It seems to me that we can sum up the testimony of Jeremiah 27–29 in this way—God sometimes decrees a course of history which his people cannot welcome enthusiastically but in which they must live faithfully. King Zedekiah (this is not in the text but we can imagine the situation) suddenly flushed crimson. He was coming out of the building into the courtyard where conference folks were gathering and he saw Jeremiah! He was so embarrassed
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