Book of JEREMIAH

Compiled by WD Kemner March 2024

 

 

 

Chapter 31

BEAUTY OF THE RESTORATION

Life during the Millennium

 

 

This chapter is totally descriptive of life for the twelve tribes AFTER they have been restored to the land AFTER the return of Jesus Christ.

 

 

Jeremiah 31:1-3

 

At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

 

Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

 

 

 

“At the same time…”   What time?  At the point in time Jeremiah was discussing at end of previous chapter.  Chapter and verse divisions were not placed there by Jeremiah.  Jeremiah is talking about AFTER the tribulation, AFTER the Second Coming.  When the Jews are restored to their land.

 

See also the study on the Millennium.

 

There were those that did not rebel against God and he is going to promise them what they will see.

 

 

Jeremiah 31:4-9

 

Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.

 

For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.

 

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

 

 

 

Samaria (capital of Northern 10 tribes) and Ephraim (used in reference to the Southern 2 tribes) are both included.  All 13 tribes (Levites too) of the singular inclusive one Nation of Judah.

 

They shall ALL BE GATHERED no matter where they are.

 

 

Jeremiah 31:10-14

 

Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

 

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.

 

 

 

 

Jeremiah 31:15-17

 

Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

 

Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

 

 

 

This is quoted in Matthew 2:18 when King Herod kills ALL children age two and under. It can be considered as a prophecy fulfilled with the Birth of Jesus.  There is yet another prophecy in the future to yet be fulfilled with this verse.

 

“…Rahel weeping for her children…”

 

Two-Thirds of the nation will be destroyed during the tribulation.  Zechariah 13:8-9

 

Ramah has also been considered the traditional location for the burial place of Rachel.

 

Rachel was the mother of Benjamin (tribe was in southern kingdom) and Joseph. Joseph father of tribes Manasseh and Ephraim (Northern Kingdom). Rachel the mother of three tribes can represent the entirety of the combined nation. Rachel died in giving birth to Benjamin and never saw her children.  She named him “Benoni” – “the son of my sorrow”.  Genesis 35:16-20. She had lost Joseph and now she would not get to see Benjamin. She will see all her children when the Jews are restored after the tribulation.

 

 

Jeremiah 31:18-22

 

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

 

Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

 

¶ Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

 

 

 

To continue from verse 17 – Ephraim (Rachels Grandson) – the tribe being of the northern nation of 10 tribes – is seen repenting of past sins. Now in these verses God’s yearning for His son Ephraim.

 

Israel is often referred to as a woman, a daughter, one married to Jehovah.

 

Waymarks – used to find your return route back down a path walked or highway signage for travelers.

 

 

Jeremiah 31:23-26

 

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness. And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks. For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

 

 

 

 

Jeremiah 31:27-30

 

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD. In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

 

 

 

 

Jeremiah 31:31-34

 

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel;

 

After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

 

 

 

The forthcoming NEW COVENANT to replace the covenant made at the time of Moses.

 

 

Jeremiah 31:35-37

 

Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

 

 

 

The nation of Israel will be as lasting as the foundations of the solar system.

 

 

Rebuilt Jerusalem

 

 

Jeremiah 31:38-40

 

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner. And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

 

 

 

With the Lord’s return there will be tremendous changes geologically.  Zechariah 14:4 talks about Christs feet on Mount of Olives causing the mount to split and a valley is created.  Jerusalem will need to be rebuilt for the Lord’s Temple will now go there as well.  Ezekiel gives physical dimensions in his book.