The following post is from this past February:
Preface: When the Gadarenes....mostly gentiles....saw the power of this man Jesus....to talk to and command demons to be gone....and when they saw the consequences of the light invading the darkness....in that their livlihoods could even be affected....they ask Jesus to leave. Today....we Christians are slowly being forced to face the possible consequences and chaos of a nearing Tribulation and Second Coming. We are definitely not crying out....Maranatha....Lord Jesus Come....but we should also be concerned that we are not specifically asking Him not to come back....this by ignoring His warnings on what a rebellious nation and a snoozing or even idolatrous church might look like....and hoping that at best those warnings are for a time in the distant future.
Jeremiah....O Jeremiah....how you loved your city and your people....but even more how you loved God....who told you at such a young age that you were to warn His people that they had rejected Him....and that He had chosen you from the womb....and that you would pay such a dear price. Little did you know as a young boy how long you would have to plead with these people....and how many Kings of Judah you would....face to face...have to tell that their chosen prophets....who prophesied peace and prosperity....were false prophets....and O how you would weep as you saw it come to pass....the people hungry within the walls....walls that would be breached by the Babylonians who you had warned of....and the temple burned to the ground. Even as Nebuchadnezzar set you free....because you had warned your people to accept their punishment....you would still see your words from God rejected....and only God knows how the end of your tears finally came about....but we know today....as those words given you by God....who you had given to Baruch to write down....speak a warning every bit as much to us....as we are just as stiff-necked as those you had pleaded with as you took their insults and persecutions....we know that your tears are dried up....as you now see the LORD in His glory.....that you once only heard with your ears....and that those today who heed the warnings that you and so many others had faithfully given....will also some day see the LORD in His glory....though today we may not see that glory....we feel it....and know it to be true....much because faithful men like you had simply written down....on parchment and papyrus....words that today are recorded on paper and digitized....that which were given to them.
The following are some verses from just the first four chapters of Jeremiah....(Jeremiah has 52 chapters)....
Surely you are familiar with this
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee;
This is a message to our pulpits today
Be not afraid because of them; for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith Jehovah.Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee; be not dismayed at them, lest I dismay thee before them
We did not seek God....nor did our leaders....nor did the church...
The priests did not ask, Where is Jehovah? and they that handle the law knew me not: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
Obama became a god to some....Trump to the rest of us.....both are broken cisterns. We are to be afraid....but our pulpits tell us not to worry....they give us no warnings...
Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah. For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
It is nothing new folks....we have left our dependence upon God....but do not even know it.
How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim?
So God in effect told us that if this Trump is our God....go to him....have him save us....and we now see how that turned out....while every major city has its own god in its sports teams.
But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? Let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
The command remains the same....acknowledge what we have done....and what we have become.
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou has transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah. Truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.
And finally this....can we not now see the depth of our destruction? How many warnings....(trumpets)....do we need....for we have had a half century of the warnings from faithful pastors?
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, and my curtains in a moment. How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet? For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
1:5....1:8....2:8....2:11....2:23....2:28....3:13....4:19
