Reading for October 10th

Read Jeremiah 28.1-17. The conflict of prophetic messages narrows down to a conflict between two prophets of Judah, Hananiah and Jeremiah. In competing symbolic actions, the two men wear jokes to enact and make concrete the prophetic messages. Jeremiah wears a wooden yoke to signify captivity by Baylon. In verse 10: Hananiah breaks Jeremiah's yoke as an attempt to say the opposite. In verses 12-14: Jeremiah returns latter with an unbreakable iron yoke. In verse 17; Hananiah's death a year later indicates that he was a false prophet preaching his own word, not divine revelation (Deut 18.20). Comments or Questions..