God’s Word Endures Forever - Jeremiah 32-36

 Jeremiah 36:27-28 (ESV)

Now after the king had burned the scroll with the words that Baruch wrote at Jeremiah's dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: “Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.

The word of the Lord endures forever!!   That should be the caption over the above passage.   Peter said it this way:

1 Peter 1:22-25 (ESV)

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for

“All flesh is like grass

and all its glory like the flower of grass.

The grass withers,

and the flower falls,

but the word of the Lord remains forever.”

And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

When King Jehoiakim, king of Judah, burned Jeremiah’s first scroll, Jeremiah was instructed to write it all again.  It should be noted that this was not as easy as going to the computers, finding the folder entitled, Jeremiah’s Writings” and hitting the print command.   No, he had to once again dictate to Baruch, his aide, and write it all out again.   Later we will learn that Jeremiah will add to the words.  Johoakim burnt the first copy.  This copy will replace it, but will include more warnings and more about the downfall of Jerusalem and more about the wrath of God.   We could assume that the version we now read it the version in the above passage.   The key element of this is that mankind can do all it wants to burn The Book!  But, the Word of God endures forever.   We can trust that His Word will be sustained throughout the end.