Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
The Lord was specifically promising the nation of Israel a glorious future here. Jeremiah prophesied that the nation Israel will be exiled into captivity in the land of Babylon.
There, as a nation, they would seem to be without a future and a hope. But God promised them that He would free and liberate them and bring them back into their land.
Jer 29:10 For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.
Jer 29:14 I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.
This was partially fulfilled when Israel returned to their land from their captivity in Babylon seventy years after. But its full realization will be during the Melinnium when their long-awaited Messiah would reign with Israel as the top nation of the world.
This verse is often taken out of context and made to mean that God promised every single Christian material prosperity and financial success. Not so. Under the Christian dispensation, yes, we do have a hope and a future. But it refers to our future conformity and glorification with Christ.
Only when this verse is ripped out of context is it made to mean what the Prosperity Gospel preachers would have it mean.
