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JEREMIAH – LESSON THREE

I. FALSE RELIGION AND ITS PUNISHMENT (7:1-10:25)

A. The temple sermon and condemnation of false religion (7:1-8:3)

1. The temple sermon (7:1-15)

2. The cult of the queen of heaven provoked God’s anger (7:16-20).

3. Obedience demanded not mere sacrifice (7:21-28).

4. Sinful deeds in the valley of the son of Hinnom (7:29-34).

5. Astral worship demands awful punishment (8:1-3).

B. An incorrigible people and their punishment (8:4-10:25)

1. The people are blindly complacent and heading for ruin (8:4-12).

2. Picture of punishment: no grapes on the vine (8:13-17)

3. Jeremiah’s passionate grief over Jerusalem (8:18-9:1)

4. A people persistent in evil and Jehovah’s judgment (9:2-9)

5. Jerusalem’s desolation and ruin (9:10-16)

6. A dirge over Jerusalem (9:23-24)

7. Man’s only grounds for boasting (9:23-24)

8. People circumcised in uncircumcision will be punished (9:25-26).

9. A satire on idolatry: Jehovah and the idols (10:1-16)

10. The coming exile: lament and intercession (10:17-25)

 Questions:

1. What false concept of the temple and their safety did Judah have?

2. God saw that the people had made the temple a _____________ of ______________.

                                                                             

3. What ways did Judah need to amend?

4. Explain how Shiloh was an important example in Jeremiah’s temple sermon:

                                                               

5. Jeremiah’s temple sermon was presented (a) in the beginning of Josiah’s reign; (b) in the beginning of Jehoiakim’s reign; or (c) in the beginning of Zedekiah’s reign.

6. Describe what is missing in a people for God to say, “pray not for this people”:

7. Who was the “queen of heaven”?

8. What came first before God commanded His people concerning burnt offerings when He brought them out of Egypt?

9. What was happening in the valley of the son of Hinnom that was an abomination?

10. In Judah’s perpetual “backsliding” to what were the people “holding fast”?   Of what were these backsliding people ignorant?  Was this ignorance excusable?

11. Why should we always look beyond the enticing words, “peace, peace”?

12. How does God put people to silence?

13. Why was Jeremiah hurt?

14. What characteristic in Judah made Jeremiah want to go to the wilderness to get away from his people, and cause God to visit them with wrath?

15. What three characteristics of Jehovah does He delight to see in His people?

  

16. Why would God punish His people who were “circumcised”?

17. Why can “idolatry” be accurately called “vanity”?

18. “Jehovah is the ________________God; He is the ________________God, and an everlasting _________________.

19. “He hath _____________ the ____________ by His_____________, He hath established the ________________ by His _______________________, and by His _____________  Hath He stretched out the ___________________.”  

20. How does Jeremiah look at a rainstorm?

21. From 10:17-22, give the three vivid pictures of Judah doomed in connection with captivity?

22. “O Jehovah I know that the _______________ of man is not in _________________:  It is not in man that walketh to _________________ his ______________________.”  Apply this verse it its context:

23. Even though Jeremiah knew judgment upon Judah was coming, what two requests does he make of God?

JEREMIAH – LESSON FOUR

I. WARNINGS AND JUDGMENT (11:1-15:9)

A. The broken Covenant and Warnings of Judgment (11:1-13:27)

1. The broken Covenant (11:1-7)

2. A plot against Jeremiah’s life (11:18-12:6)

3. Jehovah laments over His desolated inheritance (12:7-13).

4. Jehovah’s conditional promise of death or life for Israel’s neighbors (12:14-17)

5. The “linen girdle” that is marred (13:1-11).

6. The parable of “the wine jars” (13:12-14)

7. A plea and a last warning (13:15-17)

8. A lament over the King and the Queen Mother (13:18-19)

9. Jerusalem’s incurable sickness and punishment (13:20-27)

B. Lamenting in a time of drought and national defeat (14:1-15:19)

1. Lament, supplication and Divine response in a time of drought (14:1-16)

2. A further lament and supplication in a time of defeat and famine (14:17-15:4)

3. Jerusalem faces terrible consequences for their habitual sins (15:9).

 Questions:

1. What all was connected with God’s Covenant with Israel?

2. To incline one’s ear to God is to ___________________ His voice.                                                        

                                                                  

3. What is God going to do with His fair, green olive tree?

4. What did Jeremiah know, and not know about God’s people?

5. What did the men of Anathoth not want Jeremiah to do?

6. What caused Jeremiah to question Jehovah?

7. In 12:7, give three descriptions of how God viewed His people?

8. What does 12:14-17 say about “influence” ?

9. What significance is there in Jeremiah wearing the linen girdle?  

10. Describe the Divine view of those who refuse to hear God’s Word?

11. What two points are emphasized in the parable of the wine jars?

12. What characteristic hindered God’s people from hearing God’s voice?

13. To whom do you think 13:18 has reference?

14. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?  How does this answer relate to Judah?

15. In 14:1-16, what was the reason for lamenting?

16. How was God like a “sojourner” among His people?

17. When people worship God, He will always hear their prayers. (T)  (F)

18. In 14:17-15:4, what two calamities had God’s people suffered that was cause for lamenting?

19. How does the use of Moses and Samuel show the desperate situation for God’s people in Jeremiah’s day?

20. God says, “I am weary with _____________”   What does this teach us about God’s patience?