◄ Jeremiah 33:25 ►
This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
Study Bible
“This is what the LORD says”
This phrase introduces a divine declaration, emphasizing the authority and sovereignty of God. In Hebrew, "LORD" is "Yahweh," the covenant name of God, underscoring His eternal and unchanging nature. This introduction sets the stage for a message that is not merely human opinion but a divine pronouncement, reminding us of God's ultimate authority and reliability.

“If I have not established”
The word "established" in Hebrew is "qum," which means to set up, confirm, or make firm. This reflects God's role as the Creator who has set the universe in order. It speaks to His power and intentionality in creation, assuring us that everything is under His control and purposefully arranged.

“My covenant with the day and night”
The term "covenant" is "berit" in Hebrew, signifying a binding agreement. Here, it refers to the natural order God has instituted, reminiscent of Genesis 1 where God separates day from night. This covenant is a testament to God's faithfulness and the regularity of His creation, symbolizing His unwavering promises to His people.

“and the fixed laws of heaven and earth,”
"Fixed laws" translates from the Hebrew "chuqqah," meaning statutes or decrees. This phrase highlights the orderliness and predictability of the universe, which God has ordained. It reflects the idea that just as these laws are unchangeable, so too are God's promises. The "heaven and earth" encompass all creation, pointing to the vastness of God's dominion and the reliability of His word.

Persons / Places / Events
1. The LORD (Yahweh)
The covenant-keeping God of Israel, who speaks through the prophet Jeremiah.

2. Jeremiah
A major prophet in the Old Testament, known for his messages of both judgment and hope to the people of Judah.

3. Covenant
A divine promise or agreement, often involving commitments and stipulations, between God and His people.

4. Day and Night
Symbolic of the natural order established by God, representing His faithfulness and consistency.

5. Heaven and Earth
The created universe, which operates under God's sovereign laws and order.
Teaching Points
God's Faithfulness in Creation
Just as God established the natural order, His promises are reliable and unchanging. Believers can trust in His faithfulness.

The Assurance of God's Covenants
God's covenants, like the one with day and night, are a testament to His unwavering commitment to His people.

The Sovereignty of God
The fixed laws of heaven and earth remind us of God's control over the universe, encouraging us to rest in His sovereignty.

Consistency in God's Character
Just as the natural order is consistent, so is God's character. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Living in Light of God's Promises
Understanding God's faithfulness should inspire believers to live with hope and confidence in His promises.
Bible Study Questions
1. How does the imagery of day and night in Jeremiah 33:25 help us understand God's faithfulness?

2. In what ways can we see God's covenant faithfulness in our daily lives, similar to the fixed laws of heaven and earth?

3. How do the additional scriptures (Genesis 8:22, Psalm 89:34-37, Isaiah 54:9-10) reinforce the message of Jeremiah 33:25?

4. What practical steps can we take to remind ourselves of God's unchanging nature and promises?

5. How does understanding God's sovereignty over creation impact our trust in His plans for our lives?
Connections to Other Scriptures
Genesis 8:22
This verse speaks of the enduring cycles of nature, such as day and night, which God established after the flood, highlighting His faithfulness.

Psalm 89:34-37
These verses emphasize God's unbreakable covenant with David, likening it to the fixed order of the sun and moon.

Isaiah 54:9-10
Here, God compares His covenant of peace to the enduring nature of the mountains and hills, underscoring His steadfast love.

Hebrews 1:10-12
This passage speaks of the heavens and earth as the work of God's hands, which will change, but God remains the same.
Sermons
Divine Plans of Action UnalterableHomilistJeremiah 33:20-26
God's Great Day-And-Night EngineG. L. Taylor, D. D.Jeremiah 33:20-26
People
Babylonians, Benjamin, David, Ezekiel, Isaac, Jacob, Jeremiah, Levites
Places
Jerusalem, Negeb, Shephelah
Topics
Appointed, Covenant, Daily, Established, Fails, Fixed, Heaven, Heavens, Laws, Limits, Nightly, Ordinances, Patterns, Says, Stand, Statutes, Thus
Dictionary of Bible Themes
Jeremiah 33:25

     4203   earth, the
     4287   universe

Jeremiah 33:23-25

     1348   covenant, with Abraham

Jeremiah 33:24-26

     6232   rejection of God, results

Jeremiah 33:25-26

     1347   covenant, with Noah
     1351   covenant, with David
     4055   heaven and earth

Library
A Threefold Disease and a Twofold Cure.
'I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against Me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against Me.'--JER. xxxiii. 8. Jeremiah was a prisoner in the palace of the last King of Judah. The long, national tragedy had reached almost the last scene of the last act. The besiegers were drawing their net closer round the doomed city. The prophet had never faltered in predicting its fall, but he had as uniformly …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

Things Unknown
"Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."--Jeremiah 33:3. GOD'S PEOPLE WILL NEVER THRIVE on anything less substantial than bread from heaven. Israel in Egypt might live on garlic and onions, but Israel in the wilderness must be fed with the manna that came down from heaven, and with the water that gushed out of the rock, when it was smitten by the rod of God. The child of God, while he is yet in his sins, may, like other men, revel in them, …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 46: 1900

Discerning Prayer.
INTRODUCTORY. BY D.W. WHITTLE. To recognize God's existence is to necessitate prayer to Him, by all intelligent creatures, or, a consciously living in sin and under condemnation of conscience, because they do not pray to Him. It would be horrible to admit the existence of a Supreme Being, with power and wisdom to create, and believe that the creatures he thought of consequence and importance enough to bring into existence, are not of enough consequence for him to pay any attention to in the troubles …
Various—The Wonders of Prayer

The Royal Priesthood
Gerhard Ter Steegen Jer. xxxiii. 18; Rev. i. 6 The race of God's anointed priests shall never pass away; Before His glorious Face they stand, and serve Him night and day. Though reason raves, and unbelief flows on, a mighty flood, There are, and shall be, till the end, the hidden priests of God. His chosen souls, their earthly dross consumed in sacred fire, To God's own heart their hearts ascend in flame of deep desire; The incense of their worship fills His Temple's holiest place; Their song with …
Frances Bevan—Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso, and Others

The Best of the Best
"I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys."--Song of Solomon 2:1. THE time of flowers has come, and as they are in some faint degree emblems of our Lord, it is well, when God thus calls, that we should seek to learn what he desires to teach us by them. If nature now spreads out her roses and her lilies, or prepares to do so, let us try, not only to see them, but to see Christ as he is shadowed forth in them. "I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys." If these are the words …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 42: 1896

Nature of Covenanting.
A covenant is a mutual voluntary compact between two parties on given terms or conditions. It may be made between superiors and inferiors, or between equals. The sentiment that a covenant can be made only between parties respectively independent of one another is inconsistent with the testimony of Scripture. Parties to covenants in a great variety of relative circumstances, are there introduced. There, covenant relations among men are represented as obtaining not merely between nation and nation, …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting

Putting God to Work
"For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen a God beside thee who worketh for him that waiteth for him."--Isaiah 64:4. The assertion voiced in the title given this chapter is but another way of declaring that God has of His own motion placed Himself under the law of prayer, and has obligated Himself to answer the prayers of men. He has ordained prayer as a means whereby He will do things through men as they pray, which He would not otherwise do. Prayer …
Edward M. Bounds—The Weapon of Prayer

Be Ye Therefore Perfect, Even as Your Father which is in Heaven is Perfect. Matthew 5:48.
In the 43rd verse, the Savior says, "Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy; but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you, that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward …
Charles G. Finney—Lectures to Professing Christians

The Sermon of the Seasons
"Oh, the long and dreary Winter! Oh, the cold and cruel Winter!" We say to ourselves, Will spring-time never come? In addition to this, trade and commerce continue in a state of stagnation; crowds are out of employment, and where business is carried on, it yields little profit. Our watchmen are asked if they discern any signs of returning day, and they answer, "No." Thus we bow our heads in a common affliction, and ask each man comfort of his fellow; for as yet we see not our signs, neither does …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 32: 1886

Twentieth Day for God's Spirit on the Heathen
WHAT TO PRAY.--For God's Spirit on the Heathen "Behold, these shall come from far; and these from the land of Sinim."--ISA. xlix. 12. "Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall haste to stretch out her hands to God."--PS. lxviii. 31. "I the Lord will hasten it in His time."--ISA. lx. 22. Pray for the heathen, who are yet without the word. Think of China, with her three hundred millions--a million a month dying without Christ. Think of Dark Africa, with its two hundred millions. Think …
Andrew Murray—The Ministry of Intercession

Truth Hidden when not Sought After.
"They shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."--2 Tim. iv. 4. From these words of the blessed Apostle, written shortly before he suffered martyrdom, we learn, that there is such a thing as religious truth, and therefore there is such a thing as religious error. We learn that religious truth is one--and therefore that all views of religion but one are wrong. And we learn, moreover, that so it was to be (for his words are a prophecy) that professed Christians, …
John Henry Newman—Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII

Cleansing.
As there are conditions requiring to be complied with in order to the obtaining of salvation, before one can be justified, e. g., conviction of sin, repentance, faith; so there are conditions for full salvation, for being "filled with the Holy Ghost." Conviction of our need is one, conviction of the existence of the blessing is another; but these have been already dealt with. "Cleansing" is another; before one can be filled with the Holy Ghost, one's heart must be "cleansed." "Giving them the Holy …
John MacNeil—The Spirit-Filled Life

Curiosity a Temptation to Sin.
"Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away."--Proverbs iv. 14, 15. The chief cause of the wickedness which is every where seen in the world, and in which, alas! each of us has more or less his share, is our curiosity to have some fellowship with darkness, some experience of sin, to know what the pleasures of sin are like. I believe it is even thought unmanly by many persons (though they may not like to say …
John Henry Newman—Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII

Jeremiah
The interest of the book of Jeremiah is unique. On the one hand, it is our most reliable and elaborate source for the long period of history which it covers; on the other, it presents us with prophecy in its most intensely human phase, manifesting itself through a strangely attractive personality that was subject to like doubts and passions with ourselves. At his call, in 626 B.C., he was young and inexperienced, i. 6, so that he cannot have been born earlier than 650. The political and religious …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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