“Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.”

Jeremiah 21:8

I’m pretty sure the Lord had said this sort of thing before…

Yes… a few times actually…

Deuteronomy 11:26, “Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;” and again in…

Deuteronomy 30:19,  “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life…” and…

1 Kings 9:6,  “But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you,” and…

2 Chronicles 7:19,  But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them…”

What’s the point?  The point is that they didn’t listen and suffered the consequences… Jerusalem was destroyed a few years later!  And the point for us is that all these things are for our example, and for our learning!

“Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.” “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,” 1 Corinthians 10:6, Romans 15:4

So let’s consider what God has already told us, what God has set before us, and may we learn from it!  Jesus said it very clearly, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10  Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.”

“therefore choose life…”