Jeremiah 1-33. Week 8.

Jeremiah warns King Zedekiah to repent or Jerusalem would be destroyed

Choice 4: Jeremiah 16:1–21. 

Old Testament Destruction and Latter Day Hope

a. Read Jeremiah 16:10–13 and list five reasons why Jeremiah prophesied that Jerusalem would be destroyed and Judah taken captive.

1.    .  your fathers have forsaken me (v. 11)
2.       have not kept my law (v. 11)
3.       have walked and served and worshipped after other gods (v. 11)
4.       ye have done worse than your fathers (v. 12) 
5.       ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me (v. 12)

b. Read Jeremiah 16:14–21 and describe in a few sentences what is prophesied to happen in the days to come. Additionally, answer the following questions:

 • How will the Lord take His word to the whole earth?

 • Why do you think the Lord used the terms fishers and hunters to describe what He would do? (see institute student manual commentary for Jeremiah 16:13–21, “Doom and Delivery,” pg. 241).

 • According to Moses 7:62; Alma 22:14 what will be their message?

The Lord will bring the children of Israel from their driven lands to the lands their fathers were promised.  He will then send missionaries (fishers & hunters) into all the world to hunt and gather and fish to find and teach the message of God. They will, "bear testimony of mine Only Begotten; his resurrection from the dead; yea, and also the resurrection of all men; and righteousness and truth." (Moses 7:62)  They will also teach, "the sufferings and death of Christ, faith and repentance, that he breaketh the bands of death, that the grave shall have no victory, and that the sting of death should be swallowed up in the hopes of glory." (Alma 22:14)