How to Respond When Your World is Falling Apart, Jeremiah, Lamentations, & Obadiah

About this Lesson

How are we supposed to act when things go wrong? Especially if we had nothing to do to cause the problems that plague us? How can we help others who are going through a hard time.

I have answers to these questions and more in this lesson.

First, the lesson goes into a little bit of history to set the stage. For centuries God has been patient, but now things are falling apart.

After repeatedly sending prophets to His people to remind them of the covenant He made with them where they accepted His salvation and promised to obey His commands—they didn’t respond. The time for judgment had come for the Northern Kingdom when Assyria took them into captivity and now the time is almost up for the Southern Kingdom.

The history gets VERY COMPLEX here and I created an infographic (CLICK HERE to download it) that is included in the lesson that will explain the final four kings and how they were related. Even for many of us who have read this section repeatedly, it can be a little complex trying to keep them all straight and I think this infographic will help.

After the history, we’ll look at how Jeremiah preached starting during the reign of the good king Josiah, through the final four kings of Judah, and after the land was conquered Babylon when he wrote the book of Lamentations.

Obediah, may or may not have been written at the same time. The book talks about the fall of Edom, the nation south of Israel, populated by the descendants of Jacob’s brother. Regardless of the exact timing, the theme is the same in all three books—how to act when God judges His people and their world is falling apart.

The message is timeless as we face challenges in our world and personal lives.

Included in this Lesson

• A 1080p video, without any ads or YouTube distractions
• An MP3 audio/podcast file
• Editable PowerPoint file of the lesson
• Editable Notes/Transcript of the lesson
• Editable Questions on the lesson for individual study or group discussion
• Charts that go with the lesson if part of it
• PDF of handouts that have the notes and questions
• PDF of the infographic that goes with the lesson
• Two digital files of images and PR text you can use to promote the topic
• PR paragraph to help advertise the class
• Closing prayer and benediction for the class
• Unlimited reproduction rights of the video and handouts within your church, group, ministry, or business.