Bible Study • Jeremiah Chapter 4–5 • 21 June 2026
The Lord sends Jeremiah running through the streets of Jerusalem on a single errand: find one man who does justice and seeks truth, and the whole city will be pardoned (“Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem… and seek… if you can find a man… and I will pardon her,” Jer. 5:1). He finds none. Abraham once bargained God down to ten righteous men for Sodom; here the number has fallen to one, and Jerusalem still cannot produce him. The foe gathers from the north, and Jeremiah’s vision reaches past the invading army to the earth itself “without form, and void” (Jer. 4:23) — Genesis run backward over a people who are “wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge” (Jer. 4:22). The one Just Man the search was looking for is found at last outside the city walls, denied by the very people He came to pardon (“But you denied the Holy One and the Just,” Acts 3:14) — and for His sake, not ours, the city is spared.
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Sunday Bible Class meets after the Divine Service, around 10:45 a.m. All are welcome.