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Jer 22:17-30  O Earth, Earth, Earth, Hear the Word of the Lord

[Study Aired October 31, 2021]

Jer 22:17  But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Jer 22:18  Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
Jer 22:19  He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Jer 22:20  Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
Jer 22:21  I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
Jer 22:22  The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.
Jer 22:23  O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
Jer 22:24  As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
Jer 22:25  And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Jer 22:26  And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
Jer 22:27  But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
Jer 22:28  Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
Jer 22:29  O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
Jer 22:30  Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

The prophecy of Jeremiah began in the reign of Josiah, the best king Judah ever had, but Josiah’s sons Shallum and Jehoiakim were both evil kings. Josiah typifies Christ within us, and his sons typify our old man, a vessel that is “marred in the Potter’s hand” (Jer 18:4), who was “made to be taken and destroyed” (2Pe 2:12).

We are told that Jeremiah mourned the death of Josiah, but in this study we are told no one will mourn the death of either of his sons, Shallum or Jehoiakim.

2Ki 23:25  And like unto him [Josiah] was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
2Ki 23:26  Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.

2Ch 35:25  And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

When we read of Josiah… “there… was… no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him” and when the Lord tells us, “Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal” what we are being told is:

Jer 18:4  And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

2Co 5:16  Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
2Co 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

2Co 5:19  To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

2Pe 2:12  But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

Rev 15:8  And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

What all these verses reveal is that the “many wonderful works” of our old man will not earn us salvation, because our good works and our righteousnesses are just filthy rags to our Lord:

Isa 64:6  But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Eze 33:13  When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.

Mat 7:22  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Our last study ended with the holy spirit contrasting the reign of Josiah with that of his son, Shallum:

Jer 22:14  That [Shallum, vs 11] saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
Jer 22:15  Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father [Josiah] eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
Jer 22:16  He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.

This study will begin by contrasting both Shallum and Jehoiakim, another son of Josiah, both being types of our old man, with his father, Josiah, a type of Christ in us:

Jer 22:17  But thine eyes and thine heart [Shallum] are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Jer 22:18  Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
Jer 22:19  He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

A burial of a person being treated as the burial of an ass is no burial at all. It amounts to being cast out to be devoured by the buzzards, as Jeremiah has already told us:

Jer 7:33  And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.

Jer 15:3  And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

Jer 16:4  They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

Jer 19:7  And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

“I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place” leads us to believe that the influence of the great whore upon the kings of this world is, was and will be diminishing. This hatred of the great whore will climax in an end of this age rejection of all religions. All who stand with the great whore will also be rejected by the beast over whom this whore has had such a great influence for so long:

Jer 22:20  Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.

Lebanon and Bashan here are types of Judah and Jerusalem. Why ‘Lebanon’ is used to typify this great whore we will see in a few minutes, but for now this is how the destruction of this ‘great whore’s lovers’ is expressed in the book of the revelation of Jesus Christ:

Rev 17:16  And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Rev 17:17  For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

Notice that it was God who put it in their heart to “make her desolate and naked, [to] eat her flesh, and burn her with fire”. The adversary was no doubt involved but only at the behest of the Lord Himself.

So it is with “all things” (Eph 1:11), including “the preparations of the heart” in every man:

Pro 16:1  The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

The scriptures plainly teach that when we do not hear His voice it is because the Lord Himself has given us ‘eyes that cannot see and ears that cannot hear’:

Rom 11:8  (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

Therefore, when we read:

Jer 22:21  I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
Jer 22:22  The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

We can now see just how true it is that the Lord “makes us to err from His ways”. He does so by making us physically prosperous while becoming daily more spiritually ‘wretched, miserable, poor, and blind and naked.’

Isa 63:17  O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Rev 3:17  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Rev 3:18  I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Rev 3:19  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Christ Himself tells us this of our old man before He “returns the tribes of [our] inheritance”. This is what “return the tribes of thine inheritance” means:

Deu 30:3  That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

Inwardly the nations that hold us captive are all the false doctrines which held our hearts and minds when we believed them. Until He “turns [our] captivity” this is how the Lord “makes us to err from His ways, and hardens our hearts from His fear”:

Joh 8:43  Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

Notice, Christ did not say ‘You refuse to hear my word’, although that is true. Instead, He gives us the reason why we refuse to hear Him.

The NLT puts it this way:

Joh 8:43  Why can’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to do so! (NLT)

Christ had earlier said the same thing in these verses:

Mat 13:10  And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
Mat 13:11  He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

So, the thoughts and actions of all men have always been a matter of what God has placed into our hearts and minds to keep us as captives to the doctrines of the great whore. Our very thoughts are not our own because:

Pro 16:1  The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

Solomon knew this Truth because he had read these words of Elihu in the book of Job:

Job 34:10  Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
Job 34:11  For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
Job 34:12  Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
Job 34:13  Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed [H7760: ‘sum’] the whole world?
Job 34:14  If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
Job 34:15  All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

The Hebrew word translated as ‘disposed’ in verse 13 is ‘sum’ (Pronounced ‘soom’), and it means ‘to put, to place, to set’.

H7760
שִׂים    שׂוּם
śûm    śı̂ym
soom, seem

A primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literally, figuratively, inferentially and elliptically): –    X any wise, appoint, bring, call [a name], care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ([over-]) turn, X wholly, work.

Total KJV occurrences: 580

It is the Lord who puts, places and sets every man where that man is. That is true physically, racially, ethnically, socially, financially, and mentally and spiritually. Remember that when you are tempted to hate your brother. Remember that also when you are tempted to “bow down to the angel who [shows you] these things” (Rev 19:10 and Rev 20:8). When we are both evil and good, we are mere vessels in the Lord’s hands.

Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

All glory therefore goes only to the Lord because:

Psa 139:2  Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
Psa 139:3  Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
Psa 139:4  For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

1Co 1:26  For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
1Co 1:27  But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
1Co 1:28  And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
1Co 1:29  That no flesh should glory in his presence.

“You understand my thought afar off” means the Lord knows our thoughts before we have them because:

Pro 16:1  The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

It is true that the Lord’s words concerning His judgments upon our sins dominate most of His Word, but this is the reason for that fact:

Isa 35:4  Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
Isa 35:5  Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped

“With a recompence; he will come and save you” and open your eyes and unstop your ears. These words of Isaiah are the foundation for these words of the revelation of Jesus Christ within us:

Rev 15:7  And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
Rev 15:8  And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

The “seven plagues” are the “recompense” for our sins of Isaiah 35:4. God has “made us to err from His ways, and [He has] hardened our hearts from His fear, and “made [us] wicked for [our own] day of evil’. (Isa 63:17, Pro 16:4), to give Himself “[the] occasion [He is seeking] to judge us, His own people in “this present time” (Rom 8:18).

Jer 6:19  Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

Rom 8:18  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Rom 8:19  For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

‘Lebanon’ means ‘white’. With its snow-covered mountains and its mighty cedars, it signifies anything that is exalted. In this chapter it refers to the kings of Judah who live in houses which are roofed with cedar, as we were told earlier in this chapter:

Jer 22:14  That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled [roofed] with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

Our beast exalts himself, but when our beast first begins to be killed by the sword of God’s Word, the spiritual Pharisees then make us “two-fold more the child of hell than [themselves]”:

Mat 23:15  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

At this point we are Judah (Ahollabah), the “beast that comes up out of the earth having two horns like a lamb, but speaking like a dragon” (Rev 13:11), as opposed to Aholah our earlier religious experience.

Rev 13:11  And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

It is this beast that comes out of the earth to whom this chapter of Jeremiah is addressed as we will soon see:

Jer 22:23  O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
Jer 22:24  As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;

The Lord has spoken. He has already told us that even King Josiah’s zeal for serving Him will not keep Him from judging His people:

2Ki 23:25  And like unto him [Josiah] was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
2Ki 23:26  Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.

“The provocations” of Josiah’s father Manasseh, and the provocations of Josiah’s sons, Shallum, and Jehoiakim, and Jehoiakim’s son,  Jechoniah typify God seeking an occasion against our flesh (Jdg 14:3-4). The ‘Je’ part of Jeconiah, means ‘the Lord’:

H3204
יְכוֹנְיָה    יְכָנְיָהוּ    יְכָנְיָהo
yekonyâh    yekonyâhû    yekôneyâh
yek-on-yaw'(-hoo), yek-o-neh-yaw’

From H3559 and H3050; Jah will establish; Jekonjah, a Jewish king: – Jeconiah. Compare H3659.

His name is shortened to ‘Coniah’, as a sign of the Lord’s distain for Jechoniah. Both of Josiah’s sons and Jehoikim’s son, Jeconiah, are all evil kings whose sins are used to give the Lord the “occasion” He is seeking to judge His people and through that judgment cast off their oppressor, our old man, who first dominates them as the story of Samson wanting to marry a Philistine woman reveals:

Jdg 14:3  Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well. [Samson could not hear his father’s words]
Jdg 14:4  But his father and his mother knew not that it was  of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

If we do not suffer some sort of trial in this present time, and if all we experience is prosperity, then we are not now being judged of the Lord, and we will not be capable of entering into the heavenly temple:

Rev 15:7  And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
Rev 15:8  And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

But judgment is now on the house of God (1Pe 4:17). We have gone into Babylon from whence we are now being dragged and judged.

Joh 6:44  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw [G1670: helkuo, ‘drag’] him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

G1670
ἑλκύω, ἕλκω
helkuō    helkō
hel-koo’-o, hel’-ko

Probably akin to G138; to drag (literally or figuratively): – draw. Compare G1667.

It is our old man who must die in that land, and it is our new man who through that dying process is being dragged to Christ:

Jer 22:25  And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Jer 22:26  And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
Jer 22:27  But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.

Even as children of “[our] father the devil” we are still the Lord’s children, because He is “the father of spirits” including Satan:

Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Heb 12:9  Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Our ‘mother that bare [us]’ is the bondwoman, who is the same as the great whore. This great whore bears children to the Lord, but those children must first be judged for being children of whoredoms, and they must die to that great whore and to their father the devil:

Eze 23:1  The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
Eze 23:2  Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
Eze 23:3  And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
Eze 23:4  And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

These two women are both qualified as being harlots and are therefore nothing more than the two stages of our apostasy.

Applying the principle of “the dream is one” (Gen 41:25), these two women are the one ‘bondwoman’ of:

Gal 4:22  For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
Gal 4:23  But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
Gal 4:24  Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Gal 4:25  For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Gal 4:26  But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

In this case, the scriptures again qualify that these two women and their two sons represent the two covenants, the first being the covenant to the letter of the law given by Moses, and the second and last being the covenant to the spirit of the law given by Christ.

Notice that Agar, meaning Hagar the bondwoman, “answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.” Not one of the ministers of the children of the bondwoman who thinks that “Jerusalem which now is… will be made heir with the son of… Jerusalem which is above”, believes that “Jerusalem that now is… answers to Hagar [and] the son of the bondwoman”.

Yet that is exactly what our last three verses are saying:

Jer 22:28  Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
Jer 22:29  O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
Jer 22:30  Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

“Wherefore they are cast out” are the very same words used to speak of “Jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with her children”:

Gal 4:30  Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

Ishmael was “the son of the bondwoman”, but Ishmael is just an early iteration of Esau, who was physically of the same mother, yet spiritually also typifies “the son of the bondwoman”, and neither will be made “heir with the son of the freewoman”:

Gal 4:25  For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Gal 4:26  But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Gal 4:27  For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Gal 4:28  Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Gal 4:29  But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Gal 4:30  Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
Gal 4:31  So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

There are few indeed who are given to say ‘Amen’ to any of these words of Galatians 4. Nevertheless a million sermons coming from “the son of the bondwoman” will not make them heirs with the son of the freewoman”, and a million sermons teaching that the Lord has a physical elect in “Jerusalem which now is”, as well as a spiritual elect in those who are “in Christ… Jerusalem above” will not make it so. Christ is not making of twain, twain. Christ has torn down the middle wall which was between Jews and Gentiles “to make of twain one new man, so making peace”. There is no spiritual ‘peace’ to be had with those who teach otherwise because we are admonished to “be of one mind”:

1Co 1:10  Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Eph 2:11  Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
Eph 2:12  That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Eph 2:13  But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Eph 2:14  For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Eph 2:15  Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
Eph 2:16  And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
Eph 2:17  And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
Eph 2:18  For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Eph 2:19  Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Eph 2:20  And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Eph 2:21  In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Eph 2:22  In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

I will let the holy spirit conclude our study with His own plea to each of us:

Jer 22:29  O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

Here are the verses for our next study in Jeremiah 23:

Jer 23:1  Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
Jer 23:2  Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
Jer 23:3  And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
Jer 23:4  And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.
Jer 23:5  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
Jer 23:6  In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Jer 23:7  Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
Jer 23:8  But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
Jer 23:9  Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
Jer 23:10  For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
Jer 23:11  For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
Jer 23:12  Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
Jer 23:13  And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
Jer 23:14  I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Jer 23:15  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
Jer 23:16  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
Jer 23:17  They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
Jer 23:18  For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
Jer 23:19  Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
Jer 23:20  The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.