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4. Jeremiah Our Goal T o read the book of Jeremiah, is to take a journey, a spiritual journey that goes back and forth from the lowest depths of human depravity to the heights and grandeur and majesty of the Lord— the Lord who, from those heights, cries out to all of us: Mi-yittan that such a heart would be in you!

5. Jeremiah Contents 1 The Prophetic Calling of Jeremiah 2 The Crisis Within and Without 3 The Last Five Kings of Judah 4 Rebuke and Retribution 5 More Woes for the Prophet 6 Symbolic Acts 7 The Crisis Continues 8 Josiah’s Reform 9 Jeremiah’s Yoke 10 The Destruction of Jerusalem 11 The Covenant 12 Back to Egypt 13 Lessons From Jeremiah

6. Jeremiah Lesson 9, November 28 Jeremiah Lesson 9, November 28 Jeremiah’s Yoke

7. Key Text Luke 9:23 “ A nd he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.”

8. Jeremiah’s Yoke Quick Look 1. The Yoke of Wood (Jeremiah 27:2, 12, 13) 2. The Yoke of Lies (Jeremiah 28:10-15) 3. The Yoke of Iron (Jeremiah 28:13, 14)

9. Jeremiah’s Yoke Initial Words J eremiah again was called to “live out” the words he was to deliver. First, he had to wear a wooden yoke. Jeremiah also was forbidden to enter into mourning when others mourned and rejoicing when others rejoiced. We will get a powerful look at truth and error contending for the hearts and minds of the people.

10. Jeremiah’s Yoke 1. The Yoke of Wood Jeremiah 27:2, 12, 13 NKJV “ ‘ M ake for yourselves...yokes and put them on your necks.’... To Zedekiah..., ‘Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and...live. Why will you die...by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord has spoken against the nations that will not serve the king of Babylon?’ ”

11. 1. The Yoke of Wood A Solitary Life J eremiah was to refrain from marriage and from having children altogether so that his own life would be an object lesson on how terrible that time would be when families broke up and when the pain of separation became a heavy burden on the survivors.

12. 1. The Yoke of Wood A Solitary Life He was forbidden to enter a house where there was mourning; to symbo- lize the people’s unwillingness to respond to God’s calls for repentance and revival. He was not to join their festivals of joy and celebration. This was to symbolize the coming time when the Babylonians would bring an end to all of their joy and rejoicing.

13. 1. The Yoke of Wood Jeremiah’s Yoke The yoke Jeremiah had to put on his body was an unmistakable sign of the humiliation that the nation suffered; it’s what we call a military occupation. If a country revolted against Babylon, the Lord would take it as if the country had revolted against Him, and the rebellious would suffer as a result.

14. 1. The Yoke of Wood Jeremiah’s Yoke Here again, we find the Lord as Creator is Sovereign over all the earth. Even amid what appears to be chaos and catastrophe (invasion and dominion by a pagan nation), the power and authority of God are revealed, and this was, and is, to be a source of hope to all in the faithful remnant.

15. Jeremiah’s Yoke 2. The Yoke of Lies Jeremiah 28:10-15 NKJV “ T hen Hananiah the prophet took the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck and broke it...saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Even so I will break the yoke of...Babylon from the neck of all nations within...two full years.” ’... Jeremiah said...‘You make this people trust in a lie.... This year you shall die.’ ”

16. 2. The Yoke of Lies War of the Prophets J eremiah raised his voice in the name of God, and Hananiah spoke in the name of God too. But who was speaking for God? “Jeremiah, in the presence of the priests and people, earnestly entreated them to submit to the king of Babylon for the time the Lord had specified.

17. 2. The Yoke of Lies War of the Prophets He cited the men of Judah to the prophecies of Hosea, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, and others whose messages of reproof and warning had been similar to his own. He referred them to events which had taken place in fulfillment of prophecies of retribution for unrepented sin.

18. 2. The Yoke of Lies War of the Prophets In the past the judgments of God had been visited upon the impenitent in exact fulfillment of His purpose as revealed through His messengers.” — Prophets and Kings, p. 445. The answer about who was right came. Jeremiah 28:16, 17 tells the fate of the false prophet, which was just what the true prophet had said it would be.

19. 2. The Yoke of Lies Trusting in Lies Though Hananiah died, he still had done damage to the nation. His works followed him. He made the people “to trust in a lie” through deception. Satan is working diligently to get as many as possible to “trust in a lie,” and that lie can come in many guises and forms, just as long as it is always a lie.

20. Jeremiah’s Yoke 3. The Yoke of Iron Jeremiah 28:13, 14 NKJV “ ‘ G o and tell Hananaiah...‘Thus says the Lord: “You have broken the yokes of wood, but you have made in their place yokes of iron.... I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him.” ’ ”

21. 3. The Yoke of Iron Making It Harder I magine, for example, that after Jesus cursed the fig tree (Mark 11:13, 19–21), someone who had heard what Jesus said and knew what had happened had planted a new fig tree in the same spot, all in an attempt to refute the prophecy of Jesus there.

22. 3. The Yoke of Iron Making It Harder This is what Hananiah did with Jeremiah and the prophecy that the yoke around his neck symbolized. It was an act of open defiance of what Jeremiah said. Hananiah might have been able to break a wooden yoke, but who can break an iron one?

23. 3. The Yoke of Iron Making It Harder In a sense, what the Lord said was that by the people’s obstinacy and refusal to obey they only were making matters worse. If you thought a wooden yoke was bad, try an iron one.

24. 3. The Yoke of Iron Making It Harder Who hasn’t learned the hard way about making things more difficult for ourselves by obstinacy? When dealing with the Lord, why is it always better to submit and surrender right away than to keep on fighting and making things harder on yourself?

25. Jeremiah’s Yoke Final Words M any insist that our world will only improve over time. Though some aspects of life have improved, our world, in and of itself, offers us little hope especially in the long run. If we are to have any real hope, it has to be in something divine: God’s divine and supernatural intervention in our world and our lives.