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Jeremiah – Imminent Destruction

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  • Jeremiah 39: 1-10
    • July – Aug 586 BC
      • about 18 months of siege
    • blinded after watching his family murdered and died in captivity
    • Those left in the city where taken as exiles to Babylon
    • Poorest: given the land, vineyards and fields, remained in Jerusalem
  • Jeremiah 39:11-14
    • Nebuchadnezzar turns Jeremiah’s care over to Nebuzaradan, Captain of the bodyguard.
      • Nebuzaradan turns Jeremiah’s care over to Gedaliah.
        • Gedaliah, Jewish administrator stayed in Jerusalem
  • Jeremiah 39:15-18
    • Jehovah tells Jeremiah to give a message to Ebed-melch, the Ethiopian
      • The destruction of Jerusalem is at hand, but I will deliver you, because you trusted me.

 

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Jeremiah – The King’s YES MEN

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  • Jeremiah 38: 1-6This is Jeremiah’s message:
      • Remain in the city and die
      • Exile to Babylon and live
    • The Court Officials
  • Jeremiah 38:7-13King’s eunuch goes to speak with the King
      • Ebed Melek (“servant of the king”)
      • Proselyte or Slave??
  • Jeremiah 38: 14-23Zedekiah asked Jeremiah AGAIN to tell him the word of YHWH
    • Jeremiah, “Are you kidding? You know you will kill me AND you still won’t listen!”
    • Zedekiah, “I promise”
    • Options: Choose wisely!Go out to the officers of the king of Babylon = survive
      • Don’t go out to them = the city will burn
    • v 19: Fear of Man
    • What to do?! 2 Peter 3: 8-9
  • Jeremiah 38: 24-28

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Jeremiah – What is YOUR response to the message?

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  • Jeremiah 36:11-19
    • 605 BC: 15 years before the destruction of Jerusalem
    • The Scroll which Baruch wrote
  • Jeremiah 36: 20-26
    • December of 605 or 604 BC
    • The Kind destroyed the Scroll by fire and commanded Baruch and Jeremiah to be arrested.
    • Elnathan = “God has given”, Dalaiah = “Jehovah has drawn”, Gemariah = “Jehovah has accomplished”
  • Jeremiah 36: 27-32
    • A second copy of the scroll is commissioned, by YHWH.
    • Add to the scroll, Jehoiakim King of Judah will have NO descendant  on the throne.
    • The prophecy fulfilled in 597 BC
  • Jeremiah 37:1-2
    • Zedekiah, puppet ruler of Jerusalem set up by Nebuchadnezzar
    • Ignores the guidance of YHWH.
  • Jeremiah 37: 3-10
    • Zedekiah won’t go but sends messengers to request Jeremiah to pray for Judah.
      • Chapter 34: Prophecy Zedekiah was going to go down.
      • Egypt will turn back and Babylon WILL capture Jerusalem
    • Tolerance and open-mindedness, aligned with Communist China, Radical Islam
  • Jeremiah 37: 11-15
    • Jeremiah on his way to purchase property, in the land of Benjamin. Just to the north of Jerusalem.
    • Jeremiah arrested by Irijah at the Gate of Benjamin. “You are trying to defect!”
      • Jailed in the house of Jonathan the scribe.
  • Jeremiah 37: 16-21
    • Vaulted Cell: Chanuwth : cell, vaulted room, only used once in scripture.
    • King Zedekiah sent a petition: “Have you heard from YHWH?”
      • Yep: you WILL be handed to the King of Babylon!
      • Jeremiah requests/pleads to NOT be sent back to the house of Jonathan the scribe
        • afraid to go back there and die.
      • Zedekiah does consent and Jeremiah is sent to the court of the guardhouse.

 

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Jeremiah – Disaster is Comming

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  • Jeremiah 35:1-11
    • Jehoiakim: “Jehovah raises up”, 605-597 BC
    • Rechabites: Give them wine
      • Not of Jewish lineage.
      • Descendants of Jonadab
      • G_D Fearer
      • Did not drink wine, No house, No farming, No vineyards, Live in tents
  • Jeremiah 35:12-17
    • Message to the Nation of Israel, Even the men of Jonadab son of Rechab follow instruction but you have not!
    • Therefore:
    • Disaster is coming, but there will be a lasting descendant of Jonadab!
      • The descendants were not even keeping TORAH but the law of their Father.
      • Isaiah 66:18-21
  • Jeremiah 36: 1-4
    • The reason for the book of Jeremiah
    • Repent for calamity is on the way.
  • Jeremiah 36: 5-10
    • Jeremiah is not allowed in the Temple, so he sends Baruch.
    • On a fast day
  • Jeremiah 36:11-19

 

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Jeremiah – Righteous Branch Confirmed

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The Righteous Branch

 

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Jeremiah – Rags to Riches

“You write the laws, let me write the songs, and in 20 years I will rule your country.”

Andrew Fletcher 1653 – 1716

Scottish Writer, Patriot & Politician

Commissioner of the old Parliament of Scotland and opposed the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England.

 

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Worthless land

 

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Jeremiah – Restoring Judah

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Return of the Remnant

  • Jeremiah 31:35-37
    • vs 36: Israel will never be rejected by YHWH
      • The only way to destroy Israel
        • destroy the sun, moon, stars
        • Measure the universe,
  • Jeremiah 31: 38-40
  • Jeremiah 32: 1-5
    • vs 1: 10th year of Zedekiah king of Judah the same as the 18th year of Nebuchadnezzar
      • summer of 587 BC
    • vs 2: Jeremiah was locked in the court of the guard, in the house of the King of Judah
    • vs 3-5: King Zedekiah did not like the prophecy brought by Jeremiah,
      • “city will be given to Nebuchadnezzar, and its King will be taken to Babylon”
  • Jeremiah 32: 6-8
    • How Jeremiah is responding to Zedekiah through this event.
      • Hanamel, son of Shallum
      • This land is in the North of Israel, which is now under Babylonian control (no value at the time).
      • Land was not to be sold outside of the family  without first offering it to the family.
  • Jeremiah 32: 9-15
    • He had received the prophecy from YHWH
    • It is holding to the LAW
  • Jeremiah 32:16-25

 

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Jeremiah – Book of Consolation

Book of Consolation

 

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Return of the Remnant

Enemies: Matthew 5:44, Luke 6:27, Luke 6:35

 

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Jeremiah – Everlasting

Everlasting

 

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Jeremiah – Restore

A different kind of restoration

 

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