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The Scripture says that before God formed Jeremiah in the womb, He called him. This makes Jeremiah one of three men this happened to. The other two were John the Baptist and Jesus Christ.
Jeremiah 1:4-5New International Version (NIV)The Call of Jeremiah4 The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew[a] you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 15y agoJeremiah himself, at the time of his call by God, complained that he was 'only a youth.' No other information is given and so one must to a degree guess, allowing for the classifications of the day. He thus could have been anywhere from mid teens to mid twenties.
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∙ 11y agoThat number is undisclosed. His book ends with only part of his commission complete.
"...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." (Jer.1:10)
He had a number to missions to accomplish at that time when God was warning the Jews through him for the last time to repent of their sins and turn back to God and His laws. The Babylonian Empire was knocking at their door, so to speak... and the final stage was set to remove the Jews from their land and be taken into captivity.
Jeremiah was the prophet of record at this time for the "rooting out, pulling down, destruction and the throwing down" of the House or Kingdom of Judah. The prophesied seventy-year captivity of the Jews.
This phase of Jeremiah's commission is recorded in his book. And the "building" portion of his commission just begins as his book ends.
Jeremiah's book ends with the removal of the Jewish king and all of his sons, who were killed before him, prior to having his eyes burned out. He was carried away to Babylon... and the existence of the throne of David was lost to world history.
[the throne which God promised to give to Christ -- "...He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and THE LORD SHALL GIVE UNTO HIM THE THRONE OF HIS FATHER DAVID: and He shall reign over the House of Jacob for ever; and of His Kingdom there shall be no end." (Luke 1:32-33)]
Therefore, since David's throne has to be somewhere on this earth for Christ to claim when He returns... God had to "replant" David's throne somewhere.
At the end of Jeremiah's book... he was given the freedom to travel anywhere he wanted. And he went to Mizpah, where he attached himself to "THE KING'S DAUGHTERS."
"Then went Jeremiah... to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land." (Jer.40:6)
"Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, EVEN THE KING'S DAUGHTERS, and all the people that remained in Mizpah..." (Jer.41:10).
And following a brief misadventure, being sidetracked to Egypt for a spell... Jeremiah disappears with the king's daughters from The Bible... and from the view of the world.
He secured the "seed" [the king's daughters - the material with which to "build"] whereby to replant the throne of David "somewhere in the world" so that it would be preserved for the Christ.
"...behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise UNTO DAVID a Righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth..." (Jer.23:5).
"...David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the HOUSE OF Israel..." (Jer.33:17). Not the House of Judah [the Jews], but Israel, the house that had been taken into captivity and scattered over a century before Jeremiah was born.
And the "planting" phase of Jeremiah's commission remains virtually unknown to the world today. Where he went and how he replanted, the Bible doesn't tell us... so we don't know the length of Jeremiah's service to God.
Although, technically, if God has called you... your service to Him doesn't end.
AnswerJohn MacArthur in his Study Bible says that:The dates of [Jeremiah's] ministry... are from the Judean king Josiah's 13th year...627BC, to beyond the fall of Jerusalemto Babylon in 586BC....He was possibly still ministering in 570BC.
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∙ 14y agoJeremiah was about 20 years old when God called him.
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∙ 13y agoThe bible does not tell us, but he could be in his late thirties or forty.
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∙ 13y agoIt's is believed to be 13-14
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