Life-Study of Jeremiah

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I. The author
A. Jeremiah
B. A priest
1. Born of Hilkiah
2. Called to be a prophet over the nations
a. Beginning from the thirteenth year of Josiah's reign
b. Ministering in Judah and for a short time in Egypt
c. A contemporary of Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Daniel, and Ezekiel
d. An overcomer speaking for God
e. His book being a collection of history, an autobiography, and his prophesying
II. The subject
III. The content
IV. The central thought
V. The sections

Crucial Aspects of the Divine Revelation in Jeremiah _{msg. 2}

The Bible testifying concerning Christ
Christ being made the righteousness of Jehovah to God's elect
God's way to make Christ everything, the center and the circumference, to Israel
The ultimate consummation of the revelation in the book of Jeremiah

The Intrinsic Content of Jeremiah _{msg. 3}

Israel, the elect of Jehovah, committing two evils
Forsaking Jehovah, the fountain of living waters
Hewing out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, which hold no water
Jehovah's compassions never failing but being new every morning
Jehovah raising up to David a righteous shoot, and His name being called Jehovah our righteousness
Jehovah making a new covenant with the house of Israel
Putting His law within them
Writing His law upon their hearts
They being His people, and all of them knowing Him, from the little one among them even to the great one among them
God forgiving their iniquity and remembering their sin no more
The ultimate issue of Jeremiah's revelation

God's Faithfulness in Fulfilling His Economy _{msg. 4}

God's purpose in desiring to be the fountain of living waters to His elect people
God as the satisfying water to His elect
The fountain of living waters for God's expression through His increase
Man becoming unfaithful and unchaste and forsaking God for idols
God's faithfulness in leading us into His economy
God not being disappointed, and His compassions not failing
Israel's failure opening the way for Christ to come in to be their righteousness
Not being disappointed but being assured that God has a way to cause us to mature and to bring us into the New Jerusalem

Jeremiah's Call and Commission _{msg. 5}

I. Jeremiah's call
A. Appointed by God as a prophet to the nations
1. Known by God before being formed in the womb by Him
2. Sanctified by God before coming forth from the womb
B. Responding with excuses
1. Saying that he did not know how to speak
2. Saying that he was a youth
C. Affirmed by Jehovah
II. Jeremiah's commission
A. Touched on His mouth by Jehovah's hand
B. Jehovah putting His words into Jeremiah's mouth
C. Jehovah having appointed Him over the nations and over the kingdoms
D. Given to see two visions
1. The rod of an almond tree
2. The boiling pot facing away from the north
E. Charged by Jehovah
1. To gird up His loins and rise up to speak His words to Israel, not being dismayed before them
2. To be made by Jehovah into a fortified city, into an iron pillar, and into brass walls

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (1) _{msg. 6}

Two Evils of Israel
I. Forsaking Jehovah, the fountain of living waters
A. Jehovah God considering Himself a husband to His beloved elect, Israel
B. Jehovah remembering the love of Israel's bridal days
C. Israel being holiness to Jehovah
D. Going far away from Jehovah
E. Forgetting Jehovah
F. Their priests not asking concerning Jehovah, their shepherds transgressing against Jehovah, and their prophets prophesying by Baal
G. Exchanging their glory for idols
H. Their forsaking Jehovah their God being an evil and bitter thing
I. Being like Jehovah's wife committing fornication with many lovers
II. Hewing out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, which hold no water
A. Toiling to make broken and waterless cisterns to replace the fountain of living waters
B. Choosing many idols to replace the unique God
C. Exchanging the reality of God for the falsehood, the vanity, of idols
D. Worshipping and serving the creation rather than the Creator
E. Seeking the Egyptians' and Assyrians' help instead of seeking God's blessing
F. As the wife of Jehovah, forsaking her chastity to commit fornication
G. Practicing apostasies rather than keeping her faithfulness
H. Increasing the number of their gods according to the number of their cities
I. Having forgotten Jehovah for days without number
J. Making themselves the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine to suffer Jehovah's correcting punishment
K. In spite of her fornication, Jehovah being willing to return to her again
L. Calling Jehovah her Father, the guide of her youth

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (2) _{msg. 7}

Israel's Return or Jehovah's Correction for Her Apostasy
I. Israel the wife's apostasy
A. Israel having been divided into two kingdoms
B. The northern kingdom of Israel becoming the apostate
C. The northern kingdom of Israel being divorced by Jehovah
D. The southern kingdom of Judah also committing fornication
E. The treacherous southern kingdom of Judah not returning to Jehovah with all her heart
F. Jehovah saying to Jeremiah that Israel the apostate has shown herself to be more righteous than Judah the treacherous
II. Israel the wife's return — a loving pleading of Jehovah the Husband
A. Jehovah sending His prophet to ask Israel, His apostate wife, to return and acknowledge her iniquity
B. Jehovah's promise
1. To not drop His countenance on her
2. To take her and bring her to Zion
3. To give her shepherds according to His own heart
C. A revival being promised to her by Him
1. She being multiplied and increased in the land
2. The ark of the covenant no longer being cared for by her
3. She calling Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah
4. She no longer walking after the stubbornness of her evil heart
5. The house of Judah walking with the house of Israel
D. He considering how to put her among the sons and give her a pleasant land and considering also that she will call Him Her Father
E. The house of Israel dealing treacherously with Jehovah
F. The pleading of Jehovah the husband
G. Her children coming to Jehovah, confessing that He, Jehovah, is their God
H. Jehovah's promise concerning the nations blessing themselves in Him
III. Jehovah the husband's correction
A. Admonishing her to break up her fallow ground and not to sow among thorns
B. Warning them with evils, woes, and afflictions
1. His wrath going forth like a fire
2. Evil and great destruction coming from the north
3. A lion coming up to make Her land a waste and Her cities ruins
4. The heart of the king and of the princes failing
5. The sword reaching to the soul
6. A hot wind coming from Him
7. The enemy coming up like clouds
8. Besiegers coming from a distant Land
9. The sound of the trumpet being heard
10. Destruction upon destruction devastating the whole land
11. The fruitful land becoming a wilderness
12. She becoming the desolate one
13. Her cry being like that of a woman in travail
C. Jehovah the husband's correction being His reaction to His wife Israel's wickedness

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (3) _{msg. 8}

Jehovah the Husband's Further Complaint Against Israel the Wife's Wickednesses and His Determination in Correcting Her
I. Jehovah the Husband's further complaint against Israel (actually Judah) the wife's wickednesses in detail
A. No one executing justice and seeking faithfulness
B. Refusing to take correction
C. Knowing the way of Jehovah and the ordinance of their God, but having broken the yoke and torn off the bonds
D. Committing adultery and trooping to the house of harlots
E. Not trembling before Jehovah
F. Among them wicked men being found who lie in wait like fowlers crouching
G. Their houses being full of deceit
H. Surpassing in deeds of wickedness
I. The prophets prophesying falsely, and the priests ruling by their own authority
II. The Husband's determination in correcting the wife
A. Evil looking down from the north
B. Jehovah saying that war should be prepared against her
C. The Husband making her a desolation and an uninhabited land
D. The enemy thoroughly gleaning her remnant like a vine
E. The Husband now bringing evil on her and now laying stumbling blocks before her
F. The Husband's determination in His reaction to her evils

A Word Concerning Israel's History and the Situation of Israel in the Sunset of the Divine Revelation _{msg. 9}

Israel's history
In Egypt and in the wilderness
The repetition of the divine revelation
In the good land
In the time of Jeremiah
The sunset of the divine revelation
Jehovah the Husband chastising Israel the unfaithful wife
The case of Zedekiah
Jerusalem being destroyed and Jeremiah being preserved

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (4) _{msg. 10}

Israel's Hypocritical Worship to Jehovah (1)
I. Israel's (actually Judah's) hypocritical worship to Jehovah their God
A. A worship of superstition
1. Trusting in the words of falsehood concerning the temple of Jehovah
2. Doing many wicked things and then coming and standing before Jehovah and saying that they would be delivered
3. Trusting in the house called by Jehovah's name, which had become a den of robbers in their eyes
B. A worship in vanity
1. Trusting in words of falsehood
2. Jehovah charging the prophet Jeremiah not to pray for them
3. Jehovah their God not caring for their burnt offerings and sacrifices
II. The evils of Israel (actually Judah) as the hypocritical worshippers of God
A. Oppressing the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow
B. Stealing, murdering, committing adultery, swearing falsely, and burning incense to Baal
C. Making cakes for the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to other gods
D. Not listening or inclining their ear to God's command
E. Stiffening their neck
F. Not listening to the voice of Jehovah their God and not taking correction
G. Doing that which is evil in Jehovah's sight
H. Building the high places of Topheth to burn their sons and daughters in the fire
I. Turning away in perpetual apostasy
J. Not speaking rightly and no one repenting of his wickedness
K. Not knowing the ordinance of Jehovah
L. Having rejected the word of Jehovah and having no wisdom
M. Everyone wresting unjust gain
N. Provoking Jehovah to anger with their graven images and with strange idols
O. All of them being adulterers and an assembly of treacherous men
P. All the house of Israel being uncircumcised in heart

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (5) _{msg. 11}

Israel's hypocritical worship to Jehovah
III. Jehovah's correction to Israel, His hypocritical worshippers
A. Jehovah doing to the house that is called by His name as He did to Shiloh
B. Jehovah casting Israel out from before Him
C. Jehovah making the valley of Topheth the valley of slaughter to bury them
D. The bones of the people being brought out from their graves and spread out to the sun, to the moon, and to all the host of heaven
E. Jehovah giving their wives to others
F. The enemy coming to devour the land and its fullness
G. Jehovah sending serpents among Israel
H. Jehovah leaving them, and her King not being in her
I. Jehovah refining and testing Israel
J. Jehovah making Jerusalem a heap of ruins
K. Jehovah feeding Israel with wormwood
L. Jehovah scattering Israel among the nations and sending the sword after them
M. A voice of wailing being heard from Zion
N. Death coming up through Israel's windows
O. Jehovah punishing all those who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised
P. Jehovah shaming every goldsmith by his idol
Q. Jehovah slinging out the inhabitants of israel and bringing distress on them
R. A great commotion coming from the north land to make the cities of Judah a desolation
IV. Jeremiah the prophet's reaction
A. Longing for someone to comfort him, and his heart within him being faint
B. Wishing that he could weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of his people
C. A word spoken by the prophet for the people of Israel
V. Jehovah's feeling concerning Israel's suffering of His correction
A. Taking up a weeping and wailing for the mountains and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness
B. Saying that the mourning women should come and take up a wailing for us
VI. The words of wisdom to the erring and suffering Israel
A. A word concerning glorying in Jehovah
B. There being none like Jehovah
C. Jehovah being the true God
D. Jehovah being the one who made the earth by His power
E. A man's way being not in himself

God's Economy with His Dispensing in the Book of Jeremiah _{msg. 12}

God's goal — the New Jerusalem
Becoming one with God and living Him for His corporate expression
God presenting Himself to the children of Israel as a fountain of living waters
An abstract of the entire Bible
A word concerning the law
Israel's breaking of the law reaching its peak at the time of Jeremiah
God not giving up Israel
Christ being the only one who can fulfill God's economy
A picture showing that we are nothing and that Christ is everything to us

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (6) _{msg. 13}

Israel's Breaking of Jehovah's Covenant
I. The covenant of Jehovah with Israel
A. Made in the day that Jehovah brought Israel out of Egypt to Mount Sinai
B. The covenant of the law of the Ten Commandments
1. The first five commandments
2. The last five commandments
3. Given to test man and expose man
4. The law of the Ten Commandments becoming weak through man's flesh
a. The law being holy, righteous, good, and spiritual
b. Man being fleshy, sold under sin
C. A covenant based on man's works to keep the law
1. Not like the covenant of promise given to Abraham nor like the covenant of grace given to the New Testament believers
2. Not by man's faith in God but by man's works in himself
D. Israel becoming a total failure under the test of the law
1. Unable to keep the law
a. Their sinful nature unable to be changed
b. Their heart being deceitful and incurable
2. Needing Christ to be Jehovah as their righteousness
3. Needing to have the divine life with its law in the new covenant of God
II. Israel's breaking of the covenant of the law and God's punishment over them
A. Israel's breaking of the covenant of the law
1. By their idolatrous worship
2. By their evil conduct
B. God's punishment over Israel
1. Needed for the sake of His righteousness and holiness
2. God eventually returning to them and having compassion on them
III. Jeremiah the prophet's reaction

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (7) _{msg. 14}

Jehovah's Punishment of Israel with Drought
I. A curse for Israel's breaking of Jehovah's covenant
A. The ceasing of God's heavenly supply to the earth
B. The cutting off of God's nourishment to His people
II. Jehovah's message through Jeremiah the prophet to the punished Israel (actually Judah) concerning their drought
A. Judah mourning and her gates languishing
B. The servants finding no water in the cisterns and returning with their vessels empty
C. The farmers being ashamed and covering their heads
D. The hind in the field giving birth and abandoning its young
E. There being no herbage
III. Jeremiah the prophet's intercession
A. His intercession
B. Jehovah's refusal
C. The prophet's prayer concerning the false prophets, and Jehovah's answer
D. The reaction of the prophet, who was one with the punishing Jehovah
1. The oneness of Jeremiah and Jehovah
2. The prophet not knowing where to go
E. The prophet's further intercession
F. Jehovah's answer to the prophet's intercession in begging for mercy
G. The punishing Jehovah's sighing for His punished people

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (8) _{msg. 15}

Jehovah's Further Commission to Jeremiah to His Further Statement of Judah's Sins (1)
I. Jehovah's further commission to Jeremiah
A. Jeremiah's remorse and Jehovah's encouragement and strengthening
B. Jeremiah's petition for Jehovah's care and Jehovah's answer with a further commission to him
C. Jehovah's restrictions to Jeremiah for His further commission

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (9) _{msg. 16}

Jehovah's Further Commission to Jeremiah to His Further Statement of Judah's Sins (2)
II. Jehovah's further statement of Judah's (as Israel's) sins
A. Israel's inquiry concerning their sins that caused Jehovah's visitation in the great evil against them, and Jehovah's answer to them
B. Jeremiah's praise to Jehovah and Jehovah's acknowledgement of his praise
C. Judah's sin and its consequence
D. The curse of trusting in man and the blessing of trusting in Jehovah
E. The deceitful and incurable heart of man and the searching, test, and reward of Jehovah
F. Jeremiah's trusting prayer to Jehovah
G. Jehovah's warning concerning the keeping of His Sabbath

A Full Picture of God's Economy by His Dispensing _{msg. 17}

Jeremiah's disappointment
Crucial aspects of God's economy
Nourished with the divine supply
Trees planted by water
Enjoying the fountain of living waters
Keeping God's Sabbath by enjoying Him, resting in Him, and being satisfied in Him as the fountain of living waters
Coming to the orchard of the book of Jeremiah to pick ripe fruit

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (10) _{msg. 18}

Jehovah as the Potter and Israel as the Pottery
I. Jehovah as the sovereign Potter
A. The Potter working and reworking the pottery
B. Jehovah as the sovereign Potter being able to do with the house of Israel, as the clay in His hand, in changeable ways
II. The evil condition of Israel
A. Not returning and amending her ways
B. Having forgotten Jehovah, burning incense to vanity
C. Having been stumbled in her ways from the ancient paths, walking on bypaths
D. Making their land an astonishment
E. Devising plots against Jeremiah the prophet
F. Forcing the prophet to turn his intercession for them before Jehovah to a curse upon them
G. Forcing Jehovah to form evil and devise a plan against her
III. Israel as a potter's earthenware jar to be broken
A. Illustrated in the valley of the son of Hinnom at the entrance of the potsherd gate
B. Because of Israel's evils
C. Jehovah wanting to break Israel as the potter's earthenware jar
IV. Jeremiah's repeated prophecy concerning Israel, Israel's persecution of Jeremiah, Jehovah's dealing with Israel, and Jeremiah's accusation against Israel and his cursing of his birthday
A. Jeremiah's repeated prophecy concerning Israel
B. Israel's persecution of Jeremiah
C. Jehovah's dealing with Israel
D. Jeremiah's accusation against Israel and his cursing of his birthday
1. His accusation against Israel
2. His cursing of his birthday

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (11) _{msg. 19}

Jehovah's Condemnation of and Punishment Upon the Kings and Prophets of Judah (1)
I. Jehovah's condemnation of and punishment upon the kings of Judah with their people
A. Jehovah's condemnation of the kings of Judah with their people
1. Not listening to Jehovah's warning to execute judgment and righteousness
2. Forsaking the covenant of Jehovah their God
3. Building their large house by unrighteousness and their spacious upper chambers by injustice
4. As shepherds of Jehovah's people having scattered His flock and driven them away and not visiting them
B. Jehovah's punishment upon the kings of Judah with their people
1. Giving the kings of Judah with their people to Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon
2. Burning the city of Jerusalem and all that is around her
3. Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to be buried with the burial of a donkey
4. Jehovah intending to visit upon the kings of Judah the evil of their deeds
C. Jehovah's promise of restoration to Israel
1. Jehovah gathering the remnant of His flock out of the lands where he has driven them
2. Jehovah raising up shepherds over them who will feed them
3. Jehovah raising up to David a righteous Shoot (Christ), who will reign as King and act prudently and will execute judgment and righteousness in the holy land
4. In His days Judah being saved, and Israel dwelling securely, and His name being called, Jehovah our righteousness

(An Additional Message) Experiencing and Enjoying Christ as the Son of David and the Son of Abraham _{msg. 20}

Christ as the son of David
To bring us into the kingdom of the heavens
For us to participate in the divine authority
Christ as the son of Abraham
To bring us the divine blessing
For us to inherit God
God's covenants with Abraham and David
The covenant with Abraham — the covenant concerning the blessing
The covenant with David — the covenant concerning the kingdom
The way the gospel is presented in the New Testament
Receiving Christ first as the son of David and then as the son of Abraham

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (12) _{msg. 21}

Jehovah's Condemnation of and Punishment Upon the Kings and Prophets of Judah (2)
II. Jehovah's condemnation of and punishment upon the prophets of Judah with the priests and with the people
A. Jehovah's condemnation of the prophets of Judah with the priests and with the people
1. The land being full of them as adulterers
2. Both the prophets and the priests being profane
3. The prophets of Samaria prophesying by Baal, and the prophets of Jerusalem committing adultery
4. Prophesying to lead the kings with the people to vanity, and speaking a vision of their own heart, not out of the mouth of Jehovah
5. Considering Jehovah as a God who is near and not far off, not filling the heavens and the earth, and daring to prophesy falsely in His name of the deceit of their own heart
B. Jehovah's punishment upon the prophets of Judah with the priests and with the people
1. Jehovah making their way like slippery paths to them
2. Jehovah feeding them with wormwood
3. Jehovah's wrath going forth like the storm wind, even a whirling tempest which will whirl down on the head of the wicked prophet
4. Jehovah being against the false prophets
5. Jehovah utterly forgetting them and casting away from His presence them and the city which He gave to them and to their fathers

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (13) _{msg. 22}

Judah's Captivity and Judah's Reaction to Jeremiah
I. Judah's captivity
A. Jeremiah's vision of two baskets of figs
1. Placed before the temple of Jehovah
2. After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had exiled the king, the princes, the craftsmen, and the smiths to Babylon
3. One basket of very good figs
a. Jehovah regarding them for good
b. Jehovah setting His eyes upon them for good
c. Jehovah giving them a heart to know Him
4. The other basket of very bad figs
a. Jehovah making them like the bad figs
b. Jehovah making them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth for evil
c. Jehovah sending sword, famine, and pestilence upon them
B. Jeremiah's prophecy concerning all the people of Judah
1. Beginning from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah
2. Jehovah sending from the north Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, to attack Israel, and Israel serving the king of Babylon seventy years
3. Jehovah punishing the king of Babylon and making the nation of Babylon an eternal desolation
4. Jehovah punishing all the nations of the earth
II. Judah's reaction to Jeremiah
A. Jeremiah's prophecy
1. In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim
2. In the court of the house of Jehovah
3. Advising the people of Judah to listen to his word and turn from their evil way
B. The priests, the prophets, and all the people seizing Jeremiah
C. Jeremiah speaking to all the princes and all the people
D. The princes and all the people speaking to the priests and to the prophets
E. Some of the elders speaking to all the assembly of the people about how Hezekiah and all the people of Judah listened to the word of Micah the prophet
F. Uriah prophesying in the name of Jehovah against Jerusalem and the land words like all those of Jeremiah
G. Jeremiah being preserved by Ahikam the son of Shaphan

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (14) _{msg. 23}

Jeremiah's Genuine Prophecies Versus the Others' False Prophecies
I. Concerning Nebuchadnezzar as bonds and yokes on Israel and the nations around her
A. Jeremiah's genuine prophecy
1. Jehovah having given Israel and all the nations around her to Nebuchadnezzar
2. Any nation or kingdom not serving Nebuchadnezzar to be punished by Jehovah unto death
B. The false prophecy of Israel's prophets, diviners, dreamers, soothsayers, and sorcerers
1. Saying that Israel will not serve the king of Babylon
2. The result of their false prophecy
II. Concerning the bringing back of the vessels of the house of Jehovah
A. The others' false prophecy
B. Jeremiah's genuine prophecy
1. Telling the people to serve the king of Babylon and live
2. The vessels left in the house of Jehovah being carried to Babylon and remaining there until the day when Jehovah visits Israel
III. Concerning the breaking of the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and the bringing back of the vessels of the house of Jehovah and all the exiles from Judah to Babylon
A. The false prophecy of Hananiah, the son of Azzur
1. Saying that Jehovah would break the yoke of the king of Babylon from all the nations within two years
2. Saying that within two years Jehovah would bring back all the vessels of the house of Jehovah and all the exiles who went to Babylon
B. Jeremiah's genuine prophecy
1. Telling Hananiah that he had broken wooden yoke bars but had made in their place iron yoke bars
2. Jehovah having put an iron yoke upon the neck of all these nations
3. Saying to Hananiah that Jehovah had not sent him and that he made this people trust in falsehood
IV. Concerning the destiny of the captives in Babylon and of those who remained in Judah
A. Jeremiah's genuine prophecy concerning the captives in Babylon
1. Sending a letter
2. Telling the exiles to build houses for their dwelling
3. Jehovah visiting them and bringing them back to the holy land
B. The false prophecies of the prophets, diviners, and dreamers among the exiles
C. Jeremiah's genuine prophecy concerning those who did not go into exile
D. The false prophecy of Ahab, the son of Kolaiah, and Zedekiah, the Son of Maaseiah
1. In the name of Jehovah
2. Jehovah delivering them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
3. Their folly in Israel
E. The false prophecy of Shemaiah the Nehelamite
1. Sending letters
2. Saying that Jehovah had made Zephaniah a priest instead of Jehoiada the priest
F. Jeremiah's genuine prophecy concerning Shemaiah
1. Jehovah charging Jeremiah to write to all the captives in Babylon
2. Jehovah punishing Shemaiah and his seed

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (15) _{msg. 24}

Jehovah's Promise Concerning the Restoration of Israel (1)
I. Jehovah appearing to Israel from afar
II. Jehovah turning the captivity of Israel and Judah
A. Jehovah telling Jacob not to fear and Israel not to be dismayed
B. From the land of the north and from the uttermost parts of the earth
C. A great assembly returning to the land of Israel
D. They coming with weeping and Jehovah leading them with supplications
E. Jehovah redeeming Israel from the hand of one stronger than them
F. He who scattered Israel gathering them and keeping them
G. There being hope for Israel's latter end
H. Jehovah creating a new thing in the earth
III. The restoration of Israel taking place after Jehovah's chastisement of Israel with justice
A. Jehovah not leaving him unpunished
B. Ephraim lamenting
C. Jehovah having mercy on Ephraim
IV. Jehovah turning the captivity of the tents of Jacob and having compassion on his dwelling places
A. The city being rebuilt on its mound, and the palace being inhabited after its own manner
B. The city of Jerusalem being built unto Jehovah
C. The word that will be said when Jehovah turns again Israel's captivity
D. Jehovah satisfying the weary soul and filling every languishing soul
E. Jehovah sowing the house of Israel with the seed of man and with the seed of beast
V. Jehovah multiplying Israel
A. Their children being as they were of old
B. The seed of Israel not ceasing from being a nation before Jehovah forever
C. Jehovah not casting off all the seed of Israel for all they have done
VI. There being a great day, a time of distress, for Israel
A. The time of the great tribulation for three and a half years
B. Israel being saved out of it
C. Jehovah breaking Israel's yoke from upon her neck and tearing off her bonds

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (16) _{msg. 25}

Jehovah's Promise Concerning the Restoration of Israel (2)
VII. Jehovah, as their Husband, making a new covenant with Israel
A. Jehovah putting His law within them and writing it upon their hearts
B. Jehovah being their God, and they being His people
C. They no longer teaching each man his neighbor and each man his brother, for all of them will know him
D. Jehovah forgiving their iniquity and remembering their sin no more
VIII. Israel serving Jehovah their God and David their King

The Inner Law — the Center of the New Covenant _{msg. 26}

Not to be annulled
The inner law of life being the center of the new covenant
The function of the inner law of life
The divine capacity
Causing the believers to be constituted with God that they may become his increase for his expression
Constituting us to be the Body of Christ
The central line of the divine revelation unveiling God's economy with His dispensing

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (17) _{msg. 27}

Jehovah's Promise Concerning the Restoration of Israel (3)
I. Zedekiah, the king of Judah, imprisoning Jeremiah and condemning his prophecy
II. Jeremiah buying the field of his cousin Hanamel in Anathoth according to Jehovah's word
III. Jeremiah dealing with Jehovah
IV. Jehovah's answer to Jeremiah
A. Jehovah giving the city of Jerusalem into the hand of the Chaldeans
B. Jehovah gathering Israel out from all the lands where He had driven them
C. Israel being Jehovah's people, and Jehovah being their God
D. Making an eternal covenant with them that He will not turn away from them
V. The word of Jehovah coming to Jeremiah a second time as a reaffirmation of His promise concerning the restoration of Israel
A. Jehovah bringing the city of Jerusalem recovery and healing
B. There being heard in the city of Jerusalem the voice of gladness
C. In the holy land there being a habitation of shepherds making their flock lie down, and the flock again passing under the hand of the one who counts them
D. Jehovah establishing the good word which He has spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah
E. His covenant with David His servant never being broken
F. Jehovah multiplying the seed of David His servant and the Levites His ministers
G. Jehovah not rejecting the seed of Jacob and David His servant

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (18) _{msg. 28}

Israel's Stubborness in Their Sinning Against Jehovah and Jeremiah's Firmness in His Speaking for Jehovah (1)
I. Before the fall of Jerusalem
A. Nebuchadnezzar's invasion and Zedekiah's destiny
B. Zedekiah's dishonesty in keeping God's commandment, and Jehovah's punishment
C. The example of the Rechabites
D. Jehoiakim's stubbornness in burning Jeremiah's book of prophecy, and Jehovah's punishment

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (19) _{msg. 29}

Israel's Stubborness in Their Sinning Against Jehovah and Jeremiah's Firmness in His Speaking for Jehovah (2)
E. The first step of Jeremiah's imprisonment
F. The second step of Jeremiah's imprisonment
G. The destiny of Ebed-melech

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (20) _{msg. 30}

Israel's Stubborness in Their Sinning Against Jehovah and Jeremiah's Firmness in His Speaking for Jehovah (3)
II. In the fall of Jerusalem
A. The capture of Jerusalem
B. The punishment upon Zedekiah
III. After the fall of Jerusalem
A. The release of Jeremiah
1. From the court of the king's guard
2. From the chains among the exiles
B. The history of the remnant of Judah from Gedaliah to Johanan
1. The gathering of the remnant of Judah to Gedaliah
a. Gedaliah speaking to them
b. The Jews from other lands coming to Gedaliah
2. The murder of Gedaliah
a. The report of the conspiracy
b. The murder
3. Johanan's victory over Ishmael
4. The direction of Johanan and the remnant of Judah

Israel's Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah's Punishment Upon Israel (21) _{msg. 31}

Israel's Stubborness in Their Sinning Against Jehovah and Jeremiah's Firmness in His Speaking for Jehovah (4)
5. The dishonesty of the remnant and the leaders in asking Jeremiah to pray for them
a. All the leaders of the forces, Johanan, Jezaniah, and all the people begging Jeremiah to pray for them
b. The word of Jehovah coming to them through Jeremiah
c. Azariah, Johanan, and all the proud men saying to Jeremiah that He was speaking falsehood
6. The word of Jehovah through Jeremiah concerning the destiny of the remnant of Judah in Egypt
a. Jehovah asking Jeremiah to take large stones and hide them in the mortar in the brickwork at the entrance of Pharaoh's house in the sight of the Jews
b. Jehovah speaking further through Jeremiah to the remnant of Judah
7. The argument between a great assemblage of those who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods and all the women who stood by, and Jeremiah the prophet
a. Answering Jeremiah that they would not listen to the word which he had spoken to them in the name of Jehovah
b. Jeremiah answering that Jehovah had remembered the incense they had burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem

The Principle of Being One with God as Revealed in the Book of Jeremiah _{msg. 32}

God fulfilling His economy by dispensing Himself into His chosen people
The two basic sins of God's people
Being one with God to receive the word of God
The stubbornness of the children of Israel due to their not being one with God
Our being justified and reconciled to God through Christ as the righteous shoot, and the Triune God coming into us to be our life and our everything for the working out of God's eternal economy by His dispensing Himself into us
The spiritual sequence in Jeremiah's writing

The Spiritual Sequence in the Bible and in the Book of Jeremiah _{msg. 33}

The spiritual sequence in the Bible
God being the source in every way
The fall of man and a history of sins
The coming of Christ, the righteous Shoot
The new covenant — its content and ultimate consummation
The nations around the New Jerusalem
The spiritual sequence in the book of Jeremiah
God presenting Himself to Israel as the source and Israel forsaking him to take their own way
Israel becoming evil
A righteous Shoot being raised up to David, and His name being called Jehovah our righteousness
The Triune God coming into us for the embodiment of the new covenant
Jeremiah's prophecy concerning the nations

Jehovah's Punishment and Judgment Upon the Nations Involved with God's Elect, Israel (1) _{msg. 34}

I. Jehovah's punishment and judgment upon Egypt
A. Egypt symbolically or poetically called Rahab and typifying the world of making a living and of enjoyment
B. The people of Israel going down to Egypt
C. Jehovah delivering the people of Israel out of the Egyptian Slavery and Tyranny
D. The people of Israel often being tempted to go back to Egypt
E. The Chaldeans withdrawing from Jerusalem when they heard that the army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt to help Judah
F. The army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt being defeated by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
1. Egypt rising up like her river Nile
2. The king, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, striking the land of Egypt and casting down her army by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
G. A word of comfort to Israel
II. Jehovah's punishment and judgment upon the philistines
A. A nation typifying the world that is close to the interest of God on the Earth and That Attacks and Damages the Testimony of God on the Earth
B. Located alongside the nation of Israel
C. Jehovah delivering Israel into the hands of the Philistines forty years
D. Attacking and capturing the ark of God
E. David slaying their champion Goliath
F. Jehovah destroying the Philistines by the army of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon

Jehovah's Punishment and Judgment Upon the Nations Involved with God's Elect, Israel (2) _{msg. 35}

III. Jehovah's punishment and judgment upon Moab
A. A nation typifying the world of fleshly lust that corrupts and frustrates God's chosen people through the greedy religionists
B. Moab, the first forefather of the Moabites
C. The Moabites not being allowed to enter into the assembly of Jehovah
D. Moab to be destroyed and cut off from being a nation
E. Moab magnifying himself against Jehovah
F. Jehovah turning again the captivity of Moab in the latter days
IV. Jehovah's punishment and judgment upon the children of Ammon
A. A nation typifying the world of fleshly lust that fights against God's chosen people and misleads them into idolatry
B. The Ammonites taking the land of Gad
C. Jehovah causing war against the Ammonites
D. Israel dispossessing those who dispossess him
E. Jehovah turning again the captivity of the children of Ammon
V. Jehovah's punishment and judgment upon Edom
A. A nation typifying the world of the old and fleshly man who struggles against the God-chosen and spiritual people
B. Jehovah bringing the calamity of Esau upon Edom when He punishes him
C. Bozrah becoming a waste, a reproach, a ruin and a curse
D. Jehovah making Edom small among the nations, despised among men
E. The purpose of Jehovah's counsel and His thoughts being against Edom
F. At the war of Armageddon Christ coming to judge the nations from Bozrah of Edom
VI. Jehovah's punishment and judgment upon Damascus
A. Damascus typifying the world that is close to and involved with the kingdom of God
B. Her cities being put to shame
C. The city of praise, the town of Jehovah's joy, being forsaken
D. Her young men falling in her open squares
E. Jehovah setting fire to the wall of Damascus
VII. Jehovah's punishment and judgment upon Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor
A. Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor being Arabia, which typifies the world that mixes with the people of God
B. Jehovah sending the Chaldeans to strike down Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor and destroy the children of the east
C. Hazor becoming a Habitation of jackals, an eternal desolation
VIII. Jehovah's punishment and judgment upon Elam
A. Elam typifying the world that is the enemy of God's chosen people
B. Jehovah being about to break the bow of Elam
C. In the last days Jehovah turning again the captivity of Elam

Jehovah's Punishment and Judgment Upon the Nations Involved with God's Elect, Israel (3) _{msg. 36}

And a Supplement to the History of Captivity
IX. Jehovah's punishment and judgment upon Babylon
A. Babylon typifying the world, both physically and spiritually, that worships idols, exalts men, and opposes God to the uttermost
B. The capture and destruction of Babylon
C. The children of Israel fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon and declaring in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah their God
D. Jeremiah writing in a book all the evil that would come on Babylon
A supplement to the history of captivity

Babylon—the Beginning and the Ending of Human Government _{msg. 37}

Jeremiah's writing concerning the nations beginning with Egypt and ending with Babylon
Babylon being the entire human government on earth
The two aspects of Babylon the Great
The political aspect
The religious aspect
Today's world situation being altogether Roman
Satan initiating the Roman government with Nimrod at Babel
The destruction of the Roman empire and the removal of all Roman things from the earth
The two prominent cities in the Bible — Babylon and Jerusalem

The Separation of the Church, God's New Testament Elect, from the World in All Its Aspects for the Accomplishment of God's Economy _{msg. 38}

Our need to know the spiritual significance of the historical events recorded in Jeremiah
Egypt signifying the world of making a living and of enjoyment and Babylon signifying the world of rebellion against God, idol worship, and self-exaltation
Israel, a type of God's New Testament elect
God's vengeance on Babylon — His number one enemy, the worst nation in offending God
Jeremiah presenting God's economy to us that we may turn back to our source and origin the Triune God as the fountain of living waters

The Foundation of the New Covenant, the Covenant of Life, in the Book of Jeremiah _{msg. 39}

The foundation of the new covenant, the covenant of life, in the book of Jeremiah
God caring for only one covenant — the new covenant of life
The content of the new covenant — the processed and consummated Triune God
The importance of the book of Jeremiah
The position and function of the old covenant of the law
Its position
Its function
Jeremiah's laying the foundation of the new covenant

The Kernel of the Book of Jeremiah _{msg. 40}

The shell and the kernel
What God wants from us
What we are in our fallen condition
What Christ is to us
The Shoot of David
Jehovah our righteousness
The divine life

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