[This next part is the statement of \u201cJudgment,\u201d followed by more Indictment.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
14 Therefore this is what the LORD God Almighty says: \u201cBecause the people have spoken these words, I will make My words in your [Jeremiah’s] mouth a fire and these people [the Southern Kingdom, i.e.], Judah, Benjamin, the renegades from the Northern Kingdom, and the Levites assigned to the Southern Kingdom the wood it consumes. 15 People of Israel,\u201d declares the LORD, \u201cI am bringing a distant nation against you – an ancient and enduring nation, a people whose language you do not know, whose speech you do not understand. 16 Their quivers are like an open grave; all of them are mighty warriors. 17 They will devour your harvests and food, will devour your sons and daughters; they will devour your flocks and herds, devour your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust. 18 Yet even in those days, declares the LORD, I will not \u2018destroy\u2019 you completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Who is doing the devouring and destroying? Who?? Right. God, Almighty, via the agency of the “Beast” system He has specifically “commissioned” to do this work of carrying out His Judgment. Then, there is more about the Indictment.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
19 And when the people ask, \u2018Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?\u2019 you will tell them, \u2018As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.\u2019 20 Announce this to the descendants of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah: 21 Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
22 Should you not fear Me?\u201d declares the LORD. Should you not tremble in My presence? I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it. 23 But these people have stubborn, willful, and rebellious minds; they have turned aside and gone away. 24 They do not say to themselves, \u2018Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives autumn and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
25 Your wrongdoings have kept these away; your sins have deprived you of good. 26 \u201cAmong My people are the wicked who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch people. 27 Like cages full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; they have become rich and powerful 28and have grown fat and sleek. Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not seek justice. They do not promote the case of the fatherless; they do not defend the just cause of the poor. 29 Should I not punish them for this?\u201d declares the LORD. \u201cShould I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this? 30 \u201cA horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land: 31 The prophets prophesy lies, the pastors rule by their own authority, and My people love it this way. But what will you do in the end? \u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is it, exactly, that The LORD God has to avenge? Generations and generations earlier, the ancestors of the people then under Judgment [under Babylon], had agreed, at the base of Mt. Horeb [a\/k\/a Mt. Sinai, and a\/k\/a Gebal Mousa, the Mountain of Moses], to abide by the Laws and Commandments of God, as presented to them by Moses. God went to considerable trouble to prove Himself over His chosen to the then “Beast” system leadership, namely Pharaoh [and today like all those who think and act like they are gods \u2013 as \u201cclerical -heads\u201d over their people, their word being the \u201cfinal\u201d word]. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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