Digging into the book of Jeremiah

JEREMIAH

I am going to begin reading Jeremiah with my wonderful boyfriend Don. I really wanted to journal my thoughts, and so as often as I can I would like to maybe journal some of my thoughts on here. That way I can keep them forever. And it would just be interesting to see where I am at in my spiritual walk by getting down what's on my mind

Anyways, here are some notes I took from my “Life Application Study Bible”

**Overview:

-Jeremiah= failure to the world, successful in God’s eyes

>>A look at the chapters:

-Chapter 1: The call
(Next 38 chapters: Prophecies about Israel ‘the nation united’ and Judah ‘the southern Kingdom’)
-Chapters 2-20: general & undated
-Chapters 21-39: particular & dated
-Chapter 39: Describe predicted destruction
-Chapters 40-45: events following Jerusalem’s fall
-Chapters 46-52: prophecies for a variety of nations.

**Main message: repent and turn to God or he will punish

**Key Verse: Jeremiah 2:19

**Special features: Jeremiah is a mixture of different literary types- history, poetry, and biography

**Blueprint of Jeremiah:

A. God’s judgment on Judah
1. The call of Jeremiah
2. Jeremiah condemns Judah for its sin
3. Jeremiah prophesies destruction
4. Jeremiah accuses Judah’s leaders
5. Restoration is promised
6. God’s promised judgment arrives
(Jeremiah 1:1-45:5)

B. God’s judgment on His nations.
1. Prophecies about foreign nations
2. The fall of Jerusalem
(Jeremiah 46:1-52:34)