What comes to your mind when I say the word "forecasting"? The weather man? The predictor of tomorrow's heat, cold, rain, humidity? Probably so.
In the Bible, the forecaster is God's prophet. He tells us what is going to happen in the future based on the reality of the present. True prophecy involves both forth-telling and foretelling. Jeremiah tells forth and foretells by giving us previews of coming attractions.
What comes to your mind when I say, "previews of coming attractions"? Perhaps you think of movie previews wherein you get enticing scenes of a forthcoming movie which makes you want to see it. The previews in Jeremiah are two-fold: (1) previews of destruction we would just as soon avoid, and (2) previews of reconstruction which we embrace when we know that the destruction is un…