Jeremiah 5 (a)

The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse

Jeremiah 5:1-9 KJV

Jeremiah chapter 5 has God asking us to Investigate. Go investigate your beliefs in light of what His word really says…

1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.

3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

They are so set in their ways that they will not return to God.

4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

They are deceived and have broken the bond with God.

6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

God says I fed them but they won’t listen, they are waiting to marry the wrong bridegroom, the antichrist, a god that is no god.

Christ will be returning wanting a virgin bride, but so many are misled by false teaching that He won’t find many who still have oil in their lamps.

We don’t want to be fooled into the shameful situation of worshipping the false Christ, the antichrist,  who will arrive on earth before Jesus to fool as many as he can before the Second Advent - the return of the True Christ.

8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

Speaking of messing around with false teaching and the false Christ.

9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

When He gives us so many things, our freedom and so many other blessings because our nation knows Christ, but then we drift away from it more and more – well, He’s going to allow us to be attacked by Satan. Look around at our nation… are we the God-trusting nation that we once were?

(In the next post we read about the famine of the end times, the confusion, about Satan's word being spoken instead of God's word. These are things we need to know about so that we don't get taken down!)