This document discusses the prophet Jeremiah and the gathering of Israel. It notes that Jeremiah prophesied of Israel's scattering after witnessing the destruction of the northern and southern kingdoms. However, he also prophesied of Israel's latter-day gathering through missionaries who would "hunt them from every mountain." The document encourages class members to participate in this work and have God's law written in their hearts through obedience and righteous living.

1. I Will Write It In Their Hearts
Jeremiah 16, 23, 29, 31

2. Objective
• To encourage class members to participate in God’s
great latter-day work and to have his law written in their
hearts.

3. • 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee,
since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from
the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any
such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
• 33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst
of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
• 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst
of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by
war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by
great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in
Egypt before your eyes?
• 35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the Lord
he is God; there is none else beside him.

4. Which Prophet is making this
statement?
• Moses - Deuteronomy 4:32-35

5. What was the occasion?
• The Exodus out of Egypt.

6. What symbolism does the
Exodus have for us today?
• The gathering of Israel and delivery from the bondage of
of our modern day "Egypt" or "Babylon".

7. What was going on during
Jeremiah's time?
• He witnessed the scattering and destruction of 10 Tribes of
Israel in the Northern Kingdom by Assyria.
• He witnessed the takeover of the Assyrians by the
Babylonians.
• He is now witnessing (and tried by personally) the wickedness
of the Kingdom of Judah, where even the priests of the
Temple had Jeremiah placed in the stockade.
• Now he is experiencing the destruction of and scattering of the
remaining tribes in Judah.

8. After the trials, come the
blessings
• After all that Jeremiah had been through, he is given the blessing to
see and prophesy of the return of the seed of David to Jerusalem
and the surrounding areas, setting the stage for the birth of Christ.
• Jeremiah 23:5-6
• 5 ¶Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David
a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall
execute judgment and justice in the earth.
• 6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and
this is his name whereby he shall be called, The Lord Our
Righteousness.

9. The end of the saga...
• Jeremiah was also allowed to see and prophesy of our day, the gathering of the Tribes
of Israel and of the missionary work required for this.
• Jeremiah 23:1-4
• 1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the
Lord.
• 2 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye
have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will
visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord.
• 3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven
them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
• 4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no
more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the Lord.

10. Hunters vs. Fishers of Men
This was used in capturing
and killing the tribes of Israel
- both in ancient days and
modern (the Holocaust)
Now it is being used to
gather and save.

11. Elder LeGrand Richards
• And Jeremiah saw the day when the Lord would do this very thing,
when he would call for many fishers and many hunters, “and they
shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of
the holes of the rocks.” (Jer. 16:16.) Where do you find those fishers
and hunters that we read about in this great prophecy of Jeremiah?
They are these 14,000 missionaries of this church, and those who
have preceded them from the time that the Prophet Joseph Smith
received the truth and sent the messengers out to share it with the
world. Thus have they gone out, fishing and hunting, and gathering
them from the hills and the mountains, and the holes in the rocks. I
think that is more literal than some of us think!
• In the Mountain of the Lord’s House - April 1971 General Confence

12. Fishers and Hunters video

13. • Jeremiah 31:31-34
• 31 ¶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:
• 32 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:
• 33 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.
• 34 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.

14. ...write it in their hearts

15. How do we write it in our
hearts?
• Loving our neighbors.
• Honoring our parents.
• Being morally clean.
• Keeping the Sabbath day holy.
• Choosing appropriate movies, television programs, books, and
magazines.
• Wearing modest clothing.
• Selecting suitable music.