Jeremiahs Message of Hope

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Jeremiahs Message of Hope

• Jeremiah 30-33 Contains a Promise of Restoration
  Jer. 2910-11
• This is what the Lord says, When seventy years
  are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and
  fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to
  this place. For I know the plans I have for you,
  declares the Lord, Plans to prosper you and not
  to harm you, plans to give you hope and a
  future.
• 70 Years - (Jer. 2511,12 2 Chron. 3621 Dan.
  92 Zech. 112)

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Jeremiahs Message of Hope

• Many Messianic Implications of Jeremiah 30-33,
  But Includes Physical Promises Jer. 3010
• So do not fear, O Jacob my servant do not be
  dismayed, O Israel, declares the Lord. I will
  surely save you out of a distant place, your
  descendants from the land of their exile. Jacob
  will again have peace and security and no one
  will make him afraid.
• Exile Had Real Meaning to Jeremiahs Audience!
  (look for dual-applications)

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Jeremiahs Message of Hope

• Physical Promises Jer. 303
• The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I
  will bring my people Israel and Judah back from
  captivity and restore them to the land I gave
  their forefathers to possess, declares the Lord.
• I will restore the fortunes of Jacobs tents and
  have compassion on his dwellings the city will
  be rebuilt (Jer. 3018)

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Jeremiahs Message of Hope

• Fulfilled At Cyrus Decree 2 Chron. 3622
• Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia,
  that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of
  Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred
  up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he
  made proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and
  put it also in writing, saying, Thus says Cyrus
  king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth
  hath the Lord God of heaven given me and

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Jeremiahs Message of Hope

• Fulfilled At Cyrus Decree 2 Chron. 3622
• he hath charged me to build him a house in
  Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among
  all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and
  let him go up.
• Ezra Opens With An Explanation that the word of
  Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up
  the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia (Ezra 11-2)

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Jeremiahs Message of Hope

• Fulfilled Under 3 Returns
• 1st Group Zerubbabel (538 BC) (Temple Rebuilt
  (Ezra 615, 516 BC), Haggai and Zechariah the
  Prophets)
• 2nd Group Ezra (458 BC) (Ezra 7)
• 3rd Group Nehemiah (444 BC) (Nehemiah 2)
• City Walls Rebuilt (Neh. 615)
• Malachi, the Prophet

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Jeremiahs Message of Hope

• Many Prophecies Had Both Lesser and Greater
  Nearer and Farther Fulfillments
• Imminent Fulfillment of Short-Range Prophecies
  Would Aid People In Considering Long-Range
  Antitypical and Spiritual Fulfillments

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Jeremiahs Message of Hope
Voice in Ramah Rachel Weeping for Her
Children Jer. 3115 Youth Deaths by Babylonians
Voice in Ramah Rachel Weeping for Her
Children Matt. 216-18 Herods Slaughter of
(male) Children (2 and younger)
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Jeremiahs Message of Hope
Jacob To Be Saved Jer. 307 From Exile Israel
From Where Scattered by Assyrians Judah From
Babylonia
Jacob To Be Saved Rom. 1126 From Sin Paul
Immediately Quotes (v. 27) From Jeremiah 3131-34
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Jeremiahs Message of Hope
Yoke to be Broken Off Jer. 308 Israel Yoked
By Assyrians Judah Yoked By Babylon (Jer. 272
2814)
Israel to be Ruled, Not by Foreigners, But by
David, their King Reign of Christ (Ps. 26
Isa. 97 Lk. 132-33 Acts 230 1323)
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Jeremiahs Message of Hope
Their leader will be one of their own their
ruler will arise from among them Jer.
3021 Zerubbabel? Nehemiah?
CHRIST Deut. 1815, 18 Acts 322,23 Gen.
4910 Micah 52 Isa. 96, 7 Rom. 95 I will
bring him near and he will come close to me
(Heb. 1019-22)
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Jeremiahs Message of Hope

• The Righteous Branch (Jer. 3315-17)
• In those days and at that time I will cause a
  righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he
  shall execute justice and righteousness in the
  land. In those days Judah will be saved and
  Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the
  name by which it will be called The Lord is our
  righteousness. For thus says the Lord David
  shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of
  the house of Israel. (But 2230?)

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Jeremiahs Message of Hope

• The People Were Punished Because Their guilt is
  so great and your sins are so many - Jer. 3014,
  15
• Jer. 3011 - I am with you and will save you,
  declares the Lord. Though I completely destroy
  all the nations among which I scatter you, I will
  not completely destroy you. I will discipline
  you, but only with justice I will not let you go
  entirely unpunished.
• Gods Justice Also To RESTORE

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Jeremiahs Message of Hope

• Ultimate Restoration Accomplished Only Through
  Redemption
• Their Sins Were Many - Forgiveness Their Only
  Hope - Jer. 3131-34
• Jer. 3131-34 - The time is coming, declares the
  Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the
  house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It
  will not be like the covenant I made with their
  forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead
  them out of Egypt, because

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Jeremiahs Message of Hope

• Jeremiah 3131-34
• They broke my covenant though I was a husband to
  them. This is the covenant I will make with the
  house of Israel after that time, declares the
  Lord. I will put my law in their minds and write
  it on their hearts. I will be their God and they
  shall be my people. No longer will a man teach
  his neighbor or a man his brother saying, Know
  the Lord, because they will all know me, from
  the least of them to the greatest, for I will
  forgive their wickedness and will remember their
  sins no more.

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Jeremiahs Message of Hope

• Jeremiah 3131-34 Quoted in Hebrews 88-12
  Partially in Hebrews 1016, 17
• Explained By The Establishment of the New
  Covenant
• Hebrews 813 - In that he says, a new
  covenant, he has made the first one obsolete.
  And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is
  ready to vanish away.