Jeremiah Speaks to us Today

 I’ve been thinking a lot about the prophet Jeremiah lately. He figured prominently in Jonathan Cahn’s book Harbinger II. But even before that, God led me to read Jeremiah. There were three events which were highlighted in the recent call to repentance which took place on September 26: Jonathan Cahn’s Return in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Franklin Graham’s Prayer event as the walked around the Mall, and Focus on the Family’s program that evening about Abortion. Jeremiah has powerful things to say about these topics. 

God’s view on life is shown in this verse: Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” It is God who created the baby Jeremiah and God knew him at conception as a human being. Before he was born, God had plans for him. God appointed Jeremiah as a prophet to the nations. To the nations means more than just Judah; it extends all the way to America. Judah had departed from God in every aspect of life, just as in America.

Jeremiah 2:12-13

Be astonished, O heavens, at this, And be horribly afraid; Be very desolate,” says the LORD.

“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Jeremiah 3:2-3 And you have polluted the land with your harlotries and your wickedness.  Therefore the showers have been withheld, [Drought in California} And there has been no latter rain. You have had a harlot’s forehead; You refuse to be ashamed. 

Jeremiah 5:23-25 “But this people has a defiant and rebellious heart; They have revolted and departed. They do not say in their heart, “Let us now fear the LORD our God, Who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.” Your iniquities have turned these things away, And your sins have withheld good from you. [Fires in West Coast]

Jeremiah had to deal with Fake News and Social Media, just like Trump! [CNN, ABC, NBC]

Jeremiah 13-15  Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, the prophets say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’ ”

And the LORD said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart. “Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, whom I did not send, and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not be in this land’—‘By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed!

Jeremiah 17: 9-10: “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.

Jeremiah 19 as in COVID-19 “Because they have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with the blood of the innocents 

“(they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal [Molech ~ ABORTION], which I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My mind), “therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “that this place shall no more be called Tophet or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

Jeremiah 22:2-5: Thus says the LORD: “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak this word, “and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David, you and your servants and your people who enter these gates! ‘Thus says the LORD: “Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. “For if you indeed do this thing, then shall enter the gates of this house, riding on horses and in chariots, accompanied by servants and people, kings who sit on the throne of David. “But if you will not hear these words, I swear by Myself,” says the LORD, “that this house shall become a desolation.” ’ ”