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765. Bible Study: Jeremiah 5 (Rebellion and its relationship to Calamaties, Trouble,Consequences) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 5 of Jeremiah Dear God, please give us wisdom and
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  insight as we read through this chapter.
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  We ask for this in Jesus name. Chapter 5 From Jeremiah No one
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  is upright. Go up and down the streets of
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  Jerusalem. Look around and consider.
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  Search through her squares. If you can find but one person
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  who deals honestly and seeks the truth, I will forgive the city.
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  Although they say as surely as the Lord lives, still they are
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  swearing falsely. Lord, do not your eyes look for
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  truth. You struck them, but they felt
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  no pain. You crushed them, but they
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  refused correction. They made their faces harder
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  than stone and refused to repent.
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  I thought these are only the poor.
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  They are foolish, for they do not know the way of the Lord,
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  the requirements of their God. So I will go to the leaders and
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  speak to them. Surely they know the way of the
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  Lord, the requirements of their God.
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  But with 1 accord they too had broken off the yoke and tore off
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  the bonds. Therefore a lion from the forest
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  will attack them, a wolf from the desert will ravage them, a
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  leopard will lie in wait near their towns to tear to pieces
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  any who venture out, for their rebellion is great and their
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  backslidings many. Why should I forgive you?
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  Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by gods that are not
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  gods. I supplied all their needs, yet
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  they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of
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  prostitutes. They are well fed lusty salions,
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  each naying for another man's wife.
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  Should I not punish them for this, Declares the Lord?
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  Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?
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  Go through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not destroy
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  them completely. Strip her branches, for these
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  people do not belong to the Lord.
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  The people of Israel and the people of Judah have been
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  utterly unfaithful to me, declares the Lord.
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  They have lied about the Lord. They said He will do nothing, no
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  harm will come to us. He will never, we will never see
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  sword or famine. The prophets are but wind and
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  the word is not in them. So let them so let what they say
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  be done to them because the people have spoken these words,
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  I will make my words in your mouth of fire and these people
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  the wood it consumes. I'll pause right there because
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  when God is saying because these people have spoken these words,
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  I will make my words in your mouth of fire and these people
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  the the wood it consumes. It reminded me of the two
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  witnesses and what happens in that the time of the two
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  witnesses because it's says something very similar to them
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  to this says if anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their
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  mouths and devours their enemies.
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  This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.
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  I tend to think this is probably symbolic, although, you know,
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  God could do anything he wanted. But I feel like we with all the
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  other symbolism and Revelation, this is Revelation Chapter 11,
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  that this is this is people, the two witnesses of God speaking
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  the truth of God. And that's what essentially
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  condemns other people when they ignore it.
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  And that's what I believe very much like he said in Jeremiah,
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  will be in the very future in the end times too.
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  The people that are warning people that are telling them the
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  two witnesses that God has appointed, people will ignore
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  them. And the fire of the word of the
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  Lord comes from their mouths, which is the word of God,
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  because God is a consuming. He's described as a consuming
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  fire. So anyway, going back to
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  Jeremiah, I am bringing a distant nation against you, an
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  ancient and enduring nation, a people whose language you do not
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  know, whose speech you do not understand.
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  Their quivers are like an open grave.
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  All of them are mighty warriors. They will devour your harvest
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  and food, devour your sons and daughters.
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  They will devour your flocks and herds, devour your vines and fig
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  trees with the sword. They will destroy the fortified
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  cities in which you trust. Yet even in those days, declares
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  the Lord, I will not destroy you completely.
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  And when the people ask, Why has the Lord our God done all this
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  to us, you will tell them, as you have forsaken me and served
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  foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners
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  in a land not your own. Announce this to the descendants
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  of Jacob, and proclaim it in Judah.
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  Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes
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  but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
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  Should you not fear me, declares the Lord?
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  Should you not tremble in my presence?
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  I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier.
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  It cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they
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  cannot prevail. They may roar, but they cannot
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  cross it. But these people have stubborn
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  and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone
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  away. They do not say to themselves,
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  Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives us autumn and spring
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  rains in season, who assures us of regular weeks of harvest.
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  Your wrongdoings have kept these away.
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  Your sins have deprived you of good.
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  Among my people are the wicked who lie in wait, like men who
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  snare birds, and like those who set traps to catch people, like
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  cages of full cages full of birds.
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  Their houses are full of deceit. They have become rich and
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  powerful and have grown fat and sleek.
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  Their evil deeds have no limit. They do not seek justice.
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  They do not promote the case of the fatherless.
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  They do not defend the just cause of the poor.
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  Should I not punish them for this, declares the Lord?
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  Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?
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  A horrible and shocking thing has happened, happened in the
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  land. The prophets prophecy lies, the
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  priest rule by their own authority and my people love it
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  this way. But what will you do in the end?
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  That's the end of chapter 5. So I will read what the study
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  Bible says for these things. So wasn't there even one honest
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  person in Jerusalem? Yes, in fact, there were
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  several. Besides Jeremiah, the prophets
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  Zephaniah and Habakkuk were also ministering in Jerusalem.
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  Each influenced others to live righteous lives.
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  Ezekiel was serving in the temple about this time, and
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  Baruch, Jeremiah's scribe, likely was living in Jerusalem
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  too. This challenge then, was a way
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  of saying that Jerusalem was overrun with dishonesty from the
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  top down. When had God struck and crushed
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  Judah? This might be a reference to
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  either Josiah's defeat at the hands of the of Egypt at Megiddo
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  in six O 9 BC, or to the lack of rain and harvest described in
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  verses 24 through 25. It could also be referring to
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  both events, or perhaps to still another event unknown to us.
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  The point is that Judah refused to repent despite these
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  warnings. Were the sins of the poor less
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  offensive than the sins of the leaders?
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  No, in the end the judgement was the same because the whole
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  nation had fallen under the discipline of the Lord.
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  The term poor is a reference to the uneducated people who might
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  be excused for their ignorance of the law.
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  Jeremiah was looking for a reason why the nation had turned
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  away from the Lord. He concluded that their
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  rebellion was due to ignorance about God's Word and ways.
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  However, when Jeremiah questioned the leaders, he
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  realized both the rich and the poor had rebelled.
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  What yoke and bonds had leader had the leaders removed?
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  The nation was to be yoked in quotations to the law so that
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  they could live in a matter pleasing to the Lord.
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  But this yoke had been torn away, freeing them from the
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  rules of the covenant that were supposed to guide their lives in
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  the right direction. Were these wild animals
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  indigenous to Judah? Lions, wolves, and leopards were
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  indigenous to Judah. In Jeremiah's time.
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  They were wild predators that endangered human settlements.
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  The people were probably used to them, though they were always a
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  threat. Why were the vineyards not to be
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  completely destroyed? The lack of complete destruction
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  looks backward to the promises of the Mosaic covenant and
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  forward to a future work of God with his people.
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  Throughout the Old Testament, God's distinct way of dealing
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  with Israel part points toward the coming of the Messiah and
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  the New Covenant. What nation was this referred
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  to? And that's talking about because
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  the people have spoken these words.
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  Let's see, Oh people of Israel, I am bringing a distant nation
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  against you, an ancient and enduring nation, a people whose
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  language you do not know, whose speech you do not understand.
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  And then he goes on about talking about the mighty
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  warriors. This was referring to Babylon
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  according to the study Bible. Why was a wicked nation used to
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  punish Judah? God is sovereign and can use all
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  things, even the great evils intentionally perpetrated by
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  human beings, to work out His loving purposes for the world.
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  Calamities out of our control or even troubles that we cause
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  ourselves can be part of God's Providence.
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  God's severe judgement of Judah was like a surgeon's scalpel
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  that ultimately worked to heal the nation instead of hurt it.
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  Does God cause natural calamities because of people's
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  sin? Since he created all things, God
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  is ultimately behind all natural phenomena indirectly if not
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  directly. But every occurrence of a
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  national a natural disaster can be an occasion for spiritual
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  reflection in the Agricultural Society of that time.
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  For example, a great harvest should have prompted the
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  people's thanks and renewed their spiritual commitment to
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  God. When there was a famine or
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  drought, the people should have reflected on their spiritual
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  hunger. How were cages full of birds
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  full of deceit? Jeremiah used a striking image
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  to indicate the rich who oppressed the poor.
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  In those days, a hunter would lure wild birds by placing
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  several tame birds in a cage, like cunning hunters using cages
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  full of birds to snare even more birds.
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  So the rich set traps for the poor to accumulate even more
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  wealth for themselves. And that is the end of Chapter
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  5. So this one will be short today,
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  and next time we'll review Chapter 6.