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 3:18-25 KJV
18 In those days
the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come
together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance
unto your fathers.
Right now, the house of Judah and the 10 northern tribes of Israel are
split, but then they will be together, accepting their inheritance.
That’s how we know that Jeremiah is speaking of end times here, because
Judah and Israel have not been together since the tribes of Israel were taken
captive by the Assyrian, 200 years before Judah was taken into a 70-year
captivity to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar.
You can read of this gathering back in Ezekiel 37 when God tells Ezekiel
to preach to the bones – meaning those who are spiritually dead.
Who is Israel? Nobody really knows, they are the “lost tribes”… except
that God has not lost them – He made sure that after they had multiplied
greatly while in Assyrian captivity they were scattered throughout the world.
No country wanted them because there were so many, even way back then.
Now if we can add 2 + 2, we know they didn’t “die off” or anything. They
are the lost tribes, the blessed remnant, now the Christians of the world. Grab
on to your inheritance, people!
19 But I said,
How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a
goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My
father; and shalt not turn away from me.
This is what we do in order to inherit everything good from our Father… (underline is mine). God asks how He can do it, and then answers...for our edification and understanding.
20 Surely as a
wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously
with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
We have committed spiritual adultery… We can save ourselves from that if
we know the book of Revelation and know that the false Christ comes first. We
must be spiritual virgins when the true bridegroom arrives here on earth.
God expects His true bride (us) to stand against that false one and
those false teachings!
21 A voice was
heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of
Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD
their God.
22 Return, ye
backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto
thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
IF we repent, all those sins we’ve piled up are completely erased. (IF – the biggest little word that God
uses over and over again in His word.) But, we can work on changing... sometimes it's a little slow but once it starts happening - it gets easier and easier.
23 Truly in vain
is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains:
truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
24 For shame
hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their
herds, their sons and their daughters.
These have been stolen by false teachings: our labour, our children and
our rich heritage – all the way back to the book of Chronicles you will find
the Kenites (offspring of Cain) already keeping records as scribes for the
kings. (1 Chronicles 2:55).
However, there is a remnant, there is always a remnant as God promised,
who carry forward His true word. We have no excuse for not knowing and
understanding.
25 We lie down
in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the
LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have
not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Here is how easily falseness and confusion can slip in – the word
“Easter” is used one time in the Bible, in the book of Acts, and is a
mistranslated word. The real word in the original manuscripts was “pascal”,
Passover.
Passover is the high holy day of Christianity, and “Ishtar” is a pagan
goddess, to whom heathen nations rolled eggs as a fertility rite, and did
“grove worship”, holding orgies in the groves of the mountains.
And yet God told us in Exodus 12 that we are to celebrate Passover “for
ever”. But we left it behind for a pagan goddess and weird worship rites. Sad.
We could have looked the word Easter up in a dictionary and known the truth.
Exodus 12 is God’s direct description of Passover… read that chapter to
understand the truth about what GOD wants.
The following verses in
Exodus 12 tell us clearly that God expects us to celebrate Passover “for ever”:
Ex 12:14 And
this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the
LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for
ever.
Ex 12:17 And ye
shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I
brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this
day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
Ex 12:24 And ye
shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
KJV
(underlines are
mine). Jeremiah chapter 4 will be next. :)
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.)
