Introduction
God promises that Israel will be blessed despite present problems.
Questions
1. What is the LORD's word to the nations and distant islands?
v 10 “Hear the LORD’s word, you nations,
and declare it in the distant islands. Say,
‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’
2. What is the new covenant that the LORD says he will make with the house of Israel?
v 31 to 33 “Behold, the days come,” says the LORD,
“that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel,
and with the house of Judah:
not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
which covenant of mine they broke,
although I was a husband to them,” says the LORD.
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,”
says the LORD:
“I will put my law in their inward parts,
and I will write it in their heart.
I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
3. How does God show to Jeremiah the certainty that the Jews will not be destroyed?
v 35 and 36 The LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day,
and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night,
who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar;
the LORD of Armies is his name, says:
“If these ordinances depart from before me,” says the LORD,
“then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”
Summary Points
- v 1 to 9 The LORD loves his people Israel and will bring them back to their land
- v 10 to 30 The LORD will gather his people from out of distant lands and they will be blessed in their own land
- v 31 to 34 Israel will come to know their LORD and his law and he will forgive them
v 35 to 40 The LORD will not cast off Israel. Their existence is as sure as that of the sun, moon and stars. Jerusalem will become a holy city