Jeremiah 3:18
In those days, the house of Judah will go with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the north land to the land that I caused your forefathers to inherit.

In the End of Days the houses of Israel and Judah will reunite. The New Covenant of Jeremiah 31 also speaks of this reunification and it is clear from context that the timing of the New Covenant is at the end of history, not when Jesus came. For more information see the article Will The Real New Covenant Please Stand Up.

Jeremiah 6:20
Why do I need the frankincense that comes from Sheba, and the good cane from a distant country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasant to Me.

No commandment is so denigrated by G-d Himself as sacrifices. As G-d commanded sacrifices, of course he values them when they are brought in genuine repentance. The main thing is repentance. Missionaries make a tremendous error when they stress blood as the cornerstone of repentance. For more information see the article THE MYTH OF INEFFECTIVE SACRIFICES.

Jeremiah 7:3-4
7:3 So said the L-rd of Hosts, the G-d of Israel; Improve your ways and your deeds, I will allow you to dwell in this place.

7:4 Do not rely on false words, saying: The Temple of the L-rd, the Temple of the L-rd, the Temple of the L-rd are they.

As in chapter 6, Jeremiah stresses that repentance ranks higher than blood sacrifice. Missionaries err in overstressing the signifiance of blood.

Jeremiah 7:21-23
7:21 So says the L-rd of Hosts, the G-d of Israel; Add your burnt offerings upon your sacrifices and eat flesh.

7:22 For neither did I speak with your forefathers nor did I command them on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning a burnt offering or a sacrifice.

7:23 But this thing did I command them, saying: Obey Me so that I am your G-d and you are My people, and you walk in all the ways that I command you, so that it may be well with you.

Again we see the theme that repentance ranks higher than blood. For elaboration see the article THE MYTH OF INNEFECTIVE SACRIFICES.

Jeremiah 14:12
If they fast, I will not hearken to their prayer, and if they offer up a burnt offering or a meal offering, I do not accept them, but I will utterly destroy them with the sword and with famine and with pestilence.

Again another of many indications in Scripture of the relative unimportance of blood sacrifice.

Jeremiah 16:19-21
16:19 O L-rd, Who are my power and my strength and my refuge in the day of trouble, to You nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, "Only lies have our fathers handed down to us, emptiness in which there is nothing of any avail!

16:20 Can a man make gods for himself, and they are no gods?"

16:21 Therefore, behold I let them know; at this time I will let them know My power and My might, and they shall know that My Name is the L-rd.

In the End of Days the nations will admit to the Jews that their religions are false. The Jews will not turn to the Church.

Jeremiah 17:10
I, the L-rd, search the heart, test the kidneys, to give everyone according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.

This contradicts missionary theology. Missionaries claim that one is saved or damned solely based on one's faith. Being an imperfect human being causes the forfeiture of any reward for good deeds. G-d's judgment, in this view, does not take into account the complexity of one's deeds postive and negative.

Jeremiah 17 contradicts this theology by saying that G-d does bring into judgment all human actions, including postive actions, and rewards good deeds.

Jeremiah 17:24,27
17:24 And it shall be if you hearken to Me, says the L-rd, not to bring any burden into the gates of this city on the Sabbath day and to hallow the Sabbath day not to perform any labor thereon,

17:27 And if you will not hearken to Me to hallow the Sabbath day and not to carry burdens and to come into the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath, I will kindle a fire in her gates, and it will consume the palaces of Jerusalem, and it will not be quenched.

This is a clear reference to the Oral Law. Mosaic Law never prohibits carrying in a public domain on the Sabbath. Certainly Jeremiah is not adding anything new; Deuteronomy prohibits adding to Mosaic Law. Jeremiah can only be referring to an Oral Law teaching that carrying is prohibited.

Jeremiah 18:11
And now, say now to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, So said the L-rd: Behold I am devising evil upon you, and I am laying plans against you. Return now, each one from his evil way and improve your ways and your deeds.

Repentance involves improving one's deeds. This contrasts with missionaries, who say man is too corrupt to correct deeds and preach a "repentance" which involves confessing to be unable to change.

Jeremiah 22:15-16
22:15 Shall you reign, for you compete with the cedar? Your father [Josiah]-did he not eat and drink and perform justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy, then it was good. Is not that the knowledge of Me? says the L-rd.

Missionaries say that man is too wicked to do what is right in G-d's eyes. G-d says he is most pleased with the actions of one Jewish king.

Jeremiah 23:5-8
23:5. Behold, days are coming, says the L-rd, when I will set up of David a righteous shoot, and he shall reign a king and prosper, and he shall perform judgment and righteousness in the land.

23:6. In his days, Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is his name that he shall be called, The L-rd is our righteousness.

23:7. Therefore, behold days are coming, says the L-rd, when they shall no longer say, "As the L-rd lives, Who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,"

23:8. But, "As the L-rd lives, Who brought up and Who brought the seed of the house of Israel from the northland and from all the lands where I have driven them, and they shall dwell on their land."

This passage speaks of the Messiah son of David. Here we are presented with a time setting for when Messiah is "set up." The Jewish people then exist in a situation of peace and returned to their land. This did not happen during Jesus.

Jeremiah 24:3-6
24:3. And the L-rd said to me; What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, "Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad ones are very bad, which cannot be eaten because they are so bad."

24:4. And the word of the L-rd came to me, saying:

24:5. So said the L-rd G-d of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I recognize the exile of Judah, which I have sent forth from this place to the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

24:6. And I will place My eyes upon them for good, and I will return them to this land, and I will build them and not destroy, and I will plant them and not pluck them.

Missionariese say are all wicked and therefore need to be saved by Jesus. G-d distinguishes between good and bad "figs" i.e. there are good people with whom G-d is pleased.

Jeremiah 26:3-7
26:3 Perhaps they will heed and repent, each one of his evil way, and I will repent of the evil that I think to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.

26:4 And you shall say to them: So said the L-rd, If you do not heed Me to walk in My law that I have placed before you,

This passage is clear that repentance involves the correction of deeds. This contradicts the missionary understanding that correction of deeds is not possible and repentance means admitting that you are a helpless sinner. The word "perhaps" indicates that genuine repentance is a real possibility.

Jeremiah 29:7
And seek the peace of the city where I have exiled you and pray for it to the L-rd, for in its peace you shall have peace.

This is consistent with Israel as the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53. Isaiah speaks of the Servant as "He bore the sins of the many and prayed on behalf of sinners (52:12)." Israel prays for the nations.

Jeremiah 30:3
For, behold, days are coming, says the L-rd, when I will restore the captivity of My people Israel and Judah, says the L-rd, and I will restore them to the land that I gave their forefathers and they shall possess it.

When the exiles return in the End of Days Judah and Israel will reunite. This is the time setter for the New Covenant of Jeremiah. That passage speaks of the same reunion. Thus the time of the New Covenant is the End of Days and not the time of Jesus 1st century CE. For more information read the article Will The Real New Covenant Please Stand Up.

Jeremiah 31.8
With weeping will they come, and with supplications will I lead them, along brooks of water will I make them go, on a straight road upon which they will not stumble, for I have become a Father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

Israel is G-d's Son. The term has no connotation of Divinity.

Jeremiah 31:15
So says the L-rd: Refrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for there is reward for your work, says the Lord, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy.

G-d rewards the works of human beings. Missionaries say our works cannot please G-d, but they are mistaken.

Jeremiah 31:30-32
30 Behold, days are coming, says the L-rd, and I will form a covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, a new covenant.

31 Not like the covenant that I formed with their forefathers on the day I took them by the hand to take them out of the land of Egypt, that they broke My covenant, although I was a lord over them, says the L-rd.

32 For this is the covenant that I will form with the house of Israel after those days, says the L-rd: I will place My law in their midst and I will inscribe it upon their hearts, and I will be their G-d and they shall be My people.

The New Covenant has been totally distorted by missionaries. For more information read the article Will The Real New Covenant Please Stand Up.

There is no basis to the missionary claim that because the Law will be "upon their hearts" that the Law will not longer be observed. Similar expressions are found elsewhere in Jewish Scripture in contexts indicating full observance of the Law.

(Psalms 40:9) O G-d, I desired to do Your will and [to have] Your law within my inward parts .

King David speaks of how he has internailized the Law. King David was a fully observant Jew who elsewhere extols the Law and nowhere speaks of the Law's replacement.

(Proverbs 4:20-21) 20 My son, hearken to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from your eyes; guard them within your heart.

When Solomon asks that his words be placed on the heart, he does not mean that his words should not be obeyed. The entire book of Proverbs emphasizes obedience to moral instruction.

(Deuteronomy 6:6) And these words, which I command you this day, shall be upon your heart.

Elsewhere Deuteronomy speaks of the importance of observing the commandments. Placing G-d's words on one's heart is a means to keeping them, not a replacement for observing them G-d forbid.

Jeremiah 32:19
Who is great in counsel and mighty in carrying it out, for Your eyes are open to all the ways of mankind, to give everyone in accordance with his ways and in accordance with the fruit of his deeds

Missionaries tell us that we are too corrupt to please G-d with our deeds. This verse tells us that G-d responds to our deeds both positive and negative. Missionaries preach that salvation is based on faith alone; Jeremiah teaches that our deeds factor into G-d?s judgment. Since G-d judges all of our deeds, judgment is based on a composite of our good and bad deeds, on contrast to missionary theology which states that one sin automatically sends one to hell and all the good deeds a person has done will go unrewarded.

Jeremiah 32:35
And they built the high places of Baal, which was in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to pass their sons and their daughters to Molech, which I neither commanded them nor did it enter My mind to commit this abomination, in order to bring guilt upon Judah

G-d says that He never considered that the Jews would commit such a sin. This contradicts missionary belief that human nature is hopelessly corrupt. The fact that G-d expects better shows that human beings have the potential to be good. Of course G-d knows the future and it is metaphorical for G-d to be surprised at sin; but the metaphor shows that G-d expects that we will do the right thing.

Jeremiah 33:11
The sound of mirth and the sound of joy, the voice of a bridegroom and the voice of a bride, the sound of those saying, "Thank the L-rd of Hosts, for the L-rd is good, for His loving-kindness endures forever," bringing a thanksgiving offering to the House of the L-rd, for I will restore the captivity of the land as at first, said the L-rd.

Sacrifices are returning. The missionary cannot satisfactorily explain why sacrifices are returning if Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice.

Jeremiah 33:14-16
33:14 Behold, days are coming, says the L-rd, and I will establish the good thing that I spoke concerning the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

33:15 In those days and in that time I will cause to grow for David a plant of righteousness, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

33:16 In those days, Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell securely and this is the name that He shall call it, the L-rd is our righteousness.

This passage speaks about the Messiah and gives a time setting for his "career": when Jerusalem is secure. This is the future peace of the End of Days, when "Israel and Judah" reunite. None of this happened in Jesus' time. For more information read the article What Is A Messianic Prophecy?.

The fact that Jersualem will be called "the L-rd is our righteousnes" shows that something or someone can be named after G-d without being G-d. For more information read the article Who Is The Prince Of Peace?.

Jeremiah 33:17
Indeed, G-d says: Men from David's line will never cease ruling over the House of Israel, nor will the priests and Levites cease offering burnt offerings, burning meal offerings, and sacrificing offerings before Me.

Sacrifices are returning. The missionary cannot satisfactorily explain why sacrifices are returning if Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice.

Jeremiah 35:17-19
35:17. Therefore, so said the L-rd God of Hosts, the God of Israel; Behold I am bringing upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have spoken concerning them, because I spoke to them but they did not obey, and I called to them, but they did not respond.

35:18. And to the house of the Rechabites, Jeremiah said: So said the L-rd of Hosts, the G-d of Israel; Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and you have kept all his commandments and have done according to all that he commanded you,

35:19. Therefore, so said the L-rd of Hosts, the G-d of Israel; There shall not be cut off from Jonadab the son of Rechab a man standing before Me for all times.

Missionaries say we are all too corrupt to please G-d with our deeds. Here G-d was pleased with the deeds of the Rechabites in contrast to the deeds of others.

Jeremiah 36:3,7
36:3. Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the evil that I plan to do to them, in order that they should repent, each man of his evil way, and I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.

36:7. Perhaps their supplication shall fall before the Lord, and they shall repent, each man of his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that the Lord spoke concerning this people.

These statements of G-d shows that deeds can be corrected and repentance is possible, contrary to missionaries. G-d would not say "perhaps" if it was not possible.

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