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The Cup of Fury in God’s Hand A. Seventy years of judgment. 1. (Jeremiah 25:1-2) The word to Judah and Jerusalem.The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants ...
- A. Warnings of judgment.
- B. Wisdom Available and Wisdom rejected.
- C. The Judgment to Come Again described.
1. (Jeremiah 6:1-5) Disaster from the north. “O you children of Benjamin, Gather yourselves to flee from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, And set up a signal-fire in Beth Haccerem; For disaster appears out of the north, And great destruction. I have likened the daughter of Zion To a lovely and delicate woman. The shepherds with th...
1. (Jeremiah 6:16-17) The opportunity for wisdom. Thus says the LORD: “Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ Also, I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not ...
1. (Jeremiah 6:21) The stumbling blocks. Therefore thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, And the fathers and the sons together shall fall on them. The neighbor and his friend shall perish.” a. I will lay stumbling blocks before this people: God would deal with His people directly. The coming judgment was not a...
Jerusalem had been captured by the Babylonians in 586 B.C., and the Temple was destroyed. Emperor Cyrus of Persia defeated the Babylonians and in 538 B.C. allowed the exiles to return home and rebuild the Temple. Today’s reading includes Cyrus’s decree allowing the Jews to return home. The prophet Isaiah speaks of God’s choosing Cyrus to ...
1. (Jeremiah 32:1-2) Jerusalem under siege. The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house. a.
crisis. And the scroll was to be read “to all the people of Judah who come from their cities” (Jer 36:6b). Jeremiah’s hope was that God’s Word would be met with positive volition and that God’s people bring their supplications to Him “and everyone will turn from his evil way” (Jer 36:7a). Though the majority of people in Judah were
To pluck up, break down, destroy, and overthrow. Much of Jeremiah’s message brought charges against the nation of Judah and its people. This is especially true in the first 19 chapters. Along with the charges, Jeremiah also pronounced the sentence for the guilt that the nation bore.
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These verses are all describing the same period. Jeremiah 30:12-15, regarding Israel's incurable affliction and wound, abandonment by allies and severe chastisement from God is obviously parallel to Hosea 5:12-15, which was previously explained in the Bible Reading Program to be a prophecy of this same period of the Great Tribulation.
