ABS Fall Gathering 2015 Jeremiah Class-1
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We should look for the return of the Lord with longing in our hearts and spend the time we have preparing for that day! 1. How precious is the time we do have? 2. How are we preparing for that day? 3. How strong is our conviction of our Lord s return?
1. How precious is the time we do have? (Jeremiah 7)
Jeremiah 5:30,31 (NKJV) An astonishing and horrible thing has been committed in the land the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own power; and my people love to have it so But what will you do in the end?
2 Chron 36:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
Jeremiah 9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2 Chron 34:9,10 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem. And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the Lord, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the Lord, to repair and amend the house:
Jeremiah 13:11 so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith Yahweh; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory:but they would not hear.
.H3190 י ט ב ya tạb : A verb meaning to be good, to be well, to be pleasing. In the causative stem, it means to do good, to do well, to please, to make pleasing.
Matthew 21:12-13 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Micah 1:16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Leviticus 13:32-33 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scurf spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scurf be not in sight deeper than the skin; He shall be shaven, but the scurf shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scurf seven days more:
Numbers 6:5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
Leviticus 20:2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Deuteronomy 28:26 And thy carcass shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall frighten them away.
ABS Fall Gathering 2015 Jeremiah Class-2
We should look for the return of the Lord with longing in our hearts and spend the time we have preparing for that day!
2. How are we preparing for that day? (Jeremiah 35)
1 Timothy 6:8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
H7467 רע ואל re u 'e l Reuel or Raguel = friend of God H3503 י ת ר ו yitṟô: Jethro = his excellence or one who is preeminent
1 Chronicles 2:55 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
Nebuchadnezzar s siege of Jerusalem
The Rechabites 1. Obeyed an earthly father 2. Jonadab was dead 3. No one was sent to remind them of their responsibilities 4. Jonadab could not reward or punish his followers 5. They were given sever restrictions which demanded great sacrifice The Jews 1. Refused to obey a heavenly Father 2. Yahweh is living 3. Yahweh constantly sent messengers to his people 4. Yahweh could do both 5. Yahweh did not place these restrictions on his people
Edward Gibbon s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire The ancient Christians were animated by a contempt for their present existence... But it was not in this world, that the primitive Christians were desirous of making themselves either agreeable or useful. Chapter XV: Progress Of The Christian Religion. Part III. <591> Chapter XV: Progress Of The Christian Religion. Part V.<871>
Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Exodus 20:12 Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which Yahweh thy Elohim giveth thee.
Jeremiah 35:7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
ABS Fall Gathering 2015 Jeremiah Class-3
3. How strong is our conviction of our Lord s return? (Jeremiah 32 & 37)
Nebuchadnezzar s siege of Jerusalem
Matthew 24:15-18 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
H2601 חנמאל cha nam'e l BDB Definition: Hanameel = El is gracious H7967 ש לם / ש ל ום shallu m / BDB Definition: Shallum = retribution or recompense H6068 ענתות a na tho th BDB Definition: Anathoth = answers to prayer
Jeremiah 29:10 For thus saith Yahweh, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
1 Samuel 14:7 (ESV) Do all that is in your heart. Do as you wish. Behold, I am with you heart and soul.
Jeremiah 32:22 And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
Proverbs 1:5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Jeremiah 23:4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith Yahweh.