Jeremaih for Today and Tomorrow
Chapters 10-15
God now addresses a prophecy to the HOUSE OF ISRAEL. They had gone into captivity about 100 or so years before Jeremiah was sent to Judah to warn them of their coming punishment. We need at this point to stop and explain some phrases. In the time of the prophets Israel and Judah were SEPARATE KINGDOMS - Israel or the House of Israel was just that Israel or House of Israel, comprising 10 tribes. Judah or the House of Judah was indeed Judah or the House of Judah, three tribes. All scholars recognize the DIVIDING of the 13 tribes of Israel AFTER the days of Solomon. In type a prophecy concerning the House of Israel MAY apply also to Judah and a prophecy concerning the House Judah in type MAY apply to the House of Israel. The lessons for the one MAY apply also to the other. Sin is sin and often the SAME sins are practiced and committed by the same brothers or sisters - the same sins can run in the family, as we say, "Like father like son" - "Like mother like daughter." The prophets NEVER confused the TWO kingdoms. Certain prophets were sent to Israel in the main and certain prophets sent to Judah in the main, with also prophecies to the other and/or many Gentile nations also. Whatever may be said about "phrases" BEFORE the dividing up of the 13 tribes of Israel, the prophets NEVER confused who they were speaking to - either Israel (the 10 tribes) or Judah (the 3 tribes) or other nations as God gave them utterance. Yet the lessons for the one could well apply to the other. Here we come to a somewhat famous section of Scripture - the first verses of chapter 10. The section on the "Christmas tree" as some would claim. Then others, probably more correctly, would argue this section has no specific bearing on our modern Christmas tree. The section deals with taking a tree and fashioning it, painting and decorating it and making it into an idol to bow down and worship gods before it. That being said, the fact of history is that some "trees" were worshipped or had special mystical powers to some pagan nations. Other nations would worship UNDER certain trees because of some magical power those peoples gave them. The fact is also that trees were often by some nations cut down and placed here or there at certain times of the year, again for magical purposes in mind. Then we should ask the question: "What has a decorated tree in a home or church building got to do with the birth of Christ anyway!?" For that matter what has a jolly fat fellow with a long white beard and a ho, ho, ho, got to do with Jesus' birth? And again, what has a bunny and eggs got to do with the death and resurrection of Christ? What has dressing up in weird costumes of demons and devils and witches and dead men's bones at Halloween (many Christians and even "churches" practice this custom) got to do with Christianity per se. Where did the phrase "trick or treat" come from? A little time on the Internet will surely tell you that all of these "customs" have nothing to do with true Christianity, but come from pagan nations in various worship rites of their various false gods. I have given you articles on my Website that cover the origin of many of these customs. So it is unimportant arguing over these first verses of Jeremiah chapter ten, as to whether they are specifically talking about our modern Christmas tree or the wooden upright idols nations have had for thousands of years. The truth of the matter is that either way or BOTH ways, our nations are full of PAGAN RITES - full of false customs, traditions of devils and demons, and that MOST of so-called Christian religion has ALSO EMBRACED these false HEATHEN idols in one form or another. GOD SAYS THEY ARE VAIN, THEY CANNOT SPEAK, THEY CANNOT WALK, THEY ARE USELESS. YOU NEED NOT BE AFRAID OF THEM, THEY CANNOT BRING EVIL OR BRING GOOD; THEY ARE GOOD FOR NOTHING!!! And the sad truth also is that such customs OFTEN REPLACE the TRUTHS of God's true religion. Modern BABYLON THE GREAT (as we see in the book of Revelation) has DECEIVED AND BLINDED the minds of tens of millions around the world, nay, now it is well over a BILLION, with her false customs and doctrines of demons, as the apostle Paul told Timothy would come in the last days. Not only are over a BILLION people who call themselves by the name of "Christian" deceived but many of these false customs branded on the Western world by Babylon the Great, have been accepted by tens of millions in the EASTERN world have also now adopted them, even if they do not specifically call themselves "Christian." BUT it is the LORD GOD, who made the heavens and the earth, who formed the land and the sea, who made the creatures in the sea, on the land, and that fly in the air. It was the wisdom and care and power of God that made all that is made throughout the universe. It is GOD, the true Holy One, that makes the thunder, the lightning, the hail, the rain, the snow, the wind, the stars, and all heavenly bodies. The false gods have made none of this. They are truly useless and can do no good or evil, they are made only by the hand of man out of the physical material that the Eternal made and brought into being. All people who make and worship these idols of their hands are STUPID and BRUTISH in their knowledge, the formed image is FALSEHOOD AND THEIR IS NO LIFE IN THEM. THEY ARE VAIN AND THE WORK OF ERROR. THEY WILL ONE DAY PERISH. BUT HE WHO CALLED JACOB, ESTABLISHED ISRAEL FOR A GREAT PURPOSE TO THE WORLD, HE IS THE TRUE GOD, HE IS THE ONE TO BE CALLED THE LORD OF HOSTS!! (verses 1-16). Now God turns His attention once more to proclaiming that Judah and Jerusalem will be CAST AWAY — - DEPORTED - PUNISHED IN CAPTIVITY! One of the reasons for this punishment is that the "pastors" have become BRUTISH; THEY HAVE NOT REALLY SOUGHT THE LORD. It is as Jesus said it would be, that MANY FALSE PROPHETS (pastors and prophets would come in the last days and DECEIVE MANY, not the few, BUT THE MANY!! [Matthew 24] Because of the many false pastors and because the people love to have it so, love to be told what they want to hear, so they can lead their Christian life according to their own will and desires, their own customs and traditions (see Mark 7 and Jesus' words on customs and traditions of men) ... because of this, God says His people will be CAST OUT - SCATTERED ABROAD! Again we are told the NOISE OF THE GREAT BRUTE to come and It is somewhat hard to figure that a defence and counter- attack system that the Jews have could be OBLITERATED - could be DESTROYED - could become useless, and that such a nation could be DESTROYED in any easy manner. Yet the prophecies of your Bible tell us that when the time is right, when God decides that enough is enough, that sins and wickedness IN HIS PEOPLE have come to the full, an ENEMY, OUR LOVERS, IN A EUROPEAN CONFEDERATE EMPIRE, WILL SWEEP DOWN FROM THE NORTH, NOT ONLY TO DESTROY THE KING OF THE SOUTH, THE ARAB CONFEDERATE, BUT WILL MARCH INTO PALESTINE AND THE CITY OF JERUSALEM, TO LAY IT DESOLATE, AND TO EMPTY ALL THE CITIES OF JUDAH IN THE HOLY LAND. AND FURTHER MORE, THIS BRUTE POWER FROM THE NORTH WILL THEN TURN ITS ATTENTION TO ATTACKING AND DESTROYING THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. IT WILL SUCCEED! THIS BABYLON THE GREAT, THIS LAST RESURRECTION OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, WILL THEN RULE THE WESTERN WORLD! AS IMPOSSIBLE AS ALL THIS MAY SEEM TO US TODAY, WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT, WHEN THE LORD ALMIGHTY SAYS IT MUST BE SO, THEN HE WILL BRING IT TO PASS, JUST AS FORETOLD BY HIS PROPHETS! But back now to the foolishness of man and the idols he makes for himself. Jeremiah says, "O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself, it is not in man that walketh to DIRECT his steps" (verse 23). Man, left to himself, without any guide book, is a LOST SOUL! The world that has more and more in the last 100 years, thrown God and the Bible out the window, told God to "get lost" - "I'll do it my way" - will find that doing it on their own will only bring death and destruction. In the long run of it all, man without God is LOST! Jeremiah says, "O LORD, CORRECT me, but with JUDGMENT, not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing" (verse 24). Do YOU cry out those words? Do you WANT to be CORRECTED? Do you desire God to GUIDE you, to LEAD you, to WALK with you, and in LOVE and kindness, to CORRECT you where you are wrong? Do you hunger and thirst after righteousness? Do you SEARCH the Scriptures daily to prove what is the right and acceptable way of the Lord? I hope you do, but I can tell you the VAST MAJORITY, even those who call themselves by the name "Christian" DO NOT utter the words of Jeremiah as in verse 24. Their mouth is far from speaking those words, and their mind-set is even FURTHER way from the heart of those words. Jeremiah finishes this section by asking God to avenge Jacob - Israel, for the destruction the enemy has brought on Judah, Jerusalem, and as we have seen in other prophecies, indeed ALL the tribes or nations of Israel (verse 25). CHAPTER 11 Jeremiah is again to speak unto the people of Judah and Jerusalem. And so it is today, the words of the Lord are going forth via the open Internet and Websites of the true servants of the Almighty. God told our fathers to serve and obey Him, but they would not. They wanted to do their own thing. They wanted to walk and live according to their own heart and mind, what they thought was right and good. So it is today, and so the CURSE of the covenant will come upon us as it was to come upon Judah in Jeremiah's day. The people of the land would not hear Jeremiah. They even tried to get rid of him. So today, the Jews will not listen, the people of Israel will not listen. They have moved so far from the Lord of hosts and His truth contained in His word, that the true prophet of God is thought of as a crack-pot, a fanatic, a crazy- man. If such a man was to speak before the Congress of the United States and was to SHOW MY PEOPLE THEIR SINS, he would be declared a false prophet. The false prophets today (as in Jeremiah's day) would claim to be the true prophets of the Lord and the true prophets would be declared to be the false prophets. Surely the people and the leaders of all Israel have it up-side-down and in- side-out. They call black, white, and white they call black. For this, God says they shall die by the sword, their sons and daughters shall die of famine; there is no way out! It is just a matter of time, the time when God says they have sinned enough, punishment and destruction must now come (verses 18-23). CHAPTER 12 Jeremiah pleads to know how long the land will mourn. God does not here directly answer that question. The Lord just says He has forsaken it and given His dearly beloved to the enemy. His beloved is like a speckled bird with all the birds around against it. It is the fault of the pastors, whom God says have trodden down His beloved and made it desolate. Yes, the spoilers are come against it; it is the Lord's doing and no flesh will have peace. They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns. Then, the enemies shall not escape, the ones who have caused Israel and Judah to inherit sorrow. God will cause His people, even Judah, to come OUT of the hand of the enemy. Then God's people will come back to the Holy Land, and if the other nations will diligently learn the ways that His people now live, and to swear by the holy name of Israel's God, as the enemy taught God's people to swear by Baal, then they, those nations, will be built into what is right and good; but if they (those enemy nations) will NOT obey the Lord then they shall come under destruction (verses 1-17). These last few verses are some of the verses in the prophets that tell you the beginning of the 1,000 year reign of Christ on earth may not go smooth for some nations who refuse to obey the commandments of God. We also see this in Zechariah 14 concerning those nations that will not keep the Feast of Tabernacles. CHAPTER 13 Jeremiah is told to get a linen girdle, soak it in water and wear it. Then he is to put it in a hole in the rocks at Euphrates. After many days he went back and found the girdle marred and worthless. So we are told, that in like manner God will mar the pride of Judah and Jerusalem. The Eternal says the evil people, who walk after their own imagination of heart, will be as the girdle, good for nothing. As a wet girdle will cleave to the loins of a man, so God caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cleave to Him. They were to be a light for God, praise for God, a glory to God, in the eyes of other nations (see Deut.4), but they would not hear and obey (verses 1-11). We are given the example of the bottles filled with wine. All the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem will be drunk as with wine. They will not know right from wrong, and so the Lord will have to punish them, there will be no pity, no mercy, only destruction (verses 12-14). Jeremiah calls out for people to put away PRIDE and SIN! They are to give God glory otherwise there will be darkness, death and even gross darkness. If they will not hear then Jeremiah will weep, because God's flock will be carried away as captives. He cries out to the king and queen to humble themselves. If humility does not come then Judah will be carried away captive. He tells them to lift up their eyes and see what is happening in the NORTH. If they say, "Why is this going to happen?" The answer is simple ... for the greatness of thine iniquity. If the Ethiopian can change the color of his skin, if the leopard can change its spots then you also can do good that are accustomed to ding evil. It just will not be possible! So, they will be scattered as stubble blown away by the wind. It is going to be Judah's pay-day, for they have forgotten the Lord their God, and trusted in utter falsehoods. So they will be as a shamed women, skirts upon the face and nakedness appearing. It is not pleasant the way God puts it to Judah. Listen O Jews of Jerusalem, your Holy One says, "I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills, in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! Will you be clean? When, after what?" (verses 15-27). The answer is that Judah and Jerusalem shall be clean, but it will take the Great Tribulation to come on the earth, to come on Jacob Israel, and Judah Jerusalem. All that is written in the prophets will need come to pass before Judah and Jerusalem are spiritually clean and acceptable in God's sight. CHAPTER 14 Judah is beyond deliverance Jeremiah gives us the lament of mourning because of the punishment of Judah. He calls out that God will rescue them. The answer given is: "They have loved to wander from Me. I will for now not accept them. I will visit upon them their iniquities. You will not pray for this people. When they fast I will not hear their cry; I will consume them by the sword, by famine, by the pestilence" (verses 1-12). Jeremiah tells God that their prophets say to them that evil will not come, only peace will come. God answers that "Their prophets prophesy lies in My name. I sent them not! I did not give them a commandment not did I speak to them. They prophesy a false vision and the deceit of the human heart. So, to the prophets that come in My name, when I sent them not, that say sword and famine will not come; it is by sword and famine that I will consume them. And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast into the streets of Jerusalem, and there will be none to bury the dead wives, sons, daughters: their wickedness shall come upon them. You shall cry, tears will run down your face, for in the field will be they who are slain with the sword and in the city those who are sick and dead with the famine" (verses 13-18). Judah is then personified as a person asking God to forgive, to heal, to do good; as a person confessing their wickedness and their sins. To remember the covenant made with their forefathers. As a person acknowledging that it is God only who rules the elements of nature(verses 19-22). CHAPTER 15 What a shocking reply God gives. Though Moses and Samuel stood before Him, His mind cannot be changed. If they should ask how it will be, the answer is: "Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to the captivity. Appointed over them is four things: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. and I will cause them to be removed into the kingdoms of the earth. Jerusalem will indeed mourn. You have FORSAKEN ME! You have gone BACKWARDS, therefore I will stretch out My hand and DESTROY you, I am WEARY with your false repenting. I will fan you with the fan. Swift will come your punishment ... even the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies" (verses 1-9). Jeremiah will have protection God promises Jeremiah that the enemy will entreat him well in the time of evil to come. He is to pass into a land that he knows not. Jeremiah tells God he did His will, he spoke His words, the Lord's word was a rejoicing to him. He tells God he did not stand in the assembly of the mockers, he was willing to stand alone and be counted as faithful to the crying out of God's indignation. But now Jeremiah is doubtful if the Lord will help and heal the pain he feels (verses 15-18). God answers: "And I will make thee unto the people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I an with thee to save and to deliver thee. And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible" (verses 20-21). What a section of Scripture! Jeremiah is to lay it all out, tell it as it is! Judah will feel God's indignation, so will Jeremiah be there when it all begins to happen, for the destruction of Judah was like that of Israel, it took place over a number of years. For Judah it would take from 604 B.C. to 586 B.C. when the city of Jerusalem finally fell in death and destruction. But Jeremiah was promised to have protection through it all, and he was given assurance that God was with him as he continued to preach the truth and warning from the Most Holy One. The truth of what is yet to come at the end of this age upon Judah and Israel is being proclaimed near and far. The warning is going out. The SINS of Israel and Judah are being made clear. The chances of them as nations REPENTING is just about zero. So the anger of the Lord and the punishment He has promised to visit them WILL COME TO PASS! In the last 42 months of this age, there will be TWO WITNESSES in Jerusalem (Revelation 11) - they will have protection from God, none will be able to hurt them until the appointed time. They will BOLDLY PROCLAIM the truths of the Eternal One. Many will hear and many will REPENT! Their work will not be in vain. That is for then, NOW is for the present. YOU can at this time choose to REPENT OF SIN, humble yourself, confess your sins, accept Jesus as your PERSONAL Savior, and be a part of God's work and a child in His family now, today! Then in the age to come you can have a part in bringing the entire earth and the nations upon it under the rulership of the Kingdom of God. ..................... THIS IS ALL TO TAKE PLACE IN THE VERY END TIME; WHEN JERUSALEM IS SURROUND BY THE ARMIES FROM THE NORTH; IN THE END RIME FROM 7TH AND LAST RESURRECTION OF THE BABYLON / ROPMAN HOLY EMPIRE, RISING IN EUROPE. THEY HAVE THEIR OWN PARLIAMENT, LAWS, EUROS. WAR MACHINE— WHICH WILL INCREASE MIGHTELY, IN ATTACKING AND DEFENCE. THEY WILL IN TIME BE AS GREAT AS THE OTHER NATIONS OF THE USA AND CHINA. AND WILL HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE TO SHUT DOWN OUR COMPITOR. THEY WILL NOY MEAN TO DO IT; BUT DO IT THEY WILL!!! THEY WILL THINK THEY DO GOD'S WILL!!! Keith Hunt
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