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777. Bible Study: Jeremiah 16 (Follow Your Heart? or Obey God?) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 16 from the book of Jeremiah.
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  Let's pray, dear God, as it says in Second Timothy 3 verse 16.
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  All Scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching,
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  rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness so
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  that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every
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  good work. Please let our minds be opened
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  as we read through this chapter. We ask this in Jesus name.
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  This chapter is called the Day of Disaster.
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  Then the word of the Lord came to me.
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  You must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place.
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  For this is what the Lord says about the sons and daughters
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  born in this land, and about the women who are their mothers and
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  the men who are their fathers. They will die of deadly
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  diseases. They will not be mourned or
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  buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.
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  They will perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies
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  will become food for the birds and the wild animals.
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  So the study Bible says, why couldn't Jeremiah get married?
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  A marriage relationship could have distracted Jeremiah from
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  his ministry. Or perhaps God was saving
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  Jeremiah from overwhelming heartbreak.
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  The next generation of children would be devastated by disease,
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  war, and famine. Continuing on in Scripture Or
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  Alvare, Was it unusual to stay single?
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  Celibacy was extremely rare in that culture.
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  Family life and having children provided not only a retirement
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  plan in quotations, but also the means to preserve one's name.
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  Therefore, the animosity of Jeremiah's foes was revealed
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  when they said, let us cut him off from the land of the living,
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  that his name be remembered no more.
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  By remaining single with no heirs to carry on his name,
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  Jeremiah showed trust in God and submission to God's will.
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  So verse 5 says, For this is what the Lord says, do not enter
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  a house where there is a funeral meal.
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  Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, because I have
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  withdrawn my blessing, my love and my pity from this people,
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  declares the Lord. Both high and low will die in
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  this land. They will not be buried or
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  mourned, and no one will cut themselves or shave their head
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  for the dead. No one will offer food to
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  comfort those who mourn for the dead, not even for a father or a
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  mother. Nor will anyone give them a
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  drink to console them. And do not enter a house where
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  there is feasting and sit down to eat and drink.
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  For this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel says
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  before your eyes, and in your days I will bring an end to the
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  sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of the bride and
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  Bridegroom in this place. When you, when you tell these
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  people all this, and they ask you, why has the Lord decreed
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  such great disaster against us? What wrong have we done?
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  What sin have we committed against the Lord our God?
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  Then say to them, It is because your ancestors forsook me,
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  declares the Lord, and followed other gods and served and
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  worshipped them. They forsook me and did not keep
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  my law. But you have behaved more
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  wickedly than your ancestors. See how all of you are following
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  the stubbornness of your evil hearts instead of obeying Me.
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  This is something that we can probably learn from because a
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  lot of times people will say we'll just follow your heart,
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  but we'll see in this in this chapter, in the next chapter
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  that our hearts are not what we should follow.
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  And and this is again, it says in this verse 12, it says, but
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  you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors.
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  See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil
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  hearts instead of obeying me. So we can see that there's a a
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  conflict, a conflict of interest where the evil heart does not
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  want to obey God. So it continues.
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  So I will throw you out of this land, into a land neither you
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  nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other
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  gods day and night, for I will show you no favour.
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  However, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when it will
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  no longer be said as surely as the Lord lives who brought the
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  Israelites up out of Egypt, But it will be said as surely as the
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  Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of
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  the north, and out of all the countries where He had banished
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  them. For I will restore them to the
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  land I gave their ancestors. So here God is talking about how
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  he's going to do this future restoration that hasn't happened
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  yet because he it says I will restore them to the land I gave
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  their ancestors. Like Gaza is part of that land
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  and Israel does not have Gaza and it extends.
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  I forgot what chapter it is where it gives all the
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  boundaries of the land. The land that God promised the
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  Israelites is lot larger than what they currently have.
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  It also includes the West Bank area that is also a highly
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  contested area but that's found in scripture.
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  And anyway, this is so this is talking about the day when Jesus
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  returns actually when the land will be restored back to them,
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  because it says that he will bring the Israelites out of the
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  land of the north and out of all the countries where he had
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  banished them. And so all of the Israelites
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  will be returning back to Israel and out of the north.
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  There's a couple of different places in Bible prophecy that
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  also talks about when Jesus returns and he comes from the
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  land of the north and he's setting the captives free and he
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  has blood on his garments. And so there's there's yeah,
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  there's additional information in the Bible that talks about
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  this. I'll continue on with Jeremiah.
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  But now I will send for many fishermen, declares the Lord,
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  and they will catch them. After that I will send for many
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  hunters, and they will hunt them down every mountain and hill
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  from the crevices of the rocks. My eyes are on all their ways.
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  They are not hidden from me, nor is their sin concealed from my
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  eyes. I will repay them double for
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  their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my
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  land with lifeless forms of their vile images and have
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  filled my inheritance with their detestable idols.
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  Lord, my strength and my fortress my refuge in times of
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  distress to you. The nations will come from the
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  ends of the earth and say our ancestors possessed nothing but
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  false gods, worthless idols that did them no good.
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  Do people make their own gods? Yes, but they are not gods.
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  Therefore, I will teach them this time.
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  I will teach them my power and might.
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  Then they will know that my name is the Lord.
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  And that's the end of chapter 16.
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  I'll read a few of the questions and answers for this chapter.
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  Why would anyone cut himself or shave his head?
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  While people today might show grief by dressing in black, the
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  people in the ancient Near East expressed deep sorrow in other
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  ways. One way was to shave the head.
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  Since a man's hair and beard signified his maturity and
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  dignity, shaving them suggested humility and great loss, cutting
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  oneself an expression of grief. Grief practiced by paid pagans
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  was forbidden by the law, and that's found in Leviticus 19.
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  But some people in Judah had adopted this Pagan custom.
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  In this case, however, there would be no grieving, mourning,
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  or burials. Why were the people so naive?
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  Influenced by false prophets? Over time, the people had
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  gradually become indifferent to their sin.
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  Unaffected by the gravity of their sin, they could not see
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  that their wickedness was the root cause of their troubles.
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  Why restore unfaithful people until the final judgment?
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  God's punishment is an act of discipline, a means to bring
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  people to a place of repentance and blessing.
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  Though judgment was inescapable, God planned to bring a remnant
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  out of captivity and back to Judah.
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  God remained faithful to His covenant with Abraham from
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  Genesis chapter 12, even though the people had been unfaithful.
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  And that's the end of Chapter 16.