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Minor Prophets, Part 2: Babylonian Crisis

  1. Lesson One
    Nahum
    23 Activities
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    3 Assessments
  2. Lesson Two
    Zephaniah
    22 Activities
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    3 Assessments
  3. Lesson Three
    Habakkuk
    19 Activities
    |
    4 Assessments
  4. Lesson Four
    Joel and Josiah
    24 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  5. Lesson Five
    Interpreting Prophecy
    34 Activities
    |
    7 Assessments
  6. Course Wrap-up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment

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Jeremiah is a prophet we will study shortly. He predicted that God’s people would go into exile for 70 years (25:11-12; 29:10)—and they did. He predicted a miraculous return from all the countries where they were exiled (29:10-14). Among Jeremiah’s prophecies are beautiful words of hope for a full spiritual restoration:

“The day is coming,” says the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,” says the LORD.

 

“But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the LORD. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, ‘You should know the LORD.’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know me already,” says the LORD. “And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.”
Jeremiah 31:31-34 NLT

  1. What about this prophecy was fulfilled when the exiles returned, and what was open to fuller fulfillment?
  1. Can you see any difference between these promises? If so, what is it?
Different Kinds of Prophecy

Prophecies like the ones we read can be viewed as having a trajectory or line. The hope started by a prophet moves along a path as it picks up speed and gets closer to its target. In this movement, prophecy is a lot like an arrow on its way to a bullseye.