Jeremiah 46-47 Dear RTB’ers, Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how He told you, while He was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise. (Luke …
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April 4 / Jeremiah 44-45
Jeremiah 44-45 Dear RTB’ers, Holy Saturday. Jesus in the tomb. Or not…??!! Ponder and pray. Jeremiah in Egypt, having been taken there against his will. Someone (any of us?) reading this book for the first time has to wonder what will become of him. The Lord has promised destruction (the sword, famine, and pestilence) to …
April 3 / Jeremiah 42-43
Jeremiah 42-43 Dear RTB’ers, Good Friday. Think on that a bit. Ponder and pray. To quote John, “I’ll wait…” So yesterday we left Jeremiah in Mizpah. The Babylonians had left some people behind: Nebuzaradan …left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing, and gave them vineyards and fields at …
April 2 / Jeremiah 39-41
Jeremiah 39-41 Dear RTB’ers, A long narrative today. Jerusalem falls to the Babylonians; Zedekiah meets a horrible end; Jeremiah is spared; and chaos follows in neighboring cities. Yes, Jeremiah is spared. The Babylonian leaders knew of Jeremiah’s prophecies against Jerusalem and his encouragement to the people to surrender to Babylon, so he was brought out …
April 1 / Jeremiah 37-38
Jeremiah 37-38 Dear RTB’ers, Good morning and welcome to April! I don’t have any April Fool’s jokes for you, and neither did Jeremiah! He told them again and again that Jerusalem would be overthrown by the Babylonians, and it happened just as he said. After doing battle with King Jehoiakim in yesterday’s reading, today Jeremiah …
April 2026 Readings
Date Readings Verses 01-Apr Jeremiah 37-38 49 02-Apr Jeremiah 39-41 52 03-Apr Jeremiah 42-43 35 04-Apr Jeremiah 44-45 35 05-Apr Jeremiah 46-47 35 06-Apr Jeremiah 48 47 07-Apr Jeremiah 49:1-33 33 08-Apr Jeremiah 49:34-50:46 52 09-Apr Jeremiah 51:1-58 58 10-Apr Jeremiah 51:59-52:34 40 11-Apr Lamentations 1 22 12-Apr Lamentations 2 22 13-Apr Lamentations 3 66 …
March 31 / Jeremiah 36
Jeremiah 36 Dear RTB’ers, Today, the Scroll – #1 and #2. Over the next few chapters you will begin to see why I like the book of Jeremiah so much: I love Jeremiah’ persistence in the face of opposition! To paraphrase St. Paul, “He knows Him in Whom he has believed”. (See II Timothy 1:12.) …
March 30 / Jeremiah 35
Jeremiah 35 Dear RTB’ers, The Rechabites. It’s a simple story. Rules had been laid down by their grandfather, Rechab, and passed on through their father, Jonadab, and were faithfully obeyed throughout the family. God uses them as a standard by which to compare Judah and Jerusalem. The Rechabites were obeying human fathers, while the Israelites …
March 29 / Jeremiah 34
Jeremiah 34 Dear RTB’ers, Jeremiah speaks the word of the Lord and Zedekiah and his officials listen: King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them, that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a …
March 28 / Jeremiah 32-33
Jeremiah 32-33 Dear RTB’ers, A long reading today, one of our longest of the year, but also with a lot of narrative that makes it easier to read. Jerusalem is under siege by the Babylonians (Chaldeans), just one year before the city actually falls in 586 B.C., yet the Lord tells Jeremiah to buy land …