The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 8:3-4
KJV (2 verses)
3 And death
shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this
evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith
the LORD of hosts.
God scattered
the 10 tribes of Israel (we don’t know who they are now, but God does). When
they wake up as is written in Revelation 9 and realize they have been
worshipping the false one, they pray for the mountains to fall on them because
they are so ashamed. They will wish for death instead of life.
4 Moreover thou
shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall
he turn away, and not return?
If a man falls,
doesn’t he try to get up? He doesn’t just lay there.
Read Jeremiah
7:23 – it doesn’t say “I will be
your God and ye shall be my people that it may be well unto you”… it says, “Obey my voice”. And it says, “walk ye in all the ways I have commanded
you, so that THEN it may be well with you. There’s a requirement. Do
it!
You can’t do
that unless you know what His voice has said, and you can’t walk in the paths
that He has commanded unless you read about them – all of them.
It’s easy – but
it’s not automatic. There’s a little homework to do. J
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 8:1-2
KJV (2 verses)
1 At that time,
saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the
bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the
prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
“At that time” –
God is talking about the final generation and what will happen. He is speaking
of the enemies of Israel (and Christianity) at the end time. Satan is moving
in.
God’s wrath is
going to come due in the fig tree generation, that’s the final generation to
live on this earth. It had to happen sometime – if you’re here now, you may
have an important role to play! Turn to God and ask Him what you should be
doing to prepare, to sow seeds.
Remember,
though, you can’t sow seeds (of wisdom) that you don’t have, so hurry! Open
your Bible and pray, and find out what God wants you to do.
2 And they shall
spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they
have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and
whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be
gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
Even though the
enemy will flatter you to get you to follow, they care nothing about you. God
will save your soul, however, IF you
have obeyed and walked in His ways. Read Jeremiah 7:23 to find out what God
wants from you. Wonderful.
(Jer 7:23 – “But this thing commanded I
them, saying, Obey my voice, and I
will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways
that I have commanded you, that it may be
well unto you.”)
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 7:30-34
KJV (5 verses)
30 For the
children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set
their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
31 And they have
built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom,
to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not,
neither came it into my heart.
Tophet is “the
place of burning”, and Hinnom is basically hell.
God says, “it
didn’t even enter my mind to have you burn your children as sacrifices.”
He says, “you
are building your own hell.”
32 Therefore,
behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet,
nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they
shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
It won’t be
called burning anymore, but it will be called slaughter.
The deception is
so rampant that people are spiritually dead, because the truth is not in them.
We have to be
very careful not to take up this deception in our lives.
33 And the
carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the
beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
Zechariah 14
gives you a gross but accurate picture of this.
34 Then will I
cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the
voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the
voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
This is when the
spiritual death comes to pass. Who are the murderers? Lying preachers and
pastors who are not teaching the word of God.
How do we worship
God? By hearing His word…not by making cakes and rolling eggs to the queen of
heaven (see verse 18).
There is a worse
death than the death of this flesh, that is spiritual death. But people drift
away from the true word of God and they will be meat for all that is cruel and
evil, and their souls will cease to exist.
God warns us!
Let’s listen and hear, and do what He wants us to. The time is growing short…
~~~~~~~
(Next is Jeremiah
chapter 8 – God starts that chapter out with “At that time”. That time He is
referring to is the fig tree generation, the final generation that will be on
earth before Jesus returns to end this world and take us all to the Lord’s Day.
The time every generation who has lived on earth has been waiting for. Look
forward to it! Have His Word in your mouth and in your heart!)
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 7:27-29
KJV (3 verses)
27 Therefore
thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee:
thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
The people’s
ears are not equipped to handle the real truth… they want to hear about “the
sweet by and by”, not the real truth.
They want to be
rocked to sleep – but God wants us to WORK, not sleep!
28 But thou
shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD
their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from
their mouth.
If you will
allow it, some will remove the word “God” from your vocabulary completely.
Don’t let them. Stand strong.
29 Cut off thine
hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away,
and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and
forsaken the generation of his wrath.
The generation
of His wrath is the fig tree generation, the final generation.
Where it says “O
Jerusalem” in italics, that tells us that is not the word that was there. It
should be the daughters of Jerusalem as He speaks of them in Ezekiel 13, where
He says “you sew pillows to cover my outreaching arms…”. They want to hide the
truth of His love from anybody who they can fool.
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 7:23-26
KJV (4 verses)
23 But this
thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye
shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that
it may be well unto you.
You can’t walk
in His ways if you don’t understand them! We must know what the whole word of
God says.
If I could put
that comment up in neon lights on a billboard, I would.
When we walk in
His ways, then it will be well with us. That’s a promise from God.
I underlined this verse in hope that some will realize how important it is to know how to obey God, and get this blessing of wellness from Him!
24 But they
hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the
imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
The counsels
they walk in are the counsels of the scribes, not God’s true word.
“This is so
holy, I like to hear it”, many say, although it is false and spewed forth by
false teachers who don’t care a whit about your soul, only their paychecks and
retirement plans.
We must incline
our ears to God’s word, and go forward, not backward!
25 Since the day
that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even
sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending
them:
God keeps
sending us His servants the prophets (Jeremiah is one of them), God rises up
early and sends them to us.
26 Yet they
hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they
did worse than their fathers.
But we don’t
listen! We harden our hearts and trust in false preachers, over and over again,
when we can read and learn God’s true word, His true desires…in the letter He
sent us.
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 7:20-22
KJV (3 verses)
20 Therefore
thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out
upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and
upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
This is future,
obviously this has not happened. There is a time illustrated here – do you know
when this will come to pass? 2 Peter 3 lets us know that the first earth age
was destroyed by water (not Noah’s flood as that did not destroy the whole
earth) and in verse 10 we see that this current earth age in which we are
living will be destroyed by fire.
If we are in
God’s word and not listening to false preachers who say we are going to “fly
away”, we won’t have to worry, we won’t even be singed by that fire.
21 Thus saith
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your
sacrifices, and eat flesh.
God says, “you
keep it, I don’t want it. You can eat those burnt offerings yourself”.
He wants us to
love and obey Him! He commanded us to “obey my voice and I will be your
God”…see verse 23.
22 For I spake
not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of
the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
From Hosea 6:6,
paraphrased – “I don’t want your burnt offerings, I want you to love me and
obey me. I want you to know about me!”
Hosea 6:6 – KJV – “For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the KNOWLEDGE of
God more than burnt offerings.”
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 7:16-19
KJV (3 verses)
16 Therefore
pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither
make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
The people who
are so stubborn and evil, they try to destroy God’s name in our country, and
God doesn’t even want to hear us pray for them because He is going to destroy
them. Don’t fall in with them, don’t befriend them, don’t even wish them
“Godspeed”…
17 Seest thou
not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 The children
gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough,
to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other
gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
This is the way
we celebrate Easter, and it’s very wrong. We don’t understand the whole story
and we should. We should be celebrating Jesus’ resurrection at Passover.
He became our
Passover, so when little children carry eggs around at Easter time, they are
participating in a fertility rite to the goddess Eshtare (Ashtertoth in the Old
Testament).
God hates it. He
hates that we don’t understand what we are doing, because we don’t read and
understand His word. This thing is not hidden from us, if only we read and
understand the letter He sent us.
19 Do they
provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the
confusion of their own faces?
They are
completely confused. Honestly, we need to understand that when we celebrate
“Easter”, we provoke HIM to anger, and we provoke ourselves (and our children)
to confusion.
PLEASE, don’t
trust what I am saying here! Read your Bible! The word “Easter” was
mis-translated (perhaps on purpose by those minions who work for Satan)… but
there is plenty of information in the Bible, and in the Strong’s Concordance,
that explain the confusion!
Don’t be okay
with your own ignorance! I didn’t like changing my way of thinking about that
holiday, either… but once I saw the truth, I couldn’t continue celebrating a
pagan holiday any longer.
God doesn’t wink
at ignorance. Don’t stay that way.
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 7:12-15
KJV (4 verses)
12 But go ye now
unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see
what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
Shiloh – the
place of rest. What He did to it was to allow the very covenant of the
Tabernacle to be stolen by the Philistines – because of Israel’s sins.
Think of how
this could apply to your life, if you continue not to care about Him… He could
take away every chance you have at redemption!!
All you need to
do is turn and tell God you love Him, and ask for His help in constructing your
life correctly.
13 And now,
because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you,
rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye
answered not;
Our Father calls
us in many ways, nudges us in many ways… we must listen.
If we do, He has
wonderful things for us. Otherwise…
14 Therefore
will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and
unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to
Shiloh.
Don’t trust the
place, “the house”, more than you trust God, or He will leave you.
15 And I will
cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole
seed of Ephraim.
That’s the 10
northern tribes of Israel, see Jer. 3:8 – God divorced them and scattered them
throughout the world. They are “the lost tribes”… but God hasn’t lost them.
Still, He expects them to step up, especially once they realize who they are.
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 7:8-11
KJV (4 verses)
8 Behold, ye
trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
There is no way
you will get ahead by trusting in lying words – God will make sure of it.
You’re supposed
to have God’s word as your ministry.
9 Will ye steal,
murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and
walk after other gods whom ye know not;
10 And come and
stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are
delivered to do all these abominations?
We can’t think
that our sins are okay, and try to tell God we are delivered anyway.
We must repent.
Not always easy. But, we need to get tough.
11 Is this
house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes?
Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
False worship,
and God sees it. He hates it. We can change and do the right things. Again, it’s
not always easy. BUT… repentance and endurance makes us strong… and better people.
The kind of people God wants in His ministry. J
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 7:5-7
KJV (3 verses)
5 For if
ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute
judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Important to
notice the “if” and “Then” in these three verses. “If” we do these things, “Then”
we will get the blessing, for ever and ever.
6 If ye
oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent
blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
“other gods” –
the false Christ, as well as the rapture – not true. If you worship the first
one saying he is Jesus who arrives on the earth at the end time, you will be lost.
He’s good… the master of deceit…you need to be sure of what the real word of
God says.
Not so you can “fly
away”, but as Paul states in Ephesians 6:13, “to stand”.
7 Then
will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your
fathers, for ever and ever.
Our Heavenly
Father made an eternal covenant with this place…
He will keep His
promise to bring us into that land, “if”.
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 7:1-4
KJV (4 verses)
1 The word that
came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
This word is
coming directly from our Father… this is about His feelings if we misuse His
house of worship.
2 Stand in the
gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the
word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship
the LORD.
(the underline
was added by me). God wants us to hear HIS word – not the thoughts of pastor or
priest, but God’s own word as He gave it to us. Chapter by chapter and verse by
verse.
3 Thus saith the
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I
will cause you to dwell in this place.
Listen to His
word and amend your ways, and you will be invited into His house.
4 Trust ye
not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD,
The temple of the LORD, are these.
Just because
some preacher says something is holy doesn’t make it so. We are supposed to go
to the Lord’s house TO HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD!
I’m going to digress away from writing the “Jeremiah – chapter by
chapter and verse by verse” posts. I often laugh at myself for going forward
with those Jeremiah posts – because so many aren’t interested in the Old
Testament or the prophets, despite my understanding that we must know what the
prophets said and how it applies to our current life and time.
Also, Jeremiah has 52 chapters – and I’m just getting ready to begin
posting in chapter 7. Oh well, as I mentioned to somebody – I know God wants me
to do the Jeremiah postings, even if it’s like a future famous opera singer
practicing music scales that nobody but the instructor ever hears. So I will
continue with Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse, but I really
felt led to “digress” today.
Okay – I’ll start with this – there is an important Labor of Love
outlined to us in God’s word. The labor of love is concerning our brothers and
sisters in Christ. We have to do what we can to try to feed them (spiritually).
We must make sure that to whatever extent we can that the flock, the sheep, are
fed.
(For many, it is our children who we get to teach... however, if they aren't listening, please don't give up. There are many others who want to know and understand. But I will say - parents of young children - teach them the Bible before you teach them anything else! It's the most important thing for them (and you) to know. Let them read it to you once they can read! I missed this boat with my kids and I am daily sorrowful over it.)
Jesus said three times to Peter, “feed my sheep”.
The labor of love also extends to protecting the flock – from the
wolves, the false teachers, that abound today.
We can help to pull as many as possible from the lake of fire. We must
try to help nourish the flock with the true word of God.
I’m going to point out something that is clear in the Bible if you pay
attention. Let’s start with the last verse of Matthew 19, Jesus is speaking:
Matthew 19:30 - But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be
first.
My notes on this
verse say, “If you aren’t aware that there are three earth ages, you may not
understand this verse. See Matthew 20.
Some who were
chosen in the first earth age, the age before there was human flesh living upon
this earth, are here now to serve God at end times because they were called to
do so – the “first shall be last”. They are some of those who stood against Satan during "the Fall", and stood with God.
Let’s go to
Matthew 20:1-6: 1 For the kingdom of
heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the
morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
Jesus is the
householder. He went out early, as early as the first earth age. He found many
of you willing to work for him.
There are some
alive now who God chose long ago – see Ephesians 1:4 – some were chosen before
the foundations of the world! Pretty exciting. In Ephesians 1:5 we see that
that God the Father “predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus
Christ”…
2 And
when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his
vineyard.
Now we move to
the second earth age (current age) – the vineyard, of course, is the world.
3 And
he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the
marketplace,
There are many
standing idle today, not producing fruit for our Heavenly Father. Some don’t
care, others don’t know what they’re supposed to do, they haven’t been taught.
4 And
said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will
give you. And they went their way.
We find out in
the next verses that the same amount is given to these as to those that started
later than 9am. See verse 5.
5
Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
6 And
about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith
unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
Jesus says to
these folks, “why are you standing here idle? You’ve been given a destiny, a
purpose, get to work!”
These are some
verses that encourage us to learn and know, so that we can share God’s true
word with the flock. The other comment I will make here is that we know the
rest of the story – some were grumbling because they’d started at 9am and Jesus
was giving those who started later the same penny for their work. We should
never grumble against God! We all have our work to do, we just need to do it.
And, we must
realize, the Kingdom of Heaven all pays the same – it pays joy and peace and
many good things, no matter how long or short a time we’ve worked for Jesus.
These people had agreed to receive salvation as their wages.
My notes go on
to ask myself… “What are you doing standing around idle, Jackie? Get to work!” J
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 6:26-30
KJV (4 verses)
26 O daughter of
my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee
mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall
suddenly come upon us.
The “only son”
is Jesus Christ, “the spoiler” is Satan as antichrist.
27 I have set
thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try
their way.
IMPORTANT word
“try” here… the word is “to assay”, like you assay gold or silver. You burn it,
test it, over a very hot fire. The real metal goes to the middle, the slag, or
junk, boils out over the sides of the pot.
28 They are all
grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are
all corrupters.
29 The bellows
are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for
the wicked are not plucked away.
Slag is good for
nothing, useless.
30 Reprobate
silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
“Reprobate”
means rejected. Being rejected by God would be the worst thing that could ever
happen to you.
The spoiler
(verse 26) is coming first. You are going to put the gospel armour on and
defeat him spiritually, with the Word of God, if you have the true Word of God.
Have you read
it?
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 6:24-26
KJV (3 verses)
24 We have heard
the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and
pain, as of a woman in travail.
This woman in
labor – the birth of a new age. The prophecies come closer together like labor
pains, until the birth happens.
We look around
today in anguish at what is happening! The prophecies coming true. It is what
will finally bring Jesus back.
25 Go not forth
into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on
every side.
26 O daughter of
my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee
mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall
suddenly come upon us.
The “only son”
is Jesus Christ, “the spoiler” is Satan as antichrist.
The difference
now is that we won’t gird ourselves in sackcloth and ashes, but as stated in
Ephesians 6, we will gird ourselves with the whole armour of the gospel.
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 6:22-23
KJV (2 verses)
22 Thus saith
the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation
shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
23 They shall
lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice
roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war
against thee, O daughter of Zion.
The last battles
of Hamengog and Armageddon will be fought by God/Jesus, not by us.
The battle that
we are fighting now is what God mentioned in verse 14, “those that say peace, peace, peace, when there is no peace”. It is
the false peace that we are fighting now.
And fight it we
must…although many will reject us for doing so.
That’s okay,
because some won’t, and that’s what is important.
(Matthew 13:57 –
“And they were offended in him. But
Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour,
save in his own country, and in his own house.” KJV)
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 6:18-21
KJV (4 verses)
18 Therefore
hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
The watchmen are
among the nations, trying to tell people to wake up. Very difficult when people
don’t want to listen. A thankless job, actually.
19 Hear, O
earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their
thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but
rejected it.
People reject
God’s Law, and go with the traditions of men. People think the law was done
away with – but the only thing that was nailed to the cross with our Savior Jesus
were the blood ordinances.
We no longer
sacrifice blood to God, because Christ, by His stripes and His blood, became
the one and only sacrifice.
However, God’s
law is still in effect.
20 To what
purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far
country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet
unto me.
Because our
sacrifices were unacceptable to God, Jesus came and died to be our sacrifice!
21 Therefore
thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and
the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his
friend shall perish.
The main
stumbling block is Christ Himself, because people will accept the false one.
They don’t realize there are two, the false and the Real.
The real Christ
comes after the false one, at the 7th trump. The antichrist comes
here at the 6th trump, he is going to fool so many who don’t know. The
antichrist will look good. Don’t be deceived! Investigate!
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 6:13-17
KJV (5 verses)
13 For from the
least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to
covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth
falsely.
Yet Revelation 4
– last verse – God created us for His pleasure – not for covetousness, falseness
or untruths. (Rev. 4:11 – “Thou art
worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created
all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created”.) KJV
14 They have
healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace,
peace; when there is no peace.
The untruths,
the falseness – people are lulled into believing all is well. All is not well!
But we can be ready for the next step and never have to worry if we stay smart
in God’s word.
15 Were they
ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed,
neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at
the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
We need to
repent! We must not think we are Holy when we are not.
We are Holy,
though, when we repent, when we are not deceived, when we do what God wants
every day (not always perfectly! But He notes our good attempts, and our
repenting of sinful ways.)
Every day is a
new walk, a new beginning, and we mustn’t backslide, but move forward with our
repenting. Get better, every day.
16 Thus saith
the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is
the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they
said, We will not walk therein.
This is so
incredibly real!! Many won’t walk in the “old paths”, (1) because they don’t
know what those paths are; and (2) because they refuse to learn about them.
Don’t do that.
And yet,
straight from the mouth of God (“Thus
saith the LORD”), that is where we find rest for our souls. Sad!
Many think they
can’t figure it all out… but that isn’t true! It takes a little study, a little
work, and finding the peace and strength that is in the word of God is in
everybody’s reach!
17 Also I set
watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said,
We will not hearken.
He has set
watchmen over us – those who try to warn us. But if you put your fingers in
your ears you are saying, “We will not
hearken”. Listen to the watchmen that God has provided you. Listen! Then
read it for yourself!
God does not
leave us wanting – have you read it?
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 6:10-12
KJV (3 verses)
10 To whom shall
I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is
uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto
them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
We don’t want to
hear about it… “don’t talk religion to me”.
If we want God’s
blessings, we need to listen to what He has told us through His word.
Have delight in
His word!
11 Therefore I
am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out
upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even
the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of
days.
This deception
will be going everywhere, onto most people of this day of every age, from
children to old people.
Who will we
worship? The false one that shows up first, or the true Christ when He arrives
at the Second Advent? It’s likely coming soon, we need to be ready. Get
yourself ready! Find out the truth!
12 And their
houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I
will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
If you live
recklessly, without responsibility to God, you will lose all you have. “…saith the LORD”.
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 6:6-9
KJV (4 verses)
6 For thus hath
the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem:
this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
God is saying,
“at the end I’m going to visit Jerusalem”.
Jerusalem is who
we need to watch, and God always tells us that. God loves Jerusalem – He wed
her – (Ezekiel 16).
7 As a fountain
casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil
is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
8 Be thou
instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee
desolate, a land not inhabited.
God says –
“Learn! Be instructed!” And if we won’t, He will remove us from Himself and
make us desolate.
Uninhabited by
His truth, love and mercy. L
See what He says
here, using Jerusalem as the example that applies to everyone, all through the
ages.
9 Thus saith the
LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn
back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
The 10 lost
tribes of Israel are now mostly located in Christian Europe, Canada and the
Americas. They were scattered, called the lost tribes. But God has not lost
them, He knows who they are.
The other two
tribes are Judah and Benjamin – who combine together to make “the Jews”. Judah
was the physical seed line of Jesus – we mostly know where they are in the
world, and they know who they are.
However, the
Judah line also contains the Kenites – not in truth – but they worked their way
into the tribe of Judah by being scribes and carrying wood for fires for the Hebrew
priests. They are actually offspring of Cain infiltrating and often helping
Satan.
The Kenites have
the same offer of salvation as everyone, through the blood of Jesus.
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 6:1-5
KJV (5 verses)
Jeremiah chapter
6 –starts out about the antichrist….
6:1 O ye
children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem,
and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for
evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
A warning about
the antichrist coming in end times.
2 I have likened
the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
They are not
prepared. They are as helpless as a delicate little girl. They don’t know who
the enemy is.
We give the
enemy money through our ignorance. We pay the Middle East to give us gasoline,
that leaves us defenseless while they use our money against us.
3 The shepherds
with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her
round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
These are the evil
shepherds, they will try to take all that we have.
The reason they
are defenseless is they have no idea where the enemy is coming from or who the
enemy is. Why? Because they do not read this letter that God sent us.
There are factions working hard against the whole idea of Christianity. We need to be smarter than them.
4 Prepare ye war
against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth
away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
The end of day
is coming, and the day of vengeance will come. The shadows are stretched out,
we see them, we know that the kind of evil we currently have in the world isn’t
going to go away, but get worse. God is NOT okay with it, He is still on the
throne, and He is going to destroy it.
5 Arise, and let
us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
The evil rulers
destroying us – they slip in by night. They take over the agency – you don’t
have a say in it. They appoint who they want – they put this over this, this
over this, and this over this, and the people have no say. Does this sound
familiar in the USA right now? It does! They are destroying our palaces, our
government.
What to do? Wake up and prepare for the evil day that is coming. It's not that big a deal if you're ready - God will arm you with the best gospel armor ever if you are willing to fight... get ready!
You don't go into war unprepared, you train, you learn the best way to protect yourself and how to fight for your side. We need to get prepared. The time is short - and that's a good thing, in the long run. Wouldn't matter, though - it's just the way it is, the way God has planned it. Prepare! Ask Him to help you prepare. All the directions are in His word, and He is ready to guide you.
Rev. 22:20: He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. KJV
The book of Jeremiah – chapter by chapter and verse by verse
Jeremiah 5:22-31
KJV (9 verses)
Jeremiah chapter
5 – God wants us to Investigate!
23 But this
people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
Gone into idolatry! Because they don’t know and refuse to learn.
That attitude is demonstrated around us every day of our lives! We watch
in amazement – but are we sure we are not contributing to the problem? Do your
children hear God’s word in your home on a regular basis? Do you and they
understand God’s nature? God certainly does not hide His Nature from us…. If we
only take the time to read His word.
24 Neither say
they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both
the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed
weeks of the harvest.
The 50 days between Passover and Pentecost are the reserved days of the
harvest here.
And think of it also spiritually, there is a harvest coming, we must
pray that there will be laborers sent into the harvest as Jesus told us to.
(Luke 10:2).
(Before He instructed us to pray the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus instructed us
to pray that laborers will be sent into God’s harvest.)
25 Your
iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good
things from you.
You missed the harvest because you can’t see the truth. Sad! That’s
forever…. And you’re not going?
26 For among my
people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set
a trap, they catch men.
Satan and his wicked followers would love to trap you. You can avoid it
simply by knowing what the word of God says.
27 As a cage is
full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become
great, and waxen rich.
28 They are
waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge
not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of
the needy do they not judge.
29 Shall I not visit
for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation
as this?
The time of vengeance has not come yet, but it will, as Jesus tells us.
See Isaiah 61:1-2. When we hear Jesus speaking in the temple in Luke 4:17-21,
we see that He leaves out the day of vengeance from the Isaiah 61 verses that
He is quoting.
This is because when Jesus came to earth the first time it was to give
hope and salvation, but when He returns at the Second Advent it will be to pour
out the cup of wrath that God gave Jesus prior to the crucifixion. He returns
with vengeance – to pour out that cup of wrath on those who deserve it.
30 A wonderful
and horrible thing is committed in the land;
31 The prophets
prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love
to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
We need to investigate! God sent us this letter to keep us out of
trouble – if we ignore it, we’re just stupid and deserve the end that we get.
Harsh words, but true.
