God’s Word in the Fire Light

During the days when Jehoiakim reigned in Judah, all of Jeremiah’s prophecies were written on a scroll and taken to the king in his winter apartment. As he sat warming himself by the fire, Jehoiakim used the Word of God for fuel. Jehoiakim’s wanton act of destruction placed Jeremiah’s writings in jeopardy. If the king had succeeded, there would be no book of Jeremiah today. Everything Jeremiah ever prophesied would have gone up in smoke. Yet, to this day, the church holds the prophecies of Jeremiah as a sacred treasure —all of them. One reason the Scripture is known to be the Word of God is because of its miraculous preservation throughout all ages. Jeremiah 36 is about writing, receiving, rejecting, and preserving the Bible.