What Jeremiah Said About the Coming Messiah
Jeremiah lived from 650 BC. BC to (?) at least 586 BC
Jeremiah in a showdown with the false prophet Hananiah in front of King Zedekiah.
Jeremiah 23:5-8
“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.
And this will be his name: ‘The Lord Is Our Righteousness.’ In that day Judah will be saved, and Israel will live in safety.”
“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.’
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.”
Jeremiah 31:15
This is what the Lord says: “A cry is heard in Ramah —deep anguish and bitter weeping. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted—for her children are gone.”
Jeremiah 31:31-34
“The day is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.
This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,” says the Lord.
“But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day,” says the Lord. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know me already,” says the Lord. “And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.”
Jeremiah 33:14-17
“The day will come,” says the Lord, “when I will do for Israel and Judah all the good things I have promised them.
In those days and at that time I will raise up a righteous descendant from King David’s line. He will do what is just and right throughout the land.
In that day Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will live in safety. And this will be its name: ‘The Lord Is Our Righteousness.’”
For this is what the Lord says: “David will have a descendant sitting on the throne of Israel forever.”
Jeremiah Messiah Summary
The writings of Jeremiah clearly predicted that a descendant of King David would be the righteous Messiah to come who would bring forgiveness of the people’s sins. Jeremiah said that this coming Messiah would establish a new covenant with the people that replaced the old one God made with Israel that they had broken. In these verses, Jeremiah also predicts Israel’s return from exile and the slaughter of the children that King Herod ordered while trying to kill the baby Messiah.
Jeremiah's Messiah Prophecy
Jeremiah predicted that the Messiah would be a descendant of King David, and that he would bring forgiveness of people’s sins. Jeremiah stated that the Messiah would establish a new covenant between God and the people to renew the first one that Israel had broken.
In Other Words:
The Messiah would be a descendant of King David. The Messiah would bring forgiveness of sins. He would establish a new covenant between God and his people to renew the one they broke.
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