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Buy the Field: A Deed for a Future Unseen and the Faithful Rechabites | Jeremiah 32–35
Episode Overview
Would you invest in a place that is about to be destroyed? Today we read Jeremiah chapters 32 through 35. Jerusalem is under siege and Jeremiah is confined in the courtyard of the guard when God gives him a strange assignment: buy a field from his cousin, sign the deed, and store it in a clay jar so it will last a long time. It is a prophetic act betting on a future he cannot yet see. Even as the city falls, God promises that houses and fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land.
The chapters that follow expand that promise—cities rebuilt, a righteous ruler from…
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