We now turn to the other “Major Prophets:” Jeremiah and Ezekiel.
Jer 2:27: when Israel is in trouble she says, not to the tree or stone she has called “god” but to God on whom she had turned her back, "Come & save us." Thus …
Jer 2:28 Let your gods save you if they can. (This is in the context of Israel’s two sins: forsaking the fountain of living waters and hewing for themselves broken cisterns that can hold no water, 2:13. The faith that saves is in the true God who, as Isaiah has made clear, is the only Savior.)
Jer 4:14: O Jerusalem, wash the evil fr your heart & be saved
Jer 8:20: harvest is past, summer has ended & we are not saved
Jer 11:12: idols will not help Israel when disaster strikes
Jer 14:8: God = Hope of Israel, it's Savior in times of distress (a true Savior who can help now, in time of trouble, and in the future as Israel’s hope).
Jer 14:9: Yet, God seems like a man, a warrior powerless to save. Why? (Israel is not finished with her “waiting”.)
Jer 15:20: God is with them to rescue & save them
Jer 17:14ab: save me, O Lord & I will be saved for you are the one I praise
Jer 23:6: In days of Righteous Branch (i.e. the Messiah) Judah will be saved.
Jer 30:7: terrible time of trouble for Jacob but he will be saved out of it
Jer 30:10: fear not, I will surely save you fr. distant place
Jer 30:11: Lord declares, "I am w/you & will save you"
It is quite appropriate that there are three references in this chapter that describes in precise detail the “time of Jacob’s trouble,” the future “Tribulation Period.”
Jer 31:7: "O Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel"
Jer 33:16: In those days Judah will be saved (Righteous Branch again)
Jer 42:11: God to be w/them, save, deliver fr. king of Babylon
Jer 46:27: God to save Jacob out of distant place
Lam 4:17: Israel looked in vain for help, to a nation that could not save them (we tend to look elsewhere, to our own “gods.” We look in vain for help because the “gods” cannot save us.)
Ezek 34:22: God to save his flock
Ezek 36:29: God to save Israel fr her uncleanness
Ezek 37:23: God to save Israel fr sinful back-sliding
Salvation/deliverance intimates a difficult situation, something that enslaves people. Israel’s uncleanness (immorality) and backsliding imprisons many people.
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