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JEREMIAH – LESSON EIGHT

I. ISRAEL’S AND JUDAH’S CONSOLATION (30:1-33:26).

A. The Restoration of Israel and Judah (30:1-31:40).

1. Jacob’s distress and deliverance (30:1-11)

2. The healing of Zion’s incurable wounds (30:12-17)

3. The restoration of Jacob (30:18-31:1)

4. Further promises to Ephraim and Judah (31:2-6)

5. Israel’s joyful homecoming (31:7-14)

6. The end of Rachel’s mourning (31:15-22)

7. The restoration of Judah (31:23-26)

8. Two short sayings (31:27-30)

9. The New Covenant (31:31-34)

10. God’s people not cast away – God’s city not thrown down (31:35-40).

B. The Restoration of Judah and Jerusalem: a Prose Collection (32:1-33:26)

1. Jeremiah’s purchase of land at  Anathoth (32:1-15)

2. Jeremiah’s prayer (32:16-25)

3. Jehovah’s reply to Jeremiah’s prayer (32:26-44)

4. Jerusalem and Judah restored (33:1-13)

5. The dynasty of David and the Levitical priests (33:14-26)

QUESTIONS:

1. What type of inspiration is the Book of Jeremiah?

2. To what day does God compare the Chaldeans taking Jerusalem?

3. What was the cause of Israel’s incurable hurt?

4. How does Israel’s incurable hurt magnify God’s greatness?

5. What would be the blessings connected with God restoring the exiles?

6. Who would have the boldness to draw near to Jehovah?

7. In what sense is Ephraim God’s “firstborn” (31:9)?

8. To what event or events does “Rachel weeping for her children” point?

9. To what was a “calf not accustomed to the yoke” compared?

10. What new thing had Jehovah created regarding the virgin of Israel?

11. Why must God sow the houses of Israel and Judah with the seed of man and beast?

12. The proverb of the sour grapes centered around the subject of:

13. What was different between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant as prophesied by Jeremiah?  How do we       know the New Covenant has already been established?

14. How does God establish the fact that He will not cast off the seed of His people?

15. How long before the Chaldeans destroyed Jerusalem did the word of God come to Jeremiah in chapters 31 and 32?

16. What is the point being made in Jeremiah buying a field in Anathoth?

17. Describe the character of God from Jeremiah’s prayer:

18. How do you know that the land promise that God made to Israel has been fulfilled?

19. How does God’s  answer clear up Jeremiah’s perplexing prayer?

20. What blessings would be connected with God performing the good word He had promised?