JEREMIAH

The Weeping Prophet

 Jeremiah 1:1-2

The words of Jeremiah, the

son of Hilkiah, of the priests who
were in Anathoth in the land of
Benjamin, 2 to whom the word of
the LORD came in the days of
Josiah, the son of Amon, king of
Judah, in the thirteenth year of
his reign
 Isaiah
Saw the Northern Kingdom of
Israel taken into Captivity at
the hands of Assyria
Isaiah foretold of the
judgments that would come in
the future
Looks primarily to the future
Bold and fearless
Was married to a prophetess
and had children with prophetic wife or have any children
names
Jeremiah
Saw the Southern Kingdom of
Judah taken into Captivity at
the hands of Babylon
Jeremiah explained the
reasons for the judgments that
Judah was experiencing
Looks primarily to the present
Gentle and compassionate
Was commanded not to take a
 Josiah’s Reforms
 Josiah was the last of the good kings
of Judah
 A Copy of the Scriptures found in the
Temple
 National Repentance
 Scythians

ASSYRIA
Medes

 Babylon

 Jerusalem (Chaldeans)
  Carchemish

 Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar
 Jerusalem

Pharaoh
Neco
 Armageddon: A
Symbol for a great
and decisive  Megiddo
conflict

 Jerusalem
(Josiah)

Pharaoh
Neco
 Josiah

Jehoahaz Eliakim Mattaniah

(Jehoiakim) (Zedekiah)

Jehoachin
(Jeconiah)
  Carchemish

 Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar
 Jerusalem
First
Deportation
to Babylon

Pharaoh
Neco
 Chapters
Chapter 1 Chapters 2-20 Chapters 21-45 Chapter 52
46-51
From Josiah to From Josiah’s Oracles
Prologue Epilogue
the first year of sons to the for the
Nebuchadnezzar Captivity Nations
Call of Fall of
Jeremiah Jerusalem
Judgment against Judah Nations

Call of Jeremiah (1)

Prophecies of Judah and Jerusalem (2-35)
Historical Narrative: Prior to the Fall of Jerusalem (36-38)
Historical Narrative: Fall of Jerusalem (39).
Historical Narrative: After the Fall of Jerusalem (40-45)
Prophecies of other Nations (46-51)
Fall of Jerusalem (52)
 Jeremiah 1:4-5
Now the word of the LORD came to
me saying, 5 "Before I formed you in the
womb I knew you, And before you were
born I consecrated you; I have appointed
you a prophet to the nations."
 Jeremiah 1:6-8
Then I said, "Alas, Lord God! Behold,
I do not know how to speak, Because I am
a youth."
7 But the LORD said to me, "Do not
say, 'I am a youth,' Because everywhere I
send you, you shall go, And all that I
command you, you shall speak. 8 Do not
be afraid of them, For I am with you to
deliver you," declares the LORD.
 Jeremiah 1:9-10
9 Then the LORD stretched out His
hand and touched my mouth, and the
LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put My
words in your mouth.
10 "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."
 Jeremiah 5:1
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.
 Jeremiah 29:10
"For thus says the LORD,
'When seventy years have been
completed for Babylon,
I will visit you and fulfill
My good word to you, to bring you back
to this place.
 70 Years
605 B.C. Includes Inaugral and 538 B.C.
Terminus year

1st Deportation by Return to land under

Nebuchadnezzar Cyrus & Feast of Booths
(Daniel taken to Celebrated at New Year
Babylon)
597 B.C.

2nd Deportation
(Ezekiel taken)
70 Years
586 B.C. Not including Inaugral 515 B.C.
or Terminus year

Temple Destroyed Temple

at 3rd Deportation Completed
 Jeremiah 32:6-7
And Jeremiah said, "The word of the
LORD came to me, saying, 7 'Behold,
Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle is
coming to you, saying, "Buy for yourself
my field which is at Anathoth, for you have
the right of redemption to buy it."'
JEREMIAH 31:31-37
31:31 A New Covenant is  With Israel and Judah
coming (31-32a)  It is better than the old
Promise of a
New Covenant The Old Covenant  Yahweh a faithful husband
is broken (32)  Israel & Judah adulterous
31:33 The Location of the Covenant Laws
Communion of
the New The Relationship of the Covenant
Covenant
The Intimacy of the New Covenant
31:35 Dependability As dependable as the laws of nature
of the New As dependable as nature is unsearchable
Covenant
 The New Covenant is Better
 Because it is an Internal Covenant: I will
put My law within them, and on their heart
I will write it
 Because it in All-Inclusive: And they shall
not teach again, each man his neighbor
and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know
the LORD,’ for they shall all know Me, from
the least of them to the greatest of them,”
declares the LORD
Old Covenant New Covenant

CHURCH
Jerusalem

Let us go unto the Go unto all the world and make

House of the Lord disciples of all the nations
 The New Covenant is Better
 Because it Forgives Sins: For I will forgive
their iniquity, and their sin I will remember
no more (31:34).
 Because is does not become Obsolete.
Lessons from Jeremiah
 The lesson of God’s Sovereignty.
 The lesson of God’s Justice.
 The lesson of God’s Grace.
 The lesson of Leadership