By Elimu Assistant Team 
Describe the meaning of the symbolic act of buying land by Prophet Jeremiah
- It showed the people of Judah still had a future despite the coming crisis! Judah regained freedom after the conquest.
- It was assurance that the people would be restored to their homeland/reclaim their land.
- It demonstrated that the people would resume their normal lives/construct homes/cultivate land/own property.
- Divine judgment was not an end in itself
- Restoration was to take place at God’s own time/God was to determine when the people would be restored. (Time).
- The people had to wait patiently for their return from exile.
- It showed that God was loving/faithful/in keeping his promise of restoration/bringing them back to their ancestral land.
- It made them feel secure/they were not to lack anything
