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EXILE 4000+ 1445 1405 1400 1050 930 722 586 539 400 Jer / Lam ASSYRIA Exodus ASSYRIA conquers Israel Proverbs Esther Psalms Judges EXILE Captives in Babylon Nehemiah Numbers Genesis Joshua Ecclesiastes Northern Kingdom (10 Tribes): Israel Ezra Leviticus Southern Kingdom (2 Tribes): Judah Jer / Lam Song of Songs Ruth Isaiah 1 & 2 Samuel Job Deuteronomy 1 & 2 Kings 1 & 2 Chronicles Egypt Assyria Babylon Persia

Josiah (640-609 BC) (612) Babylon conquers Ninevah Jehoahaz (609 BC) Jehoiakim (609-598 BC) (605) 1st group exiled (Daniel) Jehoiachin (598-597 BC) (597) 2nd group exiled (Ezekiel) Zedekiah (597-586 BC) (586) 3rd group exiled Gedaliah – Governor

HUMBLE PROPHET Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.”  But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.

TRUTH-FILLED PROPHET The truth about the nation For all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore. - Jeremiah 3:8

TRUTH-FILLED PROPHET The truth about God’s Word I cry out, I shout, “Violence and destruction!” For the word of the Lord has become for me a reproach and derision all day long. If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot. - Jeremiah 20:8-9

TRUTH-FILLED PROPHET The truth about sin The Lord said to me: “Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it… And those pierced by the Lord on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other.” - Jeremiah 25:15, 33

They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, REJECTED PROPHET False prophets “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord. … They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, ‘It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, ‘No disaster shall come upon you.’” - Jeremiah 23:6-17

REJECTED PROPHET City officials Jeremiah 38

REJECTED PROPHET All the people ... all the people from the least to the greatest, came near and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let our plea for mercy come before you, and pray to the Lord your God for us, for all this remnant…that the Lord your God may show us the way we should go, and the thing that we should do.” - Jeremiah 42:2-3

HOPE-FILLED PROPHET A new prosperity …seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare. - Jeremiah 29:7

HOPE-FILLED PROPHET A new covenant The days are coming, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, … for they shall all know me declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” - Jeremiah 31:31-34

‘The Lord is our righteousness.’ - Jeremiah 33:6, 16 HOPE-FILLED PROPHET A new security I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security. … In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’ - Jeremiah 33:6, 16

COMPASSIONATE PROPHET

HUMILITY

TRUTH

REJECTION

Our Prosperity HOPE My God will supply every need of ours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. - Philippians 4:19 HOPE

HOPE Our Covenant of grace This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. - Matthew 26:28 HOPE

who became to us … righteousness. Our Security You are in Christ Jesus, who became to us … righteousness. - 1 Corinthians 1:30 HOPE

COMPASSION

Our Foundation is like a miniature Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. - Matthew 7:24

Our Foundation Our Message Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. - Hebrews 10:23

Let us not love in word or talk Our Foundation Our Message Our Life Let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. - 1 John 3:18