Jeremiah 5 (d)

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.

 

Jeremiah 5 (b)

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

Jeremiah 5:10-19 KJV

Jeremiah chapter 5 – God wants us to Investigate!

10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.

Satan as antichrist will be here first, and will destroy many during that time. He will look good. Guard yourselves, know the true word so you can avoid being fooled. Read God’s true word!

(“but make not a full end” – once again, this is because there has always been a remnant carrying forth God’s true word who will be saved.)

11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

Investigate the nations and investigate the churches. Who is teaching what? Does it really follow Scripture? You won’t know if you don’t read your Bible.

Who are Judah and Israel in our current time, do you know? Please read this post for the explanation:
https://dontbedeceived1.blogspot.com/2017/12/israel.html.

12 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

Speaking of the lies, they don’t know the difference between what God has said and what Satan deceives people with.

The famine of the end time is not for food, but starvation for the true word of God!

See Amos 8:11: “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:”

So don’t be scared that we’ll all starve from lack of food – that’s not what will happen at all – as God tells us, the end time famine will be for hearing the words of the LORD. Look around. Are we getting close?

13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

The prophets mentioned are the preachers and pastors who don’t really teach God’s true word, they are men speaking their own ideas. Read the word chapter by chapter and verse by verse, and learn the truth it speaks. Don’t let a one-verse Charlie pastor steal your inheritance. Go find the truth – it’s in the true word of God.

14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

“Because ye speak this word” means Satan’s word is being spoken, and the people who listen to it shall be burned up.

15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

The ancient nation is Babylon, which means “confusion”. Satan is the head of Babylon, and the master of confusion and deceit.

16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

A sepulchre is a grave – this means they will mislead people who will die spiritually because they allowed themselves to be misled. They don’t know what God’s word says or means simply because they don’t study and check out what others say by reading His word.

17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

“Eat up”, three times for emphasis. Gasoline is an example of foreign countries eating up our money, they are enjoying the profits that should be ours if we’d harvest our own oil.

18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.

The remnant will always be with God, and they will broadcast the truth to the world, although many will not listen. There has always been a remnant carrying forth God’s true word.

19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

Unless we get smart and follow God’s ways, we will be serving other nations because we don’t understand how to run a nation under God.

(I hope you will read the next post - it will be published on Christmas day 2018 - and addresses the fact that our God is a jealous God, and discusses the harvest of mankind. Thanks for reading!)

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!)