Jeremiah 36:32
Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
Jehoiakim king of Judah burned the first scroll, and then Jeremiah took another roll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which had been burned in the fire, so the message was preserved and reproduced. Besides the restored words there were added besides unto them many like words, so the renewed message was enlarged with a great deal more. The reproduced message contained the reproof and warning and swift punishment God had pronounced against rebellious Israel concerning Judah and Jerusalem, and its renewal reaffirmed judgment on Jehoiakim and Judah for refusing to heed it. The burning happened when a special message from God was sent to be read in the king's hearing, and after listening to three or four pages he cut the roll with a penknife and cast it into the fire.
The repetition came by the same Holy Spirit who had given the first refused and burned testimony, working through the servant of God who had caused the first roll to be written to repeat the very rejected message and cause it to be written again, for God's Word will never return to Him void, and the words still lived in Jeremiah's heart as a burning fire. Destroying, cutting, and burning God's straight, plain written message to get it out of sight cannot dispose of it, erase it, silence it, or stop God's purpose and His messengers' work. Refusal to be corrected and receive it does not end the message but causes it to be repeated and enlarged and gives it increased publicity and confirmation. The Lord sends such warnings and correction to a man or woman to make plain His requirements, to change principles, to turn the heart to repentance and forgiveness and conversion, and Jehoiakim's attempt to limit the prophet's work only gave further opportunity to make those requirements plain.
Rejecting correction does not end accountability: the whole transaction is recorded, wickedness and deceit remain if the message is refused, and those who refuse pronounce their own sentence against themselves as their actions and refusal are brought into judgment. Guilt is shared by those who justify and vindicate the one God corrected, by ministers and doctors who step between God and the one reproved and make the reproof of none effect, and by the one corrected who turns from the message to follow his own course in deception, falsehood, and underhand dealing. They will suffer together unless they humble themselves before God in repentance that needeth not to be repented of, and God will be vindicated in His effort to bring men to see their crooked ways and turn and be converted, so that their usefulness is not destroyed and their sins registered in the books of heaven are blotted out. The account warns that what Jehoiakim did would happen again in the present generation, as at Battle Creek.
Those who hear the evidence of the binding claims of the law of God and the enjoined obedience to His commandments and feel their characters in contrast to its requirements face the same choice, and had they been placed as Jehoiakim was they would have done as he did. People who reject divine light and trust their own wisdom repeat the same opposition to God's messages.