Patrick Miller
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first heard Jul 2026
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They're going to destroy Jerusalem.
They're going to burn down the temple.
They're going to murder women and children.
And of course, there's going to be great weeping for all of the loss that we experience.
So Matthew takes this passage and he says, just as people in Jeremiah's day wept for the destruction of Jerusalem, so we see the same pattern happening today.
People weeping for the destruction that's occurring in Bethlehem.
Now here's the real kicker.
You see what Jeremiah goes on to do in the passage is he says, yes, you're going to be exiled.
The people of God were going to be sent out of Israel, but he's going to establish a new covenant.
He's going to renew their hearts.
He's going to put his spirit inside of his people and he's going to bring them back to himself.
And that's what I find so interesting here, because I think that's what Matthew is implying.
He's saying, just as there was weeping in Bethlehem, just as there was weeping in Jerusalem, that weeping, those tears, they were like seed.
And when sown, they point towards this future reality that God is going to bring his people back to himself, that he's going to cleanse them and forgive them.
He's going to fill them with their spirit.
And so when he says that Jesus fulfills this passage, again, it's a pattern.
He's saying, hey, this same pattern of exile and return that's implied by this passage, that's what Jesus is doing.
He's going to take the exiles, not just of Israel, but the exiles of all creation, and he's going to bring them back into the presence of the God from whom they were exiled.
So when we talk about fulfillment and prophecy, this is a really important thing for you to grasp.
Sometimes there's a prediction and Jesus just fulfills it.
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