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Topic: Messiah in major prophets
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Jer & Ezek:
* contrasted with faithless shepherds * this shepherd is called righteous branch; my servant David prince among them * but God is also called the shepherd and ascribed the same tasks Daniel: * context - exile, Davidic king removed --> promises in question * in chs. 2, 7 we see the triumph and setting up of the universal messianic kingdom over the 4 gentile empires |
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Topic: The new covenant
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1. Only OT reference to “old covenant” is Jeremiah 31:
(A) Israel and Judah will be restored after exile (B) God promises the people a “new covenant”, because they lack inward cov reality (C) Jerusalem will be rebuilt NC not a new redemptive-historical era, but rather a “new situation in which the people embrace the covenant from the heart”, once they return from exile. Other OT passages same idea: “new heart”, “writing the law on the heart,” and “circumcision of the heart”. Nothing "new" to OT religion in NC. OC: people’s historic response of rejecting God and apostasy, not an older redemptive-historical era that is somehow defective. NC: covenant reality, faith, genuine relationship with God. |
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Topic: Shepherds
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• Faithless shepherds were neglecting their responsibility to know God and his Law and to instruct the people in both. Instead, they were lording it over the people, exploiting them, and scattering them in the process. This is not to be the nature of power and authority. Power and authority are given by God so that those in power and authority can serve others and (in this case) foster covenant faithfulness among God’s people. Power and authority are not for personal gain!
• God would send his people faithful shepherds. But he would also send them the chief shepherd David (Messiah); and yet God, too, would be the shepherd who ensure a prosperous future for the people in their land. This would have created some tension as to the exact ontological identity of the Shepherd: both a Davidite and God, but how? |
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Topic: Symbolic Actions in Jeremiah
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“…they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.”
Living water is best - cisterns are a joke. Jesus is the satisfying living water. Circumcision of the heart: symbolic language of owning the covenant for yourself, that is, embracing the inner reality of covenant relationship. Acted Sermons: • Linen waistcloth • The potter’s house • The broken jar • The bonds and yokes he wore • The purchase of his kinsman’s field in Anathoth |
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Topic: Symbolic Actions in Ezekiel
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Ezekiel bread depicts the siege of Jerusalem
lay on his left side for 390 days representing the years which the people had been weighed down by sin. turn on his right side for 40 days to symbolically bear the sin of the house of Judah lay bare his arm, and to prophesy against the city.. Bared arm symbolized the Lords intention to come as a warrior and to judge the city. During 390 day period: make bread according to a divinely prescribed recipe. Meager diet pictured siege conditions of Jerusalem Bake the bread over fire fueled by human excrement: ritually unclean: people forced to eat ritually defiled food in exile... |
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Jeremiah and Ezekiel Overlap
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shared calling and priestly background
shepherd motif symbolic actions (or acted prophecy) the harlotry motif New Covenant |
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Jeremiah and Ezekiel Different emphases
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geographic location and audience
mode of expression (apocalyptic intensity) ferocity of opposition emphasized themes (e.g. Ezekiel and glory of the Lord). Jeremiah prophesied to Jerusalem during exilic deportations and siege and loudly proclaimed the defeat of Judah and Jerusalem Ezekiel ministered out of exile Tough job for both, but Jeremiah’s has the edge: Jeremiah’s single state and Ezekiel’s married state |
