Jeremiah 3:1-3 KJV
Jer 3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
The whole idea is gross in the flesh, how much more awful is it to do this to God?
2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
How is this particular verse super important to us living in these days? What is the High Holy Day of Christianity? It is Passover. But in the book of Acts, a scribe mis-translated the Greek word “pascha” which means the Passover, to Ishtar (Easter) and unfortunately it was carried through to our English translations. Easter is a heathen term derived from the Saxon “goddess of fertility”, Eastre, the same as Astarte, the Syrian Venus, called Ashtaroth in the O.T.
Jesus became our Passover. (1 Cor. 5:7), yet we say we are celebrating His resurrection on Easter, which came to us via a false fertility “goddess” named Ishtar. She is a false goddess of the Philistines, the Phoenicians and the Zidonians. Do you know how these heathen nations worshipped this so-called goddess? By going up into the groves, rolling eggs and having sexual orgies for fertility rites, to a false “fertility goddess”.
So now we have little children hunting eggs, and carrying baskets, and going out into the groves, so to speak, for “Easter”, yet that is Ishtar, false goddess of fertility, a made-up idol.
Instead of celebrating Jesus as our Passover, we do Easter. It is not right but the holiday is so ingrained into our culture that people freak out at the thought of not celebrating “Easter”, a false fertility goddess, but instead celebrating the Passover, our Lord Jesus Christ.
How upset is God about this? I will share just one reference, Judges 2:12-14: (underline is mine)
Judges 2:12-14 - 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. 13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. 14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
“They could not any longer stand before their enemies”… when the antichrist is here and sees people worshipping to a false goddess via the supposedly holy Easter celebration, he’ll be happy. God will be angry. If we wake up and think about this, and do some more study about Ashtaroth, we find Ahab (the seventh king of Israel) and Jezebel his wife, some of the most horrible royalty of Israel ever, worshipping Ashtaroth, and Elijah showing them the truth, causing hundreds of their false priests to be put to death. And when Jesus returns and says, “I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity”, (Matthew 7:23) you will know that staying with the traditions of men instead of giving up that Easter service and egg rolling which you now know is wrong, wasn’t worth it.
I refer you to Matthew 7:13-29 to hear Jesus’ take on those who worship falsely.
Micah 5:10-15 shows God destroying the “groves” again, and there are many, many references throughout the Bible where God is angry about the groves and the grove worship. Let’s be warned, let’s change our ways, let’s understand that God isn’t kidding.
Once we realize what the truth about that holiday is, if we love God we can no longer honor it! We’d be fools! To hold on to a tradition that God has spoken against clearly, no matter how much we have liked it, no matter how “innocent” it seems, would be spiritual death. If we love God, we honor His ways. And for giving worship to God and to Jesus and His Sacrifice for us, we must look at Jesus as he is spoken of in the Bible, our Passover Lamb, and then pay attention to the descriptions of Passover in the Old Testament. We no longer kill a bullock, etc., because Jesus spilled His blood for us once and for all - and that meant that the blood ordinances only applied up to the time of Jesus’ resurrection. But the rest is all good.
I’d like to remind you of what I often say – don’t trust me! Don’t trust any person with what they tell you that the Bible says – instead, go to God’s Word and read it for yourself. Find out what God has really said. He wrote you this letter… He really wants you to read it.
Back to Jeremiah chapter 3:
3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
Whore’s forehead – it’s the mark of the beast, in other words these who have “a whore’s forehead” are going to worship the false messiah. They don’t listen, they don’t care, they don’t want to think about it – so when the false one is here on earth pretending to be Jesus, they will worship that false one, because they never knew.
Because they never bothered to find out the truth in God’s word! It’s all there!
Don’t you be like them. God has work for you to do, to plant the seeds of His True Word into the minds of the people you deal with. That’s the reason you are dealing with them, to give them and you the opportunity to plant seeds.
And so when you are before God He will ask you, “did you plant my seeds? Did you plant my true word into others as you went along?” If so, “well done, good and faithful servant!” And you will move into the peaceful and eternal life.
It takes work. There are many, many times throughout the Bible where God says, IF you will do this, then I will do that”. But we read over that big word “IF” and wait around for God to do us favors. It’s not that way. If God says “IF”, we better understand the real promise and our part in it.
We have jobs to do for God. He’ll hand them out as He sees fit, and hopefully we don’t overlook our opportunities.
The “latter rain” is the second rain, the one that lets the seedlings grow and flourish until they are harvested. Are you allowing the “latter rain” to bring forth God’s word from you? It will come forth from you if you allow the growth, the learning, to happen.
The latter rain is the truth of the end times, so that you will not worship the false messiah, but will wait for the true Christ to arrive at the 7th trump. (The false one arrives here on earth at the 6th trump).
These first three verses of Jeremiah 3 have deep meaning, so I will start with verse 4 in my next post. Regarding the above three verses, the description of Passover as God gave it to Moses just prior to the chosen people’s departure from Egypt is in Exodus 12 – and one VERY IMPORTANT point is made by God Himself that precludes the idea that we should not be observing the Passover feast every year of our lives, is in Exodus 12:17 (underline is mine) - And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
Yes, God said for ever…. Shall we ignore that and continue to celebrate Easter? I won’t, but your choice is your choice. Keep in mind that you’ll have to explain to Jesus one day why you wouldn’t celebrate Him as your Passover, but instead rolled eggs to a false fertility goddess, even though you knew. Just sayin’.
May God bless you always. I’m here to help if you have any questions.
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