Notes: Jeremiah
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah | 29:11
Jeremiah
- 627-586 BC
- Through God, Jeremiah predicts a disaster on a scale with the Holocaust. He lives to see it, and curse the day he was born.
- He also delivers good news. God will restore the nation and the Jews will get another chance. They do, 70 years after they’re invaded.)
- Jeremiah persistently delivers God’s message.
- When Babylon invades Judah and Jersusalem, the Babylonians free Jeremiah because he had urged the Jewish king to surrender.
- Jeremiah wants to stay in Judah, but other Jewish survivors force him to go with them to Egypt, despite Jeremiah warning them that if they leave Judah they will “die from war, famine and disease” (Jeremiah 42:22)
- They go anyway, take Jeremiah with them, and he’s never heard from again.
- Jeremiah didn’t want to be a prophet. He tried to talk God out of using him as a prophet to the people.
- Jeremiah lays out God’s case to the Jews.
- Jeremiah’s complaint to the people is that they have rejected God, they’ve traded Him in for idols, and they act lawless…every man for himself.
- God erased north Israel in 722BC (about 100 years before Jeremiah) for persistent idolatry. Assyrians destroyed Israel cities and exiled most of the survivors.
- Jeremiah is warning the people of Judah that the same will happen to them for rejecting God and idolizing other things.
- God says, “How can I pardon you? I fed my people until they were full, but they thanked me by committing adultery and lining up at the brothels.” (Jeremiah 5:7)
- God won’t pardon those who won’t admit their guilt.
- Jeremiah also wrote Lamentations, which is a horrifying eyewitness account of the siege and sack of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah knows that there is a holocaust coming and there is nothing he can do to stop it.
- It’s not too late for Judah to repent and be forgiven by God. But they want to do what they want, they want what they want, and they want to worship who and what they want. This is why God destroys them
- Juday was invaded by Babylonians in 586 BC.
There’s more…
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