When Jesus asked his disciples in the book of Matthew who people thought he was, they replied with the statement:
"Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets."
Most likely, if you hear most evangelists teach on this passage, they quickly slide over it faster than a car skidding on ice and soon focus their attention on the next verse, the confession of Peter that Jesus is the Son of God. The prophet names go largely unnoticed, and maybe they even hope you won't notice them, either.
Well, I can see why some may have thought Jesus was John the Baptist. John the Baptist was like a modern day Elijah and the people took notice of him. As a matter of fact, Herod feared that Jesus was John coming back from the dead; this man haunted him so much. (Matthew 14:2).
Elijah was another popular figure. The coming of Elijah was expected before the Coming of the Lord (Malachi 4:5). Besides, Elijah NEVER died. He was carried away. Remember that story? So the people of Israel knew he was one day coming back to announce the Kingdom because they has ever right to expect a prophet to return who was alive somewhere yet. So the first two are obvious since they are both connected to each other.
But that leaves us with Jeremiah. Who ever thought much of him? Actually, the Jewish people did, at least later on (although Jeremiah's contemporaries did not believe in him much). Let me tell you this much: Jeremiah was as key figure to the Kingdom of Israel in the Old Testament as the apostle Paul was a key figure in the New Testament! Do you hear this being taught? I thought not. Jeremiah is often seen as a gloomy prophet and oftentimes any modern day predictor of gloom is called "a modern day Jeremiah". But Jeremiah had something in common with Elijah, and the people of Israel knew it! I will say more on that very shortly.
Actually this will be a short message, because we taught it here already, but I want to convey two thoughts about Jeremiah. The first is what he did (or was supposed to do), and the second is his fate. And these two points will answer quite clearly as to why some said Jesus was Jeremiah.
The first of which is simply Jeremiah's calling. What was he told to do? The bible says it at the start of the book of Jeremiah:
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
This said it in a nutshell. Jeremiah surely rooted out, pulled down, destroyed and thrown down. No doubt about that. The Kingdom was uprooted when the Babylonian captivity took place. That is why people associate him with a prophet of gloom. But where did he build and plant? Christian theologians have been asking this for years (because they do not read this site for starters!) The people of Israel expected to be built and planted again. In Jesus' time, they wanted Rome off their back. They wanted the throne and Kingdom there in Israel again under Messianic reign. They wanted all the tribes (the other lost tribes) back in the land again. In short, this was exciting times for the Jews! They looked forward to this as many Christians look forward to the end times and the Second Coming of Christ as we see many prophecy ministries today. And that was the commission of Jeremiah, i.e. to build and to plant. However, this was long after Jeremiah was around. How did they expect Jeremiah to do this? That brings me to my second point.
Ask any evangelist what happened to Jeremiah. He will grin broadly and say that Jeremiah was carried down to Egypt and "probably died there". However, what our evangelist has done was effectively truncated part of Gods calling to Jeremiah that stated he would "build and plant". This is why theologians are baffled at this part of his calling, and I am not surprised if they hope it slides by you unnoticed. But as the bible says:
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
What else does the bible say about Jeremiah?
The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
Does this passage of Holy Scripture sound like Jeremiah "just died there"? What did the rest of the disobedient people die of that took Jeremiah and his remnant to Egypt? The bible says it: sword, famine, pestilence and all that kind of stuff. If Jeremiah just died there with his remnant, would that be "well with they remnant"?
Here at www.eternalthroneofdavid.com we teach that Jeremiah with his remnant came out of Egypt and transferred the throne of David to Ireland later on, where sons of Zarah-Judah reigned (links will be given at the end of this message for more detail). The Jews knew that Jeremiah did not just die there in Egypt. He was missing and they did not know what became of him because after all, God promised his safety, and there was no body and no grave. Like Elijah, they thought he did not die! Does that mean that they knew about him transplanting the throne? Not necessarily. However, the point of this whole message is that they did not believe he was dead! And that leaves open the very real possibility that Jeremiah built and planted elsewhere as we teach. They hoped he'd come back again (much like Elijah) to build and to plant there in Israel. Again, these were exciting times for the Jews as they hoped for their restoration.
This mention of Jeremiah is just one of the MANY clues we have about the lost tribes of Israel, and Jesus alludes to them quite often by what he said and even in parables. People who poke fun at the likes of what we teach here do not have an answer to this enigma otherwise. They think that Jeremiah going to Ireland is ludicrous, but yet they have NO CLUE as to why the Jews thought so much of a prophet that "probably died in Egypt". So they just gloss over it hoping you will not notice it, either. However, God's word does not mention something just to take up space in the verse. There was a reason as to why Jeremiah was mentioned in spite of what the critics think otherwise.
This link takes you to the message about the throne of David being planted in Ireland:
And this link is Jesus' references to the lost house of Israel in the New Testament:
JESUS & LOST TRIBES
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