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JEREMIAH – LESSON SEVEN


I. JEREMIAH’S CONTROVERSY WITH FALSE PROPHETS (26:1-29:32)

A. Jeremiah’s sermon in the temple and its results (26:1-24)

B. Jeremiah and the false prophets (27:1-29:32)

1. Jeremiah warns against coalition against Nebuchadnezzar (27:1-22).

2. Jeremiah against the false prophet Hananiah (28:1-17).

3. Correspondence with the exiles (29:1-32)


QUESTIONS:

1. How extensive was Jeremiah to present the word of Jehovah?


2. God identifies His prophets as “ __________    ___________________________.”  


3. In chapter 26, where was Jeremiah to speak God’s word, and to whom?


4. What would God do if His people heeded His word through Jeremiah?  What would God do if His people DID NOT heed the message?


5. How did the priests, prophets, and all the people respond to Jeremiah’s message?


6. Describe Jeremiah’s attitude toward his work as God’s prophet in the time of harsh rejection?


7. What King and prophet did the elders refer to in order to justify better treatment  of Jeremiah?


8. Who was Uriah?  What did he do?   What happened to him?


9. What did Ahikam do?


10. What symbolic act did God instruct Jeremiah to do in regard to Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, Sidon, and Zedekiah, the King of Judah?  What was its meaning?


11. What TWO lies were the false prophets telling the people?


12. What challenge does God give the false prophets?


13. What was Hananiah prophesying to the people?


14. What was Jeremiah’s immediate response to Hananiah’s message?


15. What criterion did Jeremiah present to the people to test the prophet sent by God?


16. When Hananiah broke the bars of wood what did Jeremiah say he had done?


17. What is the tragic reality of the work of false prophets and teachers?

 

18. What happened to Hananiah that proved Jeremiah to be a prophet sent from God?


19. Give a brief summary of the main elements if Jeremiah’s letter to the exiles in Babylon:


20. What did Jeremiah say would happen to Ahab and Zedekiah?  Why?


21. What did Shemaiah complain to the priest Zephaniah about?


22. Did God adopt the policy of letting Shemaiah and error alone?



JEREMIAH – LESSON EIGHT


I. ISRAEL’S AND JUDAH’S CONSOLATION (30:1-33:26).

A. The Restoration of Israel and Judah (30:1-31:40).

1. Jacob’s distress and deliverance (30:1-11)

2. The healing of Zion’s incurable wounds (30:12-17)

3. The restoration of Jacob (30:18-31:1)

4. Further promises to Ephraim and Judah (31:2-6)

5. Israel’s joyful homecoming (31:7-14)

6. The end of Rachel’s mourning (31:15-22)

7. The restoration of Judah (31:23-26)

8. Two short sayings (31:27-30)

9. The New Covenant (31:31-34)

10. God’s people not cast away – God’s city not thrown down (31:35-40).

B. The Restoration of Judah and Jerusalem: a Prose Collection (32:1-33:26)

1. Jeremiah’s purchase of land at  Anathoth (32:1-15)

2. Jeremiah’s prayer (32:16-25)

3. Jehovah’s reply to Jeremiah’s prayer (32:26-44)

4. Jerusalem and Judah restored (33:1-13)

5. The dynasty of David and the Levitical priests (33:14-26)


QUESTIONS:

1. What type of inspiration is the Book of Jeremiah?


2. To what day does God compare the Chaldeans taking Jerusalem?


3. What was the cause of Israel’s incurable hurt?


4. How does Israel’s incurable hurt magnify God’s greatness?


5. What would be the blessings connected with God restoring the exiles?


6. Who would have the boldness to draw near to Jehovah?


7. In what sense is Ephraim God’s “firstborn” (31:9)?


8. To what event or events does “Rachel weeping for her children” point?


9. To what was a “calf not accustomed to the yoke” compared?


10. What new thing had Jehovah created regarding the virgin of Israel?


11. Why must God sow the houses of Israel and Judah with the seed of man and beast?


12. The proverb of the sour grapes centered around the subject of:


13. What was different between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant as prophesied by Jeremiah?  How do we       know the New Covenant has already been established?


14. How does God establish the fact that He will not cast off the seed of His people?


15. How long before the Chaldeans destroyed Jerusalem did the word of God come to Jeremiah in chapters 31 and 32?


16. What is the point being made in Jeremiah buying a field in Anathoth?


17. Describe the character of God from Jeremiah’s prayer:


18. How do you know that the land promise that God made to Israel has been fulfilled?


19. How does God’s  answer clear up Jeremiah’s perplexing prayer?


20. What blessings would be connected with God performing the good word He had promised?