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.
