![]() Their relationship with God, or lack of it, helps us to understand how we can have a relationship with God and what it should look like.Ģ00 Greek and Hebrew word studies trace the use of important words throughout the Bible. Their lives instruct us with examples and counter-examples, helping us to better understand the Bible, its world, and its message. The story of Scripture unfolds through the lives of the people in it. Examples include a chart of Israel’s Annual Calendar, regional and event related maps, the Temple at various stages, an overview of the entire Bible, and more detailed, specific timelines such as the time of the kings of Israel.ĩ0+ Profiles paint portraits of major figures in the Bible-good and bad. These articles provide the first steps in developing a biblical theology without attempting to formulate a specific doctrinal system.Ģ20+ Charts, Illustrations, Maps, and Timelines organize and illuminate important information in the text that can otherwise be difficult to understand or interpret the significance of. Placed alongside particularly relevant passages, they also point to other passages and theme notes. The study notes also include the NLT textual footnote apparatus, which identifies variations in the Hebrew and Greek text as well as providing alternate translation possibilities.ģ00+ Theme Articles identify the major topics and ideas of the Bible. All notes in the NLT Study Bible were developed with the “So what?” test in mind-the goal is study notes that focus on the meaning and message of Scripture, not just facts. Historical and literary notes open the world of the Bible and the context in which it was originally read and heard. An asterisk (*) indicates Old Testament quotes in the New Testament.Ģ5,000+ study and textual notes provide background and deeper explanations of words, phrases, verses, and sections. Additionally, parallel lines (//) show passages describing the same events or saying something similar. Our future is in his hands.50,000+ cross-references connect related verses, not just words, so they are always applicable. God's vision is longer than ours as the hymn says, he "holds the key of all unknown". But Jeremiah's story tells us that it's worth waiting, and that we should always trust. We may have all sorts of hopes and dreams, and have to live with their failure, one by one. We are tested, often to breaking point, when our hopes aren't fulfilled. Romans 8:25 says, 'Hope which is seen is not hope how can we hope for what we see? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it in patience.' Jeremiah hoped in an invisible future, and as far as we know he kept hoping all his life. But in time to come he'd be remembered for his faithfulness. His king didn't listen to his warnings, and was destroyed his brave statement of faith looked absurd when the nation was defeated. As far as anyone else was concerned, he was a failure. He died far away from his home, in exile in Egypt, and never saw the fulfillment of the promise.īut his story is a lesson for us. He was saying that he believed God would keep his promises to Israel, and that one day the wanderers would come home. It was a statement of trust in God's future. Jeremiah's decision to buy his family land from his kinsman was more than just a commercial transaction. In verse 9 he says, "I bought the field at Anathoth." ![]() ![]() Approached by a cousin desperate to raise cash through selling his land, Jeremiah agrees. So a single verse in Jeremiah 32 is a mighty affirmation of hope. ![]()
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