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 3:12-17 KJV
12 Go and
proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding
Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I
am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
What a loving Father we have. He will forgive us and be merciful, when
we repent. See next verse! He makes it clear that we must repent to receive His
mercy. There is a requirement for what we must do.
13 Only
acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy
God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and
ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
Important! Important!
“acknowledge thine iniquity” – means we have to do something, right?
When you repent totally, He forgives totally. And He forgets about it,
forever. But you must acknowledge your sins and repent of them. It’s not
automatic.
14 Turn, O
backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will
take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
15 And I will
give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge
and understanding.
He gives us what we need, as soon as we go looking for it! Solid
understanding, no believing this and believing that, but a solid rock of the
full truth! He showers us with that latter rain, when we follow Him in truth
and understanding.
He will guide, direct and bless, it’s that simple. We need to put skin
in the game.
16 And it shall
come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days,
saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD:
neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall
they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
17 At that time
they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be
gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they
walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
After God sets His dwelling in Jerusalem, He will be there. That is why
we will be there, gathered to it, gathered to the name of the LORD, and there will be no evil.
(Jeremiah 3 verses 18-25 - to follow soon! Stay tuned.)
