The Book of Jeremiah Like You_ve Never Seen Before

A young man called by God to speak truth to power. His message was simple: surrender to Babylon or die. The kings of Judah threw him into a cistern filled with mud. They lowered him by ropes into a dungeon where he stayed until the city fell. He watched his nation burn. He wrote the book of Lamentations from a prison cell. His name is Jeremiah, and his story is the darkest in the Old Testament.Jeremiah was beaten, mocked, and imprisoned by his own people for delivering a message from God. When King Jehoiakim burned Jeremiah's scroll, Jeremiah dictated it again from memory. When the city was under siege, Jeremiah was arrested on suspicion of desertion and thrown into a cistern where he sank into the mud. An Ethiopian eunuch named Ebed-Melech begged the king to pull him out before he died. Jeremiah never stopped preaching judgment. He never stopped weeping for his people. He was forced to flee to Egypt after the assassination of the governor appointed by Babylon. Jewish tradition holds that he was stoned to death there by his own exiles. He is called the weeping prophet not because he was weak but because he loved a people who hated him enough to kill him.Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because Jeremiah saw his nation fall and never stopped praying for it to rise.y