Questions; Answers; Applications
Questions; Answers; Applications Question) How does God use the image of marriage to describe His displeasure with Judah in chapters 2-3? Answer) Jeremiah 2:1-5, 7-8, 13, 20-22, 23-29; 3:1-5, 6-11, 20-22.
Questions; Answers; Applications Questions) (a) What were the people of Judah counting on to protect them from destruction (Jeremiah 7:1-4)? (b) What should they have been doing to prevent destruction (Verses 5-11)? (c) What example does God give them to show that their “protection” was not really protection (Verses 12-15)? Answer a) The people were counting on the temple of the LORD to protect them from destruction. Answer b) They should have amended their ways & become the type of people who would actually be fit to worship in the temple. Answer c) What happened at Shiloh was to serve as an example as to what could/would happen if the people failed to amend their ways. (Deut. 12:5, 10-11; Joshua 18:1; 1 Sam. 2:17, 22-24; 4:1-11; Rev. 2:5, 3:16-17).
Questions; Answers; Applications Question) (a) What religious practice was condemned in Jeremiah 7:28-34? (b) What did God say He would do about it? Answer a) The religious practice condemned was human sacrifice! (Lev. 18:21; 20:1-2) Answer b) God was going to eventually bring this place (Valley of Hinnom) to ultimate ruin.
Tophet H8612 תּפת tôpheth BDB Definition: Tophet or Topheth = “place of fire” Part of Speech: noun proper locative A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: the same as H8611 Same Word by TWOT Number: 2539
Hinnom H2011 הנּם hinnôm BDB Definition: Hinnom = “lamentation” 1) a valley (deep and narrow ravine) with steep, rocky sides located southwest of Jerusalem, separating Mount Zion to the north from the hill of evil counsel’ and the sloping rocky plateau of the ‘plain of Rephaim’ to the south Part of Speech: noun proper locative A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: probably of foreign origin
Hell (in N.T.) G1067 γέεννα geenna gheh'-en-nah Strong’s Definition Of Hebrew origin ([H1516] and [H2011]); valley of (the son of) Hinnom; gehenna (or Ge-Hinnom), a valley of Jerusalem, used (figuratively) as a name for the place (or state) of everlasting punishment: - hell.
Hell (in N.T.) G1067 γέεννα geenna Thayer Definition: 1) Hell is the place of the future punishment call “Gehenna” or “Gehenna of fire”. This was originally the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, where the filth and dead animals of the city were cast out and burned; a fit symbol of the wicked and their future destruction. Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: of Hebrew origin H1516 and H2011 Citing in TDNT: 1:657, 113
Questions; Answers; Applications It breaks God’s heart to see His people turn away from Him, and go into the arms of the Devil. (Consider your ways, seek the Lord’s tender mercies; change, if need be!) Do not simply trust in formal, ritual worship; nor that one is saved simply because he/she is in the “right” church. (Worship, and live DAILY, in accordance to God’s will!) All sin is an offense to God, and is a perversion of what He has planned for us!! (There is a horrible end awaiting those who pervert God’s order.)