From today’s reading in Tyndale’s One Year Chronological Bible dated 8/24:

Babylon is invading Jerusalem, and Jeremiah is still in the court of the prison. In the midst of all that, the Lord instructs Jeremiah to buy a field from his cousin. After Jeremiah signs the deed, the Lord says, “Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in the land.”

Jeremiah is confused because over the last forty years the Lord has been telling him that judgment is coming to Judah, which will result in Judah’s destruction. So why would Jeremiah want to purchase land in a nation that is about to be destroyed? Jeremiah questions the Lord, “And You have said to me, O Lord God, ‘Buy the field for money, and take witness’! – yet the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.” God responds, “Is there anything too hard for me?” 

The Lord tells Jeremiah that the Babylonians will destroy Jerusalem as He has said, “because the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only evil before Me from their youth.” But the Lord gives hope for restoration. He says He will bring them back and give them a new heart “and I will make an everlasting covenant with them; that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me… Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth. And I will cause the captives of Judah and the captives of Israel to return, and will rebuild those places as at the first. I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me. Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them; they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the prosperity that I provide for it.”

The Lord will uphold His promise to the house of David – “‘Behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah: In those days and at that time I will cause to grow up to David a Branch of righteousness; He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely. And this is the name by which she will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.’ For thus says the Lord: ‘David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel; nor shall the priests, the Levites, lack a man to offer burnt offerings before Me, to kindle grain offerings, and to sacrifice continually.’”

The promise of restoration will be partially completed during the Return Era under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah. Full restoration will occur under the new covenant established through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, whom the Lord promised to send back in the garden after the fall of mankind. The Lord makes clear that nothing will stop His plan to redeem His people. Keep reading. (Jeremiah 32:1-33:26, Ezekiel 26:1-14)