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Weekly Guide：2024-2025 Week 55
January 19, 2025
Week 55 Day 1: Ridiculed by Everyone ⇧ ⇩
Question
How was Jeremiah being laughed at?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The priest Pashhur, the official in charge of the temple of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying so he had Jeremiah beaten and put in the stocks at the Lord’s temple then released the next day.
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Jeremiah said to Pashhur that the Lord would make him a terror to himself and to all his friends.
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The prophet cried to the Lord that he was being ridiculed all day long, mock by everyone, and with terror all around.
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The prophet knew the Lord was with him, his persecutors will stumble and not prevail.
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The prophet was willing to be cursed the day he was born, mocked by everyone, and end his days in shame.
Meditation: My Story
- Fidelity - The Lord’s word in the prophet’s heart was like fire shut up in his bones, he was weary of holding it in. Do I have the same zeal as the prophet with the Lord’s word and would spread the gospel like it is burning in my heart?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 55 Day 2: Holy City Besieged ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did the prophet foretell the end of Jerusalem?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Because Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon was attacking, King Zedekiah asked Jeremiah to inquire of the Lord.
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Jeremiah answered: The Lord would fight against Jerusalem with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm in furious anger and in great wrath that whoever goes out and surrenders to the Babylonians will live.
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The prophet scolded the house of the King of Judah that they must hear the word of the Lord, administer justice, rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed.
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The prophet warned the Judah king and people that they must hear the word of the Lord, do what is just and right, rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed.
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Foretold that Shallum son of Josiah would die in the place where they have led him captive.
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Foretold that woe would come to Jehoiakim.
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Foretold that Jehoiachin would be delivered into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the Babylonians.
Meditation: My Story
- Integrity - The prophet tried to persuade the Judah king and its people to do what is just and right, and not to be greedy. We may often unknowingly trapped by greed as the world does and forget what is just and right. Let me examine myself to see if I have been following the world instead of His word. How has the Holy Spirit reminded me to turn back to His way?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 55 Day 3: Light of Hope ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did God give people hope in His righteous judgment?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of God’s pasture!
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God will raise up for David a righteous Branch.
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Concerning the false prophets and their punishments.
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Those who are cynical of the prophets will be punished.
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The Lord likened those Judah who would be looked after and receive His grace to the good figs. He also likened the Judah king and the rest of the Judah who would become abhorrent, be reproached and ridiculed by the nations to the bad figs.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - God saved a remnant from the exiles of the Judah, to give them a heart to know Him, and bring them back to the promised land, to be His people, and return to Him with all their heart. God saved us by His grace. How may I know God more each day of my life?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 55 Day 4: Foretold Judah's Exile ⇧ ⇩
Question
What was the prophet’s foretelling of Judah’s exile?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The prophet rebuked the Judah for not listening to the Lord for twenty-three years.
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Foretold the Judah would be taken in exile to Babylon for seventy years.
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When the seventy years are fulfilled, the land of the Babylonians would be made desolate forever.
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God’s judgment likened to a cup filled with the wine of His wrath.
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Shepherds shall weep and wail for the people.
Meditation: My Story
- Fidelity - The prophet asked the shepherds to weep and wail because the people would be scattered and slaughtered. Do I weep and wail when I see those around me whose souls are yet to be saved? Do I have a heart to love all like God loves the world?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 55 Day 5: Sent and Seized ⇧ ⇩
Question
How was Jeremiah attacked by the priests and the prophets?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Early in the reign of Jehoiakim, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah to tell him to stand in the courtyard of the Lord’s house and speak to all the people of the town of Judah to tell them everything the Lod had commanded him to say.
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As soon as Jeremiah finished telling all the people everything the Lord had commanded him to say, the priests, the prophets and all the people seized him and said, “You must die!”
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Jeremiah said to all the officials and all the people: “The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and this city.”
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The officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets: “This man should not be sentenced to death! He has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”
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Uriah heard Jeremiah’s prophesy and King Jehoiakim struck him down with a sword.
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Ahikam supported Jeremiah, and so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.
Meditation: My Story
- Fidelity - God commanded Jeremiah to tell His wrath and not to omit a word. Jeremiah followed but was attacked. It is not easy to speak for God. What encouragement can I get from Jeremiah’s example?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 55 Day 6: Yoke on Neck ⇧ ⇮
Question
What did Jeremiah prophesy about the king of Babylon’s yoke?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Early in the reign of Zedekiah, the Lord had Jeremiah make a yoke out of straps and crossbars and put it on his neck.
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Jeremiah prophesied any nation or kingdom would not serve Nebuchadnezzar would be punished with the sword, famine, and plague.
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Jeremiah advised Zedekiah: “bow your neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and you will live.”
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Jeremiah prophesied the articles from the Lord’s house would be carried away to Babylon.
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Hananiah predicted the articles from the Lord’s house and the exiles of Judah would soon be bought back.
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Jeremiah replied to the prophet Hananiah: “May the Lord fulfill the words you have prophesied.”
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Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it then prophesied the Lord would break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon off the neck of all the nations within two years.
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Jeremiah prophesied that Hananiah had broken the wooden yoke but in its place, he would get a yoke of iron and he would die that very year because he had preached rebellion against the Lord.
Meditation: My Story
- Fidelity - It is an embarrassing for Jeremiah to go see Zedekiah and the officials of the nations wearing a yoke on his neck. Have I ever been embarrassed serving the Lord? How may I overcome this feeling?