Line Upon Line

WHY ARE THE WARNINGS OF JEREMIAH MEANINGFUL TO ALL OF US?

When one considers that his messages were given over twenty six centuries ago and yet are so relevant for our modern world it is astounding. Some of the issues that existed in 600 B.C. Are relevant for our society today.

Luke 16:30-31 NKJV 30 “And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 “But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’“

Acts 13:40 “Beware therefore, lest what has been spoken in the prophets come upon you:

Christ and Paul warned us that we must listen to the prophets such as Jeremiah.

JEREMIAH DYNAMIC MESSAGE ‘RETURN FAITHLESS ISRAEL’ BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE

 

This basic message is applicable to all believing nations. If society as a whole will return to strong ethics and worship of the biblical God then unparalleled blessings remain. However if a nation instead backslides disaster awaits them.

Jeremiah 3:12-13 “Go and proclaim..: ‘Return, backsliding Israel,’ says the LORD; ‘I will not cause My anger to fall on you. For I am merciful,‘ says the LORD; ‘I will not remain angry forever. 13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, That you have transgressed against the LORD… foreign deities under every green tree, And you have not obeyed My voice,..

Are too many no-longer having any real love for God or interest in godly topics.

Jeremiah 4:3-4 For thus says the LORD…”Break up your fallow ground, And do not sow among thorns. 4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, And take away the foreskins of your hearts,..Lest My fury come forth like fire,.

Jesus in His parable of the sower warned about the hard ground representing the hard hearts of the people. Note Luke 8.

ARE MANY OF THE CLERICS IN AMERICA IGNORING THE BIBLE FOR EASE & PROFIT?

When we say comfort we mean a lack of controversy. Teaching very little and avoiding anything controversial. They know the bible rejects sexual perversion but it is easier and more profitable to just acquiesce by silence.

Jeremiah 5:12-13 They have lied about the LORD, And said, “It is not He. Neither will evil come upon us, Nor shall we see sword or famine. 13 And the prophets become wind, For the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them.”

The prophet is saying they are just blow harts with no real substantive advice to give avoid pressures. Paul warned of similar teachers in our day.

2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

This end times warning of Paul is the same as what Jeremiah encountered near the fall of Jerusalem,note:

Jeremiah 5:30-31 n astonishing and horrible thing Has been committed in the land: 31 The prophets prophesy falsely,..And My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end?

People are learning to appreciate real truth less and less , they want to hear only what they agree with and live in one sided information bubbles.

A GROWING NUMBER HAVE NO SHAME AND ARE PROUD OF SINFULNESS

Jeremiah found this condition in Jerusalem just prior to them going into captivity. Sinners had no shame ! We are finding this same trend some 26 centuries later.

Jeremiah 6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;..

We can find similar trends in some cities with nearly nude pride parades often supported by big corporations. Is this now declining for the moment?

Jeremiah 6:28-29 They are all stubborn rebels, walking as slanderers…They are all corrupters; 29 The bellows blow fiercely.., the fire; The smelter refines in vain, For the wicked are not drawn off.

Society does not have enough moral pressure to discourage the wicked anymore.

Jeremiah 7:10..come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered to do all these abominations’?

Corruption infected the leaders especially the clerics in Jeremiah days and Jesus found it was the same in His day and will be similar in our days also. Jesus quotes:

Matthew 21:12-13 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13 And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.'”

Jesus quotes Jeremiah and the people also knew that the leaders were getting their cut of the over priced items. Note what this bad leadership weakened Israel.

Jeremiah 7:19 “Do they provoke Me to anger?” says the LORD. “Do they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their own faces?“

31 “And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.

Some were then addicted to sin as many are today to a number of vices.

Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil.

The population crisis that is now engulfing cultures that pushed abortion is undermining them now. China and western Europe are especially suffering and it is a threat to the economy and retirement systems. Is America soon to join them? They are totally controlled by evil as America has many hard core addicts.

IN THE END GOD AND GOODNESS WILL WIN OVER EVIL ( REPENTANCE )

God will bring paradise to this world soon. They will learn to repent. If we repent as individuals and as a nation God will forgive us now. The new covenant Passover is coming soon , evening of March 31, 2026. We are told to do some self-evaluation and repentance before partaking of it.

Jeremiah 18:8 NKJV 8 “if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.

Pray for the nations repentance and most of all we must repent ourselves. We also need to forgive ourselves and grow with the guidance of Christ thru His Spirit.