Jeremiah’s ministry to Israel (Southern Kingdom) lasted forty years – from the time of King Josiah until the Babylonian invasion and captivity in the eleventh year of the reign of King Zedekiah.
Pre-mortal Life/Ministries
READ
Jeremiah 1:4-5
Why
is it important to understand that you lived before you came to earth?
What
is the danger of focusing on who you might have been before you were born in
mortality?
Jeremiah’s
Prophetic Call
READ
Jeremiah 1:6-10
What
is Jeremiah’s initial response to hearing of his mission?
Why
did the Lord touch Jeremiah’s mouth?
READ
Jeremiah 1:17-19
What
will happen to those who fear man more than God?
READ
JSH 1:25
What
will the world do if you say to them, “I have actually seen a light…”?
What
will happen if you deny your experience?
Jeremiah
has been commanded to share his experience and the message that he has received
from God – what has the Lord promised him if he will not fear man?
The
stipulations of the Mosaic covenant, the Law, were from the beginning
inseparably connected with specific blessings and curses, depending on
obedience to commandments. They are laid
out in Deuteronomy 27 and 28.
READ
Deuteronomy 28:1-2 and 28:15, 20
What
are the blessings given in the Law?
What
is the curse given to Israel in the Law?
What
is the cursing for?
READ
Jeremiah 2:13
What
evils have Israel committed?
READ
Hebrews 11:6
What
must we do to please God?
READ
Moses 1:39 and Moroni 7:38
Why
are good works and kind hearts not enough to please God?
READ
LoF 3:2-5 and D&C 93:24
What
does true and living faith – the kind that leads to salvation – require?
READ
Alma 12:10-11
What
happens to those who harden their hearts against the truth – regardless of how
difficult it might be for them to receive it given their traditions or the
things they think they know to be true?
Back
to the mortal cursings that come to a people who don’t believe in the living
God, after they have been given knowledge of Him in plainness, even as plain as
word can be…
READ
Jeremiah 24:10
What
is the Lord’s last warning to Israel through Jeremiah?
READ
2 Nephi 1:20
America
has a similar covenant upon it – what is it?
Persecuted
for My Sake
READ
Jeremiah 20:1-2
Who
is Pashur and what did he do to Jeremiah?
READ
Jeremiah 20:7-9
How
was Jeremiah deceived by the Lord?
What
was Jeremiah’s solution to all the persecution?
Why could
Jeremiah not stop crying repentance, even against his better judgment?
Had
Jeremiah lost his agency?
READ
Jeremiah 20:14-18
So,
given that Jeremiah has chosen to continue to testify, why does he wish that
he’d never been born?
READ
D&C 122:7-9
How
does God’s understanding of our limits differ from our own fears and feelings
about them?
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