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Jeremiah
Our Goal

To read the book of

Jeremiah, is to take a journey,

a spiritual journey that goes
back and forth from the lowest
depths of human depravity to
the heights and grandeur and
majesty of the Lord
the Lord who, from those
heights, cries out to all of us:

Jeremiah
Contents
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The Prophetic Calling of Jeremiah

The Crisis Within and Without
The Last Five Kings of Judah
Rebuke and Retribution
More Woes for the Prophet
Symbolic Acts
The Crisis Continues
Josiahs Reform
Jeremiahs Yoke
The Destruction of Jerusalem
The Covenant
Back to Egypt
Lessons From Jeremiah

Jeremiah
Lesson 10, December 5

The Destruction of

Jerusalem

The Destruction of Jerusalem

Key Text

Jeremiah 29:7 NIV

Also, seek the peace and

prosperity of the city to which
I have carried
you into exile. Pray to the
Lord for
it, because if it prospers, you
too
will prosper.

The Destruction of Jerusalem

Quick Look

1. Judean Kingdom Ended

(Jeremiah 37:7, 8)
2. City of Jerusalem Fell
(Jeremiah 52:4, 12, 13)
3. Seventy Years
Captivity (Jeremiah
29:10-13)

The Destruction of Jerusalem

Initial Words

Severer...chastisements

were to be inflicted...until at
last...the kingdom
of Judah was to fall, never
again to occupy its former
position among the nations of
earth.Prophets and Kings 422, 423.
None of this came upon them
without plenty of warnings and

The Destruction of Jerusalem

1. Judean Kingdom Ended

Jeremiah 37:7, 8 NKJV

Thus says the Lord, the God

of
Israel, Thus you shall say to
the king of Judah...: Behold,
Pharaohs army which has
come up to help you will return
to Egypt....
And the Chaldeans shall come

1. Judean Kingdom Ended

Weeping for Tammuz

Weeping for Tammuz was

a lamen- tation ritual for a
Mesopotamian god.
Moreover all the chief of the
priests, and the people,
transgressed very
much after all the abominations
of

1. Judean Kingdom Ended

King Zedekiahs Reign

Zedekiah was the last king on

the throne of Judah before its
destruction by the
Babylonians
in 586 b.c.
At first he seemed to have
been willing to obey the
words of Jeremiah and submit
to the Babylonians. However,

1. Judean Kingdom Ended

King Zedekiahs Reign

Under pressure from his

subjects, most likely the
nobility, Zedekiah ignored the
warnings of Jeremiah and
made a military alliance with
the Egyptians instead, in
hopes of staving off the
Babylonian threat.
As he had been duly warned,

1. Judean Kingdom Ends

King Zedekiahs Reign

So they took Jeremiah and

cast him into the dungeon...in
the court of the prison.... And
in the dungeon there was no
water, but mire. So Jeremiah
sank in the mire (Jeremiah
38:6).
However difficult the pit was,
how much harder it was for

The Destruction of Jerusalem

2. City of Jerusalem Fell

Jeremiah 52:4, 12, 13 NKJV

In the ninth year of his

reign...
Nebuchanezzar king of
Babylon...
came against Jerusalem and
encamped against it....
Nebuzaradan, the captain of the
guard...

2. City of Jerusalem Fell

The Lords Punishment

The siege of Jerusalem

began in earnest in January,

588 b.c., and lasted until the
late summer of 586 b.c.
Jerusalem had been able to
hold out for more than two
years before Jeremiahs
prophetic words were
fulfilled, and the Babylonian

2. City of Jerusalem Fell

The Lords Punishment

Starvation was so bad inside

the
walls that the defenders lost
all strength and couldnt resist
any longer. King Zedekiah fled
with his family, but in vain. He
was captured and taken to
Nebuchadnezzar,
who had his sons executed

2. City of Jerusalem Fell

The Lords Punishment

Nebuzaradan...said to him:
The
Lord your God has pronounced
this doom...and has done just
what He said. Because you
people has sinned against the
Lord....
If it seems good...come...to
Babylon...

2. City of Jerusalem Falls

The Lords Punishment

This pagan commander

understood the situation so
much better. The Babylonians
knew something about
Jeremiah and his work, and
they
were treating him differently.
Its a startling testimony to
how,

The Destruction of Jerusalem

3. Seventy Years Captivity

Jeremiah 29:10-13 NKJV

After seventy years...I

will...
perform My good word...and
cause
you to return to this place. For I
know the thoughts that I think
toward you,
...thoughts of peace and not of

3. Seventy Years Captivity

God Continues to Listen

The Lord Knows the

beginning from
the end. The Lord was using
Jeremiah
to speak to the future, to those
who were already in Babylon
and to those who would
eventually be there.
Here was a true message of

3. Seventy Years Captivity

God Continues to Listen

If they had taken in the

concepts of faith and
submission, it would have given
the captives great hope and
assurance of the Lords
complete sovereignty.
Despite appearances, despite
the terrible calamity that befell
them

The Destruction of Jerusalem

Final Words

The change we need is a

change
of heart, and can only be
obtained
by seeking God individually
for His blessing, by pleading
with Him for His power, by
fervently praying that His
grace may come upon us, and