“For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope” (Jer. 29:11) [NAS]. This verse is an excerpt from a letter Jeremiah wrote to the Judean exiles in Babylon.
The first three verses of chapter 29 contain five details about this letter to the Judean POWs. We will divide chapter or letter by the following two parts for study without the Introductory verses of Jer.29:1-3.
The Church Age Believer must understand and become involved, dispensationally, in the Plan of God for their lives and ministries.
For example, Jeremiah is writing from the Jewish Age perspective. He is writing to the Judean divine agency (southern kingdom) that is suffering under the 5th cycle of divine discipline (Deut.28:63-68).
In the Church Age, the ministry of the Holy Spirit gives us a specific role in the dispensational Plan of God (John 14:16, 25-26; 15:26-27; 16:7-15; Matt.3:11; Acts 1:4-5).
Ron Adema
Ron Adema, Pastor of Doctrinal Studies Bible Church