Promise of Restoration - Jeremiah 33:1-26 Topics: Abundance, Anger, Answers, Awe, Call, Compassion, Covenant, Creation, Death, Earth, Evil, Fear, Forgiveness, Goodness, Grace, Healing, Health, Hiding, Honor, Joy, Justice, Knowledge, Law, Name, Peace, Praise, Promises, Rebellion, Rejection, Restoration, Righteousness, Sacrifice, Salvation, Security, Sin, War Open It 1. How do you feel when you have misplaced something you value highly, and then you find it? * 2. What laws of nature are commonly used by writers, speakers, or other communicators to illustrate a point? Explore It 3. Where was Jeremiah when God spoke to him? (33:1) 4. How did God identify Himself to Jeremiah? (33:2) * 5. On what basis did God assert His authority to speak? (33:2) 6. What invitation did God issue to Jeremiah? (33:3) 7. What outcome did Jeremiah predict in the current war in which Babylon was besieging Jerusalem? (33:4-5) 8. How did God promise to reverse His actions in the more distant future? (33:6-7) 9. How would God satisfy His own righteousness with regard to the sin and rebellion of Judah? (33:8) 10. How did God predict that the rest of the world would react to a restored Judah? (33:9) 11. How did Jeremiah contrast the sights, sounds, and moods in Jerusalem before and after God’s merciful intervention? (33:10-11) 12. What common sight of everyday life in Jeremiah’s time would serve as a sign of God’s restoration? (33:12-13) 13. What promise did God make that should have given great hope to Jeremiah’s hearers? (33:14-16) 14. What promise did God make to David and reiterate to Jeremiah? (33:17-18) * 15. What did God offer as the guarantee of His promises? (33:19-22) 16. What conclusions were foreign nations drawing about God’s people as they were being punished? (33:23-24) * 17. How did God assure His people that He would indeed have compassion on them? (33:23-26) Get It 18. What may have been helpful about the fact that God revealed the near and distant future to Jeremiah at the same time? 19. What difference does it make that some of the prophecies about the Messiah were given to an imprisoned prophet in a besieged city? * 20. How does God’s Lordship over Creation help us understand His power over human affairs? * 21. What is an example of a “great and unsearchable thing” that has been revealed to us by God? 22. Why is God concerned when people misunderstand His nature? Apply It * 23. What example of God’s faithfulness in nature can inspire your understanding of His constant love for you? 24. What unanswered question of your heart will you call out to God? .