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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><u><b>JEREMIAH
39-52 - OVERVIEW - T3201R</b></u></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><u><b>FALL
OF JERUSALEM: CAPTIVITY</b></u></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b>1. 39:1-2 (39, ASV 1901) JERUSALEM BESIEGED:
RIGHTEOUSNESS VINDICATED. “(in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of
Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and
all his army against Jerusalem, and he besieged it; <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">2
</font>in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the
ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city).” </b><span style="">You,
O God, call the things that are </span><u><span style="">not</span></u><span style="">,
as though they </span><u><span style="">were</span></u><span style="">
(Romans 4:17)! You count Jerusalem as fallen, when as yet she was but
besieged! You did the same for Samaria, the capital of Israel over
100 years before. </span><u><span style="">What a
God you are</span></u><span style="">! No other
god can do such things! </span><b><i>Hallowed be your :name.</i></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b>2. 42:40 (40-42) HYPOCRISY IN THE REMNANT. “For
you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me
unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our God; and
according unto all that Jehovah our God shall say, so declare unto
us, and we will do it.” </b><span style="">Father;
turn us from this evil way of lying in our hearts, especially to You.
Take the sin of Ananias and Sapphira out of our hearts! </span><b><i>Your
:kingdom come.</i></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b>3. 44:29-30a (43-44) JUDGMENT ON THE REMNANT. “And
this shall be the sign unto you, says Jehovah, that I will punish you
in this place, that you may know that my words shall surely stand
against you for evil: <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">30</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">
</font>Thus says Jehovah, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of
Egypt into the hand of his enemies.” </b><span style="">Father,
Your ways are just, and for our good, even as a father chastises his
son! </span><b><i>Your :will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</i></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b>4. 45:1a (45) WORD TO BARUCH. “The word that
Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he
wrote these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah.” </b><span style="">How
gracious Your ways, O Father! Just as You saved Lot from Sodom, so
You preserved Baruch in the midst of judgment! </span><b><i>Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</i></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b>5. 48:11 (46-48) THREE PROPHECIES UPON GENTILE
NATIONS. “Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled
on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither
has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and
his smell is not changed.” </b><span style="">Father,
we see the absolute necessity of asking for suffering. Teach us the
wisdom of Colossians 1:24. Teach us the wisdom of Job! </span><b><i>And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</i></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b>6. 50:34 (49-51) SIX MORE PROPHECIES AGAINST
GENTILE NATIONS. “Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah of hosts is
his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest
to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.” </b><span style="">Father,
we trust You in Your judgments. You judge us lightly according to
Your mercy, using heathen nations to work Your purposes. Then You
judge in justice those who over-judge us! </span><b><i>And bring us
not into temptation.</i></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
<font size="3"><b>7. 52:3b-4 (52) JERUSALEM OVERTHROWN. “And
Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">4</font>
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth
month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped
against it; and they built forts against it round about.” </b><span style="">Father,
You are the God who calls the things that are not as though they
were! Jerusalem besieged, was as good as Jerusalem fallen! </span><b><i>But
deliver us from the evil </i><span style="font-style: normal;">one.</span></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><u><b><span style="font-style: normal;">NOTE</span></b></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
</b></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">What
a difficult assignment the LORD gave Jeremiah. No wonder in chapter
one he sought to get out of it. He felt like Moses when God called
him to deliver Israel from Egypt. But the Lord in both cases was
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">adamant</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">!
He </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">knew</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
His prophet, for as God, His predestinating choices were based on His
foreknowledge. Throughout all the Bible prophets, we find our God as
the One who knows all things before they come to pass. He is the God
of eternity! He and His Son are the </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">same</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
yesterday, today and forever. He is the God of the past, the present
and the future. His very Name Jehovah is comprised from the three
tenses of the verb “to be.” See Ye-h</span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">o</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">V</span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">A</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">H:
the “Ye” stands for He who always will be; “h</span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">o</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">”
is the present participle, He who always </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">is</span></span></u><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">;
“</span></span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">V</span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">A</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">H”
is the past tense, He who </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">was</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.
Yahweh does not express this. (See the introduction of “Newberry's
Reference Bible” for a deeper discussion on this.)</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Jesus
was born Son of Man” by the virgin Mary. Mary is not the mother of
God - she is Mary the mother of Jesus as Son of Man after the flesh.
It is true, God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself.
And 3 times God the Father audibly proclaimed from heaven His
approval of Jesus the Son of Man. And following His successful
Atoning Death for our Redemption, and following His Resurrection and
Ascension, God proclaimed Jesus the Son of Man as Lord and Christ.
“Lord” in Greek is “KUri-os,” and is parallel to Jehovah
(Ye-h</span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">o</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">V</span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">A</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">H)
in Hebrew.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<font size="3">Before Abraham was, Jesus as Son of God was “I AM!”
Does any man have full understanding of the “Mystery” of the
Godhead, and the “Mystery” of Christ's Incarnation?” Probably
not. I must confess, I await either arrival in heaven or the
Resurrection, to fully understand these “mysteries.”</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
<font size="3">God reserved for the apostle Paul the privilege of
unveiling the “mystery” of the “One New Man,” and some 20
other “mysteries” unveiled in the New Testament. Jeremiah in
chapter 31 tells the mystery of the New Covenant, and how greatly it
supersedes the Old Covenant. Peter acknowledges that Paul's unveiling
of these mysteries was difficult to understand, and the unlearned
“wrested” them to their own destruction.</font></p>
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<font size="3">And yet - it was not really Paul unveiling these
mysteries. It was the “Lord Jesus” Himself who used Paul as His
channel to finish up what He started through the four Gospels!</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Joshua
in the Old Testament is a “type” of Jesus to come. His name means
“Jehovah is salvation.” Jesus in Hebrew is “YeSHUa” - “Jesus
the Savior.” What Joshua did in bringing the 12 tribes into Canaan
and conquering 7 nations each greater than Israel, in 7 years, is a
“type” of what Jesus, the </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">greater</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
Joshua, has done in fulfilling Jeremiah 31, in the New Covenant. By
His Atoning Death, the Holy Spirit came 50 days later, and makes
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">vital</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
the Atonement, and fulfills Jeremiah 31. </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">This</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
is the Kingdom of God realized. The Kingdom of God is not the law of
the Old Covenant. It is “righteousness, peace and joy in the </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">Holy
Spirit</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Repent,
said John the Baptist and Jesus at the beginning of their respective
ministries - for “The Kingdom of God”, the “New Covenant in the
Holy Spirit” - is </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">at
hand</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">The
“Mysteries” Jesus unveiled through Paul in the New Covenant, were
only mysteries in the Old Testament. God all along intended in the
New Testament to reveal these mysteries through His chosen apostle.
Soon we will </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">all</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
understand these things more clearly. Even Paul confessed that </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">now</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">,
in these New Testament times, we </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">still</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
see through a glass darkly (1 Corinthians 13) - but at the
Resurrection, at the Feast of Tabernacles fulfilled, we will see face
to face.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">I
look forward to that day. I too with Paul and you now see through a
glass darkly. But </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">then</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
- at that day - face to face. </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">Then</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
will we </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">know</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">,
even as we are </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">known</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">!
Then Jeremiah will fully realize the meaning of those prophesies and
mysteries God gave him in his day, that would not be revealed until
the Kingdom of God came through Jesus in His death, burial,
resurrection, ascension - and with the Father pouring out on His
church the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">So
- this Kingdom Age of the Church - the One New Man - is </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">itself</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
not the final answer. It awaits the return of Jesus the Messiah as
Lord of lords and King of kings at the Feast of Tabernacles, and the
Millennial resurrection of the earth, with </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">all</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
nations coming up to Jerusalem annually at the Feast of Tabernacles
to honor God in Jesus, the one of the tribe of Judah - a Jew - and
yet the Son of God. And - His 12 apostles shall then sit on 12
thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel. What a shock to the Hitlers,
Stalins, Kings and rulers who have said - “We will not have </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">this
Man</span></span><i><span style=""> </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">to
rule over us!</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">”
In that day </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">every
knee</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
shall bow and </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">every
tongue</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
confess Jesus as Lord of lords and King of kings to God the Father's
glory! Amen! So let it be!</span></span></span></font></p>
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