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A message from Pastor Sembly: Bible Study sessions for Wednesday, March 3, 2010 will not convene. Please study Jeremiah, Chapters 3 through 7. Be prepared to answer the questions for March 10, 2010. Click Here.
Community Wide Bible Study for March 3, 2010
Questions are based on the NIV translation - Jeremiah Chapters Three through Seven.
Please document your answers.
- In chapter three, who is referred too as the sister to Israel?
- In chapter three, the Prophet uses an analogy to describe the sins of Israel & Judah, which commandment are they accused of committing?
- Does the Lord make a distinction between Israel and Judah?
- In chapter four, what does the Prophet mean in verse four when he says: Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, circumcise your hearts, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem, or my wrath will break out and burn like fire because of the evil you have done burn with no one to quench it.
- There is a great deal of symbolism used by the prophet, what animal does the Jeremiah uses to describe God?
- In chapter four, the prophet states specifically what it was that brought God’s punishment upon them. What was it?
- To what does the prophet compare the impending destruction on the people of God?
- God is a compassionate God, in spite of the sins that Israel and Judah have committed; he offers them a way to be spared. What was it?
- The prophet makes a distinction between two categories of people, holding one to a higher standard. Name the category of people that he holds to the higher standard.
- In chapter five, there is a verse that speaks of the compassion of God, list the verse.
- Jeremiah states that the Lord had appointed ____________________over you and said, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But you said, 'We will not listen.'
- In chapter seven; in one verse, the prophet list five commandments that Israel has broken; what are they?
- The people of Israel are told to go to the place where God first made a dwelling for His Name, what was the name of the place?
- In chapter seven; there is a specific command that God through his prophet gives to the people. What is that command?
- In chapter seven, God says to the prophet that the people will listen to him; True or False.
 Jeremiah ( Hebrew：יִרְמְיָה, Yirmĭyahu, meaning “Yahweh exalts”; Greek: Ιερεμιας; Latin: Jeremias; in English pronounced /dʒɛrɨˈmaɪ.ə/) was one of the prophets of the Hebrew Bible.
His writings are put together in the Book of Jeremiah and traditionally, authorship of the Book of Lamentations is ascribed to him. God appointed Jeremiah to confront Judah and Jerusalem for the worship of idols and other violations of the covenant described in Deuteronomy. According to Jeremiah, the LORD declared that the covenant was broken and that God would bring upon Israel and Judah the curses of the covenant. Jeremiah’s job was to explain the reason for the impending disaster (destruction by the Babylonian army and captivity), “And when your people say, 'Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?' you shall say to them, 'As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.'" The LORD said to Jeremiah: Jeremiah 1:17-19
God’s personal prediction to Jeremiah, “Attack you they will, overcome you they can’t,” was fulfilled many times in the Biblical narrative as Jeremiah warned of destruction of those who continued to refuse repentance and accept more moderate consequences. In return for his adherence to God’s disciplines and speaking God’s words, Jeremiah was attacked by his own brothers, beaten and put into the stocks by a priest and false prophet, imprisoned by the king, threatened with death, thrown into a cistern by Judah’s officials, and opposed by a false prophet. Yet God was faithful to rescue Jeremiah from his enemies. For example, when his prophecies regarding the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem were fulfilled by Nebuchadnezzar’s army in 586 BC, Nebuchadnezzar ordered that Jeremiah be freed from prison and treated well.
Jeremiah’s ministry spanned the time period from the thirteenth year of Josiah king of Judah (626 BC) until sometime after the fall of Jerusalem and destruction of Solomon’s Temple (587 BC).Consequently, Jeremiah’s prophetic work spanned the reigns of five kings of Judah: Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoichin, and Zedekiah.
Jeremiah was born into a priestly family, the son of Hilkiah, a priest at Anathoth, a village 2-3 miles north of Jerusalem. Jeremiah came from a landowning family,and refers to a joyful early life,although the words and difficulties recorded in the books of Jeremiah and Lamentations result in him being known as “the weeping prophet.”
The LORD called Jeremiah to prophetic ministry in about 626 BC, about one year after Josiah king of Judah had turned the nation toward repentance from the widespread idolatrous practices of his father and grandfather. Ultimately, Josiah’s reforms would not be enough to preserve Judah and Jerusalem from destruction, because the sins of Manasseh, Josiah’s grandfather had gone too far. Such was the lust of the nation for false gods that after Josiah’s death, the nation would quickly return to the gods of the surrounding nations. Jeremiah was appointed to reveal the sins of the people and the coming consequences.
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