{"id":7561,"date":"2016-05-07T00:05:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T07:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=7561"},"modified":"2016-05-06T14:15:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T21:15:19","slug":"god-keeps-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2016\/05\/07\/god-keeps-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"God Keeps Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll and the words which Baruch had written at the dictation of Jeremiah, saying, <\/p>\n

\u201cTake again another scroll and write on it all the former words that were on the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, \u2018Thus says the LORD, \u201cYou have burned this scroll, saying, \u2018Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will make man and beast to cease from it?\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah, \u201cHe shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night. <\/p>\n

\u201cI will also punish him and his descendants and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring on them and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the men of Judah all the calamity that I have declared to them\u2014but they did not listen.\u201d \u2019 \u201d <\/p>\n

Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the scribe, and he wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them. (Jeremiah 36:27-32)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Human judgment is often as ineffective as it is wrong. Jehoiakim, king of Judah, learned the hard way that censorship is an ineffective means of quieting God. Josiah, king of Judah, had restored the worship of God in Israel. But then he fought a battle against Pharoah Neco and was killed. The Pharaoh then put Josiah\u2019s son on the throne and changed his name to Jehoiakim. In his third year, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded and made him a vassal. Jehoiakim did not like the message that Jeremiah had pronounced. Rather than repent, rather than seeking help from God, he decided instead to destroy the message, as if the word of God could be undone by burning it.<\/p>\n

God\u2019s word is not dependent upon people believing it for its effectiveness. Believed or not, what God says will have its way. God didn\u2019t forget what he had said, unlike a public speaker who might have problems if he lost his notes. Instead, God just printed them out again. Jeremiah had no trouble restoring what had been burned. And it didn\u2019t keep God from adding even more to what he had said originally. He was not intimidated or silenced. Destroying the message is no more effective\u2014or reasonable\u2014than attacking the messenger.<\/p>\n

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