Jeremiah
The age that Jeremiah was when God called to warn the Jews to turn back to God before it was too late.
What is 17?
The Jews would be taken here to live as captives.
Where is Babylon?
The king of Babylon
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
The Babylonian names of the four faithful friends.
What are Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, and Belteshazzar?
The head was this metal and represented this place.
What is gold and Babylon?
The Lord gave Jeremiah a vision and ask him what he saw. Jeremiah named this kind of tree.
What is an almond tree?
The number of years God told Jeremiah the Jews would be captives in Babylon.
What is 70 years?
This king tore up the scroll that Jeremiah had his scribe write the words of the Lord.
Who is King Jehoiakim?
The reason the friends were given Babylonian names?
What was to help erase their attachment to their own nation and religion and given names of the Babylonian gods?
The chest was made of this and represented this empire.
What is silver and Medo-Persia?
The number of years Jeremiah stood before the people, warning them of impending disaster
What is 40 years?
Jeremiah sent a message from God to those captives living in Jerusalem and it said to do this.
This king dreamed about an image and couldn't remember his dream nor did he know the meaning of it.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
This is the meaning of Belteshazzar.
What is Bel protects his life?
The thighs were made of this and represented this empire.
What is bronze and Greek (Grecian) Empire?
The name of Jeremiah's scribe.
Who is Baruch?
In Jeremiah 29:11, God said he knew this about the Jews in Babylon and is a promise for us today.
What are the plans He has for you, plans to prosper you, and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future?
This king was 21 years old when he became king. He reigned in Jerusalem for 11 years and did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God. He became stiff-necked and hardened his heart, and would not turn to the Lord, the God of Israel.
These were the Jewish names of the four friends.
What are Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah?
The legs were made of this and represented this empire.
What is iron and the Roman Empire?
God asked Jeremiah again what he saw and this time Jeremiah saw this which meant the enemy was coming from the north.
What is a pot that is boiling?
God said this about Jeremiah before he was born and it is a promise for us today. (Jeremiah 1:5)
What is "I knew you before I formed you in the womb, before you were born I set you apart."
In the third year of the reign of this king, Nebuchadnezzar came to Jerusalem.
Who was King Jehoiakim?
The men who refused to bow to the image even though it would mean being thrown in the fiery furnace.
Who are Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego?
The ankles and feet were made of these and represented this.
What are iron and clay and represented many different countries?