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The Book of Jeremiah Like You_ve Never Seen Before · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: Before we dive into one of the most dramatic prophetic
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  Speaker 1: books ever written. Imagine being chosen for an impossible mission
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  Speaker 1: before you were even born. Picture yourself standing alone against kings, priests,
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  Speaker 1: and an entire nation that once you silenced. This is
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  Speaker 1: the story of a young man who never asked to
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  Speaker 1: be a prophet, who cried out that he was too
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  Speaker 1: young and didn't know how to speak, yet became the
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  Speaker 1: voice of God. In the darkest hours of Judah's history,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah witnessed the collapse of everything his people believed was unshakable.
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  Speaker 1: He saw a nation convinced that God's temple made them invincible,
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  Speaker 1: that religious rituals could cover up moral corruption, that somehow
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  Speaker 1: they could worship other gods and still claim God's protection.
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  Speaker 1: Through tears and persecution, through rejection and imprisonment, Jeremiah delivered
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  Speaker 1: messages nobody wanted to hear. His book isn't just ancient history.
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  Speaker 1: It's a raw, unfiltered account of what happens when society
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  Speaker 1: abandons truth, when leaders fail their people, and when religious
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  Speaker 1: institutions become empty shells. Get ready to see the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Jeremiah like you've never seen it before, because this
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  Speaker 1: prophet's journey will challenge everything you think you know about faith, judgment,
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  Speaker 1: and the heart of God. The story begins with a
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  Speaker 1: young man named Jeremiah, son of Hilkia, who lived among
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  Speaker 1: the priests in Anathoth, a small town in the territory
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  Speaker 1: of Benjamin. His life took an unexpected turn during the
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  Speaker 1: thirteenth year of King Josiah's reign in Judah. In chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: verse four, the word of the Lord came to him
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  Speaker 1: with a message that would change everything. God spoke directly
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  Speaker 1: to Jeremiah and revealed something extraordinary about his existence. Before
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah was even formed in his mother's womb, God already
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  Speaker 1: knew him before he was born. God had set him
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  Speaker 1: apart and appointed him as a prophet to the nations.
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  Speaker 1: As stated in verse five, this wasn't a choice Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: made for himself. This was God's plan from the very
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  Speaker 1: beginning of his life. But Jeremiah didn't feel ready for
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  Speaker 1: such a massive responsibility. When he heard this calling, fear
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  Speaker 1: gripped his heart. In verse six, he responded to God
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  Speaker 1: saying he didn't know how to speak because he was
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  Speaker 1: only a child. He felt too young, too inexperienced, too
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  Speaker 1: inadequate for the task God was placing before him. The
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  Speaker 1: weight of being a prophet to nations seemed impossible for
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  Speaker 1: someone so young and uncertain, but God wasn't interested in
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah's excuses or his feelings of inadequacy. In verse seven,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord told him not to say he was a child,
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  Speaker 1: because he would go to every one God sent him
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  Speaker 1: to and would speak whatever God commanded him. God made
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  Speaker 1: it clear that age and experience didn't matter when divine
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  Speaker 1: purpose was involved. What mattered was obedience and trust in
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  Speaker 1: the one who was sending him. God wasn't asking Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: to rely on his own strength or wisdom. Then came
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  Speaker 1: the promise that would sustain Jeremiah through the darkest moments ahead.
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  Speaker 1: In verse eight, God told him not to be afraid
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  Speaker 1: of anyone, because he would be with him and would
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  Speaker 1: rescue him. This wasn't just a comforting word, it was
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  Speaker 1: a guarantee of divine protection. The road ahead would be dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: filled with opposition and threats, but God promised his presence
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  Speaker 1: would never leave. In verse nine, the Lord reached out
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  Speaker 1: his hand and touched Jeremiah's mouth, physically placing his words
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  Speaker 1: into him. God declared that he had put his words
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  Speaker 1: in Jeremiah's mouth, transforming this young man into his spokesperson
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  Speaker 1: on earth. In verse ten, God explained the nature of
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah's ministry. He appointed him over nations and kingdoms, to
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  Speaker 1: uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build
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  Speaker 1: and to plant. This was a ministry of both judgment
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  Speaker 1: and restoration, of tearing down what was corrupt and building
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  Speaker 1: what was righteous. Jeremiah would be God's instrument to pronounce
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  Speaker 1: judgment on rebellious nations and to offer hope for those
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  Speaker 1: who would return. The calling was clear, the mission was set,
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  Speaker 1: and Jeremiah's life would never be the same. Immediately after
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  Speaker 1: his calling, God gave Jeremiah two powerful visions that would
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  Speaker 1: define the nature of his ministry and what was coming
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  Speaker 1: for Judah. In verse eleven of chapter one, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: asked Jeremiah what he saw. Jeremiah answered that he saw
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  Speaker 1: the branch of an almond tree. This wasn't a random
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  Speaker 1: image chosen by chance. The almond tree was significant because
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  Speaker 1: it was the first tree to bloom in spring Awakening
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  Speaker 1: before all others. In verse twelve, God explained that Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: had seen correctly because God was watching to see that
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  Speaker 1: his word was fulfilled. The Hebrew word for almond tree
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  Speaker 1: sounded like the word for watching, creating a word play
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  Speaker 1: that emphasized God's vigilance over his promises. God was alert
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  Speaker 1: and ready to bring his word to pass, just as
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  Speaker 1: the almond tree was alert to the changing seasons. Then
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  Speaker 1: came the second vision, darker and more ominous than the first.
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  Speaker 1: In verse thirteen, the word of the Lord came to
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah again, asking what he saw. This time, Jeremiah saw
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  Speaker 1: a boiling pot tilting away from the north. The image
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  Speaker 1: was troubling, like a caldron filled with scolding contents about
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  Speaker 1: to pour out in a specific direction. In verse fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: God interpreted this vision, explaining that disaster would be poured
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  Speaker 1: out from the north on all who lived in the land.
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  Speaker 1: This was a warning of invasion of enemy armies that
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  Speaker 1: would soon sweep down from the north to destroy everything
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  Speaker 1: in their path. God went further in verse fifteen, declaring
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  Speaker 1: that he was about to summon all the peoples of
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  Speaker 1: the northern kingdoms. They would come and set up their
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  Speaker 1: thrones at the entrance of Jerusalem's gates against all its
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  Speaker 1: surrounding walls and against all the towns of Judah. This
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  Speaker 1: was a prophecy of military conquest, of sieges and destruction
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  Speaker 1: that would shake the nation to its core. The enemy
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't just pass through, They would establish their authority right
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  Speaker 1: at the gates of the Holy City. In verse sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: God explained the reason for this judgment. He would pronounce
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  Speaker 1: his judgments on his people because of their wickedness in
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  Speaker 1: forsaking him, in burning incense to other gods, and in
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  Speaker 1: worshiping what their hands had made. The judgment wasn't arbitrary
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  Speaker 1: or cruel. It was the natural consequence of abandoning the
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  Speaker 1: One True God for worthless idols. But even as God
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  Speaker 1: revealed this terrible future, he strengthened Jeremiah for the battle ahead.
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  Speaker 1: In verse seventeen, God commanded him to get ready to
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  Speaker 1: stand up and say everything he commanded. God warned Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: not to be terrified by them, or God would terrify
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  Speaker 1: him before them. It was a moment of serious consecration,
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  Speaker 1: a call to courage in the face of overwhelming opposition. Then,
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  Speaker 1: in verse eighteen, God made Jeremiah into a fortified city,
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  Speaker 1: an iron pillar and a bronze wall against the whole
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  Speaker 1: land against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests,
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  Speaker 1: and the people of the land. Jeremiah would stand alone
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  Speaker 1: against an entire nation, but he would stand strong because
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  Speaker 1: God made him strong. In verse nineteen, God promised that
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  Speaker 1: though they would fight against him, they would not overcome
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  Speaker 1: him because God would be with him to rescue him.
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  Speaker 1: This promise would be tested again and again throughout Jeremiah's ministry.
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  Speaker 1: With his calling established and his mission clear, Jeremiah began
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  Speaker 1: his prophetic ministry. Chapter two opens with the word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord coming to him in verse one, commanding him
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  Speaker 1: to go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem a
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  Speaker 1: message about their past relationship with God. In verse two,
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  Speaker 1: God reminded them through Jeremiah of the devotion of their youth,
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  Speaker 1: how they loved him as a bride, how they followed
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  Speaker 1: him through the desert, through a land not sown. Those
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  Speaker 1: were the early days of Israel's relationship with God, fresh
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  Speaker 1: from their deliverance from Egypt, when their hearts were fully
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  Speaker 1: devoted to Him and they trusted him completely. In verse three,
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  Speaker 1: God declared that Israel was wholly to the Lord the
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  Speaker 1: first fruits of his harvest. Any one who devoured them
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  Speaker 1: would be held guilty, and disaster would come upon them.
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  Speaker 1: God had protected his people like a jealous husband protects
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  Speaker 1: his bride. But something had gone terribly wrong since those
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  Speaker 1: early days, the passionate love had grown cold, the devoted
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  Speaker 1: service had turned to rebellion. In verse five, through Jeremiah,
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  Speaker 1: God asked what fault their ancestors had found in him
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  Speaker 1: that they strayed so far from him, following worthless idols
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  Speaker 1: and becoming worthless themselves. It was a heartbreaking question from
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  Speaker 1: a God who had done nothing but love and protect
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  Speaker 1: his people. What had he done wrong? What had he
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  Speaker 1: failed to provide? God reminded them in verse six that
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  Speaker 1: they never asked where he was the one who brought
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  Speaker 1: them up out of Egypt and led them through the
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  Speaker 1: barren wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, a
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  Speaker 1: land of drought and darkness where no one traveled and
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  Speaker 1: no one lived. God had guided them through impossible terrain,
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  Speaker 1: provided for them when there was nothing, protected them when
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  Speaker 1: they were vulnerable. In verse seven, God spoke of how
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  Speaker 1: he brought them into a fertile land to eat its
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  Speaker 1: fruit and rich produce, but when they entered, they defiled
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  Speaker 1: his land and made his inheritance detestable. The gift had
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  Speaker 1: been rejected, the blessing had been turned into a curse.
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  Speaker 1: The indictment grew stronger and more specific. In verse eight,
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  Speaker 1: the priests never asked where the lord was. Those who
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  Speaker 1: dealt with the law didn't know him. The leaders rebelled
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  Speaker 1: against him, and the prophets prophesied by bile following worthless idols.
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  Speaker 1: Every level of leadership had failed. The spiritual guides had
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  Speaker 1: become spiritually blind. In verse eleven, God pointed out that
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  Speaker 1: no nation had ever changed its gods, even though they
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  Speaker 1: were not gods at all. Yet his people had exchanged
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  Speaker 1: their glory for worthless idols. The irony was devastating. Pagan
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  Speaker 1: nations remained loyal to false gods, while God's chosen people
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  Speaker 1: abandoned the true God. In verse twelve, God called on
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  Speaker 1: the heavens to be appalled at this, to shudder with
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  Speaker 1: great horror, because his people had committed two sins. In
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  Speaker 1: verse thirteen, God spelled them out clearly. They had forsaken
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  Speaker 1: him the spring of living water and had dug their
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  Speaker 1: own cisterns, broken cisterns that could not hold water. The
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  Speaker 1: image was powerful and tragic. They had abandoned the source
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  Speaker 1: of true life for containers that leaked and left them thirsty.
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  Speaker 1: They traded what worked for what didn't, what was eternal
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  Speaker 1: for what was temporary, what was satisfying for what left
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  Speaker 1: them empty. In verse seventeen, God asked if they had
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  Speaker 1: not brought this on themselves by forsaking him when he
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  Speaker 1: led them in the way. In verse nineteen, God declared
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  Speaker 1: that their wickedness would punish them, and their backsliding would
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  Speaker 1: rebuke them, making them know and see how evil and
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  Speaker 1: bitter it was to forsake the Lord and have no
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  Speaker 1: awe of him. Despite the severity of Juda's sin and
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  Speaker 1: the depth of their betrayal, God's hearts still reached out
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  Speaker 1: for their return. In Chapter three, verse one, God presented
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  Speaker 1: a scenario through Jeremiah. If a man divorced his and
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  Speaker 1: she left him and married another man, should he return
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  Speaker 1: to her again, wouldn't the land be completely defiled? According
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  Speaker 1: to the law, such a reunion was forbidden, But God
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  Speaker 1: declared that they had lived as a prostitute with many lovers,
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  Speaker 1: yet he was still calling them to return to him.
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  Speaker 1: The mercy in this invitation was staggering. Given how deeply
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  Speaker 1: they had betrayed him, God was willing to break his
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  Speaker 1: own principles to bring his people back. In verse six,
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  Speaker 1: during the reign of King Josiah, the Lord asked Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: if he had seen what faithless Israel had done, going
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  Speaker 1: up on every high hill and under every spreading tree,
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  Speaker 1: and committing adultery there. God thought that after she had
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  Speaker 1: done all this, she would return to him, but she didn't.
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  Speaker 1: As stated in verse seven, her unfaithful sister Judah saw this,
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  Speaker 1: witnessed Israel's punishment and should have learned from it. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: in verse eight, even after God gave faithless Israel her
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  Speaker 1: certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all
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  Speaker 1: her adulteries, Judah had no fear and went out and
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  Speaker 1: committed adultery too. Judah watched her sister Nation destroyed for
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  Speaker 1: idolatry and thought she could get away with the same sin.
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  Speaker 1: In verse ten, God observed that in spite of all this,
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  Speaker 1: Judah's unfaithful sister didn't return to him with all her heart,
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  Speaker 1: but only in pretense. There had been religious reforms under
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  Speaker 1: King Josiah, but the people's hearts hadn't truly changed. They
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  Speaker 1: went through the motions without genuine repentance, yet God's desire
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  Speaker 1: for restoration remained. In verse twelve, God commanded Jeremiah to
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  Speaker 1: proclaim these words toward the north, calling faithless Israel to return.
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  Speaker 1: Because God was merciful and would not be angry forever.
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  Speaker 1: The invitation was open, the door was not closed. The
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  Speaker 1: only requirement was stated in verse thirteen, your guilt that
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  Speaker 1: you have rebelled against the Lord your God, scattered your
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  Speaker 1: favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have
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  Speaker 1: not obeyed him. God wasn't asking for elaborate rituals or
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  Speaker 1: expensive sacrifices. He wanted honesty, admission of wrong, and a
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  Speaker 1: genuine turning back to him. In Verse fourteen, God called
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  Speaker 1: them to return because he was their husband, promising to
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  Speaker 1: choose them and bring them to Zion. In verse twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: God called to the faithless children to return, and he
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  Speaker 1: would cure them of backsliding. The promise was healing, restoration,
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  Speaker 1: and renewed relationship. The call to repentance carried with it
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  Speaker 1: a warning of what would happen if they refused to
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  Speaker 1: turn back to God. Chapter four shifts from invitation to warning.
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  Speaker 1: In verse one, God declared that if Israel would return,
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  Speaker 1: they should return to him if they put their detestable
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  Speaker 1: idea out of his sight and no longer went astray,
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  Speaker 1: And if in a truthful, just and righteous way they
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  Speaker 1: swore by his name, then the nations would be blessed
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  Speaker 1: by him, and in him they would glory. The choice
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  Speaker 1: was theirs return and live, or refuse and face the consequences.
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  Speaker 1: In verse three, God told the men of Judah and
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  Speaker 1: people of Jerusalem to break up their unplowed ground and
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  Speaker 1: not to sow among thorns. Their hearts had become hard
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  Speaker 1: like packed earth, unable to receive God's word. In verse four,
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  Speaker 1: he commanded them to circumcise themselves. To the Lord, to
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  Speaker 1: circumcise their hearts, or his wrath would break out and
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  Speaker 1: burn like fire because of the evil they had done.
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  Speaker 1: External religion wasn't enough. God wanted internal transformation. Then came
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  Speaker 1: the announcement of judgment. In verse five. God instructed Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: to announce in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, to sound
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  Speaker 1: the trumpet throughout the land, crying aloud, saying to gather
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  Speaker 1: together and flee to the fortified cities. In verse six,
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  Speaker 1: the message was urgent, raised the signal to go to Zion,
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  Speaker 1: flee for safety without delay. Because God was bringing disaster
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  Speaker 1: from the north, even terrible destruction. The time for warning
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  Speaker 1: was running out. Action needed to be taken immediately. The
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  Speaker 1: imagery became vivid and terrifying. In verse seven, God described
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  Speaker 1: a lion coming up from his thicket, a destroyer of
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  Speaker 1: nations who had set out and left his place to
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  Speaker 1: lay waste their land. Their towns would lie in ruins
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  Speaker 1: without inhabitant. In Verse thirteen, the enemy was compared to clouds,
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  Speaker 1: his chariots like a whirlwind, his horses swifter than eagles,
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  Speaker 1: bringing woe because they were ruined. The invasion was depicted
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  Speaker 1: as an overwhelming force that would sweep through the land
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  Speaker 1: with devastating speed and power. There would be no escape,
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  Speaker 1: no defense strong enough to withstand it. In Verse nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah himself seemed to cry out in anguish, expressing the
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  Speaker 1: pain he felt at what was coming. He wrote of
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  Speaker 1: his anguish, how his heart pounded within him, how he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't keep silent because he had heard the sound of
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  Speaker 1: the trumpet and the battle cry. In verse twenty, disaster
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  Speaker 1: followed disaster with the whole land laid waste. Suddenly his
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  Speaker 1: tents were destroyed, his shelter in a moment. The prophet
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  Speaker 1: was so connected to his people that their future suffering
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  Speaker 1: became his present agony. He felt their pain before it
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  Speaker 1: even happened. The people of Judah had developed a dangerous
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  Speaker 1: belief that as long as the temple stood in Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: they were safe from judgment. They thought God's presence in
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  Speaker 1: the temple guaranteed their protection regardless of how they lived.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter seven addresses this false confidence directly and forcefully. In
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  Speaker 1: verse one, the word came to Jeremiah from the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and in verse two God command and did him to
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  Speaker 1: stand at the gate of the Lord's house and proclaim
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  Speaker 1: a message to all the people of Judah who came
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  Speaker 1: to worship there. This wasn't a private word, it was
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  Speaker 1: a public confrontation. In verse three, God declared through Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: that if they really changed their ways and actions and
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  Speaker 1: dealt with each other justly, then he would let them
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  Speaker 1: live in that place. The condition was clear, genuine change
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  Speaker 1: in behavior, not just religious ritual. But in verse four
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  Speaker 1: God warned them not to trust in deceptive words that
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  Speaker 1: said the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: The Temple of the Lord was there, as if this
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  Speaker 1: repetition was some kind of magic formula for protection. The
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  Speaker 1: people had turned the temple into a good luck charm,
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  Speaker 1: believing its mere existence made them safe. In verse five,
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  Speaker 1: God spelled out what real change looked like if they
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  Speaker 1: really dealt with each other justly, if they didn't oppress
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  Speaker 1: the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow, if they didn't
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  Speaker 1: shed innocent blood in this place, and if they didn't
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  Speaker 1: follow other gods to their own harm. In verse eight,
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  Speaker 1: God pointed out that they were trusting in deceptive words
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  Speaker 1: that were worthless, exposing the emptiness of their confidence. Their
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  Speaker 1: trust was misplaced and their security was an illusion. God
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  Speaker 1: then listed their sins in verse nine, asking if they
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  Speaker 1: would steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense,
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  Speaker 1: to bail, and follow other gods they had not known.
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  Speaker 1: The list was shocking in its scope and severity. In
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  Speaker 1: verse ten, God pointed out the hypocrisy they would then
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  Speaker 1: come and stand before him in the house that bore
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  Speaker 1: his name and say they were safe to do all
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  Speaker 1: these detestable things. They were using the temple as a
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  Speaker 1: hideout a place to run after committing sins, thinking God's
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  Speaker 1: house would protect them from God's judgment. In verse eleven,
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  Speaker 1: God asked if the house that bore his name had
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  Speaker 1: become a den of robbers to them, adding that he
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  Speaker 1: had been watching nothing was hidden from his sight. To
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  Speaker 1: drive his point home, God told Jeremiah in verse twelve
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  Speaker 1: to go to the place in Shiloh where he first
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  Speaker 1: made a dwelling for his name and see what he
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  Speaker 1: did to it because of the wickedness of his people Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Shiloh was where the tabernacle once stood, the place where
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  Speaker 1: God's presence dwelt before the Temple was built, but God
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  Speaker 1: had allowed it to be destroyed when his people persisted
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  Speaker 1: in sin. The Temple in Jerusalem wasn't immune to the
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  Speaker 1: same fate. In verse fourteen, God declared that he would
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  Speaker 1: do to the house that bore his name, the temple
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  Speaker 1: they trusted in, just as he did to Shiloh. The
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  Speaker 1: false security they felt would be shattered. The building they
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  Speaker 1: thought would save them couldn't even save itself. The depth
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  Speaker 1: of Judah's idolatry shocked even God himself, and the extent
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  Speaker 1: of their spiritual adultery reached into every corner of society.
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  Speaker 1: In chapter seven, verse seventeen, God i us Jeremiah if
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  Speaker 1: he saw what they were doing in the towns of
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  Speaker 1: Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. It wasn't hidden,
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  Speaker 1: it was open and shameless. In verse eighteen, the entire
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  Speaker 1: family was involved in idle worship. The children gathered wood,
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  Speaker 1: the fathers lit the fire, and the women kneaded the
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  Speaker 1: dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven. They
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  Speaker 1: poured out drink offerings to other gods to provoke God
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  Speaker 1: to anger. It was a family activity passed down from
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  Speaker 1: generation to generation, with every one participating in rebellion against God.
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  Speaker 1: But in verse nineteen, God asked, if it was really
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  Speaker 1: him they were provoking, wasn't it themselves to their own shame?
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  Speaker 1: Their sin wasn't hurting God as much as it was
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  Speaker 1: destroying themselves. The consequences were clearly stated. In verse twenty,
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  Speaker 1: God announced that his anger and wrath would be poured
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  Speaker 1: out on this place, on man and beast, on the
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  Speaker 1: trees of the field and the fruit of the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and it would burn and not be quenched. The judgment
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  Speaker 1: would be total and inescapable. Nothing would be spared from
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  Speaker 1: the fire of his wrath. In verse twenty one, God
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  Speaker 1: told them to go ahead and add their burnt offerings
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  Speaker 1: to their other sacrifices and eat the meat themselves. In
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty two, God reminded them that when he brought
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  Speaker 1: their forefathers out of Egypt, he didn't just give them
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  Speaker 1: commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices. In verse twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: what he actually commanded was for them to obey him
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  Speaker 1: so that he would be their god and they would
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  Speaker 1: be his people. He wanted relationship, not ritel, but in
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty four they didn't listen or pay attention. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts and
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  Speaker 1: went backward instead of forward. In verse twenty nine, God
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  Speaker 1: commanded them to cut off their hair and throw it
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  Speaker 1: away to take up a lament on the barren heights
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  Speaker 1: because the Lord had rejected and abandoned the generation that
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  Speaker 1: was under his wrath. The judgment was pronounced and the
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  Speaker 1: sentence was set. Chapter eight revealed the extent of the
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  Speaker 1: coming judgment. In verse one, God declared that at that time,
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  Speaker 1: the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the
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  Speaker 1: bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones of
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  Speaker 1: the people of Jerusalem would be removed from their graves.
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  Speaker 1: Even the dead wouldn't rest in peace. In verse two,
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  Speaker 1: they would be exposed to the Sun and moon and
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  Speaker 1: all the stars of the heavens which they had loved
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  Speaker 1: and served and followed, and consulted and worshiped. They would
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  Speaker 1: not be gathered up or buried, but would be like refuse,
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  Speaker 1: lying on the ground. The very objects of their idolatry
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  Speaker 1: would witness their humiliation. The cosmic powers they worshiped instead
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  Speaker 1: of God would look down on their scattered remains. In
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  Speaker 1: verse three, God said that wherever he banished them, all
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  Speaker 1: the survivors of this evil nation would prefer death to life.
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  Speaker 1: The judgment would be so severe that existence itself would
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  Speaker 1: become unbearable. God used a powerful visual lesson to show
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah the fate of Judah through a simple object. In
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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirteen, Verse one, the Lord told Jeremiah to go
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  Speaker 1: and buy a linen belt and put it around his waist,
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  Speaker 1: but not to let it touch water. The linen belt
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  Speaker 1: was expensive and valuable, the kind of garment that represented
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  Speaker 1: dignity and worth. In Verse two, Jeremiah obeyed without question
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  Speaker 1: and bought the belt and put it around his waist
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  Speaker 1: as God commanded. He wore it as instructed, never washing it. Then,
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  Speaker 1: in verse four, God told him to take the belt
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  Speaker 1: he had bought and was wearing around his waist, go
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  Speaker 1: to Perrath and hide it there in a crevice in
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  Speaker 1: the rocks. This was a strange command, but Jeremiah didn't argue.
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  Speaker 1: In verse five, he went and hid it at Pirath
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  Speaker 1: as the Lord told him. The belt was placed in
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  Speaker 1: a location where it would be exposed to moisture, dirt,
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  Speaker 1: and decay. Many days later, in verse six, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: said to Jeremiah to go back to Pereth and get
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  Speaker 1: the belt he had told him to hide there. In
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  Speaker 1: verse seven, Jeremiah went to Pereth, dug up the belt
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  Speaker 1: and took it from the place where he had hidden it.
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  Speaker 1: But now it was ruined and completely useless. The belt
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  Speaker 1: that had once been new and valuable, clean and dignified,
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  Speaker 1: was now worthless. It couldn't serve any purpose any more.
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  Speaker 1: In verse eight, the word of the Lord came to
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah with the interpretation. In verse nine, God explained the meaning.
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  Speaker 1: He declared that in the same way, he would ruin
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  Speaker 1: the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: Just as the belt had deteriorated beyond use, so would
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  Speaker 1: the nation deteriorate beyond redemption. In verse ten, God described
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  Speaker 1: these wicked people who refused to listen to his words,
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  Speaker 1: who followed the stubbornness of their hearts, and who went
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  Speaker 1: after other gods to serve and worship them. They would
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  Speaker 1: be like this belt, completely useless. Their purpose would be destroyed,
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  Speaker 1: their value would be gone. In verse eleven, God explained
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  Speaker 1: the original design. Just as a belt is bound around
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  Speaker 1: a man's waist, so he had bound the whole house
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  Speaker 1: of Israel and the whole house of Judah to himself.
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  Speaker 1: His purpose was for them to be his people for
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  Speaker 1: his renown and praise and honor, but they had not listened.
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  Speaker 1: The broken covenant was like that ruined belt, something that
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  Speaker 1: once held purpose and value, but had been destroyed through
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  Speaker 1: neglect and rebellion. God then gave another sign in verse twelve,
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  Speaker 1: telling Jeremiah to say to them that every wine skin
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  Speaker 1: should be filled with wine. The people would respond by
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  Speaker 1: saying they knew that every wine skin should be filled
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  Speaker 1: with wine, as if stating the obvious, But in verse
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  Speaker 1: thirteen God revealed the real meaning behind the statement. He
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  Speaker 1: would fill with drunkenness all who lived in this land,
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  Speaker 1: the kings who sat on David's throne, the priests, the prophet,
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  Speaker 1: and all those living in Jerusalem. They would be drunk
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  Speaker 1: not with wine, but with judgment and confusion. In verse fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: God declared he would smash them one against the other,
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  Speaker 1: fathers and sons alike. He would allow no pity or
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  Speaker 1: mercy or compassion to keep him from destroying them. The
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  Speaker 1: judgment would be thorough and complete, leaving no room for escape.
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  Speaker 1: A devastating drought struck Judah, bringing the nation to its
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  Speaker 1: knees in a way that war had not yet done.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter fourteen opens with verse one, where the word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. In verse two,
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  Speaker 1: Judah mourned and her cities languished. The people wailed for
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  Speaker 1: the land, and a cry went up from Jerusalem. The
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  Speaker 1: suffering was widespread and visible. In verse three, the nobles
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  Speaker 1: sent their servants for water, but they went to the
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  Speaker 1: cisterns and found no water. They returned with their jars unfilled,
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  Speaker 1: dismayed and despairing, they covered their heads. In the land
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  Speaker 1: itself suffered alongside the people. In verse four, the ground
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  Speaker 1: was cracked because there was no rain in the land,
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  Speaker 1: and the farmers were dismayed and covered their heads. Even
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  Speaker 1: the wild life couldn't escape the judgment. In verse five,
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  Speaker 1: even the dough in the field deserted her newborn fawn
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  Speaker 1: because there was no grass. In verse six, wild donkeys
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  Speaker 1: stood on the barren heights and panted like jackals. Their
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  Speaker 1: eyes failed for lack of pasture. The entire ecosystem was
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  Speaker 1: collapsing under the weight of God's judgment through nature. Jeremiah,
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  Speaker 1: seeing the desperation of his people, cried out to God
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  Speaker 1: on their behalf. In verse seven, he acknowledged their wickedness
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  Speaker 1: and admitted that their sins testified against them. He pleaded
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  Speaker 1: with God to do something for the sake of his name,
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  Speaker 1: confessing that their backsliding was great and they had sinned
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  Speaker 1: against him. In Verse eight, Jeremiah called God the Hope
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, its savior in times of disas, asking why
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  Speaker 1: he was like a stranger in the land, like a
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  Speaker 1: traveler who stayed only a night. In Verse nine, he
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  Speaker 1: asked why God seemed like a man taken by surprise,
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  Speaker 1: like a warrior, powerless to save. Yet, he reminded God
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  Speaker 1: that they were his people and bore his name, begging
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  Speaker 1: him not to forsake them. But God's response was harsh
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  Speaker 1: and unexpected. In verse ten, the Lord said about this
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  Speaker 1: people that they loved to wander and didn't restrain their feet.
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  Speaker 1: He declared that he didn't accept them and would now
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  Speaker 1: remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins. Then
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  Speaker 1: came the command that must have broken Jeremiah's heart. In
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  Speaker 1: verse eleven, the Lord told Jeremiah not to pray for
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  Speaker 1: the well being of this people. God was forbidding intercession,
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  Speaker 1: shutting the door on the prophet's pleas. In verse twelve,
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  Speaker 1: God explained that although they fasted, he would not listen
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  Speaker 1: to their cry. Though they offered burnt offerings and grain offerings,
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  Speaker 1: he would not accept them. Instead, he would destroy them
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  Speaker 1: with the sword, famine, and plague. The three instruments of
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  Speaker 1: judgment were named, and there was no escaping them. Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: tried one more approach. In verse thirteen, he said to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord that the prophets kept telling the people they
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't see the sword or suffer famine, that God would
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  Speaker 1: give them lasting peace. In this place, Jeremiah was pointing
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  Speaker 1: out that false prophets were contradicting God's true message, but
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  Speaker 1: God's response in verse fourteen was clear and damning. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord said to him that the prophets were prophesying lies
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  Speaker 1: in his name. He had not sent them, or appointed them,
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  Speaker 1: or spoken to them. They were prophesying false visions, divinations, idolatries,
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  Speaker 1: and the delusions of their own minds. In verse fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: God pronounced judgment on these lying prophets. He declared that
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  Speaker 1: those prophets who were prophesying in his name, though he
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  Speaker 1: didn't send them, and who were saying no sword or
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  Speaker 1: famine would touch them land, would themselves perish by sword
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  Speaker 1: and famine. In verse sixteen, the people who were listening
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  Speaker 1: to them would be thrown out into the streets of
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem because of the famine and sword, with no one
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  Speaker 1: to bury them their wives, sons, or daughters. God would
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  Speaker 1: pour out on them the calamity they deserved. God asked
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  Speaker 1: something unusual and difficult from Jeremiah, something that would set
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  Speaker 1: him apart from every one around him. In chapter sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: verse one, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: with a personal command. In verse two, God told him
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  Speaker 1: clearly that he must not marry and have sons or
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  Speaker 1: daughters in this place. This wasn't a suggestion or a
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  Speaker 1: spiritual discipline, It was a direct order. In a culture
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  Speaker 1: where marriage and children were expected, where being unmarried was
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  Speaker 1: considered strange and even shameful, Jeremiah was commanded to remain alone.
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  Speaker 1: God explained the reason behind this command in verse three.
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  Speaker 1: He said that concerning the sons and daughters born in
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  Speaker 1: this land, and the women who were their mothers and
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  Speaker 1: the men who were their fathers. In verse four, they
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  Speaker 1: would die of deadly diseases. They wouldn't be mourned or buried,
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  Speaker 1: but would be like refuse, lying on the ground. They
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  Speaker 1: would perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies
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  Speaker 1: would become food for the birds of the air and
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  Speaker 1: the beasts of the earth. Jeremiah's celibacy was a living prophecy,
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  Speaker 1: a sign that bringing children into this doomed society was
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  Speaker 1: pointless because they had no future. But the command went
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  Speaker 1: beyond marriage. In verse five, the Lord told Jeremiah not
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  Speaker 1: to enter a house where there was a funeral meal.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't to go to mourn or show sympathy because
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  Speaker 1: God had withdrawn his blessing, his love, and his pity
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  Speaker 1: from this people. The normal social obligations of community life
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  Speaker 1: were forbidden to Jeremiah. In verse six, God declared that
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  Speaker 1: both high and low would die in this land. They
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be buried or mourned, and no one would cut
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  Speaker 1: himself or shave his head for them. The traditional mourning
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  Speaker 1: practices would cease because death would become so common that
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  Speaker 1: it lost its significance. In verse seven, no one would
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  Speaker 1: offer food to comfort those who mourned for the dead,
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  Speaker 1: not even for a father or mother. No one would
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  Speaker 1: offer a drink to console them. The social fabric that
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  Speaker 1: held communities together during grief would be torn apart. Then,
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  Speaker 1: in verse eight, God added another restriction. Jeremiah wasn't to
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  Speaker 1: enter a house where there was feasting and sit down
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  Speaker 1: to eat and drink. He couldn't participate in celebrations either,
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  Speaker 1: no mourning, no celebrating, complete social isolation. God explained the
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  Speaker 1: purpose in verse nine. The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: declared that before their eyes and in their days, he
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  Speaker 1: would bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness,
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  Speaker 1: and the voices of bride and bridegroom. In this place,
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  Speaker 1: the joy Jeremiah couldn't participate in would soon disappear entirely.
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  Speaker 1: In verse ten, God told Jeremiah that when he announced
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  Speaker 1: all this to the people, and they asked why the
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  Speaker 1: Lord had decreed such a great disaster against them, asking
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  Speaker 1: what wrong they had done and what sin they had
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  Speaker 1: committed against the Lord their God. In verse eleven, Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: was to tell them it was because their fathers had
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  Speaker 1: forsaken God and followed other gods serving and worshiping them.
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  Speaker 1: They had forsaken God and not kept his law. In
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  Speaker 1: verse twelve, God added that the current generation had behaved
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  Speaker 1: more wickedly than their fathers. Each was following the stubbornness
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  Speaker 1: of his evil heart instead of obeying God. Jeremiah's unmarried state,
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  Speaker 1: his isolation from normal social life was a constant visual
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  Speaker 1: reminder that Judah had no future worth living for unless
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  Speaker 1: they repented. The permanence of Judah's sin and its deep
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  Speaker 1: rooted nature became the focus of God's next message. In
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  Speaker 1: chapter seventeen, Verse one, God described how Judas sin was
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  Speaker 1: engraved with an iron tool inscribed with a flint point
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  Speaker 1: on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns
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  Speaker 1: of their altars. This wasn't a surface problem or a
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  Speaker 1: temporary rebellion. Their sin was carved so deeply it had
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  Speaker 1: become part of their identity. The iron tool and flint
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  Speaker 1: point represented something that couldn't be easily erased or washed away.
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  Speaker 1: In verse two, even their children remembered their altars and
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  Speaker 1: a sheer of poles beside the spreading trees and on
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  Speaker 1: the high hills. The idolatry had been passed down through generations,
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  Speaker 1: so normalized that children grew up thinking it was natural
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  Speaker 1: to worship false gods alongside the true God. In verse three,
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  Speaker 1: God declared that because of sin throughout the country, he
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  Speaker 1: would give away their wealth, all their treasures, and their
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  Speaker 1: high places as plunder. In verse four, through their own fault,
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  Speaker 1: they would lose the inheritance God gave them. God would
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  Speaker 1: enslave them to their enemies in a land they didn't know,
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  Speaker 1: because they had kindled his anger, and it would burn forever.
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  Speaker 1: God then contrasted two ways of living. In verse five,
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  Speaker 1: He said that cursed was the one who trusted in
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  Speaker 1: man who depended on flesh for his strength, and whose
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  Speaker 1: heart turned away from the Lord. In verse six, that
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  Speaker 1: person would be like a bush in the waste lands
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  Speaker 1: and wouldn't see prosperity when it came. He would dwell
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  Speaker 1: in the parched places of the desert, in a salt
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  Speaker 1: land where no one lived. But in verse seven, blessed
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  Speaker 1: was the man who trusted in the Lord, whose confidence
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  Speaker 1: was in him. In Verse eight, he would be like
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  Speaker 1: a tree planted by the water that sent out its
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  Speaker 1: roots by the stream. It didn't fear when heat came.
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  Speaker 1: Its leaves were always green, It had no worries in
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  Speaker 1: a year of drought, and never failed to bear fruit.
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  Speaker 1: Then God revealed something about human nature that explained why
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  Speaker 1: Juda's sin was so deeply engraved. In verse nine, the
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  Speaker 1: heart was deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who
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  Speaker 1: could understand it. The problem wasn't just external behavior, it
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  Speaker 1: was the internal condition of the human heart. In verse ten,
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  Speaker 1: God declared that he the Lord, searched the heart and
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  Speaker 1: examined the mind to reward a man according to his conduct,
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  Speaker 1: according to what his deeds deserved. Nothing was hidden from
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  Speaker 1: God's sight, and every person would face the consequences of
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  Speaker 1: their choices. In verse twelve, Jeremiah described a glorious throne
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  Speaker 1: exalted from the beginning as the place of God's sanctuary.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: In verse thirteen, he declared that all who forsook the
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  Speaker 1: Lord would be put to shame. Those who turned away
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  Speaker 1: from him would be written in the dust because they
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  Speaker 1: had forsaken the Lord, the spring of living water. Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: then made a personal plea in verse fourteen, asking the
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  Speaker 1: Lord to heal him so he would be healed, to
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  Speaker 1: save him, so he would be saved, For the Lord
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  Speaker 1: was the one he praised. The prophet knew that only
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  Speaker 1: God could address the deep rooted sin problem, both in
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  Speaker 1: himself and in his nation. God sent Jeremiah to witness
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  Speaker 1: something that would become a powerful message about his sovereignty
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  Speaker 1: and Judah's future. In chapter eighteen, verse one, the word
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  Speaker 1: came to Jeremiah from the Lord, and in verse two
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  Speaker 1: God told him to go down to the potter's house,
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  Speaker 1: where he would give him his message. Jeremiah obeyed and
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  Speaker 1: went to watch the potter work. In verse three, he
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  Speaker 1: went down to the potter's house and saw him working
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  Speaker 1: at the wheel. In verse four, the pot the potter
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  Speaker 1: was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands,
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  Speaker 1: so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it
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  Speaker 1: as seemed best to him. This simple scene contained a
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  Speaker 1: profound truth. In verse five, the word of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: came to Jeremiah, asking in verse six if he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do with Israel as this potter did. God declared that
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  Speaker 1: like clay in the hand of the potter, so was
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  Speaker 1: Israel in his hand. God explained his principle of dealing
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  Speaker 1: with nations in verse seven. If at any time he
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  Speaker 1: announced that a nation or kingdom was to be uprooted,
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  Speaker 1: torn down, and destroyed in verse eight, and if that
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  Speaker 1: nation he warned repented of its evil, then he would
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  Speaker 1: relent and not inflict on it the disaster he had planned.
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  Speaker 1: The opposite was also true in verse nine. If at
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  Speaker 1: another time he announced that a nation or kingdom was
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  Speaker 1: to be built up and planted in verse ten, and
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  Speaker 1: if it did evil in his sight and didn't obey him,
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  Speaker 1: then he would reconsider the good he had intended to
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: do for it. In verse eleven, God told Jeremiah to
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: say to the people of Judah and those living in
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Jerusalem that the Lord was preparing a disaster for them
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  Speaker 1: and devising a plan against them. Each one should turn
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  Speaker 1: from his evil ways, reform his ways and his actions.
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  Speaker 1: But in verse twelve, the people's response was hopeless. They
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  Speaker 1: would reply that it was no use that they would
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  Speaker 1: continue with their own plans, and each would follow the
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  Speaker 1: stubbornness of his evil heart. Their hearts were so hard
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  Speaker 1: that even God's clear warning couldn't move them. Then God
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  Speaker 1: gave Jeremiah another sign, more dramatic and irreversible than the first.
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  Speaker 1: In Chapter nineteen, verse one, the Lord told Jeremiah to
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  Speaker 1: go and buy a clay jar from a potter. He
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  Speaker 1: was to take along some of the elders of the
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  Speaker 1: people and of the priests in verse two, and go
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  Speaker 1: out to the valley of ben Hinham, near the entrance
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  Speaker 1: of the potshard Gate. There he was to proclaim the
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  Speaker 1: words God would tell him. In verse three, Jeremiah was
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  Speaker 1: to say that kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: should hear the word of the Lord. The Lord Almighty,
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  Speaker 1: the God of Israel, declared he was going to bring
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  Speaker 1: a disaster on this place that would make the ears
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  Speaker 1: of every one who heard of it tingle. In verse four,
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  Speaker 1: God explained it was because they had forsaken him and
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  Speaker 1: made this a place of foreign gods. They had burned
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  Speaker 1: sacrifices in it to gods that neither they, nor their fathers,
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  Speaker 1: nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they had
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  Speaker 1: filled this place with the blood of the innocent. In
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  Speaker 1: verse five, they had built the high places of Bail
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  Speaker 1: to burn their sons in the fire as offerings to Bail,
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  Speaker 1: something God never commanded or mentioned, nor did it enter
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  Speaker 1: his mind. The horror of child's sacrifice had reached an
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  Speaker 1: unbearable level. In verse ten, After proclaiming these words, God
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  Speaker 1: told Jeremiah to break the jar while those who went
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  Speaker 1: with him watched. In verse eleven, he was to tell
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  Speaker 1: them that the Lord Almighty said he would smash this
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  Speaker 1: nation and this city, just as this potter's jar was
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  Speaker 1: smashed and couldn't be repaired. Unlike the clay in the
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  Speaker 1: potter's hand that could be reshaped, this jar, once broken,
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  Speaker 1: was beyond repair. They would bury the dead in tofith
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  Speaker 1: until there was no more room. After delivering God's message
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  Speaker 1: about the broken jar, Jeremiah returned to face the consequences
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  Speaker 1: of his prophecy. In chapter twenty verse one, when the
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  Speaker 1: priest Pashur's son of Ima, the chief officer in the
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  Speaker 1: temple of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. In
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  Speaker 1: verse two, he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put
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  Speaker 1: in the stocks at the upper gate of Benjamin at
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's temple. This was the first recorded physical persecution
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah suffered for speaking God's word. The chief priest, who
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  Speaker 1: should have been leading the people toward God, instead attacked
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  Speaker 1: God's messenger. The next day, in verse three, when Pasha
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  Speaker 1: released him from the stocks, Jeremiah didn't back down or
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  Speaker 1: soften his message. He said to Pasha that the Lord's
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  Speaker 1: name for him wasn't Pasha, but magor miss Abib, which
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  Speaker 1: meant terror on every side. Jeremiah was renaming the priest
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  Speaker 1: according to his destiny. In verse four, God declared through
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah that he would make Pashor a terror to himself
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  Speaker 1: and all his friends. With their own eyes. They would
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  Speaker 1: see them fall by the sword of their enemies. God
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  Speaker 1: would hand all Judah over to the king of Babylon,
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  Speaker 1: who would carry them away to Babylon or put them
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  Speaker 1: to the sword. In verse five, God said he would
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  Speaker 1: hand over to their enemies. All the wealth of this city,
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  Speaker 1: all its products, all the treasures of the kings of Judah.
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  Speaker 1: They would take it away as plunder and carry it
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  Speaker 1: off to Babylon. In verse six, God told Pasha that
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  Speaker 1: he and all who lived in his house would go
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  Speaker 1: into exile to Babylon. There he would die and be buried.
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  Speaker 1: He and all his friends to whom he had prophesied lies.
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  Speaker 1: The priest who persecuted the true prophet would himself become
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  Speaker 1: a victim of the very judgment he refused to believe
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  Speaker 1: was coming. This physical abuse and imprisonment pushed Jeremiah into
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  Speaker 1: a dark place in motionally and spiritually, the weight of
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  Speaker 1: his calling and the rejection he faced began to crush him.
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  Speaker 1: The persecution wasn't just from strangers. It came from religious leaders,
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  Speaker 1: from those who claimed to serve the same God Jeremiah served.
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  Speaker 1: The beating and the stocks were public humiliation, designed to
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  Speaker 1: silence him and discredit his message. But even in chains,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah continued to speak truth to power, showing a courage
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  Speaker 1: that came only from divine calling. The persecution and isolation
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  Speaker 1: took a severe toll on Jeremiah's spirit leading him to
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  Speaker 1: express some of the most raw and honest prayers ever
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  Speaker 1: recorded in scripture. In Chapter twenty, verse seven, Jeremiah cried
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  Speaker 1: out to God, saying he had deceived him, and he
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  Speaker 1: was deceived. God was stronger than him and had prevailed.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah had become a laughing stock all day long, and
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  Speaker 1: everyone mocked him. These were shocking words from a prophet
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  Speaker 1: accusing God of deception, but God allowed them to be recorded,
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  Speaker 1: showing that honest struggle with God was permitted. In verse eight,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah explained that whenever he spoke, he cried out, proclaiming
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  Speaker 1: violence and destruction. So the word of the Lord had
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  Speaker 1: brought him insult and reproach all day long. The message
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  Speaker 1: God gave him to deliver made him hated by every
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  Speaker 1: one around him. But in verse nine, when Jeremiah tried
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  Speaker 1: to stop prophesying, saying he wouldn't mention God or speak
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  Speaker 1: any more in his name, God's word was in his
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  Speaker 1: heart like a fire, a fire shut up in his bones.
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  Speaker 1: He was weary of holding it in, and indeed he couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: The calling was so strong that silence was impossible, even
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  Speaker 1: though speaking brought suffering. In Verse ten, Jeremiah heard many
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  Speaker 1: whispering about him. Terror was on every side, the same
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  Speaker 1: phrase he had spoken over Pasha. People were saying to
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  Speaker 1: report him, and they would report him. All his friends
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  Speaker 1: were waiting for him to slip, saying perhaps he would
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  Speaker 1: be deceived so they could prevail over him and take
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  Speaker 1: their revenge on him. The prophet was surrounded by enemies,
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  Speaker 1: even among those he once called friends. But in verse eleven,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah declared that the Lord was with him like a
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  Speaker 1: mighty warrior, so his persecutors would stumble and not prevail.
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  Speaker 1: They would fail and be thoroughly disgraced because they wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: succeed their dishonor would never be forgotten. In verse twelve,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah called on the Lord Almighty, who examined the righteous
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  Speaker 1: and probed the heart and mind, asking to see God's
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  Speaker 1: vengeance upon them, for to God he had committed his cause.
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  Speaker 1: Then in verse thirteen, his mood shifted dramatically. He sang
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord and gave praise to the Lord because
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  Speaker 1: he rescued the life of the needy from the hands
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  Speaker 1: of the wicked. But the emotional swing wasn't over. In
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  Speaker 1: verse fourteen, Jeremiah cursed the day he was born, declaring,
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  Speaker 1: may the day his mother bore or him not be blessed.
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  Speaker 1: In verse fifteen, he cursed the man who brought his
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  Speaker 1: father the news, who made him very glad, saying a
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  Speaker 1: child was born to you a son. In verse sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah wished that man would be like the towns the
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  Speaker 1: Lord overthrew, without pity. May he hear wailing in the
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  Speaker 1: morning and a battle cry at noon in verse seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: for he didn't kill Jeremiah in the womb, with his
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  Speaker 1: mother as his grave and her womb enlarged forever. In
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  Speaker 1: verse eighteen, Jeremiah asked why he ever came out of
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  Speaker 1: the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end
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  Speaker 1: his days in shame. These laments revealed the depth of
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah's suffering and the humanity of God's prophets. They weren't
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  Speaker 1: superhuman or emotionally detached. They felt pain, doubt, and despair
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  Speaker 1: just like anyone else. God had specific messages for the
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  Speaker 1: kings who ruled Judah during Jeremiah's ministry, and none of
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  Speaker 1: those messages brought comfort. In chapter twenty one, verse one,
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  Speaker 1: the word came to Jeremiah from the Lord. When King
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  Speaker 1: Zedekiah sent to him Pashur, son of Malkija, and the
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  Speaker 1: priest Zephaniah, son of Marsiah. They brought a request in
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  Speaker 1: verse two, asking Jeremiah to inquire of the Lord for
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  Speaker 1: them because nebucad Nezar, king of Babylon, was attacking them.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps the Lord would perform wonders for them as in
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  Speaker 1: times passed, so that nebucud Nezza would withdraw from them.
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  Speaker 1: But Jeremiah's answer in verse three brought no hope. He
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  Speaker 1: told them to tell Zedekiah in verse four that the
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  Speaker 1: God of Israel said he was about to turn against them.
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  Speaker 1: The weapons of war that were in their hands, which
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  Speaker 1: they were using to fight the King of Babylon and
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  Speaker 1: the Babylonians who were besieging them outside the wall. God
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  Speaker 1: himself would gather them inside this city. In verse five,
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  Speaker 1: God would fight against them with an outstretched hand and
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  Speaker 1: a mighty arm in anger and fury and great wrath.
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  Speaker 1: The nation's own God was taking them side of their enemies.
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  Speaker 1: In Chapter twenty two, verse one, the Lord told Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: to go down to the palace of the King of
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  Speaker 1: Judah and proclaim this message there. In verse two, he
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  Speaker 1: was to say that the king of Judah, who sat
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  Speaker 1: on David's throne, should hear the word of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: he and his officials and his people who came through
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  Speaker 1: these gates. In verse three, God commanded them to do
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  Speaker 1: what was just and right, to rescue from the hand
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  Speaker 1: of his oppressor, the one who had been robbed, to
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  Speaker 1: do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless,
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  Speaker 1: or the widow, and not to shed innocent blood in
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  Speaker 1: this place. In verse four, God promised that if they
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  Speaker 1: were careful to carry out these commands, then kings who
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  Speaker 1: sat on David's throne would come through the gates of
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  Speaker 1: this palace riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by
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  Speaker 1: their officials and their people. But in verse five, if
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  Speaker 1: they didn't obey these commands, Gods swore by himself that
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  Speaker 1: this palace would become a ruin. Then God spoke specifically
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  Speaker 1: about King Jehoiakim in verse thirteen, woe to him who
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  Speaker 1: built his palace by unrighteousness, his upper rooms by injustice,
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  Speaker 1: making his countrymen work for nothing, not paying them for
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  Speaker 1: their labor. In verse eighteen, God declared that concerning Jehoiakim,
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  Speaker 1: son of Josiah, King of Judah. They wouldn't mourn for him,
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  Speaker 1: saying alas my brother, or alas my sister. They wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: mourn for him, saying alas my master, or alas his splendor.
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  Speaker 1: In verse nineteen, he would have the burial of a
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  Speaker 1: donkey dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: The king, who lived in luxury built on injustice, would
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  Speaker 1: die in disgrace. In verse twenty four, God swore that
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  Speaker 1: even if Jehoyacin, son of Jehoiakim, King of Judah, were
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  Speaker 1: a signet ring on his right hand, he would still
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  Speaker 1: pull him off. In verse twenty eight, God asked if
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  Speaker 1: this man, Jehoiakin was a despise raised broken pot, an
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  Speaker 1: object no one wanted, why would he and his children
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  Speaker 1: be hurled out and cast into a land they didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: The conflict between true and false prophecy reached its peak
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  Speaker 1: as God addressed the lying prophets who were misleading the
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  Speaker 1: people in chapter twenty three, verse one, woe to the
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  Speaker 1: shepherds who were destroying and scattering the sheep of God's pasture.
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  Speaker 1: In verse two, God said to the shepherds who tended
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  Speaker 1: his people that because they had scattered his flock and
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  Speaker 1: driven them away and hadn't bestowed care on them, he
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  Speaker 1: would bestow punishment on them for the evil they had done.
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  Speaker 1: But God would also restore. In verse three, he himself
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  Speaker 1: would gather the remnant of his flock out of all
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  Speaker 1: the countries where he had driven them, and would bring
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  Speaker 1: them back to their pasture, where they would be fruitful
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  Speaker 1: and increase in number. Then God turned his attention to
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  Speaker 1: the prophets themselves. In verse nine, concerning the prophets, Jeremiah's
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  Speaker 1: heart was broken within him, and all his bones trembled.
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  Speaker 1: He was like a drunken man, like a man overcome
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  Speaker 1: by wine. Because of the Lord and his holy words.
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  Speaker 1: In verse ten, the land was full of adulterers, and
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  Speaker 1: because of this the land lay under a curse. The
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  Speaker 1: pastures of the desert were withered, and the prophets followed
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  Speaker 1: an evil course and used their power unjustly. In verse eleven,
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  Speaker 1: both prophet and priest were godless even in God's temple.
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  Speaker 1: God had found their wickedness. In verse thirteen, among the
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  Speaker 1: prophets of Samaria, God saw something repulsive they prophesied by
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  Speaker 1: Baal and led his people Israel astray. In verse fourteen
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  Speaker 1: among the prophets of Jerusalem, he saw something horrible. They
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  Speaker 1: committed adultery and lived a lie. They strengthened the hands
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  Speaker 1: of evil doers so that no one turned from his wickedness.
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  Speaker 1: They were all like Sodom to him, and the people
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  Speaker 1: of Jerusalem like Gomorrah. In verse sixteen, God commanded the
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  Speaker 1: people not to listen to what the prophets were prophesying
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  Speaker 1: to them. They were filling them with false hopes. They
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  Speaker 1: spoke visions from their own minds, not from the mouth
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. In verse seventeen, they kept saying to
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  Speaker 1: those who despise God that the Lord said they would
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  Speaker 1: have peace, And to all who followed the stubbornness of
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  Speaker 1: their hearts, they said no harm would come to them.
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  Speaker 1: But in verse eighteen, God asked who had stood in
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  Speaker 1: the council of the Lord to see or hear his word,
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  Speaker 1: who had listened and heard his word? In verse twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: God declared he didn't send these prophets, yet they ran
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  Speaker 1: with their message. He didn't speak to them, yet they prophesied.
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  Speaker 1: In verse twenty two, if they had stood in his council,
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  Speaker 1: they would have proclaimed his words to his people and
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  Speaker 1: would have turned them from their evil ways and from
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  Speaker 1: their evil deeds. In verse twenty five, God said he
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  Speaker 1: had heard what the prophets said who prophesied lies in
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  Speaker 1: his name, claiming they had a dream. In verse twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: how long would this continue in the hearts of these
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  Speaker 1: lying prophets who prophesied the delusions of their own minds.
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  Speaker 1: In verse twenty eight, God said, let the prophet who
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  Speaker 1: had a dream tell his dream, but let the one
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  Speaker 1: who had his word speak it faithfully. What had straw
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  Speaker 1: to do with grain? In verse twenty nine, wasn't God's
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  Speaker 1: word like fire and like a hammer that broke a
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  Speaker 1: rock in pieces? In verse thirty God declared he was
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  Speaker 1: against the prophets who stole from one another words supposedly
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  Speaker 1: from him. In verse thirty one, he was against the
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  Speaker 1: prophets who wagged their own tongues, and yet declared the
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  Speaker 1: Lord declares. In verse thirty two, God was against those
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  Speaker 1: who prophesied false dreams. They told them and led his
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  Speaker 1: people astray with their reckless lies. Yet he didn't send
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  Speaker 1: or appoint them. They didn't benefit these people in the least.
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  Speaker 1: The distinction between true and false prophecy was clear, and
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  Speaker 1: judgment awaited those who spoke lies in God's name. God
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  Speaker 1: gave Jeremiah another dramatic sign to perform, one that would
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  Speaker 1: make his message impossible to ignore. In Chapter twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: verse one, early in the reign of Zedekiah, son of Josiah,
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  Speaker 1: King of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: In verse two, God told him to make a yoke
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  Speaker 1: out of straps and crossbars and put it on his neck.
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  Speaker 1: The yoke was what farmers placed on oxen to control
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  Speaker 1: them while plowing. Jeremiah was being told to dress like
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  Speaker 1: a work animal, symbolizing servitude and submission. In verse three,
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  Speaker 1: God instructed him to send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tire,
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  Speaker 1: and Sidon, through the envoys who had come to Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: to Zedekiah, king of Judah. In verse four, he was
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  Speaker 1: to give them a message for their masters, saying that
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, told them to
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  Speaker 1: say to their masters that in verse five, with his
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  Speaker 1: great power and outstretched arm, he made the earth and
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  Speaker 1: its people and the animals that were on it, and
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  Speaker 1: he gave it to anyone he pleased. In verse six.
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  Speaker 1: Now God would hand all these countries over to his servant,
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  Speaker 1: nebucud Nezza, King of Babylon. He would make even the
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  Speaker 1: wild animals subject to him. In Verse seven, all nations
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  Speaker 1: would serve him and his son and his grandson until
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  Speaker 1: the time for his land came. Then many nations and
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  Speaker 1: great kings would subjugate him. But in verse eight, if
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  Speaker 1: any nation or kingdom wouldn't serve nebucad Neza, King of Babylon,
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  Speaker 1: or bow its neck under his yoke, God would punish
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  Speaker 1: that nation with the sword, famine and plague until he
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  Speaker 1: destroyed it by his hand. In verse nine, God warned
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  Speaker 1: them not to listen to their prophets, diviners, interpreters of dreams, mediums,
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  Speaker 1: or sorcerers who told them they wouldn't serve the King
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  Speaker 1: of Babylon. In verse ten, they were prophesying lies that
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  Speaker 1: would only serve to remove them far from their lands.
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  Speaker 1: God would banish them and they would perish in verse eleven.
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  Speaker 1: But if any nation would bow its neck under the
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  Speaker 1: yoke of the King of Babylon and serve him, God
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  Speaker 1: would let that nation remain in its own land to
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  Speaker 1: till it and to live there. Surrender meant survival, resistance
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  Speaker 1: meant destruction. In verse twelve, Jeremiah gave the same message
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  Speaker 1: to Zedekiah, king of Judah. He said, to bow down
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  Speaker 1: under the yoke of the King of Babylon, serve him
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  Speaker 1: and his people, and they would live. In verse thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: why should he and his people die by the sword,
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  Speaker 1: famine and plague with which the Lord had threatened any
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  Speaker 1: nation that wouldn't serve the King of Babylon. In verse fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah warned not to listen to the words of the
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  Speaker 1: prophets who said they wouldn't serve the King of Babylon,
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  Speaker 1: for they were prophesying lies. In verse fifteen, God declared
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  Speaker 1: he hadn't sent them yet. They were prophesying lies in
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  Speaker 1: his dead name. Therefore he would banish them, and they
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  Speaker 1: would perish, both they and the prophets who prophesied to them. Then,
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  Speaker 1: in verse sixteen, Jeremiah told the priests and all these
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  Speaker 1: people not to listen to the prophets who said that
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  Speaker 1: very soon the articles from the Lord's house would be
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  Speaker 1: brought back from Babylon. They were prophesying lies. In Verse seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: don't listen to them. Serve the King of Babylon and live,
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  Speaker 1: why should this city become a ruin. The confrontation between
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  Speaker 1: true and false prophecy came to a head in a
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  Speaker 1: dramatic public encounter in chapter twenty eight, verse one. In
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  Speaker 1: the fifth month of that same year the fourth year,
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  Speaker 1: early in the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, the
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  Speaker 1: prophet Hannanaiah, son of Azur, who was from Gibeon, said
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  Speaker 1: to Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, in the
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  Speaker 1: presence of the priests and all the people, that in
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  Speaker 1: verse two, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, said
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  Speaker 1: he would break the yoke of the King of Babylon.
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  Speaker 1: In verse three, within two years, he would bring back
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  Speaker 1: to this place all the articles of the Lord's house
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  Speaker 1: that Nebuchadnezar, king of Babylon, removed from here and took
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  Speaker 1: to Babylon. In verse four, Hannaniah added that God would
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  Speaker 1: also bring back to this place Jehoiakin, son of Jehoiakim,
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  Speaker 1: King of Judah, and all the other exiles from Judah
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  Speaker 1: who went to Babylon, for he would break the yoke
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  Speaker 1: of the King of Babylon. This prophecy was the exact
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  Speaker 1: opposite of what Jeremiah had been saying it was comforting, nationalistic,
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  Speaker 1: and told the people exactly what they wanted to hear
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  Speaker 1: the prophet. Jeremiah replied to the prophet Hananiah before the
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  Speaker 1: priests and all the people who were standing in the
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  Speaker 1: house of the Lord. In verse six, Jeremiah said, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: may the Lord do so. May the Lord fulfill the
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  Speaker 1: words Hannanaiah had prophesied by bringing the articles of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord's house and all the exiles back to this from Babylon.
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  Speaker 1: But Jeremiah wasn't agreeing with Hannanaiah. In verse seven, he said, nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: listen to what he had to say in his hearing
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  Speaker 1: and in the hearing of all the people in verse eight.
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  Speaker 1: From early times, the prophets who preceded both Jeremiah and
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  Speaker 1: Hannaniah had prophesied war, disaster, and plague against many countries
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  Speaker 1: and great kingdoms in verse nine, but the prophet who
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  Speaker 1: prophesied peace would be recognized as one truly sent by
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  Speaker 1: the Lord only if his prediction came true. True prophecy
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  Speaker 1: had a track record of warning about judgment, while false
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  Speaker 1: prophecy promised easy peace. In verse ten. Then the prophet
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  Speaker 1: Hannanaiah took the yoke off the neck of the prophet
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah and broke it. In verse eleven, he said before
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  Speaker 1: all the people that the Lord said, in the same
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  Speaker 1: way he would break the yoke of nebuicut Nezzar, king
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  Speaker 1: of Babylon, off the neck of all the nations within
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  Speaker 1: two year. At this the prophet Jeremiah went on his way.
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  Speaker 1: It appeared that Hannanaiah had won the confrontation. He broke
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  Speaker 1: the yoke, made his bold prediction, and Jeremiah walked away
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  Speaker 1: without responding. But shortly after the prophet Hannanaiah had broken
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  Speaker 1: the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, the
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  Speaker 1: word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in verse twelve.
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  Speaker 1: In verse thirteen, God told him to go and tell
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  Speaker 1: Hannaniah that the Lord said he had broken a wooden yoke,
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  Speaker 1: but in its place he would get a yoke of iron.
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  Speaker 1: In verse fourteen, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: said he would put an iron yoke on the necks
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  Speaker 1: of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar, king
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  Speaker 1: of Babylon, and they would serve him. God would even
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  Speaker 1: give him control over the wild animals. Then, in verse fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: the prophet Jeremiah said to Hannaniah the Prophet that he
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  Speaker 1: should listen. That the Lord hadn't sent him yet he
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  Speaker 1: had persuaded this nation to trust in lies. In Verse sixteen, Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord said he was about to remove Hannaniah from
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  Speaker 1: the face of the earth this very year. He was
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  Speaker 1: going to die because he had preached rebellion against the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: The judgment was specific and immediate. In verse seventeen, in
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  Speaker 1: the seventh month of that same year, Hannaniah the Prophet died.
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  Speaker 1: The false prophet who promised peace, was dead within two
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  Speaker 1: months of his confrontation with Jeremiah, proving who spoke God's
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  Speaker 1: true word. With some of the people already in exile
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  Speaker 1: in Babylon, Jeremiah wrote them a letter with instructions for
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  Speaker 1: how to live in captivity. Chapter twenty nine, Verse one
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  Speaker 1: states this was the text of the letter that the
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  Speaker 1: prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among
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  Speaker 1: the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all
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  Speaker 1: the other people. Nebucat Neza had carried into exile from
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem to Babylon. In verse four, the Lord Almighty, the
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  Speaker 1: God of Israel, said to all those he carried into
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  Speaker 1: exile from Jerusalem to Babylon to in verse five, build
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  Speaker 1: houses and settle down, plant gardens, and eat what they produce.
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  Speaker 1: In Verse six, they should marry and have sons and daughters,
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  Speaker 1: find wives for their sons, and give their daughters in marriage,
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  Speaker 1: so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase
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  Speaker 1: in number there and don't decrease. In verse seven, Also,
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  Speaker 1: they should seek the peace and prosperity of the city
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  Speaker 1: to which God had carried them into exile. They should
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  Speaker 1: pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospered,
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  Speaker 1: they too would prosper. This was revolutionary advice. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: resisting or plotting rebellion, they were to settle in, build lives,
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  Speaker 1: and work for the good of Babylon itself. In verse eight,
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  Speaker 1: God warned them not to let the prophets and diviners
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  Speaker 1: among them deceive them. They shouldn't listen to the dreams
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  Speaker 1: they encouraged them to have. In verse nine, they were
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  Speaker 1: prophesying lies in his name. God hadn't sent them. Then
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  Speaker 1: came a promise that would sustain them through decades of exile.
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  Speaker 1: In verse ten, when seventy years were completed for Babylon,
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  Speaker 1: God would come to them and fulfill his gracious promise
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  Speaker 1: to bring them back to this place. The exile had
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  Speaker 1: a time limit, it wasn't permanent. In Verse eleven, God
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  Speaker 1: declared that he knew the plans he had for them,
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  Speaker 1: plans to prosper them and not to harm them, plans
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  Speaker 1: to give them hope and a future. In Verse twelve,
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  Speaker 1: Then they would call upon him and come and pray
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  Speaker 1: to him, and he would listen to them. In Verse thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: they would seek him and find him when they sought
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  Speaker 1: him with all their heart. In Verse fourteen, God would
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  Speaker 1: be found by them and would bring them back from captivity.
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  Speaker 1: He would gather them from all the nations and places
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  Speaker 1: where he had banished them, and would bring them back
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: to the place from which he carried them into exile.
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  Speaker 1: But for those still in Jerusalem who refused to surrender,
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  Speaker 1: the message was different. In Verse seventeen, God said he
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  Speaker 1: would send the sword, famine and plague against them, and
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  Speaker 1: would make them like poor figs that were so bad
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't be eaten. In Verse eighteen, he would pursue
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  Speaker 1: them with the sword famine and plague, and would make
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  Speaker 1: them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, and
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  Speaker 1: an object of cursing and horror, of scorn and reproach
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  Speaker 1: among all the nations where he drove them. The contrast
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: was clear. Those who accepted exile and settled in would
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  Speaker 1: eventually return, while those who resisted in Jerusalem would face
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: total destruction. In the midst of judgment and destruction, God
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: gave Jeremiah messages of hope that looked beyond the immediate
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: crisis to a glorious future. Chapter thirty, Verse one states
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  Speaker 1: the word came to Jeremiah from the Lord. In verse two,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, the God of Israel, said to write in
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  Speaker 1: a book all the words he had spoken to him.
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  Speaker 1: In verse three, the days were coming when God would
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  Speaker 1: bring his people Israel and Judah back from captivity and
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  Speaker 1: restore them to the land he gave their forefathers to possess.
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  Speaker 1: In verse five, God said they heard cries of fear
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  Speaker 1: and terror, not peace. In verse six, he asked them
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  Speaker 1: to ask and see if a man could give birth,
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  Speaker 1: Why then did he see every strong man with his
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  Speaker 1: hands on his stomach like a woman. In labor. Every
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  Speaker 1: face turned deathly pale. In verse seven, how awful that
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  Speaker 1: day would be. None would be like it. It would
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  Speaker 1: be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he would
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  Speaker 1: be saved out of it. This pointed to a coming
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  Speaker 1: time of unprecedented difficulty, but survival was guaranteed. In verse ten,
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  Speaker 1: God told them not to fear his servant, Jacob, not
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  Speaker 1: to be dismayed Israel. He would surely save them out
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  Speaker 1: of a distant place their descendants, from the land of
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  Speaker 1: their exile. Jacob would again have peace and security, and
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  Speaker 1: no one would make him afraid. In verse eleven, God
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  Speaker 1: declared he was with them and would save them. Though
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  Speaker 1: he completely destroyed all the nations among which he scattered them,
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  Speaker 1: he wouldn't completely destroy them. He would discipline them, but
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  Speaker 1: only with justice, and wouldn't let them go entirely unpunished.
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  Speaker 1: Then came one of the most important prophecies in all
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  Speaker 1: of Scripture. Chapter thirty one. Verse thirty one states the
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  Speaker 1: time was coming when God would make a new covenant
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  Speaker 1: with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah.
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  Speaker 1: In verse thirty two, it wouldn't be like the covenant
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  Speaker 1: he made with their forefathers when he took them by
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  Speaker 1: the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: broke his covenant though he was a husband to them.
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  Speaker 1: In verse thirty three. This was the covenant God would
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: make with the House of Israel. After that time. He
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  Speaker 1: would put his law in their minds and write it
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  Speaker 1: on their hearts. He would be their God and they
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  Speaker 1: would be his people. In verse thirty four, no longer
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  Speaker 1: would a man teach his neighbor or a man his
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: brother saying, know the Lord, because they would all know him,
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  Speaker 1: from the least of them to the greatest. For God
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  Speaker 1: would forgive their wickedness and would remember their sins no more.
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  Speaker 1: This new covenant would be internal rather than external, written
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  Speaker 1: on hearts rather than stone tablets. It would bring complete
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  Speaker 1: forgiveness and direct knowledge of God for everyone, not just
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  Speaker 1: priests and prophets. This promise looked far beyond the return
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  Speaker 1: from Babylon to a fundamental transformation of the relationship between
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  Speaker 1: God and his people. God expanded on his promises of
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: restoration with vivid imagery of a renewed nation in chapter
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: thirty one, verse four. He would build them up again,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: and they would be reach built virgin Israel. Again, they
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  Speaker 1: would take up their tambourines and go out to dance
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  Speaker 1: with the joyful. In verse five, again they would plant
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  Speaker 1: vineyards on the hills of Samaria, and the farmers would
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  Speaker 1: plant them and enjoy their fruit. The picture was of
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: normal life, restored of agriculture and celebration of productivity and joy.
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  Speaker 1: In verse eight, God declared he would bring them from
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  Speaker 1: the land of the north and gather them from the
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  Speaker 1: ends of the earth. Among them would be the blind
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  Speaker 1: and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. A
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: great throng would return. In verse nine. They would come
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  Speaker 1: with weeping, and God would lead them with consolation. He
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  Speaker 1: would guide them beside streams of water on a level
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  Speaker 1: path where they wouldn't stumble. Because He was Israel's father
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  Speaker 1: and Ephraim was his first born son, the journey home
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: would be gentle, accommodating the weak and vulnerable. In Verse ten,
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  Speaker 1: nations were told to hear the word of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and proclaim it in distant coast lands. That he who
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  Speaker 1: scattered Israel would gather them and would watch over his
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  Speaker 1: flock like a shepherd. In Verse eleven, for the Lord
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  Speaker 1: would ransom Jacob and redeem them from the hand of
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: those stronger than they. In verse twelve, they would come
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  Speaker 1: and shout for joy on the heights of Zion, and
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: would rejoice in the bounty of the Lord, the grain,
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  Speaker 1: the new wine, and the oil, the young of the
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: flocks and herds. They would be like a well watered garden,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: and they would sorrow no more. In verse thirteen, then
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: maidens would dance and be glad young men and old
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  Speaker 1: as well. God would turn their mourning into gladness and
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: would give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow. In
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: verse fourteen, he would satisfy the priests with abundance, and
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: his people would be filled with his bounty. The restoration
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be partial or limited. It would be complete and overflowing.
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  Speaker 1: In Verse twenty three, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, said,
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  Speaker 1: when he brought them back from captivity, the people in
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: the land of Judah and in its towns would once
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: again use these words, the Lord, bless you, righteous, dwelling
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  Speaker 1: sacred mountain. In verse twenty seven, the days were coming
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: when God would plant the house of Israel and the
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: House of Judah with the offspring of men and of animals.
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  Speaker 1: In Verse twenty eight. Just as he watched over them
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  Speaker 1: to uproot and tear down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring disaster,
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  Speaker 1: so he would watch over them to build and to plant.
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  Speaker 1: The same attention God gave to judgment would be given
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  Speaker 1: to restoration in verse twenty nine. In those days, people
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  Speaker 1: would no longer say the fathers ate sour grapes, and
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: the children's teeth were set on edge in verse thirty. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: every one would die for his own sin, and whoever
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  Speaker 1: ate sour grapes would have his own teeth set on edge.
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  Speaker 1: Individual responsibility would replace generational punishment. While Jerusalem was under
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  Speaker 1: siege and destruction, seemed certain, God told Jeremiah to do
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: something that appeared completely irrational. In chapter thirty two, verse one.
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  Speaker 1: The word came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: tenth year of Zedekiah, King of Judah, which was the
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: eighteenth year of Nebuchadnazza. In verse two, the army of
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  Speaker 1: the King of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: the Prophet was confined in the courtyard of the God
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  Speaker 1: in the Royal Palace of Judah. The situation was desperate,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: and Jeremiah was imprisoned. In verse six, Jeremiah said, the
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  Speaker 1: word of the Lord came to him, telling him in
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  Speaker 1: verse seven that Hannamel's son of Shalam, his uncle, was
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  Speaker 1: going to come to him and say to buy his
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  Speaker 1: field at Anathoth, because as nearest relative, it was his
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  Speaker 1: right and duty to buy it. In verse eight, then,
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  Speaker 1: just as the Lord had said, Hanamel, his cousin, came
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  Speaker 1: to him in the courtyard of the God and said
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  Speaker 1: to buy his field Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.
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  Speaker 1: Since it was his right to redeem it and possess it,
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  Speaker 1: he should buy it for himself. Jeremiah knew this was
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord. In verse nine, Jeremiah bought
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  Speaker 1: the field at Anathoth from his cousin Hannamel, and weighed
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  Speaker 1: out for him seventeen shekels of silver. In verse ten,
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  Speaker 1: he signed and sealed the deed, had it witnessed, and
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  Speaker 1: weighed out the silver on the scales. In verse eleven.
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  Speaker 1: He took the deed of purchase, the sealed copy containing
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  Speaker 1: the terms and conditions, as well as the unsealed copy
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  Speaker 1: in verse twelve, and he gave this deed to Baruch,
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  Speaker 1: son of Neariah, the son of Messiah, in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of his cousin Hannamel, and of the witnesses who had
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  Speaker 1: signed the deed, and of all the Jews sitting in
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  Speaker 1: the courtyard of the God. In verse thirteen, in their presence,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah gave Barrek these instructions. In verse fourteen, the Lord Almighty,
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  Speaker 1: the God of Israel, said to take these documents, both
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  Speaker 1: the sealed and un sealed copies of the deed of Purchase,
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  Speaker 1: and put them in a clay jar, so they would
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  Speaker 1: last a long time. In Verse fifteen, for the Lord Almighty,
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  Speaker 1: the God of Israel, said, houses, fields, and vineyards would
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  Speaker 1: again be bought in this land. This was an act
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  Speaker 1: of faith in the midst of disaster. Buying property in
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  Speaker 1: a city about to be destroyed was a prophetic statement
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  Speaker 1: that the land would be inhabited again, that there was
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  Speaker 1: a future beyond the coming judgment. After Jeremiah had given
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  Speaker 1: the deed of purchase to Baruch, he prayed to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: In verse seventeen. He acknowledged that God had made the
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  Speaker 1: heavens and the earth by his great power and outstretched arm,
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  Speaker 1: and nothing was too hard for him. In Verse twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah pointed out that the siege ramps were built up
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  Speaker 1: to take the city, and because of the sword, famine,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: and plague, the city would be handed over to the
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  Speaker 1: Babylonians who were attacking it. What God said would happen
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  Speaker 1: was happening, and God saw it himself. In verse twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: yet God told him to buy the field with silver
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  Speaker 1: and have the transaction witnessed, even though the city would
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: be handed over to the Babylonians. God answered Jeremiah's confusion
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  Speaker 1: in verse twenty seven. He declared that he was the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: the god of all mankind. Was anything too hard for him.
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  Speaker 1: In verse thirty six, God acknowledged that they were saying
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  Speaker 1: about this city that by the sword, famine, and plague,
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  Speaker 1: it would be handed over to the King of Babylon.
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  Speaker 1: But in verse thirty seven, he would surely gather them
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  Speaker 1: from all the lands where he banished them in his
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: furious anger and great wrath. He would bring them back
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: to this place and let them live in safety. In
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: verse forty two, just as he brought all this great
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: calamity on this people, so he would give them all
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: the prosperity he promised them. In verse forty three. Once
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  Speaker 1: more fields would be bought in this land, of which
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  Speaker 1: they said it was a desolate waste without men or animals,
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  Speaker 1: for it had been handed over to the Babylonians. The
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  Speaker 1: moment Jeremiah had warned about for decades finally arrived in
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  Speaker 1: chapter thirty four, verse one. While Nebuicud Nezar, King of Babylon,
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  Speaker 1: and all his army, and all the kingdoms and peoples
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  Speaker 1: in the empire he ruled, were fighting against Jerusalem and
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: all its surrounding towns. This word came to Jeremiah from
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: the Lord. In verse two, the Lord, the God of Israel,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: said to go to Zedekiah, King of Judah, and tell
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: him that God was about to hand this city over
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  Speaker 1: to the King of Babylon, and he would burn it down.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: In verse three, Zedekiah wouldn't escape from the Babylonians, but
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: would certainly be captured and handed over to him. He
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  Speaker 1: would see the King of Babylon with his own eyes,
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: and he would speak with him face to face, and
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  Speaker 1: he would go to Babylon. The conditions inside the besieged
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: city became unbearable. Chapter thirty seven, verse twenty one states
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  Speaker 1: King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in
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  Speaker 1: the courtyard of the guard and given bread from the
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  Speaker 1: street of the bakers each day until all the bread
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  Speaker 1: in the city was gone, so Jeremiah remained in the
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  Speaker 1: courtyard of the guard. In chapter thirty eight, verse six,
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  Speaker 1: officials took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern of Malkja,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: the King's son, which was in the courtyard of the guard.
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  Speaker 1: They lowered Jeremiah by ropes into the cistern, and it
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: had no water in it, only mud, and Jeremiah sank
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: down into the mud. Even in these final days, Jeremiah
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: faced persecution from leaders who hated his message. But an
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: Ethiopian official named ebed Melek heard that they had put
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah into the cistern, and in verse nine he said
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: to the king that these men had acted wickedly in
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: all they had done to Jeremiah the Prophet. They had
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: thrown him into a cistern where he would start after
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: death when there was no longer any bread in the city.
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  Speaker 1: In verse ten, the king commanded abed Melek the Kushite,
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  Speaker 1: to take thirty men from here with him and lift
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah the Prophet out of the cistern. Before he died.
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  Speaker 1: In verse thirteen, They pulled Jeremiah up with the ropes
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  Speaker 1: and lifted him out of the cistern, and Jeremiah remained
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  Speaker 1: in the courtyard of the God. King Zedekiah sent for
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah one last time. In verse seventeen. Jeremiah told him
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  Speaker 1: that the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, said
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  Speaker 1: if he surrendered to the officers of the King of Babylon,
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  Speaker 1: his life would be spared and this city wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: burned down. Both he and his family would live in
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  Speaker 1: verse eighteen. But if he didn't surrender, this city would
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  Speaker 1: be handed over to the Babylonians and they would burn
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  Speaker 1: it down, and he himself wouldn't escape from their hands.
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  Speaker 1: In verse nineteen, King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah that he
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  Speaker 1: was afraid maid of the Jews who had gone over
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  Speaker 1: to the Babylonians, for the Babylonians might hand him over
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  Speaker 1: to them and they would mistreat him. But in verse twenty,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah replied that they wouldn't hand him over. He urged
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  Speaker 1: the king to obey the Lord by doing what he
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  Speaker 1: told him. Then it would go well with him and
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  Speaker 1: his life would be spared. Zedekiah refused to listen. The
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  Speaker 1: siege continued, and the city's doom was sealed. Everything Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: prophesied came to pass exactly as God said it would.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty nine. Verse one states in the ninth year
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  Speaker 1: of Zedekiah, King of Judah, in the tenth month Nebucate Nezar,
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  Speaker 1: King of Babylon, marched against Jerusalem with his whole army
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  Speaker 1: and laid siege to it. In verse two, and on
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  Speaker 1: the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year,
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  Speaker 1: the city wall was broken through. The siege lasted a
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  Speaker 1: year and a half, and finally the defenses collapsed in
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  Speaker 1: verse three. Then all the officials of the King of
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  Speaker 1: Babylon came and took seats in the middle gate. The
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  Speaker 1: Babylonian leadership entered the conquered city and established their authority.
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  Speaker 1: In verse four. When Zedekiah, King of Judah, and all
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  Speaker 1: the soldiers saw them, they fled and left the city
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  Speaker 1: at night by way of the King's garden, through the
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  Speaker 1: gate between the two walls, and headed toward the Arabah.
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  Speaker 1: Zedekiah tried to escape in the darkness, running for his life,
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  Speaker 1: but in verse five the Babylonian army pursued them and
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  Speaker 1: overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They captured him
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  Speaker 1: and took him to Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, at Ribla,
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  Speaker 1: in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced sentence on him.
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  Speaker 1: The king, who refused to surrender, now faced judgment as
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  Speaker 1: a captive. In verse six. There at Ribla, the King
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  Speaker 1: of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and all also killed all the nobles of Judah. The
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  Speaker 1: horror was unimaginable. Zedekiah's last sight was his children being murdered.
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  Speaker 1: In verse seven. Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes and
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  Speaker 1: bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.
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  Speaker 1: The king, who feared humiliation, experienced the worst humiliation possible.
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  Speaker 1: Blinded and chained, he was led away to die in captivity.
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  Speaker 1: In verse eight, the Babylonians set fire to the royal
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  Speaker 1: palace and the houses of the people, and broke down
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  Speaker 1: the walls of Jerusalem. The city that trusted in its
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  Speaker 1: temple and its walls now had neither. Everything was destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: In verse nine, Nebuzaradan, commander of the Imperial Guard, carried
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  Speaker 1: into exile to Babylon the people who remained in the city,
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  Speaker 1: along with those who had gone over to him and
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the people in verse ten. But Nebuzaradan,
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  Speaker 1: the commander of the Guard, left behind in the land
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  Speaker 1: of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing,
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  Speaker 1: and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.
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  Speaker 1: The poorest of the poor inherited the land, while the
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  Speaker 1: wealthy and powerful were dragged away in chains. As for Jeremiah,
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  Speaker 1: verse eleven states Nebucad Nezar, king of Babylon, had given
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  Speaker 1: these orders about Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan, commander of the Imperial Guard.
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  Speaker 1: In verse twelve, he said to take him and look
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  Speaker 1: after him, and don't harm him, but do for him
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  Speaker 1: whatever he asked. In verse fourteen, Nebuzaradan, the commander of
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  Speaker 1: the God, along with other Babylonian officials, sent and had
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah taken out of the courtyard of the God. They
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  Speaker 1: turned him over to Gadalia, son of Ahikam, the son
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  Speaker 1: of Shaffon, to take him back to his home, so
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  Speaker 1: he remained among his own people. The prophet who warned
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  Speaker 1: of destruction, was spared by the very army that brought
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  Speaker 1: the destruction. God's word had been fulfilled completely. After Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: fell and most of the people were taken into exile,
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  Speaker 1: a small group remained in the devastated land. Chapter forty,
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  Speaker 1: verse one states the word came to Jeremiah from the
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  Speaker 1: Lord after Nebuzaradan, commander of the Imperial Guard, had released
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  Speaker 1: him at Ramah. He had found Jeremiah bound in chains
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  Speaker 1: among all the captives from Jerusalem and Judah who were
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  Speaker 1: being carried into exile to Babylon. In verse two. When
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  Speaker 1: the commander of the God found Jeremiah, he said to
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  Speaker 1: him that the Lord, his God, had decreed this disaster
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: for this place in verse three, and now the Lord
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  Speaker 1: had brought it about. He had done just as he
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  Speaker 1: said he would. All this happened because the people sinned
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  Speaker 1: against the Lord and didn't obey him. In verse four,
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  Speaker 1: the commander told Jeremiah that he was freeing him from
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  Speaker 1: the chains on his wrists. He could come to Babylon
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  Speaker 1: with him if he liked, and he would look after him,
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  Speaker 1: but if he didn't want to, then he didn't have to.
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  Speaker 1: The whole country lay before him, and he could go
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  Speaker 1: wherever he pleased. In verse five, However, before Jeremiah turned
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  Speaker 1: to go, Nebuzaradan added that he could go back to Gedalia,
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  Speaker 1: son of Ahikam, the son of Shaffon, whom the King
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  Speaker 1: of Babylon had appointed over the towns of Judah, and
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  Speaker 1: lived with him among the people, or go anywhere else
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  Speaker 1: he pleased. Then the commander gave him provisions and a
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  Speaker 1: present and let him go. In verse six, Jeremiah went
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  Speaker 1: to Gedalia son of Ahikam, at Misbah and stayed with
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  Speaker 1: him among the people who were left behind in the land.
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  Speaker 1: In verse seven, when all the army officers and their
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  Speaker 1: men who were still in the open country heard that
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  Speaker 1: the King of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, son of Ahikam,
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  Speaker 1: as governor over the land and had put him in
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  Speaker 1: charge of the men, women, and children who were the
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  Speaker 1: poorest in the land and who hadn't been carried into
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  Speaker 1: exile to Babylon. In verse eight, they came to Gadalia
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  Speaker 1: at Mispah. The names of these officers were listed, and
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  Speaker 1: they came with their men. In verse nine, Gadalia, son
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  Speaker 1: of Ahikam, the son of Shaffon, took an oath to
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  Speaker 1: reassure them and their men. He said, not to be
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  Speaker 1: afraid to serve the Babylonians. They should settle down in
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  Speaker 1: the land and serve the King of Babylon, and it
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  Speaker 1: would go well with them. In verse ten, he himself
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  Speaker 1: would stay at Mispa to represent them before the Babylonians
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  Speaker 1: who came to them. But they were to harvest the wine,
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  Speaker 1: sum of fruit and oil and put them in storage jars,
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  Speaker 1: and live in the towns they had taken over. There
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  Speaker 1: was hope for a peaceful existence under Babylonian rule. In
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  Speaker 1: verse eleven, when all the Jews in moab ammon Edom
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  Speaker 1: and all the other countries heard that the King of
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  Speaker 1: Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gadalia,
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  Speaker 1: son of Ahikam, the son of Shapen, as governor over them.
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  Speaker 1: In verse twelve, they all came back to the land
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  Speaker 1: of Judah to Gadalia at Mispah from all the countries
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  Speaker 1: where they had been scattered, and they harvested an abundance
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: of wine and some of fruit. Things were starting to
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  Speaker 1: stabilize and recover, but trouble was brewing beneath the surface.
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  Speaker 1: In verse thirteen, Johannan's son of Kareah, and all the
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  Speaker 1: army officers still in the open country came to Gadalia
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  Speaker 1: at Mispah in verse fourteen. They said to him that
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  Speaker 1: he must know that Balis, king of the Ammonites, had
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  Speaker 1: sent Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, to take his life. But Gadaliah,
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  Speaker 1: son of Ahikam didn't believe them. In verse fifteen, then Johannan,
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  Speaker 1: son of Carea, said privately to Gadalaiya in Mispah that
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  Speaker 1: he should let him go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,
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  Speaker 1: and no one would know it. Why should he take
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  Speaker 1: Goddealaiya's life and cause all the Jews who were gathered
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: around him to be scattered and the remnant of Judah
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: to perish. But in verse sixteen, Gadaliah, son of Ahikam
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  Speaker 1: said to Johannan, son of Karea, not to do such
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  Speaker 1: a thing. What he was saying about Ishmael wasn't true.
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  Speaker 1: Gadalia's trust would prove to be a fatal mistake. In
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  Speaker 1: chapter forty one, verse one, in the seventh month, Ishmael
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  Speaker 1: son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was of
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  Speaker 1: royal blood and had been one of the king's officers,
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  Speaker 1: came with ten men to Gadalaya son of Ahikam, at Mispah.
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  Speaker 1: While they were eating together there in verse two, Ishmael,
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  Speaker 1: son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with
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  Speaker 1: him got up and struck down Gadalaiah, son of Ahikam,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Shaffan, with the sword, killing the one
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  Speaker 1: whom the King of Babylon had appointed as governor over
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  Speaker 1: the land. In verse three, Ishmael also killed all the
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  Speaker 1: Jews who were with Gadalia at Misbah, as well as
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  Speaker 1: the Babylonian soldiers who were there. The assassination destroyed the
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  Speaker 1: fragile peace that had been established. In verse four. The
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  Speaker 1: day after Gadalia's assassination, before any one knew about it.
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  Speaker 1: In verse five, eighty men who had shaved off their beards,
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  Speaker 1: torn their clothes, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh,
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  Speaker 1: and Samaria, bringing grain, offerings and incense with them to
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  Speaker 1: the house of the lord. In verse six, Ishmael's son
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  Speaker 1: of Nethaniah, went out from Mispa to meet them, weeping
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: as he went. When he met them, he said to
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  Speaker 1: come to Gadaliah, son of Ahikam. In verse seven. When
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  Speaker 1: they went into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: the men who were with him slaughtered them and threw
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: them into a cistern. In verse ten, Ishmael made captives
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: of all the rest of the people who were in Mispa,
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  Speaker 1: the king's daughters, along with all the others who were
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: left there, over whom Nebuzaradan, commander of the Imperial guard,
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: had appointed Gedaliah, son of Ahikam. Ishmael, son of Nethaniah,
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  Speaker 1: took them captive and set out to cross over to
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  Speaker 1: the Ammonites. The remnant that survived Jerusalem's fall was now
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: being destroyed from within. When Johannan and the other army
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: officers heard about the murders, they took action. In chapter
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  Speaker 1: forty one, verse eleven, When Johannan, son of Korea, and
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  Speaker 1: all the army officers who were with him heard about
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  Speaker 1: all the crimes Ishmael, son of Nethaniah had committed in
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  Speaker 1: verse twelve, they took all their men and went to
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  Speaker 1: fight Ishmael's son of Nethaniah. They caught up with him
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  Speaker 1: near the Great Pool in Gibeon. In verse thirteen, when
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  Speaker 1: all the people Ishmael had with him saw Johannan, son
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: of Carea and the army officers who were with him,
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: they were glad. In verse fourteen, all the people Ishmael
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  Speaker 1: had taken captive at Mispah turned and went over to Johannan,
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: son of Carea. In verse fifteen, but Ismael son of Nethaniah,
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  Speaker 1: and eight of his men escaped from Johannan and fled
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: to the Ammonites in verse sixteen. Then Johannan, son of
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  Speaker 1: Careah and all the army officers who were with him
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  Speaker 1: led away all the survivors from Mispah, whom he had
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: recovered from Ishmael's son of Nethaniah, after he had assassinated Gadalia,
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  Speaker 1: son of Ahikam. The people were soldiers, women, children, and
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  Speaker 1: court officials he had brought from Gibeon. In verse seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: and they went on, stopping at Geruth Kimham near Bethlehem
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: on their way to Egypt. In verse eighteen. They were
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  Speaker 1: fleeing from the Babylonians because they were afraid of them,
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: since Ishmael son of Nethaniah, had killed Gadalaiya, son of Ahikam,
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  Speaker 1: whom the King of Babylon had appointed as governor over
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: the land. The assassination had political consequences. They couldn't escape.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: They feared Babylon would hold them responsible for Gadalia's death.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: In chapter forty two, verse one, all the army officers,
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  Speaker 1: including Johannan son of Karia, and Jeseniah son of Hoshia,
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  Speaker 1: and all the people from the least to the greatest,
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  Speaker 1: approached in verse two Jeremiah the Prophet and said to
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  Speaker 1: him to please hear their petition and pray to the
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: Lord their God for this entire remnant, for as he
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  Speaker 1: could see, though they were once many, now only a
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  Speaker 1: few were left. In verse three, they asked that the
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: Lord his God would tell them where they should go
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  Speaker 1: and what they should do. In verse four, Jeremiah the
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  Speaker 1: Prophet answered them that he had heard them and would
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  Speaker 1: certainly pray to the Lord their God as they had requested.
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  Speaker 1: He would tell them everything the Lord said and would
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: keep nothing back from them. In Verse five, then they
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  Speaker 1: said to Jeremiah that may the Lord be a true
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  Speaker 1: and faithful witness against them if they didn't act in
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: accordance with everything. The Lord their God sent him to
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  Speaker 1: tell them in verse six, whether it was favorable or unfavorable.
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  Speaker 1: They would obey the Lord their God to whom they
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  Speaker 1: were sending him, so that it would go well with them,
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  Speaker 1: for they would obey the Lord their God. Ten days
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: later in verse seven, the word of the Lord came
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  Speaker 1: to Jeremiah. In verse eight, so he called together johannn
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  Speaker 1: son of Carea, and all the army officers who were
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  Speaker 1: with him, and all the people from the least to
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: the greatest. In verse nine. He said to them that
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom they sent
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  Speaker 1: him to present their petition, said in verse ten, if
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  Speaker 1: they stayed in this land, he would build them up
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: and not tear them down. He would plant them and
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  Speaker 1: not uproot them, for he was grieved over the disaster
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: he had inflicted on them. In Verse eleven, they shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be afraid of the King of Babylon, whom they now feared.
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  Speaker 1: They shouldn't be afraid of him, for God was with
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  Speaker 1: them and would save them and deliver them from his hands.
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: In Verse twelve, God would show them compassion, so that
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  Speaker 1: he would have compassion on them and restore them to
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: their land. But in verse thirteen, however, if they said
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: they wouldn't stay in this land and so disobeyed the
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: Lord their God in verse fourteen, and if they said no,
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  Speaker 1: they would go and live in Egypt, where they wouldn't
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: see war or hear the trumpet or be hungry for
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: bread in verse fifteen, then they should hear the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. Remnant of Judah. The Lord Almighty, the
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: God of Israel, said if they were determined to go
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: to Egypt and settled there in verse sixteen, then the
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  Speaker 1: sword they feared would overtake them there in Egypt, and
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: the famine they dreaded would follow them into Egypt, and
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: there they would die. In verse nineteen, Jeremiah told the
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: remnant of Judah that the Lord had told them not
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: to go to Egypt. They should be sure of this.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: He was warning them to day. In verse twenty. They
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: made a fatal mistake when they sent him to the
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: Lord their God and said to pray to the Lord
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: their God for them and tell them everything he said,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: and they would do it. In verse twenty one, he
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: had told them to day, but they still hadn't obeyed
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: the Lord their God. In all he had sent Jeremiah
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: to tell them in verse twenty two. So now they
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  Speaker 1: should be sure of this. They would die by the sword, famine,
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: and plague in the place where they wanted to go
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: to settle, But the people refused to listen. Chapter forty three,
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  Speaker 1: Verse two states Azariah, son of Hoshia, and Johannan, son
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: of Karea, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: that he was lying. The Lord their God hadn't sent
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: him to say they must not go to Egypt to
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: settle there. In verse three, But Baruk's son of Nariah,
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: was inciting him against them, to hand them over to
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: the Babylonians so they might kill them or carry them
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: into exile to Babylon. They accused Jeremiah and Baruch of
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: conspiracy in verse four. So Johanan son of Karea, and
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: all the army officers and all the people disobeyed the
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: lord's command to stay in the land of Judah. In
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: verse five, Instead, Johannan son of Karea and all the
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: army officers led away all the remnant of Judah who
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  Speaker 1: had come back to live in the Land of Judah
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: from all the nations where they had been scattered. In
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: verse six, they also led away all the men, women
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: and children, and the king's daughters, whom Nebuzarud and commander
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: of the Imperial God had left with Gadalia, son of Ahikam,
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: the son of Shafen, and Jeremiah the Prophet and Baruch,
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: son of Nariah. In verse seven, so they entered Egypt
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: in disobedience to the Lord, and went as far as
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: Tapanhis Jeremiah was taken to Egypt against his will, dragged
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: along by a rebellious people who refused to obey God.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: Even in Egypt, far from their homeland, and having witnessed
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: the destruction of Jerusalem, the people continued in their rebellion.
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  Speaker 1: In chapter forty four, verse one, the word came to
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in lower Egypt, in Migdol,
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  Speaker 1: Tapanhis and Memphis, and in upper Egypt. In verse two,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, said, they saw
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  Speaker 1: the great disaster he brought on Jerusalem and on all
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  Speaker 1: the towns of Judah. To day they lay deserted and
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  Speaker 1: in ruins. In verse three, because of the evil they
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  Speaker 1: had done, they provoked God to anger by burning incense,
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  Speaker 1: and by worshiping other gods that neither they, nor their fathers,
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  Speaker 1: nor their kings had known. In verse seven, God asked
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  Speaker 1: them why they were bringing such great disaster on themselves
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  Speaker 1: by cutting off from Judah the men and women, the
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  Speaker 1: children and infants, and so leaving themselves without a remnant.
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  Speaker 1: In verse eight, why were they provoking him to anger
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  Speaker 1: with what their hands had made burning incense to other
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  Speaker 1: gods in Egypt, where they had come to live, they
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  Speaker 1: would destroy themselves and make themselves an object of cursing
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  Speaker 1: and reproach among all the nations on earth. The cycle
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  Speaker 1: of idolatry continued even after everything they had experienced. Then
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  Speaker 1: came a rice response that revealed the depth of their rebellion.
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  Speaker 1: In verse fifteen, all the men who knew that their
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  Speaker 1: wives were burning incense to other gods, along with all
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  Speaker 1: the women who were present a large assembly, and all
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  Speaker 1: the people living in Lower and Upper Egypt, said to
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah in verse sixteen that they wouldn't listen to the
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  Speaker 1: message he had spoken to them in the name of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. In verse seventeen, they would certainly do everything
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  Speaker 1: they said they would. They would burn incense to the
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  Speaker 1: Queen of Heaven and pour out drink offerings to her,
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  Speaker 1: just as they and their fathers, their kings, and their
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  Speaker 1: officials did in the towns of Judah and in the
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  Speaker 1: streets of Jerusalem. At that time they had plenty of
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  Speaker 1: food and were well off and suffered no harm in
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  Speaker 1: verse eighteen, But ever since they stopped burning incense to
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  Speaker 1: the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her,
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  Speaker 1: they had nothing and had been perishing by sword and famine.
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  Speaker 1: In verse nineteen, the women added that when they they
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  Speaker 1: burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out
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  Speaker 1: drink offerings to her, did their husbands not know they
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  Speaker 1: were making cakes like her image and pouring out drink
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  Speaker 1: offerings to her. They blamed their recent troubles on stopping
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  Speaker 1: their idolatry, rather than seeing that idolatry caused their destruction.
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  Speaker 1: Their thinking was completely backward. In verse twenty, Jeremiah said
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  Speaker 1: to all the people, both men and women, who were
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  Speaker 1: answering him in verse twenty one, didn't the Lord remember
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  Speaker 1: and think about the incense burned in the towns of
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  Speaker 1: Judah and the streets of Jerusalem by them and their fathers,
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  Speaker 1: their kings, and their officials, and the people of the
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  Speaker 1: land in verse twenty two, when the Lord could no
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  Speaker 1: longer endure their wicked actions and the detestable things they did,
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  Speaker 1: their land became an object of cursing and a desolate
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  Speaker 1: waste without inhabitants, as it was to day in verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, because they burned incense and sinned against the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and didn't obey him or follow his law, or his
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  Speaker 1: decrees or his stipulations. This disaster had come upon them,
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  Speaker 1: as they now saw. In verse twenty four, Jeremiah said
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  Speaker 1: to all the people, including the women, to hear the
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  Speaker 1: word of the Lord all Judah in Egypt. In verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, said
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  Speaker 1: that they and their wives had shown by their actions
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  Speaker 1: what they promised when they said they would certainly carry
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  Speaker 1: out the vows they made to burn incense and pour
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  Speaker 1: out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven. They should
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  Speaker 1: go ahead, then do what they promised, keep their vows.
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  Speaker 1: In verse twenty six, but hear the word of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord all Jews living in Egypt. God swore by his
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  Speaker 1: great name that no one from Judah living anywhere in
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  Speaker 1: Egypt would ever again invoke his name or swear by saying,
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  Speaker 1: as surely as the sovereign Lord lived. In verse twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: God was watching over them for harm, not for good.
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  Speaker 1: The Jews in Ea Egypt would perish by sword and
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  Speaker 1: famine until they were all destroyed. Among all the oracles
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  Speaker 1: and prophecies, God had a specific message for Jeremiah's faithful
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  Speaker 1: scribe and companion, Chapter forty five. Verse one states this
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  Speaker 1: was what Jeremiah the Prophet told Baruk's son of Nariah,
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  Speaker 1: when he wrote on a scroll the words Jeremiah dictated
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king
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  Speaker 1: of Judah. In verse two, the Lord, the God of
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  Speaker 1: Israel said to Baruk in verse three that Baruk had said,
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  Speaker 1: woe to him. The Lord had added sorrow to his pain.
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  Speaker 1: He was worn out with groaning and found no rest.
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  Speaker 1: In verse four, the Lord told Jeremiah to say to
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  Speaker 1: Baruk that the Lord said he would overthrow what he
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  Speaker 1: had built and uproot what he had planted throughout the
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  Speaker 1: whole land. In verse five, should Baruk then seek great
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  Speaker 1: things for himself, he should not seek them for God.
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  Speaker 1: God would bring disaster on all people, but wherever Bahuk went,
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  Speaker 1: he would let him escape with his life. This brief
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  Speaker 1: oracle showed God's care for the faithful. Baruk served without recognition,
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  Speaker 1: suffered alongside Jeremiah, and received no earthly reward. But God
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  Speaker 1: promised him his life, which in those terrible days was
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  Speaker 1: the greatest gift of all. God's judgments weren't limited to Judah.
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  Speaker 1: The surrounding nations would also face his wrath. Chapter forty six,
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  Speaker 1: Verse one states this was the word of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: that came to Jeremiah the Prophet, concerning the nations. In
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  Speaker 1: verse two, concerning Egypt, this was the message against the
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  Speaker 1: army of Pharaoh Niko, king of Egypt, which was defeated
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  Speaker 1: at Krkamish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezar, king of Babylon,
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: of Judah. In verse three, God told them to prepare
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  Speaker 1: their shields, both large and small, and march out for battle.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: In verse four, harness the horses, mount the steeds, take
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  Speaker 1: their positions with helmets on, polish their spears, put on
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  Speaker 1: their armor. In verse five, what did he see they
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  Speaker 1: were terrified. They were retreating. Their warriors were defeated. They
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  Speaker 1: fled in haste, without looking back, and there was terror
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  Speaker 1: on every side. In verse six, the swift couldn't flee,
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  Speaker 1: nor the strong escape. In the north by the river Euphrates,
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  Speaker 1: they stumbled and fell. In verse thirteen, this was the
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  Speaker 1: message the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the Prophet about the
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  Speaker 1: coming of nebucad Nezar, King of Babylon, to attack Egypt.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: In verse twenty five, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: said he was about to bring punishment on Aim and
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  Speaker 1: God of Thebes, on Pharaoh, on Egypt and her gods
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  Speaker 1: and her kings, and on those who relied on Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 1: In verse twenty six, he would hand them over to
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  Speaker 1: those who sought their lives to Nebucud Nezar, Kising of
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: Babylon and his officers. Later, however, Egypt would be inhabited
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  Speaker 1: as in times past. In verse twenty seven, God told
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  Speaker 1: his servant Jacob not to fear, and Israel not to
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  Speaker 1: be dismayed. He would surely save them out of a
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  Speaker 1: distant place, their descendants from the land of their exile.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob would again have peace and security and no one
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  Speaker 1: would make him afraid. In verse twenty eight, Jacob, his servant,
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  Speaker 1: should not fear, for God was with him. Though he
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  Speaker 1: completely destroyed all the nations among which he scattered them,
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  Speaker 1: he wouldn't completely destroy them. He would discipline them, but
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  Speaker 1: only with justice, and wouldn't let them go entirely unpunished.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter forty seven turned to the Philistines. In verse one,
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  Speaker 1: this was the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah,
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  Speaker 1: the prophet, concerning the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza. In
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  Speaker 1: verse two, the Lord said, waters were rising in the
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  Speaker 1: north and would become an overflowing torrent. They would overflow
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  Speaker 1: the land and everything in it, the towns and those
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  Speaker 1: who lived in them. The people would cry out, and
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  Speaker 1: all who dwelt in the land would wail. In verse four,
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  Speaker 1: for the day had come to destroy all the Philistines,
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  Speaker 1: and to cut off all survivors who could help tire
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  Speaker 1: and side on. The Lord was about to destroy the Philistines,
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: the remnant from the coasts of Kaftor. God's pronouncements continued
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  Speaker 1: against other neighboring nations. Chapter forty eight, verse one stated
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  Speaker 1: concerning Moab, this was what the Lord Almighty, the God
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, said, woe to Nebo, for it would be ruined.
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  Speaker 1: Giriathem would be disgraced and captured. The stronghold would be
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  Speaker 1: disgraced and shattered. In verse seven, since Moab trusted in
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  Speaker 1: her deeds and riches, she too would be taken captive,
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  Speaker 1: and Kemosh would go into exile together with his priests
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  Speaker 1: and officials. In verse ten, a curse was on him
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  Speaker 1: who was lax in doing the Lord's work, and a
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  Speaker 1: curse on him who kept his sword from bloodshed. In
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  Speaker 1: verse fifteen, Moab would be destroyed and her towns invaded.
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  Speaker 1: Her finest young men would go down in the slaughter.
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  Speaker 1: In verse twenty, Moab was disgraced, for she was shattered.
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  Speaker 1: They were told to wail and cry out, announced by
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  Speaker 1: the Arnun that Moab was destroyed in verse forty seven,
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  Speaker 1: yet God would restore the fortunes of Moab in days
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  Speaker 1: to come. Here ended the judgment on Moab. Chapter forty
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  Speaker 1: nine addressed Ammon. In verse one, concerning the Ammonites, the
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  Speaker 1: Lord said, didn't Israel have sons? Had she no heirs?
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: Why then, had Molik taken possession of Gad? Why did
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: his people live in its towns in verse two, But
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: the days were coming when God would sound the battle
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  Speaker 1: cry against Rubbah the Ammonites. It would become a mound
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  Speaker 1: of ruins, and her surrounding villages would be set on fire.
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  Speaker 1: Then Israel would drive out those who drove her out
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  Speaker 1: in verse six. Yet afterward God would restore the fortunes
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  Speaker 1: of the Ammonites. Then came Edom. In verse seven. Concerning Edom,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty said, was there no longer wisdom into man?
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  Speaker 1: Had counsel perished from the prudent? Had their wisdom vanished?
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: In Verse twelve, the Lord said, if those who didn't
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  Speaker 1: deserve to drink the cup must drink it, why should
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  Speaker 1: Edom go unpunished. She wouldn't go unpunished, but must drink it.
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  Speaker 1: In Verse seventeen, Edom would become an object of horror.
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  Speaker 1: All who passed by would be appalled and would scoff
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  Speaker 1: because of all its wounds. In verse eighteen, as Sodom
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  Speaker 1: and Gomorrah were overthrown, along with their neighboring towns, so
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  Speaker 1: no one would live there, no man would dwell in it.
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  Speaker 1: The nation that destroyed Jerusalem would itself face destruction. Chapter fifty,
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  Speaker 1: verse one states this was the word the Lord spoke
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  Speaker 1: through Jeremiah the Prophet, concerning Babylon and the land of
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  Speaker 1: the Babylonians. In verse two, they were to announce and
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  Speaker 1: proclaim among the nations, lift up a banner and proclaim it.
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  Speaker 1: Keep nothing back, but say. Babylon would be captured. Bell
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  Speaker 1: would be put to shame, Marduk filled with terror, her
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  Speaker 1: images would be put to shame, and her idols filled
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  Speaker 1: with terror. In verse nine, God would stir up and
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  Speaker 1: bring against Babylon an alliance of great nations. From the
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  Speaker 1: land of the north. They would take up their positions
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  Speaker 1: against her, and from the north she would be captured.
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  Speaker 1: Their arrows would be like skilled warriors who didn't return
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  Speaker 1: empty handed. In verse eighteen, the Lord Almighty, the God
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, said he would punish the king of Babylon
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  Speaker 1: and his land as he punished the King of Assyria
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  Speaker 1: in verse twenty. In those days, at that time, search
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  Speaker 1: would be made for Israel's guilt, but there would be none,
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  Speaker 1: And for the sins of Judah, but none would be found,
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  Speaker 1: for he would forgive the remnant, he spared. Chapter fifty
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  Speaker 1: one continued the oracle against Babylon. In verse six, God
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  Speaker 1: told them to flee from Babylon and run for their lives.
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  Speaker 1: They shouldn't be destroyed because of her sins. It was
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  Speaker 1: time for the Lord's vengeance, and he would pay her
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  Speaker 1: what she deserved. In verse eleven, they should sharpen the
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  Speaker 1: arrows and take up the shields. The Lord had stirred
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  Speaker 1: up the kings of the Medes because his purpose was
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  Speaker 1: to destroy Babylon. The Lord would take vengeance, vengeance for
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  Speaker 1: his temple. In verse forty one, God asked how Shei
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  Speaker 1: shak would be captured. The boast of the whole earth seized,
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  Speaker 1: what a horror Babylon would be among the nations. In
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  Speaker 1: verse forty nine, Babylon must fall because of Israel's slain,
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  Speaker 1: just as the slain in all the earth had fallen
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  Speaker 1: because of Babylon. In verse fifty eight, the Lord Almighty
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  Speaker 1: said Babylon's thick wall would be leveled and her high
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  Speaker 1: gates set on fire. The peoples exhausted themselves for nothing.
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  Speaker 1: The nation's labor was only fuel for the flames. In
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  Speaker 1: verse sixty four, Jeremiah told Sirriah to say that Babylon
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  Speaker 1: would sink to rise no more because of the disaster
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  Speaker 1: God would bring upon her, and her people would fall.
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  Speaker 1: The words of Jeremiah ended here. The book concluded with
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  Speaker 1: a historical summary and a note of hope. Chapter fifty two,
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  Speaker 1: Verse one stated Zedekiah was twenty one years old when
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  Speaker 1: he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.
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  Speaker 1: His mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah from Libna.
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  Speaker 1: In verse two, he did evil in the eyes of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, just as Jehoyakim had done. In verse three.
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  Speaker 1: It was because of the Lord's anger that all this
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  Speaker 1: happened to Jerusalem and Judah, and in the end he
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  Speaker 1: thrust them from his presence. The chapter recounted the fall
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  Speaker 1: of Jerusalem, again documenting verse by verse how in verse four,
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  Speaker 1: in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth
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  Speaker 1: day of the tenth month, Nebucadnezzar, King of Babylon, marched
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  Speaker 1: against Jerusalem with his whole army. In verse twelve, on
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  Speaker 1: the tenth day of the fifth month in the nineteenth
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  Speaker 1: year of nebucad Nezar, King of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, commander of
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  Speaker 1: the Imperial God who served the King of Babylon came
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  Speaker 1: to Jerusalem. In verse thirteen, he set fire to the
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  Speaker 1: Temple of the Lord, the Royal Palace, and all the
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  Speaker 1: houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down. In
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty seven, there at Ribla, in the land of Hamath,
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  Speaker 1: the king had them executed. So Judah went into captivity
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  Speaker 1: away from her land. In verse twenty eight, this was
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  Speaker 1: the number of the people Nebucadnezza carried into exile in
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  Speaker 1: the seventh year three one thousand and twenty three Jews.
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  Speaker 1: The accounting of exiles continued through different deportations, but the
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  Speaker 1: book didn't end in total darkness. In verse thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: in the thirty seventh year of the exile of jehoyacin
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  Speaker 1: King of Judah, in the year Evil Merodach became king
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  Speaker 1: of Babylon. He released jehoyacin King of Judah and freed
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  Speaker 1: him from prison on the twenty fifth day of the
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  Speaker 1: twelfth month. In verse thirty two, he spoke kindly to
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  Speaker 1: him and gave him a seat of honor higher than
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  Speaker 1: those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
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  Speaker 1: In verse thirty three, so Jehoiakin put aside his prison
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  Speaker 1: clothes and for the rest of his life, ate regularly
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  Speaker 1: at the king's table. In verse thirty four, day by day,
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  Speaker 1: the king of Babylon gave Jehoiakin a regular allowance as
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  Speaker 1: long as he lived till the day of his death.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah's message isn't just ancient history. It speaks to us
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  Speaker 1: today about the cost of following God, the day danger
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: of false security, and the certainty that God keeps his promises.
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  Speaker 1: If this journey through Jeremiah's life has impacted you, if
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