{"id":1651,"date":"2016-02-09T12:43:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T12:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2016-02-09T12:44:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T12:44:51","slug":"jeremiah-as-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/jeremiah-as-type\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremiah as a type of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-16 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fjesuscentred.org%2Fe%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1651&#038;t=Jeremiah%20as%20a%20type%20of%20Jesus&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fjesuscentred.org%2Fe%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1651&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fjesuscentred.org%2Fe%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F02%2Fjeremiah-well.jpg&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Jeremiah%20as%20a%20type%20of%20Jesus\" style=\"font-size: 0px; width:16px;height:16px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px;\"><img alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"display: inline; width:16px;height:16px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/32x32\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-16 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Jeremiah%20as%20a%20type%20of%20Jesus&#038;body=You%20will%20find%20this%20very%20interesting:%20https%3A%2F%2Fjesuscentred.org%2Fe%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1651\" style=\"font-size: 0px; width:16px;height:16px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;\"><img alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"display: inline; width:16px;height:16px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/32x32\/mail.png\" \/><\/a><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1652\" src=\"http:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jeremiah-well-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"jeremiah-well\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jeremiah-well-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jeremiah-well-768x1135.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jeremiah-well-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jeremiah-well-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jeremiah-well.jpg 1149w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/>While the Bible doesn&#8217;t explicitly recognise Jeremiah as a type of Christ there are some very clear ways in which his ministry and pain pre-figures Jesus&#8217;. In fact the rabbis saw Jeremiah as the suffering servant prophesied by Isaiah. He is also considered to be the third most important Prophet in Hebrew history after Ezekiel and Isaiah, and in fact he wrote more than both of them put together.<\/p>\n<p>In this post I want to list a large number of small moments and details that look very much like Jesus, but we mustn&#8217;t forget the big picture too. <strong>Jeremiah went through a &#8220;death and resurrection&#8221; experience when he was put down a well and then rescued<\/strong>, he also suffered a judgement (deportation to Egypt) that he had predicted even though he had not participated in the activity that brought it about.<\/p>\n<p>The table below lists 14 experiences in Jeremiah&#8217;s life that are parallelled in Jesus&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-19\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-19\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1 odd\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Jeremiah<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Connection<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Jesus<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2 even\">\n\t<td colspan=\"3\" class=\"column-1\"><center><em>Hover over Bible references to reveal more...<\/em><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><span title=\"BEFORE I formed you in the womb I knew you...\">Jeremiah 1:5<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Both where <em>known<\/em> before they where conceived.<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><span title=\"Behold, you WILL conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and will call his name \u2018Jesus.\u2019\">Luke 1:31<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><span title=\"...BEFORE you where born I consecrated you, I have appointed you a prophet to the Nations.\">Jeremiah 1:5<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Both where called from the womb.<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><span title=\"...blessed is the fruit of your womb! Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?\">Luke 1:42-43<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><span title=\"But YHWH said to me: Don't say 'I am only a youth', because everywhere I send you, you shall go...\">Jeremiah 1:7<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Both knew the Father's call before they reached adulthood.<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><span title=\"When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem ... He said to them, 'Why were you looking for me? Didn\u2019t you know that I must be in my Father\u2019s house?'\">Luke 2:42-49<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><span title=\"my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh\u2019s flock is taken captive\">Jeremiah 13:17<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Both wept over Jerusalem, for its impending judgement.<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><span title=\"When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it...\">Luke 19:41<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><span title=\"In a letter, another prophet Shemaiah writes:'for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet (i.e Jeremiah) you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.' \">Jeremiah 29:26<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Both where accused of being mad.<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><span title=\"Many of them said, 'He has a demon, and is mad! Why do you listen to him?'\">John 10:20<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><span title=\"Shemaiah continues:'So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who MAKES HIMSELF a prophet to you'\">Jeremiah 29:27<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Both where accused of self promotion.<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><span title=\"...are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?\">John 8:53<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><span title=\"I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.\">Jeremiah 20:7<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Both were mocked<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><span title=\"For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.\">Luke 18:32,<\/span><span title=\"When they had mocked him, they took the robe off of him...\"> Matthew 27:31,<\/span><span title=\"The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.\"> Luke 22:63<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><span title=\"we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall.\">Jeremiah 20:10<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Both had what they said scrutinized to be used against them.<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><span title=\"... the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him; lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.\">Luke 11:53-54<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><span title=\"The Priests spoke... saying, 'This man is worthy of death.'\">Jeremiah 26:11 <\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Both where declared \"worthy of death\" by corrupt priests.<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><span title=\"Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, 'He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy. What do you think?'  They answered, 'He is worthy of death!'\">Matthew 26:65-66<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><span title=\"But you know YHWH all their plots to kill me...\">Jeremiah 18:23<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Both had their deaths plotted against them<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><span title=\"So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death\">John 11:53<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-13 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><span title=\"...in this place...I shall cause them to fall by the sword...I shall make this this city desolate\">Jeremiah 19:7-8<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Both Prophesied the fall of Jerusalem <\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><span title=\"They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles\">Luke 21:24<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-14 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><span title=\"...no fig on the fig tree and the leaf shap wither and what I have given them shall pass away.\">Jeremiah 8:13<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Jeremiah gives \"No Figs on the fig tree\" as a sign of impending loss, Jesus acts out the sign.<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><span title=\"Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, \u201cLet there be no fruit from you forever!\u201d Immediately the fig tree withered away.\">Matthew 21:19<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-15 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><span title=\"Then I make to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride...\">Jeremiah 7:34<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Both prophesied the disappearance of the a bridegroom<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><span title=\"But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.\">Luke 5:35<\/span<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-16 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><span title=\"But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn\u2019t know that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered\">Jeremiah 11:19<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Both where \"led like a lamb to the slaughter\"<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><span title=\"He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn\u2019t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn\u2019t open his mouth.\">Isaiah 53:7 - speaking about Christ<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-19 from cache -->\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-follow synved-social-size-16 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Follow us on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/jesuscentred\" style=\"font-size: 0px; width:16px;height:16px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;\"><img alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Follow us on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-follow\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"display: inline; width:16px;height:16px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/32x32\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><br\/><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-16 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fjesuscentred.org%2Fe%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1651&#038;t=Jeremiah%20as%20a%20type%20of%20Jesus&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fjesuscentred.org%2Fe%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1651&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fjesuscentred.org%2Fe%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F02%2Fjeremiah-well.jpg&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Jeremiah%20as%20a%20type%20of%20Jesus\" style=\"font-size: 0px; width:16px;height:16px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px;\"><img alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"display: inline; width:16px;height:16px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/32x32\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-16 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Jeremiah%20as%20a%20type%20of%20Jesus&#038;body=You%20will%20find%20this%20very%20interesting:%20https%3A%2F%2Fjesuscentred.org%2Fe%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1651\" style=\"font-size: 0px; width:16px;height:16px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;\"><img alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"display: inline; width:16px;height:16px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/32x32\/mail.png\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Bible doesn&#8217;t explicitly recognise Jeremiah as a type of Christ there are some very clear ways in which his ministry and pain pre-figures Jesus&#8217;. 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