In the small priests’ town of Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, today the small village Anata, barely two hours by road northeast of Jerusalem, Jeremiah was born around the year 650 AD, as son of the priest Helkias. He therefore came from a priest’s family, which was no longer thought to be a particularly esteemed and noble lineage to have, even when it was that of the high priest Abjathar, who had been exiled there by Solomon.  The splendour of the early years of the king’s reign had long since faded.  Jeremiah was only 24 years of age when in the thirteenth year of the king’s reign, in the year 627, he experienced something that cut deep into his inner core and from that time on gave his life direction: the calling to the prophecy, which was so contrary to his own quiet and reserved nature. 
It was a face, no gripping, sensual experience, no conventional theosophy, rather: “The word of the Lord came unto me!” … and he stammered timidly, "Oh Lord, I can speak, I am yet so young!”.  Already the fact that a young man of 30 appeared was in those times remarkable.. But youth and weakness were to be replaced with God's strength … and it must have been then that God forbade him to marry and to have children … For Jeremiah was to become the prophet of doom for his people.  He was to prophesy the drying up of the land, the perishing of his people, for the people still practiced their heathen cults alongside their Christianity.  In spite of all the pain, sorrow, the hostility and even the lashings he was given, Jeremiah remained steadfast in his faith. And always God held His protecting hand over the prophet and his writer, Baruch (the Blessed). 
And so even in his advanced age Jeremiah was forced to leave his country.  Even in Egypt, before the gates of an office of the Pharaoh in Tachpanches near Heliopolis, God ordered him to put stones in the ground and prophecy that the king of Babylon would yet pitch his tent on those stones.  All of the great prophet’s prophecies came true.  There were many Mount of Olives hours in his life, but very few Tabor hours.  After almost forty years of working miracles, he encountered greater disbelief than at the beginning.  It seemed all had been in vain. 
But the ignorance of his contemporaries did not succeed in silencing him.  His words ring out through the centuries until the present day.  Thus he lived his life before the Redeemer and became the Messianic prophet ... there are legends about his end … his death by stoning at the hands of his countrymen in Egypt.