Study 35 From the Book of Jeremiah is: Jeremiah 51:59 – 52:34
With this study, we end the
book of Jeremiah. Tomorrow we will start with the book of Lamentations.
1.
51:59-64. Note the date of this incident. AT the time, Babylon was rising to the height
of her power and glory, and Jeremiah was convinced that she would enjoy
complete supremacy over the nations. See chapter 28 which belongs to the same
year. How, then, does this commission
which Jeremiah gives to Seriah illustrate the truth of Heb. 11:1, that ‘faith
is…the conviction of things not seen’?
2.
Chapter 52 is very similar to the 2 Ki. 24:18-25:30. It tells
once more the story of the fall of Jerusalem, the destruction of the Temple and
the captivity of the people, perhaps to emphasize how complete was the fulfillment of Jeremiah’s words. For
example, compare verse 3 with 7:15; verse 6 with 14:15-18; verses 8:11 with
34:3; verse 13 with 7:14; 9:11; 19:13; 32:28, 29; verse 15 with 16:9-13; 21:9;
verses 18, 19 with 27:19-22. See 1:12. Do you believe this, and live by it?
Note. 52:24. ‘The three keepers of the threshold’: denoting
three high officials of the Temple who had charge of the three gates.
