Tag: jeremiah
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Jude -3- Apostates
Why did Jude write to the churches about apostasy? What is apostasy and how do we recognize apostates? As we learned previously in the study of Jude’s reason for exhortation, certain intruders have joined the churches to which he writes. Jude describes them as ungodly people who pervert God’s grace. He accuses these apostates of…
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Our Lament and Weeping -4- unless You have completely rejected us
We began by outlining his Lament over Jerusalem and continued with Judgment on Jerusalem and Hope through God’s Mercy, where Jeremiah pleas for mercy based on his own suffering. After the four elegies he described the suffering of God’s people. Terrors of the Besieged City Judah refused to listen to God’s warnings through Jeremiah and…
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Our Lament and Weeping -3- What city has not terrors?
God’s repeated warnings to repent had been ignored and destruction of the land follows with terror and deaths as he now joins the captives driven from Jerusalem. From Terror to Elegy After the terrors of Jerusalem at the hand of its enemies are complete Jeremiah shares four sad songs as acrostic elegies. Elegy An Elegy…
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