Day 3 on The Kingdom of God

Jeremiah 23.5-8:

5 “For the time is coming,”
says the Lord,
“when I will raise up a righteous descendant
from King David’s line.
He will be a King who rules with wisdom.
He will do what is just and right throughout the land.
6 And this will be his name:
‘The Lord Is Our Righteousness.’
In that day Judah will be saved,
and Israel will live in safety.

7 “In that day,” says the Lord, “when people are taking an oath, they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who rescued the people of Israel from the land of Egypt.’ 8 Instead, they will say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the people of Israel back to their own land from the land of the north and from all the countries to which he had exiled them.’ Then they will live in their own land.”

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He will be a King who rules with wisdom and will do what is just and right. I still love that even though it is a repeat from the past couple of days. However the fact that it is a repeat shows that this is true, because this has shown up in multiple places that were all different from one another. Did you also notice in verse 6 what Jeremiah writes God says the King's name will be? "The Lord is Our Righteousness." I like how Paul says it,

2 Corinthians 5.21 (ESV):

21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

I find it kind of cool that in verses 7-8, there's glimpses of what I talked on a little last night. You can see God referencing the Exodus and the big salvific event of the old covenant, and then say that in the future there will be something else! It's so cool to see how God puts little hints here and there throughout Scripture shedding light on what he's about to do! Jesus, our King, brought people out of slavery to sin and the land of death, and led them back to a restored relationship with God (their own land).

"Father thank You for saving us! Thank You for loving us! Thank You for giving Jesus to be our King! I pray that we would be a beacon of light, to be used by You to help others move from the land of darkness and sin/death, to the land of restoration and holiness! Father we love You so much! It's in Jesus' name that I pray, amen!"