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Jeremiah’s Temple Sermon
We have covered the first section of Jeremiah.
Chapters 1-6 serve as an introduction to the entire book.
Now with Jer.
7:1 we begin a new series of oracles.
This section seems to go from Chapter 7 up until Chapter 26.
This Temple sermon given by Jeremiah is usually dated to the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim.
Part of the reason is that in Jer.
26:1-10 we see the entire sermon repeated but with more surrounding detail.
It is also very fitting for us to cover this section with today being the 9th of Av.
Today is the anniversary of the destuction of both the First and the Second Temples.
It is a day of great mourning and sorrow, because we remember the judgement that Adonai poured out upon Israel, not once, but twice.
Truly, as Isa 40:2 states, “Jerusalem .... received from Adonai’s hand double for all her sins.”
Where to Stand
Adonai commands Jeremiah to stand in the gate of Adonai’s House.
This was probably the eastern gate, or the main entrance.
Adonai calls this “His House”, and “the House that bears My Name”.
The naming is very important because Adonai takes the defilement of the Temple personally.
Hypocritical Worship
The hypocrisy of the people tires and angers Adonai.
While the people call out “The Temple of Adonai!”, theft, murder, oppression, lying adultery, and idolatry fill the rest of the month.
In Jer.
7:11 Adonai asks the people, “Has this House, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your eyes?
Look, even I have seen it!”
Does that question sound familiar?
It should, Yeshua quoted this passage in Matt.
21:12-13
Jeremiah is standing the court of the 1st Temple, and Yeshua is standing in the same place, but in the 2nd Temple.
Both prophesying about the sin and wickedness occurring in front of them.
Both prophesying about the destruction and desolation of the Temples of their days.
Just Like Shiloh
Unlike the false prophets, who make up their news, and have no facts to back them up, Adonai point to several historical events.
What has happened before is about to happen again.
Shiloh was the place of worship, the location of the Tabernacle in the days of Eli and Samuel, the first place where Adonai had caused His Name to dwell.
However because of the sin of the priests, the sons of Eli, Adonai declared 1 Sam.
3:11-14
The Philistines ended up destroying Shiloh in the 11th Century B.C., and it laid desolate for hundreds of years.
Adonai shows that what was done before could be done again.
Just Like Ephraim
Assyria had captured Samaria in 722 B.C. just over 100 years before, and at that time Assyria had threatened to destroy Jerusalem.
(Isa.
37:36) But the only reason that Jerusalem had survived then, was that Adonai miraculously delivered Judah.
Now Adonai sees Judah’s wickedness and will bring judgement on the land.
Do Not Intercede
Jer.
7:16 is such a potent verse.
““As for you (Jeremiah), do not pray for this people.
Do not offer any supplication or petition for them, nor entreat Me, because I will not hear you.”
The point of no return had come.
Adonai determined to judge Judah.
Adonai’s anger had just boiled over.
For hundreds of years, the anger of Adonai had been simmering, as the wickedness of the people got worse and worse.
Now His fury could not be quenched, and His anger would burn people and livestock and would scorch the earth.
Adonai warns Jeremiah that the people will not listen to him.
Worthless Worship
Adonai’s anger and sarcasm continues as He tells the people to keep bringing their sacrifices.
What’s interesting is that the Burnt Offering was the one sacrifice that the people were NOT supposed to eat (Lev.
1:9).
Adonai is saying,
You might as well add these offerings to the others and have a feast.
They are utterly worthless to me! ... One moment [you're] baking cakes for the Queen of Heaven... the next moment offering [your] temple sacrifices to [Me].
[I] want no part of them!
Again Adonai warns Jeremiah that the people will not listen.
This we see occurring in Jer.
26:8-9 as soon as Jeremiah had finished speaking.
The Hinnom Valley
After Jeremiah escaped with his life from the priests, prophets and princes, we see that Adonai tells him to shave his head and lament on the baren hills.
On one of the hills just south of Jerusalem, Jeremiah would have been overlooking the Valley of ben-Hinnom.
It was here that under King Manasseh, that the people of Judah had burned alive their sons and daughters to the god Molech.
And it is here, that Adonai speaks of the coming slaughter of Jerusalem.
It will be a time when there will be no one left to bury their dead.
Even the bones of the kings and princes will be left exposed.
And Adonai declares that the name of the valley will be changed to the Valley of Slaughter.
Yeshua refers to this place over 10 times for instance: Matt.
5:29
Or how about, Matt.
10:28
Did you catch it?
The name Gehenna is from the Aramaic words גֵּי חִנָּם, gê ḥinnām, for the “valley of Hinnom” (cf.
Josh 15:8; 18:16), a despised place to the southwest of Jerusalem where at one time human sacrifices were offered to the god Molech (cf. 2 Kgs 23:10; Jer 7:31) and where in later times the city’s refuse was burned.
The constant burning there made the valley a particularly suitable metaphor for eternal punishment (cf. 4 Ezra 7:36; Sib.
Or. 1.103; 2.292; Str-B 4.2:1029–1118).
So not only did this Ben Hinnom Valley become known as the place of slaughter, but it also became synonymous with eternal punishment as it says in Isa.
66:24
Application
So how do we apply this passage to our lives today?
Tishah B’Av (9th of Av)
Today is the annual fast day that memorialises the tragedies that are said to have occurred on this very day.
Here is a list of events that occurred on this day in years past:
Destruction of the 1st Temple (Babylonians, 586 B.C.)
Destruction of the 2nd Temple (Romans, 70 A.D.)
Defeat at Betar, Jews followed Rabbi Akiba and his false messiah Simon Bar Kochba (Hadrian, 132 A.D.)
Expulsion of Jews from England (1290 A.D.)
Expulsion of Jews from Spain (1492 A.D.)
But there is one other tragedy that traditionally occurred on this day, and that is the day that the 10 Israelite spies refused to go into the Promised Land (Num.
14, Talmud Taanit 26b)
Whereas Yom Kippur is considered the holiest day of the year, Tishah B’Av is truly the most tragic.
All that we read today in Jeremiah was fulfilled and the Temple was burned to the ground.
The Apostle Paul tells the congregation in Galatia, Gal.
6:7-8
An Example For Us
The seed of rebellion against Adonai was sown by the 10 spies, leaders of the tribes, who refused to trust Adonai.
The harvest of judgement that came from that unbelief led Beni Yisrael to wander the wilderness for 40 years.
The seed of rebellion against Adonai was sown by the priests, prophets and kings in Jeremiah’s day thinking that they could worship other gods, and still expect Adonai to protect them.
The harvest of judgement that came from their hypocritical worship led Beni Yisrael to exile in Babylon for 70 years.
The seed of rebellion against Adonai was sown by the religious and political leaders in Yeshua’s day, who refused to trust in Adonai’s Anointed One.
The harvest of judgement that came from this unbelief led Beni Yisrael into exile throughout the world for 1,816 years.
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