July 5

<p>Jeremiah 31-32 We are in the Prophetic Stream - still sailing with Jeremiah. We are using the New Living Translation this week. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Stream | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></p> <!--more--> <p>Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote> <div>Lord God, we pray that all are brought back to you. Thank you for this triumphant prophecy today.  Amen.</div> </blockquote> <div>31 - The point here is that there will be restoration.  There is hope.  There is always hope.  The imminent captivity that must take place is no issue to God and His eternal plan to bring His people to Him and bless them with his love that never changes.  God will bless and give rest and supply even for those in Babylon.  They will be rebuilt.  They will dance. They will dine. They will not be in want.  They will worship. The <em>return</em> to the Promised Land will be the greatest of joys.  The bounty will be ecstatic!  It will be a party rooted in the goodness and the faithfulness of God.  There will be restoration and it will be astonishing</div> <div>-the joy of it all.</div> <div>The intrigue of the verse inserted about Rachel weeping for her children is prophetic as it refers to Herod frantically ordering all the 0-2 year old boys to be killed that were in Bethlehem almost 600 years later. He was doing a sweeping slaughter thinking that in the carnage he would obliterate the newborn king Jesus.  It didn't work. It did spread an horrendous grief through the region however from all the lost young ones. And the double meaning of children being redeemed/found again/returned again is a matter of intrigue. It's rather brilliant literature, looking at it in retrospect. It had to be awful and beyond to live through the loss before the restoration.  But be assured, restoration is coming.  A New Covenant <strong>is coming.  </strong>And there will be spiritual restoration as well.  We can be certain that God will do all H