Command the Raven

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And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not; for behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, says the Lord; but your life I will give to you as a [snatched up] price of war wherever you go.

Baruch plays a role familiar in normal human life today – that of having to take second place. He was of high birth; his grandfather Maaseiah was governor of Jerusalem in the days of King Josiah [2 Chronicles 34:8 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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Considering all that Baruch was doing to make Jeremiah’s prophecies permanent, it is not surprising that he seems to have expected to share the prophet’s rewards.

“To play a prominent part in the impending crisis, to be the hero of a national revival, to gain favor of the conqueror he announced,” seems to have been his dream.

When its realization was denied him, “he sank in despair at the seeming fruitlessness of his efforts” [Smith’s Bible Dictionary].

Yet Baruch is an excellent illustration of how little the gift of prophecy depended on men, and how completely it was for God to grant or deny prominence to His perhaps equally deserving servants.

But each man’s eternal rewards are proportioned according to his faithfulness, and not to his earthly recognition or the lack of it [Matthew 25:14-30 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If you're the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)
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