OT Lesson 39 Jeremiah Sees the Fall of Jerusalem
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Text: Jeremiah chapters 27 - 52 Supplemental Text: The Fourth Thousand Years chapter 25 BYU Lecture 44 Jeremiah received from the Lord good news and bad news. The good news was that the 10,000 Jews taken to Babylon in 608 BC would be treated kindly and prosper there. The bad news was that those left in Jerusalem would be conquered, scattered, persecuted and enslaved (which happened in 587 BC). Jeremiah immediately wrote to the 10,000 captives a letter of hope, encouraging them to build homes, cultivate fields, have large families and in 70 years they will return to redeem Jerusalem, which will soon be destroyed. Jeremiah then proclaimed to the people of Jerusalem and King Zedekiah to be friends to Babylon and live – or be utterly destroyed by them. False prophets proclaimed otherwise, preaching to the people everything they wanted to hear. But Jeremiah condemned the false prophet who died shortly thereafter. Still, the people would not listen. About this time, many true prophets arose and substantiated the words of Jeremiah. One of these was Lehi, who fled Jerusalem with his family into the wilderness in 600 BC. As King Zedekiah made his alliance with Egypt formal, King Nebuchadnezzar himself was outraged and led an invasion on Jerusalem in 588 BC. Alarmed, King Zedekiah had the nerve to ask Jeremiah if the Lord would save them. The Lord said He would Himself fight against Jerusalem and will smite them! In 587 BC, Nebuchadnezzar and his army smashed Jerusalem in a horrific scene of bloody conquest. Zedekiah was chained and was forced to see most of his children executed before his eyes, and then Zedekiah himself was blinded. Only one son, Mulek, was not killed because God had led him out of Jerusalem to a new land in the Americas. In Jeremiah’s final days, he laments the tragedies of wickedness and disobedience, as recorded in the Book of Lamentations.
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