(Individual-study students should complete all of this section.) Use Notes and Commentary below to help you as you read and study Jeremiah 23 30–31 33 46–51 and the book of Obadiah.Ĭomplete Points to Ponder as directed by your teacher. They hold a very important place in the latter-day work of restoration. These visions and prophecies were recorded by Jeremiah and for centuries have provided hope to a nation of suffering people. Like other prophets of his time (Isaiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Amos, Micah, and Zechariah), Jeremiah was shown that scattered Israel would one day be gathered, that Judah would return to the lands of her possession, and that eventually all of Israel would become great. The Lord showed Jeremiah a vision of the future that put the calamities he had witnessed into a perspective of hope. Aside from this brief period of reform, Judah became increasingly insensitive to spiritual things during Jeremiah’s time. As has been discussed, a great reformation was conducted by Josiah when the book of the law was discovered in the temple and its contents were made known to the people. This situation brought a resurgence of idolatry, in this case a mixture of belief in the Mesopotamian astrological gods and belief in the Canaanite fertility deities.

Jeremiah declared God’s message for forty years, warning of coming disaster and appealing in vain to the nation to turn back to God.ĭuring Manasseh’s long reign (687–642 B.C.), which was just before Jeremiah’s time, Judah remained Assyria’s vassal. In the midst of this turmoil the kingdom of Judah was ruled by five kings, four of them deplorable. He witnessed the fall of a great empire (Assyria) and the rising of another (Babylon). The prophet Jeremiah lived through one of the most troubled periods of history in the ancient Near East.

The philistine prophecy