Jer 1-6 Jeremiah’s Call & Judah’s Condemnation

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Jeremiah – Course of Study

Jer 1-6 Jeremiah’s Call & Judah’s Condemnation

Jer 7-10 False Worship & Divine Wrath

Jer 11-15 Broken Promises & Shattered Pride

Jer 16-17 Idolatrous Ways & Deceitful Hearts

Jer 18-20 The Potter, the Pot, & the Prophet

Jer 21-24 False Shepherds & Scattered Sheep

Jer 25-33 Deserved Destruction & Divine Deliverance

Jer 34-35 Broken Covenants & Defiant Disobedience

Jer 36-38 Burned Prophecies & Bold Preaching

Jer 39-45 Jerusalem’s Fall & Captives’ Flight

Jer 46-52 Nations’ Judgment & Judah’s Exile

 

Jer 1-6 Jeremiah’s Call & Judah’s Condemnation

Jer 1 Revelation: God Calls His Prophet.

1:1-3 Panorama: from the Priests, to the Kings, Until the Exile

1:4-5 Purpose: Foreknown, Formed, Consecrated, Appointed

1:6 Pushback: Lack of Experience and Maturity

1:7-8 Promise: Not Your Condition, but My Presence

1:9-10 Promotion: The LORD’s Empowering Touch and Word

1:11-12 Pole: Almond Tree (saqed): God Watching (soqed) Word

1:13-16 Pot Boiling: God’s Hot Wrath from the North (Babylon)

1:17 Prod: Gird up Your Loins! Tell Them What I’ve Told You!

1:18-19 Potential: Fortified City, Pillar of Iron, Walls of Bronze

Jer 2 Rebellion: God Calls Out Judah’s Sins.

2:1-8 An unfaithful wife

2:9-13 Broken cisterns

2:14-19 A plundered slave

2:20 A stubborn animal

2:21 A degenerate vine

2:22 A defiled body

2:23-25 An animal in the desert

2:26-28 A disgraced thief

2:29-35 Incorrigible children

2:36-37 Prisoners of war

Jer 3 Repentance: God Pleads for Their Return.

3:1-5 The Possibility of Repentance

3:6-10 The Need for Repentance

3:11-14 The Call for Repentance

3:15-18 The Blessings of Repentance

3:19-25 The Plan of Repentance

Jer 4 Rebuke: God Warns of Coming Judgment.

4:1-4 Return! Cultivate Your Soil! Circumcise Your Hearts!

4:5-13 Sound the Alarm! You Will Be Blown Away!

4:14-18 Wash Your Heart! Your Own Rebellion is the Cause!

4:19-22 Jeremiah’s Anguish and God’s Answer

4:23-29 Desolation, but not Complete Destruction

4:30-31 Despair, as of Unwanted Harlots Dying in Childbirth

Jer 5 Rationale: God Cites the Charges.

5:1-6 Moral corruption

5:7-9 Sexual impurity

5:10-18 Treacherous unbelief

5:19-24 Religious apostasy

5:25-29 Social injustice

5:30-31 Corrupt leadership

Jer 6 Retribution: God Sends Destruction.

6:1-5 God declares war.

6:6-15 God directs the attack.

6:16-23 God delivers the verdict.

6:24-30 God describes the consequences.