Prophecy--Prediction

1. True or false? Jeremiah predicted God's wrath upon Jerusalem who surrendered to the Babylonians in order to save their lives.

2. Multiple choice: How did Jeremiah predict that King Zedekiah, the last king of Judah , would die?
(a) In battle; (b) in peace as a Babylonian captive; or (c) from torture.

3. Jeremiah gave a name to Jerusalem in her future glory, which he also gave to the Messiah . what was that name? (a) King of glory; (b) Prince of Peace; or (c) The  Lord Our Righteousness.

1. False. Jeremiah encouraged surrender and was imprisoned for treason (Jer. 38:1-6 ).

2. (b) In peace as a Babylonian captive (Jer. 34:2,5 ).

3. (c) The Lord Our Righteousness (Jer. 33:16; see 23:6) In Jeremiah, the name is first attributed to the Messiah and then to the Messiah's capital.

Prophecy--Prediction

1. True or false? The Lord promised through Jeremiah to multiply the descendants of David and Levi as the stars and as the sand of the sea.

2. Multiple choice: What did Jeremiah and Baruch do in the fourth year of Jehoiakim with all the prophecies against Israel and Judah? (a) Sang them antiphonally to the king; (b) sent them throughout Judah; or (c) wrote them on a scroll and read them to Jerusalem.

3. What did God predict of Jehoiakim because he burned the prophecies of Jeremiah? (a) Nebuchadnezzar would burn him; (b) Jehoiakim's eyes would be put out; or (c)  no  descendant of Jehoiakim would ever be king.

1. True. (Jer. 33:22 ) .David represented the ruling tribe and Levi the priestly tribe. They were uniquely God's servants among the tribes.

2. (c) Wrote them on a scroll and read them to Jerusalem (Jer. 36: 1,2,10 ).

3. (c) No descendant of Jehoiakim would ever be king (Jer. 36:29, 30 ). 

Prophecy--Prediction

1. True or false? Jeremiah's purchase of land in Anathoth served as a sign that God intended to restore  His people to their land.

2. Jeremiah prophesied that under the new covenant which God would establish with restored Israel, "No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying , Know the Lord."?

3. Multiple choice: Jeremiah wrote that when the Lord would restore Judah and Jerusalem, that David would never lack something. What shall David never lack?
(a) A man to sit on the throne of Israel; (b) psalms sung to the glory of God; or (c) animals of sacrifice for the royal family.

1. True. (Jer. 32:9,14,15 ). Anathoth was Jeremiah's hometown (Jer. 1:1 ), so he was anticipating a time when he could go home to live.

2. True. (Jer. 31: 34 ) Under the new covenant, the Lord said, "All shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them".

3. (a) A man to sit on the throne of Israel (Jer. 33:17 ).

Prophecy--Prediction

1. Fill in the blank: God revealed His plan to bring judgment on Babylon and other pagan nations when He told Jeremiah to "Take this wine cup of -------- from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it."

2. Multiple choice: What did Jeremiah wear as a sign that only by submission to Babylon could Judah and the other nations escape destruction? (a) Sackcloth; (b) a black arm band; or (c) a yoke.

3. True or false? Matthew saw Jeremiah's statement about Rachel's "weeping for her children" in Ramah being fulfilled when Herod killed the Hebrew infants at the time of Jesus birth.

1. "Fury" (Jer.25:15 ).

2. (c) a yoke (Jer. 27: 1-11 ).

3. True. (Jer. 31: 15; Matt. 2: 16-18 ).

Prophecy-- Prediction

1. True or false? Jeremiah prophesied  in Tophet that because of the desolation of Jerusalem the people in their desperation would be reduced to cannibalism.

2. Multiple choice: What was Jeremiah to break in the sight of the men with him in Tophet to illustrate that God would destroy  Jerusalem? (a) A rock; (b) a tree branch; or (c) A potter's flask.

3. Fill in the blank: God showed Jeremiah a basket of good -------- , which  represented the Jews deported to Babylon whom He would restore to their own land.

1. True. (Jer. 19:9 ) In Tophet the residents of Jerusalem had offered their children to Baal (v. 5 ). During the siege of Jerusalem,the residents would be reduced to eating their sons and daughters.

2. (c) A potter's flask (Jer.19: 1, 10 ) Neither the flask nor the city could be made whole again because of the destruction they endured (v11 ).

3. Figs. (Jer.24: 5 ) . The Lord said that it was for their own good that He sent away those who were deported.

Prophecy--Prediction

1. True or false?  God instructed Jeremiah neither to  marry nor to have children because they would die gruesome deaths.

2. Multiple choice: What did God tell Jeremiah would become of the corpses of those who die in Judah's destruction? (a) They would be buried in the desert; (b) they would become meat for birds and beasts; or (c) they would be burned.

3. For what offense did Jeremiah prophesy that God would "kindle a fire in  (Jerusalem's) gates, and it shall devour the palaces-- and it shall not be quenched"? (a) Adultery; (b) idolatry; or (c) breaking the Sabbath.

1. True. (Jer. 16:2,4 ). Their deaths would have occurred in the siege and conquers of Jerusalem by the Babylonians.

2. (b) They would become meat for birds and beasts (Jer. 16:4 )

3. (c) Breaking the Sabbath (Jer. 17:27 ).

Prophecy--Prediction

1. Multiple choice: What did God tell Jeremiah to hide and then dig up to illustrate the ruined and unprofitable condition of Judah? (a) A sash; (b) a rod; or (c) a shoe.

2. True or false? With the sign of the clay pots Jeremiah illustrated to Judah that God would fill them with drunkenness and cause them to dash against one another to destroy them.

3. Multiple choice: Even though there was drought in Judah, who said, "Sword and famine shall not be in this land"? (a) Jeremiah; (b) the king; or (c) the prophets.

1. (a) A sash (Jer. 13:4,6,10 ).

2. False. With the sign of the wine bottles. (Jer. 13:12-14 ).

3. (c) The prophets (Jer. 14:15 ).