Come Follow Me Reading Selection: Jeremiah 4-29

Come Follow Me Reading Selection: Jeremiah 4-29

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Israel and Judah are called to repentance—Jeremiah laments for the miseries of Judah.

Vs 1-3 Return to the Lord and put away your sins. Give up your favorite sins. All nations can find blessings and glory in and through Him.

Break up your fallow ground. You hearts need to be softened. You need to be humble and contrite. Stop wasting your efforts among thorns.

 

Vs 14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved.

Vs 22 What you practice and choose, that you will become.

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Judgments will be poured out upon the people of Judah because of their sins—Their iniquities cause blessings to be withheld from them.

Vs 19 When we forsake the Lord, we put ourselves in bondage.

Vs 24-25 Blessings have been withheld from us because of our iniquities.

Vs 31 Do you prefer false prophets, who speak flattery? Please always prefer the Lord.

This entire chapter is about apostate Israel and Judah. They think they are beyond knowing. Pride.

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Jerusalem will be destroyed because of her iniquity—She will be overrun by a great and cruel nation.

Vs 10 Learn to listen and hear the word of the Lord. Hearken, hear, obey, prefer.

Vs 14 A bandaid will not heal or protect a bleeding heart. Jesus is the Great Healer.

Vs 16-17 The Lord is yet calling after us. Walk in His ways and hearken unto Him.

Vs 19-20 As we sow, so shall we reap.

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Calamities will befall the inhabitants of Jerusalem—For them the harvest is past, the summer is ended, and they are not saved.

Vs 20-22 Throughout this chapter, the people have been looking for healing and blessing in all their evil doings. The Lord cannot bless us for evil. We need to turn to him to look for healing and comfort. We can longer forsake Him.

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Jeremiah sorrows greatly because of the sins of the people—They will be scattered among the nations and punished.

As ancient Israel, we will also be destroyed if we do not repent.

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Learn not the way of other nations—Their gods are idols and molten images—The Lord is the true and living God.

Vs 10-13 The Lord alone is the true and living God. He is the Creator and the Founder of Happiness. He is the One who has control over all the earth.

Vs 19-21 The Lord has loved and watched over Israel. It has pained Him to see them depart from His ways many times. He has been wounded and slain for us and bears our iniquities.

How disheartening that even His truth bearers would abandon the truth and not hold down the fort and the stakes of Zion.

When the people lost the protection of their leaders then all were scattered.

It is important in our day that we follow the prophet.

 

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The people of Judah are cursed for breaking the covenant of obedience—The Lord will not hear their prayers.

The covenant people should keep the covenant; but, many times we have forsaken the Lord and broken the covenant. Then we bring upon ourselves judgment and destruction. Keep your covenant with the Lord.

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Jeremiah complains of the prosperity of the wicked—If other nations learn the ways of Israel, they will be numbered with Israel.

Vs 14-17 Israel and Judah are being gathered, and also all the people of the nations with them, when they choose to make covenants with and obey the Lord.

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Israel and Judah will be as a rotted and decayed belt—The people are commanded to repent—Judah will be taken captive and scattered as stubble.

Vs 27 Great chapter. Do not mar and stain that which is holy. Don't you want to be the Lord's? He alone can make you clean and bless you with salvation and peace.

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Jeremiah prays because of dearth and famine—The Lord will not hear because of the wickedness of His people.

Vs 7-16 Jeremiah prays because of dearth and famine—The Lord will not hear because of the wickedness of His people.

Vs 19-22 Jeremiah continues to make supplication for Israel. The weight of the office of a prophet is great.

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The people of Judah will suffer death, the sword, famine, and captivity—They will be scattered into all the kingdoms of the earth—Jerusalem will be destroyed.

Vs 15-16 Will you receive the rebuke of the Lord and seek to be remembered of Him? Will you swallow your pride and eat His word with joy and rejoicing of heart? Will you call upon His holy name?

Vs 19-21 If we truly repent and return to the Lord, He will deliver us and redeem us. There is always great hope in the Lord.

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The Lord will bring evil upon Judah—They sacrifice their children to Baal—In the siege they will eat the flesh of their sons and daughters.

Vs 11 If the Lord people are not malleable, if they do not allow the Potter to work His miracles in them, then the will be as a broken vessel that cannot be made whole again.

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Jeremiah foretells the siege, captivity, and destruction of Jerusalem—Zedekiah is to be taken captive by Nebuchadrezzar.

The Lord tells of the destruction that He’ll bring upon Israel and that they’ll be in bondage to Babylon. This seems to be a foretelling of what may again happen before the Second Coming.

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David’s throne stands or falls according to the obedience of the kings—The judgments of the Lord rest upon the kings of Judah.

Vs 13 We need to build our foundation and our lives upon righteouness, loving God wholely and our neighbors as ourselves.

Vs 15-16 Josiah reigned in righteousness, but his son did not. He was helpful to the poor and needed, which is pure religion and undefiled. When we serve others, we are serving God and coming to know Him. Josiah's son did evil.

Vs 30 Jehoiakim's seed was cut off. An evil ruler can cause the destruction of his people.

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The remnants of Israel will be gathered in the last days—The Branch, who is the King (the Messiah), will reign in righteousness—False prophets who teach lies will be cursed.

Vs 7-8 These are our days. The Lord is gathering Israel in preparation for His Second Coming.

Strict warnings to false prophets.

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Zedekiah and the people of Judah will be cursed and scattered—Some will be gathered back from Chaldea to serve the Lord.

Vs 2-7 Those whose works are good, who produce good fruit, will be gathered again to the lands of the inheritance.

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Captive Judah will serve Babylon for seventy years—Various nations will be overthrown—In the last days, all the inhabitants of the earth will be at war.

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Jeremiah prophesies the destruction of the people—For this he is arraigned, tried, and then acquitted.

Vs 15-16 We should honor and respect and pray for our prophets.

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The Lord sends word to many nations that they are to serve Babylon—The vessels of the Lord’s house will go into Babylon.

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Hananiah prophesies falsely that the Babylonian yoke will be broken.

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Jeremiah tells the Jews in Babylon to prepare for seventy years of captivity—Those remaining in Jerusalem will yet be scattered—Shemaiah prophesies falsely and is cursed.

The prophesies seem to parallel the times of Jeremiah and our current day. I believe we will see more false prophets in the near future.

 

 

 

 

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