(v. 1 )Priest residing in Benjamin, in Judah, after the split of the kingdoms, for Levi has no land (vv. 2 -3 )Jeremiah serves under 4 kings of Israel He is the one to lament the final good king of Israel/Judah (v. 5 )Not that all children are known by God in a regenerating sense (v. 9 ) (vv. 9 -10 )The prophet Jeremiah is placed over all nations so that he may provide the message of the New Covenant to all nations, it is not only to Judah (v. 10 )What is currently present must be taken away before the new can come The Old Covenant must fade away for the New Covenant to replace it (v. 11 )Almond sounds similar to “watching” and tells Jeremiah to pay close attention to what comes next (v. 13 )Boiling pot signifies judgment, and this judgment is directed toward the Northern kingdom and those who sin in the like (vv. 15 -16 )Multiple kingdoms will come and ransack the nation of Judah: Chaldeans and Assyrians in particular (vv. 17 -19 )The promise of salvation amongst God’s people is only given to JeremiahThere is no defense of man that will protect us the same way the LORD does (v. 19 )Jeremiah will succeed in doing the work the Lord is doing to deliver His people (v. 2 )Israel was more devoted, relative to how they are now to Jeremiah There is some sense of exaggeration here, to make Israel recognize the way that their childlike faith was desirable to the LordWe may have a kind of fervor in our early converted years that we should be encouraged by I feel I was being guided through the wilderness in my childhood (Talking about bicycles \- C.S. Lewis ) (v. 3 )The converted are the firstfruits of God’s creatures Balaam could not even utter a curse against Israel (v. 4 )Why does God use “Jacob” and Israel in the same verse?Consider the names themselves and their meanings. Is God segmenting the elect from the non-elect? (v. 5 )Those who worship become as the idols, worthless, dumb, and blind Dumb/mute is important because God is the word (John 1:1 ) (v. 6 )Each of the salvific signs in the desert are typological of Christ, and they continue to forget them Even when they recognize the Lord, they did so with complaining (v. 7 )Psalm 106:38 “the land was polluted with blood”God has not yet fully removed His presence from the temple, but is beginning to remove this (v. 8 )1 Samuel 2:12 -17 17 Thus the sin of these young men was severe in the sight of the LORD, for they were treating the LORD’s offering with contempt.I live surrounded by idols (v. 9 )We should not put God on the dock/witness standConsider how Job did sin in this way Israel does wrestle with the Lord (v. 13 )Fountain vs cisternOne is constant and active provision One is stored up and goes stale (v. 14 )God expects them to answer “no” to the first two questions Then to respond back by asking them why they think they are in their current state John 8:31 -38 (v. 17 )Why is Israel responsible if God has ordained this to pass? (v. 19 )Is this referring to Christ?Yahweh, the God of Armies (vv. 20 Hosea and Ezekiel echo these sentiments (v. 21 )Christians are recognized by the fruit they bear on the vine of Christ (vv. 22 -23 )God does not give a way to escape the accusation, but rather asks them to rhetorically consider (v. 27 )Continual mocking of idols Israel has many many idols and are dedicated to their betrayal If they could find something other than God to devote themselves to, they did (v. 30 )Reminds me of Eli and his children’s failures There are multiple destructions of the priesthoods from Samuel (v. 35 )Israel fails to rest on the Lord for salvation and comfort They instead go to those around them who have rejected the Lord. (v. 1 )“If you could do more evil, you would. (v. 2 )God holds all accountable to what they have done (v. 7 )God wishes for and expects repentance from His people. God chooses Judah to bear the Christ, despite them being the least. (v. 11 )Seeing the sin of one and going forth in committing that sin is worse. (v. 12 -13 ) (v. 14 )Hebrews 12:22 -24 Zion is the heavenly Jerusalem.The promises of Zion given here are to all of God’s elect, bought by Christ’s blood. (v. 16 -17 )Promises are made to Jerusalem, which is the church (v. 18 ) (vv. 19 -25 )We are to not desire anything but the promises He has given. (v. 1 )“Squares” meaning “public places”, so could you pluck a “public” person? Should remind us of Sodom and Gomorrah. (v. 2 )Reminds me of the false swearing of the Pharisees, or their “swearing upon the gold of the temple” (v. 3 )The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith, 5.5 The most wise, righteous, and gracious God doth often times leave for a season His own children to manifold temptations and the corruptions of their own hearts, to chastise them for their former sins, or to discover unto them the hidden strength of corruption and deceitfulness of their hearts, that they may be humbled; and to raise them to a more close and constant dependence for their support upon Himself; and to make them more watchful against all future occasions of sin, and for other just and holy ends.¹ So that whatsoever befalls any of His elect is by His appointment, for His glory, and their good.² (v. 4 -5 )Makes it seem as if verse 1 is referring to the masses, not just the elite. For verse 5 , the masses don’t understand, but the elites “should” know better.Therefore, they are more at fault. We, by being Americans, are by nature the elite. (v. 6 )Their sins are many, not one that the Lord is responding to The Lord is right to reject His people even after one sin, but He is merciful and has dealt with them a long time. (v. 7 -11 )This is fulfilled by the Babylonian sacking of Israel. (v. 10 ) (v. 12 -13 )Reminds me of a Messianic Jew who spoke to me and told me how he and other Messianic Jews are in a state of constant fear about what the Lord may inflict upon them. (v. 13 ) The prophets being “but wind” is a double entendre for calling them “windbags” while incidentally identifying them as having the “wind” of the Holy Spirit. 1 Kings 22:15 (v. 1 )God gives a warning to His people that, if they listen to Him now, they will be preserved. (v. 2 )God likens His people to a beautiful maiden, reinforcing that He does love His people. (v. 4 -5 )Despite losing time, the enemy is so desirous to destroy Jerusalem that they will not wait for the next day but will go up at night. (v. 7 )There is nearly no difference in Jerusalem if it gets sacked or not, for it is already occupied by the enemy of sin. In a similar way as we need to put sin to death, the city must be destroyed as our bodies must be destroyed to be restored. (v. 8 )God pleads again with His people that they turn from their sin. (v. 10 )Reminds of Isaiah, where the people are blind and deaf like their idols. Our world now fits into verse 10 , where the Lord’s message is offensive to them. (v. 12 )Verbatim curses from Deuteronomy. (v. 15 )Shame is real and we should know how to blush. We should know how to accept the Lord’s discipline and not collapse. (v. 16 )Should be the slogan verse for the paleoconservative. (v. 18 )One of the occasions where the Lord warns non-Israel of their actions. (v. 20 )Warning the nations to not continue to lure God’s people into false worship, and to not perform false worship themselves. (v. 21 )Isaiah 8:14 Christ himself will be a stumbling block to Israel (v. 27 )Interesting passage for word study, as translations differ greatly in how they translate this (v. 3 )God is still asking them to repent (v. 4 )The three mentions here could be in relation to the three times Jews would return The three mentions could also demonstrate the completeness of their trust in the “temple” rather than the LORD When the LORD lets them be ransacked, he explicitly does not prevent the Ark from being taken and the temple destroyed, to demonstrate how foolish this notion was. (v. 10 -11 )Christ quotes then when He clears out the temple. (σπήλαιον σπήλαιον) God again points out to them that them being in the temple will not save them. (v. 12 )In the same way that, in the past, the Ark was taken from Shiloh and the “LORD’s presence left Israel”, the LORD will leave them again. (v. 16 )Do not pray for all people (v. 23 )The LORD does not only care about how they do sacrifice, but that they obey him generally. (v. 2 )It is almost a full reversal of the covenant made with Abraham, especially if you have a two-covenant view of what happens with Abraham, where this is a reversal of the land covenant. (v. 10 )Inverse of God giving to them of what they have not earned, and instead taking it all away. (v. 4 -13 ) God is reiterating what he has already said throughout the whole book (v. 14 -15 )Hyper-Calvinism present in the Old Testament. (v. 22 ) 22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?The spiritual state of all who deny Christ. There is healing available, yet they do not receive it. ← Job - Commentary Romans - Commentary →