In the End: Creation in Reverse

Scripture: Jeremiah 4:23-28

By: Minister Eric McEuen

Join us this Saturday morning at 10am. While Pastor Lauretta is away for two weeks, we are taking a break from the Bible's creation stories, and Eric is focusing on the flip side: Biblical warnings about coming destruction. Such warnings are often misunderstood, but they also emerge from a vision of what God wants: a world of abundance, justice and sharing. What happens when these aren't practiced?

This week, Eric will reflect on the prophet Jeremiah, who lived in a very dramatic time for his people. His prophetic career spanned the time before, during, and after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE by the Babylonian empire. As one warning of a possible future, the book of Jeremiah includes a sequence that nearly reverses the story of creation told in Genesis 1. What did these images convey in that time and place, and what can we learn that speaks to today's world and God's vision of justice?