Jeremiah, the Gospel, Revelation and Salvation

Jesus prophesied in the temple in Jerusalem... “I have spoken openly to the world; I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews come together; and I spoke nothing in secret.” [1]

The Apostles prophesied in the temple in Jerusalem... “Go, stand and speak to the people in the temple the whole message of this Life.” [2]

Jeremiah stood at the gate of the temple to deliver God’s Word to the multitudes. This prophecy is referred to in Jeremiah 26:1-9. In addition, to what is recorded here, Jeremiah told the people that God would make this house [the temple] like Shiloh and this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. The priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You will surely die! Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without an inhabitant?’” They didn’t kill Jeremiah, but some definitely wanted to do so.



“Wisdom shouts in the street, she lifts her voice in the square.” [3]



The Word of the Lord calls us to choose between life and death. He is being gracious to us when He calls us to consider what is going to happen to us if we do not have a relationship with Him.

The political and spiritual leaders in Jerusalem were corrupt. Their city was on the verge of being conquered by an enemy army, but they would not heed God’s Word.





The leaders convinced the people to follow their formula, their narrative, and urged the people not to listen to God’s servant Jeremiah.





The Lord is clear about the consequences of sin throughout the Bible.

Our only hope for salvation is Jesus Messiah. Apart from Him, we cannot be saved. Our own righteousness never matches God’s. We need a substitute. Someone who is perfectly righteous and will stand before God in our place. Jesus Christ is the only One whom God has appointed to do this for us. All others are imposters. Jesus died and resurrected from the dead. He showed Himself alive from the dead to more than 500 witnesses at one time. He who overcame death is able to save all who call upon His Name from death. Believe and receive! Salvation is more than a formula. It is a person. Jesus Christ is Savior.

Jeremiah told the people if they did not repent, God would make their temple like Shiloh which was destroyed in the days of Hophni and Phineas.

Both Jesus and His faithful martyr Stephen spoke of the temple in Jerusalem being replaced by Jesus Himself. He is the One that God has appointed for us to save us. Not a cathedral! Not clergymen in expensive vestments. Jesus alone died on the cross and resurrected from the dead for our salvation!

There is a parallelism between the people in Jeremiah’s day and the people in the last days. Both groups will be willing to incur much pain and loss rather than to call upon the God of Israel for salvation.



The people decided to do “God” their own way.

Their own way was really the devil’s way.

In the places where they sacrificed their children, they would be slain. There is a parallelism between the sinners in Jeremiah’s day and the sinners of the last days. Both will become food for the birds.



The good news is that whosoever believes in Jesus Christ shall be saved from God’s wrath on sin. “Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.” God has more grace than we have sin, but we must personally believe in our heart and profess with our mouth that Jesus Christ is our Lord. It is His grace that we need to be saved. It is only by His merits that we can enter heaven, not our own. We have fallen short of God’s glory, so we must be saved by believing in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. [4]

All God’s prophets testify that Jesus Christ alone saves us from our sin. “To Him all the prophets witness that, through His Name, whoever believes in Him will receive forgiveness of sins.” [5]



[1] John 18:20
[2] Acts 5:20
[3] Proverbs 1:2
[4] Romans 5:21; 3:22-23; 10:9-10; Ephesians 2:8-9
[5] Acts 10:43