
  • 21:45 and we have so much more to come, but I've gotta say, today,
  • 21:49 the girls got a little shout-out, didn't we?
  • 21:51 He was talking about women. So were you.
  • 21:54 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, more than a shout-out.
  • 21:55 Let's go with scream-out, to tell you the truth, likening to
  • 21:58 what God is all about in the world to a woman in travail.
  • 22:02 I can't presume to know what that's all about.
  • 22:04 You tell us.
  • 22:05 Kirsten: It is not fun in the process.
  • 22:08 I've had--we've had children with an epidural and without.
  • 22:13 I've had one, our first one, without anything.
  • 22:15 And you feel the birth pains, but it's all
  • 22:20 worth it in the end.
  • 22:23 David: You almost didn't want it to happen, at first, but then
  • 22:26 it happened, and you're good.
  • 22:28 Kirsten: Right, and it's all worth it to hold that child, but
  • 22:31 those warning signals, signs, they're painful, kind of, but--
  • 22:35 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I mean, the-- is it real--I mean honest
  • 22:36 and true, is it really like that once the baby is placed in your
  • 22:40 arms afterward, it's all good?
  • 22:41 I mean, you feel--
  • 22:43 Kirsten: No, it still hurts; it's beautiful, and it's
  • 22:46 wonderful, but you still have remnants of that pain
  • 22:51 for quite a while.
  • 22:52 It's kind of interesting, in Jeremiah, if I can correlate or,
  • 22:56 you know, parallel what I went through giving birth, with what
  • 23:00 Jeremiah was talking about, he was giving warning signals
  • 23:05 of something's coming, and it's painful.
  • 23:09 But Jeremiah always balances it out with, "But there's hope.
  • 23:13 There's something good at the end of it."
  • 23:16 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And it's interesting, too:
  • 23:17 Jesus employs the Jeremiah story in the Matthean text,
  • 23:20 the gospel of Matthew.
  • 23:22 It's just fascinating to look at women's experience being pivoted
  • 23:26 from in the biblical text.
  • 23:27 God is sensitive toward women, particularly the fact that God's
  • 23:32 purposes in the world come through pain.
  • 23:36 We don't like that, but it's like that in nature.
  • 23:38 It's like that in Scripture.
  • 23:40 It's just like that in human experience.
  • 23:42 David: I know, back in the day, they didn't want
  • 23:44 to hear the bad news.
  • 23:45 Yesterday in our hotel room, I turned the TV on.
  • 23:49 First thing on the news, I had to turn it right off,
  • 23:51 because it was so bad.
  • 23:53 We don't want to hear the bad news today, and we forget about
  • 23:55 that hope for the future.
  • 23:56 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, that was Jeremiah's problem, to tell you
  • 23:58 the truth; every time he turned on the Fox News,
  • 24:00 it wasn't any good, it was bad on CNN.
  • 24:02 Kirsten: He was Fox News, wasn't he; he was the voice.
  • 24:05 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: No matter who was talking about it, who
  • 24:07 was spinning, it was just bad to the bone, his world.
  • 24:11 And what a tough place to be.
  • 24:13 But he saw God was gonna bring something new.
  • 24:16 David: He saw it, but did the people see it?
  • 24:18 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: No, all they saw was chagrin.
  • 24:20 The leaders expressed chagrin, because he poked them in the
  • 24:25 eye, you know.
  • 24:26 He called them out on it.
  • 24:28 He called them out on their fake news.
  • 24:31 Kirsten: Right, and I think, I think this is maybe my personal
  • 24:33 opinion, that the Jewish people thought, "We've got the temple.
  • 24:38 We're good. We're good to go.
  • 24:40 We've still got the holy of holies.
  • 24:41 We're fine. God's with us."
  • 24:43 When he was saying, "No, no, no, you're not following
  • 24:45 any of our covenant together."
  • 24:47 "But we're good to go. We've still got the temple."
  • 24:49 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You're right, it's explicit in the literature.
  • 24:51 They were saying, "Well, God's temple is here."
  • 24:53 You know, Jeremiah says, "Don't be so comfortable
  • 24:55 in sticks and bricks.
  • 24:56 You have to have the right kind of living to go
  • 24:58 along with the worship."
  • 24:59 And they had too little of both, to tell you the truth,
  • 25:02 back in his day.
  • 25:04 Kirsten: A lot of things, sometimes--can I say, without
  • 25:06 getting in trouble with all of you--I think the church
  • 25:08 has the same thing.
  • 25:09 I think, you know what? Junior high, went up to camp.
  • 25:11 I accepted the Lord as my personal Savior.
  • 25:13 I'm good to go. I can do whatever I want now.
  • 25:15 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Right, you know, I go to church.
  • 25:17 There's 168 hours in a week.
  • 25:18 It's good to see someone in the house with two.
  • 25:20 What's life all about the other 166, you know?
  • 25:23 Kirsten: We tend to put down Jewish people at that time,
  • 25:26 but I think we're right in the same boat.
  • 25:28 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: No, but, you know, God, he puts them down.
  • 25:30 He lifts them up. And that's your point.
  • 25:32 It's Jeremiah's point.
  • 25:33 You see something being born even out of the
  • 25:35 anguishing moments.
  • 25:37 Kirsten: True. More to come next week, right?
  • 25:38 David: Yes, thank you for your insight today.
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Episodes in this series

  1. Young Man’s Visions
  2. Sounding the Alarm
  3. Corruption and Closed Minds
  4. Faith Abandoned and Reimagined
  5. No Escape
  6. Promises Made
  7. Ruin and Renewal
  8. Hope and a Future
  9. Jeremiah in Retrospect

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