Jeremiah 18 - 22

Jeremiah observes a potter at work molding clay, reworking it as needed.  God's message comes that the nation is His clay, and He uses the trials faced by the nation to fashion them into something useful for His purposes.  The nation, however, rejects God's warnings and inherits the disaster inherent in such foolish actions.  The nation rises up and attacks Jeremiah for being the bearer of such news.  Jeremiah continues to share God's message of coming destruction, even though it landed him in the stocks.  Jeremiah continued to deliver an unpopular message to unwilling hearers, convinced that an unchanging God was in control. The faithful prophet delivers warnings of impending doom to the king about the invading armies of Babylon and the results of their incursion into the land of Judah