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11/25/01 2) He is the son of Hilkiah who was of the priests who in in the land of 1-2 . a) Anothoth was a priestly city, the one The life of Jeremiah is marked by danger and that King Solomon vanished Abiathar sufferings as well as a deep walk with God that to for his betrayal to . 1Kings enabled him to preach with a broken heart to the 2:26-27 people of his nation. b. This was in fulfillment of God prophecy to Eli’s judgment on his The book opens up with the call of Jeremiah to house. observe the death of a nation but to proclaim c. The city as three miles north east of individual hope. the modern day Ras el- Kharubbeh, two miles northeast of I fear lest this is the very thing that we have been Jerusalem. Josh. 21:17-18 called to observe in our own nation as we witness 3) The city was in the area of the tribe of her ongoing evil and lack of godly repentance, Benjamin. while putting on a religious front. 1:2-3 The time God’s word came to 1:1-19 God’s call and commission of Jeremiah. Jeremiah. 1) The word of the LORD first came to Jeremiah in the days of the son of 1:1-3 The introductory title and it’s Amon, king of , in the thirteenth historical time to the . year of his reign in 626 B.C. a) Five years before the reform of Josiah 1:1 The man Jeremiah. when the father of Jeremiah found the 1) The book contains the words of book of the law. 2Kings 22-23 Jeremiah. b) The date is confirmed once again by * Jeremiah means “whom Jehovah has Jeremiah as he spoke to the people of appointed”. Judah reminding them that for twenty- third year the word of the Lord had 3 4

come to him but they had not listened. 3) Ezekiel was called to eat the scroll and Jer. 25:3 partaking of it he would prophesy for 2) The word of the Lord continued to come God. to Jeremiah in the days of the * The first person indicates an son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end autobiographical narrative. of the eleventh year of the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the 1:5 The revelation of God to Jeremiah carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the was the Foreknowledge of God. Vs. 5 fifth month. 1) God told Jeremiah that before He formed * Forty years of prophetic ministry to him in his mother’s womb God knew Judah until her captivity! him. Vs. 5a a) Josiah. 639-609 B.C. * As the potter. Jer. 18 b) Jehoahaz. 609 B.C (three months) 2) God told Jeremiah that before he was c) Jehoiakim. 609-597 B.C. born had sanctified or d) Jehoiachin. 597 B.C. (Three months) consecrated him for his purposes. Vs. 5b e) Zedikiah. 597-586 B.C. 3) God told Jeremiah that He had ordained him a to the nations. Vs. 5c 1:4-10 The call of Jeremiah. * God’s sovereignty is perfect and never violate human will! 1:4 The call of Jeremiah came by the word of the Lord not be a vision like other 1:6 The response of Jeremiah to his call. . 1) He declares the overwhelmingness of the 1) had a vision in the temple and say call, “Ah, Lord God!” God high and lifted up and a Saraphim 2) He declares his lack of qualification, touched his mouth to cleanse him of his “Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a sin and Yahweh sent him as His prophet. youth”. 2) the prophet was a sheep hearder a) Jeremiah felt inadequate fir he was and fruit picker and he was sent to the most likely about 17-20 years of age Northern Kingdom. when God called him. b) Jeremiah was probably about 17-20 years of age when the Lord called 5 6

him, he was probably born around b) “I send you, “I command you”, I am 646 B.C. with you”, to deliver or rescue c) About the same time of Josiah’s birth, Jeremiah. for he began his reign at eight years old and being the thirteenth would 1:9-10 The commission of Jeremiah is make him twenty-one years old. declared. Vs. 9-10 2Kings 22:1 1) The content of Jeremiah’s message was God’s word. Vs. 9 1:7 The call of Jeremiah was confirmed a) The Lord put His hand on Jeremiah’s by God. mouth. Vs. 9a 1) Jeremiah is told not to say he was a * He would be the instrument of God youth. for the people of God. a) said, “I am not eloquent of b) The Lord said to him, “Behold, I have speech”. put My words in your mouth. Vs. 9b b) Isaiah said, “I am a man of unclean * He would be delivering the message lips” as he was in the temple possibly. from heaven, not his own. c) Amos was a sheep herder and fruit 2) The commission of Jeremiah was an picker. Amos 7:14-15 international one. d) God enables all He sends! a) God was setting him over the nations 2) Jeremiah is told that he would go to and kingdoms. Vs. 10a-b whom God sent him to. Vs. 7c * Much like Isaiah, Amos and 3) Jeremiah is told that he would speak to Ezekiel, both God’s people and the whoever God commanded. Vs. 7d Gentiles. 4) Jeremiah was not to be afraid of the b) God described the commission as people’s faces, for God would deliver destructive and constructive by a him. Vs. 8 three-fold declaration , the emphasis a) The authority of Jeremiah’s call was being on the destruction first followed God’s, three time the personal by restoration. pronoun refers to God. Vs. 7-8 (1) To root out and pull down. Vs. 10c 7 8

(2) To destroy and to throw down. Vs. 1:13-16 The word of the Lord came to 10d Jeremiah a second time. (3) To build and to plant. Vs. 10e 1) The Lord asked Jeremiah what he saw again? Vs. 13a-c 1:11-16 The visions of Jeremiah. 2) Jeremiah responded that he saw a boiling pot that was facing away from the north. 1:11-12 The first time the word of the Lord Vs. 13d-f came to Jeremiah. 3) God again interprets the vision for 1) The Lord asked Jeremiah what he saw? Jeremiah. Vs. 14-16 Vs. 11a-c a) The Lord tells Jeremiah that the 2) Jeremiah responded that he saw a branch calamity or judgment would come of an almond tree. Vs. 11d-e from the north and it would be on all a) The almond tree the first to blossom the inhabitance of the land. Vs. 14 when all the others are still dormant c) God was the one calling all the and was called an “awake tree”. families of the kingdoms of the north. a) The word Almond “saqed” means Vs. 15a-c awake and is a play on words with the * The enemy would be who next verse the phrase “I am” is would attack Judah via Syria. “soqued” to watch over His word. d) They shall set their thrones at the 3) God interprets the vision for Jeremiah, He entrance of the gates of Jerusalem. was awake watching ready to perform or Vs. 15d-e awaken His word of judgment by His * Fulfilled completely. Jer. 39:3 prophets prior to Jeremiah. Vs. 12 e) They will do so against all the walls a) God was beginning to prepare and and cities of Judah. Vs. 15f-g train the ear and eye of Jeremiah to * Conquering their defenses and His voice. ruling over their authority. b) There were many who did not think f) The reasons for the judgments are God was going to judge them, given. Vs. 16 especially as the years of Jeremiah’s 1)) The Lord would utter His ministry went on. Jer. 17:15 judgment because of all their wickedness. Vs. 16a 9 10

2)) Because they had forsaken Him. * God revealed to Jeremiah from the Vs. 16b onset of his commission that it was 3)) Because they had burned incense be a difficult one. to other gods. Vs. 16c d)) Because they had worshipped the 1:18 God tells Jeremiah what He had made work of their own hands. Vs. 16d him. 1) God told Jeremiah He had made him a 1:17-19 The sending of Jeremiah. representative of His judgment that very day. 1:17 God tells Jeremiah what he was to do. 2) Three metaphors are given of his ministry 1) Jeremiah was to prepare himself arise and were a source of encouragement. speak to all the people that He a) A fortified city. commanded him. Vs. 17a-b b) An iron pillar. a) This was the conclusion of all that a) A bronze wall against the whole land. precedes by the word “therefore” 1) Four classes of people are the target of b) His preparation was in view of what the judgment in their degree of God had revealed to him and enabled responsibility. him. a) Against the kings of Judah. c) He was not to diminish any of the b) Against it’s princes. words given to him by the Lord. c) Against its priests. Jer. 2:8; 8:8-12 1) Jeremiah was not to be dismayed before d) Against the people of the land. their faces, lest God dismay him before * Bronze represent judgment in the their faces. Vs. 17c-d Scriptures! a) The word dismayed “chathath” means to be shattered, afraid, scared or 1:19 God tells Jeremiah what he is to terrified. expect. b) Jeremiah was to fear God more than 1) They would fight against him. the people as he would see the 2) But they would not prevail against him. people’s angry and hateful faces as he 3) The reason was that the Lord was with uttered the judgments. him to deliver him. 11 12

* The three metaphors of a fortified city * The betrothal was that engagement an iron pillar and a bronze wall period that was as binding as symbolized the people’s inability to marriage! stop or kill Jeremiah till his ministry 3) The kindness “hesed” means was over. lovingkindness of her youth when she followed God in the wilderness, 2:1-37 God’s indictment of Judah. separated unto Him. * The word follow “achar” means to 2:1-3 The early days of ’s marriage to follow, it is translated “after” also and God recalled. is a key word to designate Israel’s apostasy. Vs. 2, 5, 8, 23, 25 2:1 Jeremiah received the word of the 4) At the time when they had not yet planted Lord. the land. * There are those scholars that see chapter two to six as a unit or block that go 2:3 Israel was God’s holy nation. together, some even identify them to the 1) Israel was holy by virtue of her relation to two scrolls given in but this God. Ex. 19:5-6 is uncertain. 2) She rightfully belonged to God as His 1) The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah firstfruits, at the beginning of their once again. relationship. Lev. 22:10-16 2) The words were to declare God’s case 3) The wrath of God would be on all who against His people. would partake if you will of that fruit. * This was Yahweh’s case against Israel, 2:2 Jeremiah was to cry about their her unfaithfulness! Vs. 9, 35 unfaithfulness to God. 1) Jerusalem was the capital of Judah the 2:4-8 The Lord states His innocence and southern kingdom and Jeremiah was to goodness to the nation. travel from Anothoth.. 2) The cry was God recalling the love of the 2:4 The Lord addresses His people. nation’s betrothal to God in the earlier 1) Yahweh is both the prosecuting attorney days. and the judge in the divine court! 13 14

a) The Lord charges His people with 2:7 They were ingrates and dishonoring to their own words and He did with God. Malchi by the words “say” or “said”. 1) God had brought them into the promise Vs. 8, 20, 23, 25, 31, 35 land full of plenty and goodness b) The Lord presents a legal lawsuit 2) They in turn defiled the land by their against them. Vs. 6, 8, 14, 28, 31 wickedness and became abominable as 2) The house of . God’s heritage. 3) All the families of the house of Israel. 4) The Northern kingdom who had been 2:8 The leaders became treacherous to taken by , perhaps they were now God. beginning to return, prior the Assyria’s 1) The priests abandoned seeking God. defeat in 612 B.C., so the teaching of the 2) The Levies were responsible for handling lost ten tribes has no biblical basis. the law but don’t know Him. Deut. 33:10, Mal. 2:7 2:5 God questions Israel. 3) The rulers transgressed against God, 1) What injustice have your fathers found in literally the shepherds. Me and gone far from Me? 4) The prophets speak for , rather than 2) They had followed idols, literally vanity being inspired of Yahweh. and worthlessness and become idolaters, * All living as if He was not present! vain and worthless as a goal. Ps.115:8 5) They walked after things that did not * The play on words is evident in the profit, worthless things, devoid of any Hebrew! real value. * The relationship is unmistakable, those 2:6 The people were indifferent to God. who worship and live for vain and 1) They did not think of God or what he had worthless things as their gods, reap done for them. lives of worthlessness! 2) They were not mindful of their wilderness experience. 2:9-13 God states His charges. 3) The word say “ 2:9 Their life-style was generational. 15 16

1) The charges announced were to them and b) Isaiah did much the same thing. Is. 1:2 their children’s children. a) The scene is the divine court room as 2:13 God proclaims the two evils of the in the opening chapters of Isaiah and people had committed. indicting them. 1) They had forsaken God, the fountain of b) The word charges “riyb” means to living waters. strive with words, in the context it is a 2) They had hewn themselves cisterns- lawsuit. broken cisterns that can hold no water. 2) The abandonment of God and their a) Cisterns were water reservoirs cut out serving other gods was for generations. of the rock containing stagnant water at best. 2:10-11 They had become worst than the b) Cisterns often had cracks and could heathen showing the gravity of their crime. hold not water at all. 1) God begged them to inquire if other lands Cyprus and Kedar, a tribe of Arab east of 2:14-19 God’s judgment is that sin has it’s Judah and see if they had exchanged their own retribution. gods that were no gods. Vs. 10-11a-b 2) God told them that they had changed their 2:14 Israel was unprotected. glory for what does not profit, being 1) Israel was neither God’s servant of home- completely at fault. Vs. 11c-d born salve but a son rather His wife but had become unfaithful at this time, 2:12 God speaks to the heavens. otherwise He would of protected her. 1) The heaven are called to be a witness to 2) That was the reason for being plundered the charges and to be astonished or by others was in her own sin. appalled at such a thing. 2) The heaven are called to be horribly 2:15-16 Those who plundered her. afraid in respect to such treachery. 1) The young lions represents Assyria as she 3) The heaven are called to be very desolate took the ten tribes into captivity in 722 in view of the judgment. B.C. Vs. 15 a) The entire idea is to shutter with great a) They growled made the land waste. horror over their brash transgression. 17 18

b) They burned their cities and took the 2) They had also depended on Assyria, only population and cross-populated it, as to their own destruction. their custom. 3) Judah had not learned from Israel in the 2) The Egyptians equally did not help Israel North. but merchandised her. Vs. 16 a) Noph is Menphis the ancient capital of 2:19 The sins of the nation would brake Lower . them. b) was the fortified city of the 1) Their own wickedness would correct northeast border of Egypt. them. c) They had broken her crown of her 2) Their backslidings would rebuke them. head, possibly referring to Josiah who 3) They were warned by God to know and was killed by Neco at the battle of see that it was an evil and bitter thing to Megiddo in 609 B.C. 2Kings 23:29- forsake the Lord their God. 30 4) They had no fear of God in them. * This would make this earlier than 5) The proclamation was made by the “Lord the fall of Assyria in 612 B.C. of host”, the captain of the armies of heaven! 2:17 They were reaping to what they had * The Their spiritual decay was directly sown. related to the moral corruption. 1) They had brought all this on themselves. 2) They had forsaken the Lord their God 2:20-25 God’s deliverance from Egypt was who had led them in the way. only used to pollute herself as a harlot. * The people were responsible for the consequences to the outcome of their 2:20 Israel only used her freedom to lives! pollute herself. 1) God redeemed her from Egypt. 2:18 God reproves Israel for depending on 2) Israel’s attitude was that she would not the pagan nations. serve idols. 1) They had always depended on Egypt in a) Her obedience was conditional an the days of Isaiah. fickle. 19 20

b) Her own pleasure was always her * Self-deception is the worst, it is the delight, becoming a slave of sin. result of not dealing with ongoing 3) Israel played the harlot as she worshipped checks on sin! the pagan gods of fertility under every 3) God tells her to see herself going into the tree with their sexual rites. valley, referring to the Valley of Hinnom * Their seeking for the was to in Jerusalem where they offered their bring rain and make the land fertile. children to Molech, and see what see had done! Vs. 23d-e 2:21 God had done all that was necessary 4) God likened her as a dromedary a young for Israel to blossom. camel breaking loose in her ways and 1) He planed a noble vine of the highest like a wild female donkey in heat seeking quality. a male donkey to satisfy her desire. Vs. 2) She had turned out to be a degenerate 23e-24 plant, an alien vine. 3) Isaiah spoke of Yahweh’s vine that He 2:25 A plead is made that the nation not planted and accused her of her own continue in her sin. failure. Is. 5; Ezk. 15:1-8 1) The prophet pleads with her to not go to uncover herself and satisfy her desire. 2:22 Sin can not be washed away. 2) She responds no, for she had experience 1) Though they wash with lye or use much sin and was now a slave to it, “I will go”. soap, their sin would be seen by God. 2) The token of atonement was “blood” on 2:26-37 The shamelessness of the nation. the alter by means of confession of sin that it be forgiven. 2:26-27 The nations sin was known. 1) As a thief is ashamed so had the nation. 2:23-24 The callousness of sin. Vs. 26a-b 1) Israel was saying she was not defiles or 2) All are included people, kings, princes, polluted, stained with sin. Vs. 23a-b priests and prophets. Vs. 26c 2) Israel was saying she had not gone after 3) All worshipped a tree and attributed their the Baals. Vs. 23c existence to it, “You are my father.” Vs. 27a-b 21 22

4) They ascribed to a stone their birth. Vs. 2) God had not been negligent of them nor 27c-d darkness rather a paradise. 5) All of them had turned their back to God 3) They had become their own gods and rather than their faces to seek God. Vs. masters having no need of coming to 27e-f Yahweh, marking her grave rebellion. 6) But in times of trouble the would ask God 2:32 Judah’s unnatural affection. to save them, having no shame, being 1) The two questions are rhetorical brazen in their treachery. regarding the bride, the answer is NO! A bride will not forget her ornament nor a 2:28 God tells them to call on their gods. bride her attire. 1) They had made their own gods. 2) She had forgotten Yahweh. 2) They were to call on them to see if they could save them in their time of trouble. 2:33 Judah trusted in her own 3) The number of the gods were according attractiveness. to the cities of Judah. 1) Judah beautified herself after the worldly manner to be appealing to her lovers. 2:29-30 Judah attempts to plead her case. * The same word is used for Jezebel’s 1) God rebukes her for such an insult, as she dressing her head. 2Kings 9:30 thought she had a case to bring a counter- 2) Judah had been a bad example even suit against God, even in view of her teaching wicked women her ways transgression. Vs. 29 * The key word is “way & ways”, Vs. 2) God chastened them but they did not 33, 36 repent, instead they killed the prophets sent to them as a lion. Vs. 30 2:34 The social evidence condemned * God did the same in Amos to the Judah. Northern Kingdom. Amos 4:6-12 1) The blood of the innocent were on her person. 2:31 Judah denied her measure of light * The word found marks the evidence of regarding God her crime. 1) God pleaded that she examine the word He gave her. 23 24

2) The Lord did not have to search hard, b) God would restore His people and injustice and unrighteousness filled the punish Babylon. Jer. 30:15-18 land.

2:35 Judah arrogance would be judged. 1) Judah pleaded her innocence and was sure God’s anger would be turned. 2) God would plead His case, His charges due to her denial of her sin, being liable for her sin and self-deceived.

2:36 Judah was depending on Egypt to save her from Babylon. 1) She was doing all she could to secure her safety. 2) Judah would be ashamed of Egypt, who was defeated in 605 B.C at Carchemesh, even as she had been of Assyria in the days of Isaiah.

2:37 The nation would go into captivity, heartbroken. a. They would go forth from God but with their hands on their heads. Vs. 37a-b 1) Their trust in allies was thwarted by God. Vs. 37c 2) They would not prosper. Vs. 37d 3) The central message of the book is two- fold. a) God would punish His people.