Jeremiah (Adults)

Lesson 3 - Repent or Be Destroyed

Lesson written by Brian Andrews

Lesson 3 – Repent or Be Destroyed

Goal

God demands full obedience.

Base Text

Jeremiah 3:6-4:31

Check your Reading

1. What did Israel do on every high hill and under every green tree?
   
   
   

2. What did Judah learn from Israel?
   
   
   

3. Why did God send away Israel and give her a certificate of divorce?
   
   
   

4. Was Judah afraid because of what happened to Israel?  What did Judah do?
   
   
   

5. What was God through Jeremiah asking the north (Israel) to do?
   
   
   

6. Prophecies in Jeremiah 3:14-18:

   1. How many would be taken?
      
      

   2. Where will they be taken?
      
      

   3. What will they be provided?
      
      

   4. After they multiply in the land, what will never be said again?
      
      

   5. What will be called the “The Lord’s Throne”?
      
      

   6. Who will be gathered to this place?
      
      

   7. In what name are they gathered?
      
      

   8. What will they cease to follow?
      
      

   9. What will happen in those days?
      
      

7. What did God want to give Israel?  Why?
   
   
   

8. What did they do instead?
   
   
   

9. What was heard from the barren heights? Why?
   
   
   

10. What will God do if his faithless children returned?
    
    
    

11. What comes from the mountains?  What from God?
    
    
    

12. What does Israel have to do to return to God?
    
    
    

13. What will happen if Israel returns to God?
    
    
    

14. What were the men of Judah to do?  What would happen otherwise?
    
    
    

15. What is to be declared in Judah and proclaimed in Jerusalem? (one word is sufficient)
    
    
    

16. What will happen on that day?
    
    
    

17. What brought this destruction on Jerusalem?
    
    
    

18. Who is talking in Jeremiah 4:19-21?
    
    
    

19. Why are the people fools?  What are they skilled in?  What do they not know?
    
    
    

20. Why were the mountains trembling and the cities torn down?
    
    
    

21. What do Jerusalem’s lovers want to do?
    
    
    

Class Discussion

1. Judah did not learn from Israel’s disobedience or from Israel’s punishment. Why do you think Judah did not learn from Israel?
   
   
   
   
   
   

2. Josiah did many good things trying to lead the kingdom back to God.  What does Jeremiah 3:10 indicate?
   
   
   
   
   
   

3. The people of Judah and Jerusalem were astonished when the destruction of Jerusalem occurred.  They had been led astray by the false prophets who were proclaiming peace (Jeremiah 4:9-10). What lessons can we learn from this so we are not taken away by false doctrine and astonished on the day of judgment?
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

4. Some may read sections of the Bible such Jeremiah 4:11-13 and claim “it’s just too hard to understand.”  Why is it not essential to understand that this section of scripture is talking about the power of Babylon?