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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