Men’s Bible Study
The anticipation is finally over! A winning name has been selected for our blog, The Blog Testament. While this wasn’t exactly an entry in the contest, reader Apryl suggested The Testament Blog, which was good, but when I found that blogtestament.com AND theblogtestament.com were both available, I just jumped on it. So, since our new [...]
A Tester of Metals Gone with the pretense of pleading with His people for repentance, God is headed all-out for destruction of Jerusalem. The faithful–ones who hear Jeremiah’s message–are asked to flee from the city and sound the alarm (v. 1). (“Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem!” Beth Hakkerem, according to the Archeological Study Bible, [...]
<br>“But what will you do in the end?”At the end of God’s tirade about how His people have committed adultery against Him and how they need to repent, He staves off the question He knows is on Jeremiah’s lips. Surely there’s at least one holy person to be found amongst Judah? He challenges Jeremiah (really, [...]
Disaster from the North Because of the beauty of arbitrary chapter/verse numbers, chapter 4 begins by concluding the thought from Chapter 3 about Israel and Judah repenting and returning to God. That said, there’s a lot packed in to only those four verses. In essence, God again warns them that if they don’t repent (they [...]
After I had already published my Men’s Bible Study blogs for Jeremiah 1-2, I thought it might be helpful if I posted discussion questions in case someone wanted to use this as a true bible study guide (as I am). Feel free to post your responses to these discussion questions in the comments area (at [...]
Faithless vs. Unfaithful Jeremiah, using God’s words, continues his discourse against the people of Judah using his analogy of an unfaithful wife. He then draws the comparison between Israel and Judah (North vs. South) calling one faithless (Israel) and one unfaithful (Judah). God uses this comparison almost as a scare tactic to say, Hey Judah, [...]
Israel forsakes the Lord Jeremiah begins his duties as a prophet for the Lord with the heavy responsibility of chastising the people of Israel for forsaking God. The words that God chooses describes Israel as a prostitute or cheating wife. At first, the “wife” loves and respects her “husband” – “I remember the devotion of [...]
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