First Baptist Church, Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Devotional: Jeremiah 52:1-34

Today’s passage: Jeremiah 52:1-34

Helpful thoughts:

  • This chapter reads much like the historical accounts of 2 Kings (2 Kings 24:18-25:30).  The purpose is to show the truthfulness of Jeremiah’s prophecies…or perhaps better said, to show the faithfulness of God’s word.
  • The chapter could be broken into three sections:
    • The final fall of Jerusalem.
      • This happened in waves.  First in 605 B.C., which was the beginning of the seventy years of exile.  Then in 597 B.C. under Jehoiachin.  Then in 586 B.C. under Zedekiah.
    • The looting of the city and Temple.
      • The account of the looting of the Temple is shocking, to think of a foreign pagan nation coming in and destroying the Temple of God.  However, we must remember that Israel and Judah had not treated it very well themselves.  God allowed this in His sovereignty.
    • The exiling of the people.
      • The number of exiles given (4,600) may only be counting the males.

Questions to consider:

  1. Why is this chapter a fitting end to the book of Jeremiah?  What does it wrap up in the mind of the reader?  What do we learn about God through it?
  2. What are some of your biggest take-aways or some of the things you learned in this study of the book of Jeremiah?
  3. Look back at Jeremiah 31:31-34.  Was the Mosaic Covenant (The Law) conditional or unconditional?  Why has Jerusalem fallen?  Is the New Covenant conditional or unconditional?  If you are a born again follower of Christ, why are you saved?  Is your participation in this covenant conditional or unconditional?  How does this make us all the more thankful and desirous to praise and glorify the Lord?