"Only Life Changes"

Question:
Why does Jeremiah warn against putting too much trust in:

“The Temple of The Lord”‘ in Jeremiah 7:4?
Answer:
Perhaps the deliverance described in 2 Kings 18:13-19 NIV> In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. So Hezekiah king of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish: “I have done wrong. Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand of me.” The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace. At this time Hezekiah king of Judah stripped off the gold with which he had covered the doors and doorposts of the temple of the Lord, and gave it to the king of Assyria. “Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem” 17-19> The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman’s Field. They called for the king; and Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to them. The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: “‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? and verse 36 & 37> But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.” Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said. “ and celebrated in (For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth. A song.) Psalm 46:1-11 Easy to Read Version> God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day. Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts. The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Come and see what the Lord has done, the desolations he has brought on the earth. He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire. He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. “Had led to the popular belief that Jerusalem could never be taken.”

Question:
What command to Jeremiah brings to mind the case of Diogenes walking the streets of Athens with a lantern in broad daylight, looking for an honest man?
Answer:
The Lord says, “Walk the streets of Jerusalem. Look around and think about these things. Search the public squares of the city. See if you can find one good person, one who does honest things and who searches for the truth. If you find one good person, I will forgive Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 5:1 Easy-to-Read Version

Question:
What historical character may have been in Jeremiah’s mind as he longed for “a wayfarer’s’ lodging place” in the desert? It reads in Jeremiah 9:2 Easy to Read Version> If only I had a place in the desert a house where travelers spend the night so I could leave my people. I could go away from them, because they are all unfaithful to God. They have all turned against him.
Answer:
Elijah did find such a retreat. It reads in 1 Kings 19:4-9 Easy-to-Read Version> and walked for a whole day into the desert. Then he sat down under a bush and asked to die. He said, “I have had enough, Lord! Take my life. I am no better than my ancestors. “Then Elijah lay down under the bush and went to sleep. An angel came to him and touched him. The angel said, “Get up and eat!” Elijah looked around, and by his head there was a cake that had been baked over coals and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then went back to sleep. Later the Lord’s angel came to him again, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat! If you don’t, you will not be strong enough to make the long trip.” So, Elijah got up. He ate and drank and felt strong. Then Elijah walked for 40 days and nights to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God. There Elijah went into a cave and spent the night. Then the Lord said to him, “Elijah, why are you here?”

Question:
What ethical standards does God hold before His people?
Answer:
Jeremiah 9:24. But let him that glorifies— To glory in a thing is to depend on it as the means or cause of procuring happiness. But there can be no happiness but in being experimentally acquainted with that God who exercises loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.

Question:
What passage is a classical description of the conditional nature of prophecy?
Answer:
“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.
Jeremiah 18:6-8 English Standard Version

Question:
What passage describes the forms of idolatry seen by the Jews of Diaspora?
Answer:
This is what the Lord says: “Don’t live like people from other nations. Don’t be afraid of special signs in the sky. The other nations are afraid of what they see in the sky. But you must not be afraid of them. The customs of other people are worth nothing. Their idols are nothing but wood from the forest. Their idols are made by workers with their chisels. They make their idols beautiful with silver and gold. They use hammers and nails to fasten their idols down so that they will not fall over. The idols of the other nations are like a scarecrow in a cucumber field. They cannot walk. They cannot talk, and the people must carry them. So don’t be afraid of their idols. They cannot hurt you. And they cannot help you either.” Lord, there is no one like you. You are great! Your name is great and powerful! Everyone should respect you, King of all the nations. You deserve their respect. There are many wise men among the nations, but not one of them is as wise as you. All the people of the other nations are stupid and foolish. Their teachings come from worthless wooden statues. They use silver from the city of Tarshish and gold from the city of Uphaz and make their statues. Carpenters and metalworkers make the idols. They put blue and purple clothes on them. “Wise men” make these “gods.” But the Lord is the only true God. He is the only God who is alive. He is the King who rules forever. The earth shakes when he is angry. The people of the nations cannot stop his anger. The Lord says, “Tell them this message: ‘These false gods did not make heaven and earth. They will be destroyed and disappear from heaven and earth.’”
Jeremiah 10:2-11 Easy-to-Read Version

Question:
How does Jeremiah set forth the universal character of God?
Answer:
This message is from the Lord. “I am God, and I am always near. I am not far away.
Jeremiah 23:23 Easy-to-Read Version

Question:
“What section found in the Hebrew Bible is lacking in the Septuagint?
Answer:
The Septuagint is not actually lacking any sections found in the Hebrew Bible, but rather, it includes some additional books not found in the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew Bible, also known as the Tanakh, consists of 24 books. It is divided into three parts: the Torah (“Law”), the Nevi’im (“Prophets”), and the Ketuvim (“Writings”). On the other hand, the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, has 46 books. It is divided into four sections: law, history, poetry, and prophets. The additional books in the Septuagint are part of what is known as the “Deuterocanonical” or “Apocryphal” books. These are accepted in some Christian traditions (such as the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions) but are not included in the Jewish canon or most Protestant Bibles. So, it’s not that the Septuagint lacks sections from the Hebrew Bible, but rather it includes additional ones. It reads in Jeremiah 33:14-26 Easy-to-Read Version This message is from the Lord: “I made a special promise to the people of Israel and Judah. The time is coming when I will do what I promised. At that time, I will make a good ‘branch’ grow from David’s family. That branch will do what is good and right for the country. When he rules, Judah will be saved. The people of Jerusalem will live in safety. This will be his name: ‘The Lord Makes Things Right for Us.’” The Lord says, “Someone from David’s family will always sit on the throne and rule the family of Israel. And there will always be priests from the family of Levi. They will always stand before me and offer burnt offerings and sacrifice grain offerings and give sacrifices to me.” This message from the Lord came to Jeremiah. The Lord says, “I have an agreement with day and night. I agreed that they would continue forever. You cannot change that agreement. Day and night will always come at the right time. If you could change that agreement, then you could change my agreement with David and Levi. Then descendants from David would not be the kings, and the family of Levi would not be priests. But I will give many descendants to my servant David and to the tribe of Levi. They will be as many as the stars in the sky—no one can count all the stars. And they will be as many as the grains of sand on the seashore—no one can count the grains of sand.” Jeremiah received this message from the Lord: “Jeremiah, have you heard what the people are saying? They are saying, ‘The Lord turned away from the two families of Israel and Judah. He chose those people, but now he does not even accept them as a nation.’” The Lord says, “If my agreement with day and night does not continue, and if I had not made the laws for the sky and earth, maybe I would leave those people. Then maybe I would turn away from Jacob’s descendants. And then maybe I would not let David’s descendants’ rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But David is my servant, and I will be kind to those people. I will again cause good things to happen to them.”

Question:
What prayer from early liturgy is included here?
Answer:
Jeremiah 32 describes the prophet’s redemption of his uncle’s ancestral land. The scribal authors turned this transaction into an oracle. Eventually, the passage was expanded to include a prayer in which Jeremiah invokes the exodus from Egypt and the gift of the land. The prayer is as follows:
Ah Lord GOD! Behold, You made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm; nothing is too difficult for You, who shows lovingkindness to thousands, but repays the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children after them, O great and mighty God. The LORD of hosts is His name; great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, giving to everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds; who has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day both in Israel and among mankind; and You have made a name for Yourself, as at this day. You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders, and with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with great terror; and gave them this land, which You swore to their forefathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey. They came in and took possession of it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law; they have done nothing of all that You commanded them to do; therefore You have made all this calamity come upon them . “As for Jeremiah 32 meaning, it is a chapter that describes how God instructed Jeremiah to buy a field from his cousin Hanamel despite being imprisoned by King Zedekiah. This act was symbolic of God’s promise that He would restore Israel after their exile.” So person reading this put your biggest problem up against this great promise of the Lord and watch it dissolve. Lord, meet this reader with blessings and miracles right now in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

Question:
For what nations other than his own did Jeremiah a prophetic word from the Lord?
Answer:
Jeremiah, a prophet in the Hebrew Bible, received messages from the Lord concerning several foreign nations. According to the New International Version of the Bible, Jeremiah prophesied about the following nations: Wisdom behind this is that God is not only the God of Israel but also the God of all nations. He cares about all people and desires that they turn from their wicked ways and follow Him. Jeremiah’s prophetic words to these nations were a manifestation of God’s love for them and His desire for them to be saved from destruction.
Egypt (Jeremiah 46:1-28) There is no healing for you.
Philistia (Jeremiah 47:1-7) The Lord is destroying the Philistines.
Moab (Jeremiah 48:1-47) MOAB! The renown of Moab is no more; the Ammonites.
Ammon (Jeremiah 49:1-6) “Behold I will bring terror upon you.” Edom!
Edom (Jeremiah 49:7-22) “Edom shall become a horror,”
Damascus (Jeremiah 49:23-27) Damascus! Panic seized her. “Kadar, and the kingdoms of Hazor.”
Kedar and Hazor (Jeremiah 49:28-33) Hazar shall become a haunt of jackals.” Elam!
Elam (Jeremiah 49:34-39) “I will break the bow of Elam.”
Babylon (Jeremiah 50:1-58) “I am bringing against Babylon a company of great nations the broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground.