06/04/2022 – Day 097 – Jeremiah 7 – 11 / Repentence their only hope – Broken covenant
I am playing a little catch up given that I didn’t have access to the blog for a week. But given, my earlier post, I think it is particularly important to back up a week to catch Jeremiah. For Jeremiah is a mentor for us in our day. I can elaborate on that further. I just mentioned the other day to brothers that I really admired Jonathan in the Old Testament, noting he was on my short list so to speak of people I would like to greet early on in heaven. My two favorite old testament mentors are Jonathan and Jeremiah.
An idea: I will go so far to say, why not just focus on Saturday and our study of Jeremiah to start a disciplined bible study program that lasts a lifetime?
Here once again, I really like Henry H. Halley’s articulate summaries for these chapters in the Halley’s Bible Handbook.So I am going to share his insights. Again, I note that Alistair Begg noted once that: “Why would he paraphrase a commentary from a warrior messenger? Can we improve upon it? So, I just need not to cross the line on copyright laws. As I have noted, maybe I can convince some of you to pick up this valuable resource that we have had since the 1920s.
So let’s get started:
“Chapter 7. Repentance their Only Hope
This one of Jeremiah’s heart-rending appeals for repentence, based on God’s amazing promise that if only the people would hearken to their God Jerusalem would never fall (5-7) With all their abominable practices (9,31), and even though they had erected iols in the Temple (30), yet they had a supersstitious regard for the Temple and its services, and seemed to think that, come what may, God would not let Jerusalem be destoyed because his Temple was there (4,10). “Queen of heaven” (18), Ashtoreth, principal female Canaanite deity, whose worship was accompanied with the most degrading jforms of immorality. “Hinnom” (31-32), the valley on the south side of Jerusalem, where children were burnt in sacrifice to Molech, afterward came to be used as the name of hell, “Gehenna.”
Chapter 8. “The Harvest is Past”
Fully conscious of the futility of his appeals and rebukes, Jeremiah speaks of the impending desolation of Judah as if it were already accomplished (20). False prophets (10-11), their insistence that Jerusalem was in no danger constituted one of Jeremiah’s most difficult problems (see under Chapter 23)
Chapter 9. “The Broken-Hearted Prophet”
Jeremiah, a man of sorrows, in the midst of a people abandoned to everything vile (8:6; 9: 2-9), weeping day and night at the thought of frightful impending retribution, moved about among them, begging, pleading, persuading, threatening, entreating, imploring that they turn from their wickedness. But in vain.
Chapter 10. Jehovah the True God.
It seems that the threat of Babylonian invastion spurred the people of Judah to great activity in the manufacture of idols, as if idols could
Soli Deo Gloria!