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Title: Jeremiahs Message of Doom


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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Conditions of Land Retention (Lev. 26 Deut. 28)
  • IF Obedient, People Blessed With Prosperity,
    Peace and Protection (Lev. 261-13 contrast Lev.
    269 with Jer. 4427)
  • IF Disobedient, People Punished With Sword,
    Famine, Plague, and Ultimately CAPTIVITY (Lev.
    2614-46 cp. Leviticus 1824-30)

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Judah Followed the Example of Faithless Israel -
    Jeremiah 36-11
  • Then the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah
    the king, Have you seen what faithless Israel
    did? She went up on every high hill and under
    every green tree, and she was a harlot there. I
    thought, After she has done all these things she
    will return to Me, but she did not return, and
    her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw
    that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel,
    I had sent her away and given her a writ

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Judah Followed the Example of Faithless Israel -
    Jeremiah 36-11
  • of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah
    did not fear but she went and was a harlot also.
    Because of the lightness of her harlotry, she
    polluted the land and committed adultery with
    stones and trees. Yet in spite of all this her
    treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me
    with all her heart, but rather in deception,
    declares the Lord. And the Lord said to me,
    Faithless Israel has proved herself more
    righteous than treacherous Judah.

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Like Mother, Like Daughter (Ezek. 1644-47)
  • Mother, a Hittite
  • Father, an Amorite
  • Older Sister, Samaria (Israel)
  • Younger Sister, Sodom
  • You not only walked in their ways and copied
    their detestable practices,but in all your ways
    you soon became more depraved than they (47) -
    LESSON Rom. 121-2

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • The Book of Jeremiah Emphasizes The Far-Reaching
    Impact of Corruption and Error
  • I will make them an object of horror among all
    the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh,
    the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what
    he did in Jerusalem (Jer. 154)
  • Evil Influences Should Have Been Cut Off (Lev.
    1829), But Weret

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Lesson For Gods People Today
  • Do Not Fellowship Sinners (2 Cor. 614-18 1 Cor.
    5 Eph. 511)
  • Do Not Keep Bad Company (1 Cor. 1533 Prov.
    2224, 25)
  • Do Not Fellowship False Teachers (Tit. 310,11 2
    Jn. 9-11 Rm. 1617)
  • Do Not Compromise (Gal. 211-14)

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Judahs Sin Was Deep
  • The sin of Judah is written down with an iron
    stylus With a diamond point it is engraved upon
    the tablet of their heart and on the horns of
    their altars (Jer. 171 contast 3133)
  • Jeremiah 1323 - Can the Ethiopian change his
    skin or the leopard its spots? Neither can you do
    good who are accustomed to doing evil.

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Judahs Sin Was Prevalent
  • Roam to and fro through the streets of
    Jerusalem, And look now and take note. And seek
    in her open squares, If you can find a man, If
    there is one who does justice, who seeks truth,
    Then I will pardon her (Jer. 51 cp. Rom. 310,
    23 Gal. 322)
  • Comparable to Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 1823-33 -
    I will not destroy it for tens sake)

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • The People Had Become Skilled at doing evil
    (Jer. 422)
  • Like Those of Micahs Day, Who Worked Evil With
    Both Hands Earnestly (Mic. 73)
  • Went From One Sin to Another (Jer. 93)
  • They weary themselves with sinning (Jer. 95)

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • The Practice of Serving Worthless Idols Had
    Made the People Worthless Themselves (Jer. 25)
    Gods Made to Approve All Desires -
    Fill-in-the-Blank Religion!
  • Jeremiah Lamented On Behalf of His
    People Harvest is past, summer is ended, And
    we are not saved (Jer. 820)

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Jer. 822
  • Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no
    physician there? Why then has the health of the
    daughter of my people not then been restored?
  • Jer. 3012 - Their Hurt Was Incurable - Their
    Wound Was Grevious (see 1518) - NO REMEDY (2
    Chron. 3616)

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Though Many Offers of Forgiveness and Deliverance
    Were Made, The People Had Reached a Point of No
    Return
  • God Had Grown Tired of Relenting (Jer. 156)
  • Zedekiah was Told, I am about to hand this city
    over to the king of

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Babylon, and he will burn it down (Jer. 342)
    - I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one
    can live there (Jer. 3422)
  • The Babylonians who are fighting against this
    city will enter and set this city on fire and
    burn it, with the houses where people have
    offered incense to Baal on their roofs and poured
    out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me
    to anger (Jer. 3229)

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • God Sent Jeremiah To Identify and Condemn Judahs
    Sins
  • I will pronounce My judgments on them concerning
    all their wickedness, whereby they have forsaken
    Me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and
    worshiped the works of their own hands (Jer.
    116)
  • Accomplished Through God Putting His Words Into
    Jeremiahs Mouth (Jer. 19 1 Thess. 213 2 Tim.
    316)

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Jeremiah Was Told
  • Now, gird up your loins and arise, and speak to
    them all which I command you. Do not be dismayed
    before them, or I will dismay you before them
    (Jer. 117 cp Josh. 17 Ps. 1196 Matt. 44
    Acts 520 2026,27)
  • See, I have appointed you this day over the
    nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to
    break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build
    and to plant (Jer. 110 cp. 2 Tim. 42).

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Jeremiah Was Told to Issue These Warnings Even
    Though The Hearers Would Not Turn
  • (Jer. 1811, 12) - So now then, speak to the men
    of Judah and against the inhabitants of Jerusalem
    saying, Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am
    fashioning calamity against you and devising a
    plan against you. Oh turn back, each of you from
    his evil way, and reform your ways and your
    deeds. But they will say,

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Jeremiah Was Told to Issue These Warnings Even
    Though The Hearers Would Not Turn
  • (Jer. 1811, 12) - It's hopeless! For we are
    going to follow our own plans, and each of us
    will act according to the stubbornness of his
    evil heart. (Lk. 172, 3 - No Repentance No
    Forgiveness)
  • Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my
    mind could not be toward this people (Jer.
    151).

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • I will summon all the people of the North (Jer.
    259 46)
  • Refers to the Babylonians, Under King
    Nebuchadnezzar (201-6 2511,12)
  • I am summoning a sword against all the
    inhabitants of the earth (Jer. 2529)
  • Babylon the mighty storm that was rising
    (Jer. 2532), and the Hammer of the Whole Earth
    (5023)

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • The People of the North
  • To Come From the North Because This Was the
    Normal Travel Route Into Palestine
  • Jer. 46 - I am bringing disaster from the
    North, even terrible destruction
  • Jer. 61 - Flee for safety, people of Benjamin!
    Sound the trumpet in Tekoa! Raise the signal over
    Beth Hakkerem! For disaster looms out of the
    north, even terrible destruction.

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • The People of the North
  • Jer. 622 - This is what the Lord says Look,
    an army is coming from the land of the north a
    great nation is being stirred up from the ends of
    the earth they are cruel and have no mercy...
    (23)
  • Jer. 1022 - Listen! The report is coming- a
    great commotion from the land of the north! It
    will make the towns of Judah desolate, a haunt of
    jackals.
  • Jer. 318 - In Restoration, Exiles To Return From
    the Land of the North

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Habakkuks Description (15-12)
  • Look among the nations! Observe! Be astonished!
    Wonder! Because I am doing something in your days
    -- You would not believe if you were told. For
    behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that
    fierce and impetuous people who march throughout
    the earth to seize dwelling places which are not
    theirs. They are dreaded and feared Their
    justice and authority originate with themselves.
    Their horses

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Habakkuk 15-12
  • are swifter than leopards and keener than wolves
    in the evening. Their horsemen come galloping,
    their horsemen come from afar They fly like an
    eagle swooping down to devour. All of them come
    for violence. Their horde of faces moves forward.
    They collect captives like sand. They mock at
    kings and rulers are a laughing matter to them.
    They laugh at every fortress and heap up

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Habakkuk 15-12
  • rubble to capture it. Then they will sweep
    through like the wind and pass on. But they will
    be held guilty, they whose strength is their god.
    Are you not from everlasting, O Lord, my God, my
    Holy One? We will not die. You, O Lord, have
    appointed them to judge And You, O Rock, have
    established them to correct.
  • God Used a Punisher That Was Suitable For the
    Task!

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Divine Principle Punishment Matches Crime - Ex.
    2122, 23
  • If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and
    she gives birth prematurely but there is no
    serious injury, the offender must be fined
    whatever the womans husband demands and the
    court allows. But if there is serious injury, you
    are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for
    tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for
    burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
  • Per Habakkuks Description, God Used a Punisher
    That Matched the Character on the Criminal

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • The People of Judah Had Become Merciless, Mean,
    Inconsiderate of Human Life, Idolatrous,
    Arrogant, Calloused Cruel
  • Thus God, (Justly) Sent a Punisher (Slayer, Ezek.
    2111) That Was of the Same Mindset

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Jeremiahs Message of Doom
  • Jerusalem First Attacked in 606 BC - Further
    Destruction in 597 - Burned and Destroyed 586
  • Jeremiah 39 52 Provides Details of the Final
    Attack - Walls Broken Down - Temple, Palace
    House, and Important Buildings Burned - Temple
    Valuables Taken - Only the Poor Left

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