The Adversity of the Truth

The truth has the power to set free, Joh 8:32; however, often are the times that the truth is adverse. Since time immemorial individuals in different walks of life have suffered because of the truth and some have even paid the ultimate prize. Jeremiah 38 is one among the texts in the book of Jeremiah and indeed the entire Bible that explicates this phenomenon of the truth. In this chapter, prophet Jeremiah is commissioned by God to proclaim an unconventional message that Jerusalem will be delivered to the Chaldeans. The painful truth lands Jeremiah into the cistern but he escapes death by a whisker when Ebed-Melech comes to his rescue. This book employs a synchronic method of studying the Bible and it is suitable for beginners in exegesis and generally those interested in textual analysis.