OT -- Jeremiah 22:1-23:20
I put the question "why is Jeremiah so long" to Google. And it gave me a great commentary on the Book of Jeremiah. Please go read it. It answered so many questions I have about Jeremiah -- some of which you might have as well. For one -- I was so confused about the time. It seemed that at one point the city is falling and Jeremiah is talking to the last king; in today's scripture, he is talking to Josiah.
The answer? Jeremiah is not written in a a time bound manner. It was a book of his reminices, one that he actually had to write twice as a king burnt it, and he basically wrote down the prophecies as he remembered them.
But we have so very far to go and with such awful, awful images.
I am trying to press on.
NT -- 2nd Thessalonians 1:1-12
A new letter to what appears to be Paul's 'oh favored one' in his list of churches. My Bible commentary notes that while Paul talks of the Thessalonians' persecution, he is not talking about the persecution that will shortly take his life. Basically, this was just social ostracism and probably some yammering from the locals.
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