The Book of Jeremiah – Jer 5:14-31 I Will Make My Words in Your Mouth Fire

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Jer 5:14-31 – I Will Make My Words in Your Mouth Fire

[Study Aired March 21, 2021]

Jer 5:14  Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
Jer 5:15  Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
Jer 5:16  Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
Jer 5:17  And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Jer 5:18  Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
Jer 5:19  And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
Jer 5:20  Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
Jer 5:21  Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
Jer 5:22  Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Jer 5:23  But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
Jer 5:24  Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
Jer 5:25  Your iniquities have turned away these things,
and your sins have withholden good things from you.

Jer 5:26  For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Jer 5:27  As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Jer 5:28  They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Jer 5:29  Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jer 5:30  A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
Jer 5:31  The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

I jumped ahead in our last study and explained that the ‘fire’ of scripture is the all consuming words of our God who is an all-consuming fire to the works, words and doctrines of our old man:

Deu 4:24  For the LORD thy God is a consuming fireeven a jealous God.

Deu 9:2  A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
Deu 9:3  Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.

Heb 12:29  For our God is a consuming fire.

The enemy whom the Lord destroys before us, the giants within our land, “a people great and tall”, are symbols of our own self-righteous old man, who hates His fiery words. Our own old man must be burned out of our land.

Jer 5:14  Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

As we were shown in out last study, our rebellious old man despises the fiery Words of the Lord because those words call for his death and destruction. That death is a long, drawn-out process typified by Israel’s forty years of wandering in the wilderness. Long lasting time in the wilderness is an essential part of our “experience of evil” which the Lord has given to every man:

Ecc 1:13 I applied my heart to inquiring and exploring by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: it is an experience of evil Elohim has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.

It was in the wilderness that ancient Israel learned of the Lord’s laws, His tabernacle, the altar of sacrifice, and the priesthood. In the same way, it is in the churches of Babylon that we learn of all those things. Our lives physically and outwardly change for the better and we become as self-righteous as Job (Job 29). We are so self-righteous that we, too, do the same as Job when we argue these words with the Lord:

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?

Babylonian captivity, our captivity to the churches of this world, is just a later version of being in the wilderness. We are even told that ‘Babylon’ is “in the wilderness.”

Rev 17:1  And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Rev 17:2  With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Rev 17:3  So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:4  And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev 17:5  And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Rev 17:6  And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Rev 17:7  And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.

Babylon is in the wilderness. Like ancient Israel we are called out of this wilderness of Babylon and in down payment form we are being called into the kingdom of God:

Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

Like Israel of old, we are fearful of coming out of the wilderness of Babylon to the point that we forget that it was through great and powerful miracles that the Lord Himself brought us out of Egypt and through the Red Sea, and we refuse to enter the promised land for fear of the giants we see occupying that land. We cannot imagine giving up our passions, our addictions, and our hatreds. We so resent our call out of the wilderness of Babylon that we want to stone those who are calling us out of that wilderness experience:

Num 14:6  And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [symbols of the Lord’s “two witnesses” (Rev 11)]  which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
Num 14:7  And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
Num 14:8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Num 14:9  Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
Num 14:10  But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
Num 14:11  And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
Num 14:12  I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

“All the congregation” is the inward symbol for the entire kingdom of our old man. Outwardly it symbolizes the entire apostate “seven churches of Asia”, the entire apostate harlot Christian church system whose hatred for Christ and His doctrines amount to the spiritual murder of the Lord’s elect, leaving their ‘dead bodies in the streets of the great city… where also our Lord was crucified’:

1Jn 3:15  Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

Rev 11:8  And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

After a symbolic forty years of wandering in the wilderness of Babylon we are shown that our fears must be destroyed and left behind as dead carcasses in that wilderness. After that stage of our evil experience, we overcome many of the giants “by little and by little”.

Exo 23:30  By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
Exo 23:31  And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
Exo 23:32  Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Exo 23:33  They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

Any time we see the words ‘thou shalt not…’ or ‘make no covenants…’ we know that those words are telling us not to do what the Lord already knows we will just naturally do. The books of Judges and Kings demonstrate that we do indeed ‘make [inward] covenants with’ the fleshly desires and passions which inhabit our ‘land’. We endure the cycles of falling seven times, each time being delivered only to fall again until the time arrives for judgment to begin at the house of “the Israel of God”.

Gal 6:15  Certainly, it doesn’t matter whether a person is circumcised or not. Rather, what matters is being a new creation.
Gal 6:16  Peace and mercy will come to rest on all those who conform to this principle. They are the Israel of God. (GWV)

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

We should all know by now that ‘falling seven times’ simply means that we come to realize that we of ourselves are a complete failure, and that a far more accurate Biblical number for our actual failures would be “seventy times seven”:

Mat 18:22  Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

So, we are blessed to be the first to experience the Lord’s fiery judgments upon the kingdom of our rebellious old man:

Jer 5:15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

Outwardly this is a prophecy of the Babylonian invasion of Judah and Jerusalem. Inwardly “a nation from far” symbolizes the ways of our flesh which are as far from the Lord and His ways as heavenly life is from earthly death.

Isa 55:9  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

‘A mighty nation’ inwardly symbolizes the strength of our flesh and its carnal mind. ‘An ancient nation’ signifies the fact that inwardly we are all “the first man Adam”. “Whose language you know not” means that inwardly we are not aware of the fact that in our wayward ways we are killing the Lord and His Christ. If we understood the language of our murderous old man, we would not crucify the Lord of glory and His Christ:

1Co 2:7  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
1Co 2:8  Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

We are totally unaware that we are being lied to by our own shepherds and “the principal of the flock”.

Jer 5:16  Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

This verse demonstrates that doctrines are “mighty men” because a ‘quiver’ holds arrows, and this is the spiritual significance of ‘arrows’:

Psa 64:3  Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

Isa 7:24  With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

Arrows symbolize doctrines. Whether truth or lies, doctrines are often symbolized by ‘arrows’ which are used by the Lord to chasten us and destroy the kingdom of our old man. However, the ‘arrows’ of the men of Babylon can destroy us and rob us of our salvation in this age.

Jer 5:17  And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

Every verb in this verse is in the Qal stem, except for the verb ‘impoverish’ which is in the Poel stem.  When we look at the meaning of ‘Poel’, we find it is just the intensive form of the Qal stem, which is the Hebrew equivalent of the aorist tense.

This is the definition of ‘Piel’ stem:

“They shall eat up your harvest” refers to the soldiers of Babylon, all her false shepherds and false prophets. Isaiah prophesied of this very same event in our “experience of evil” (Ecc 1:13):

Isa 7:23  And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
Isa 7:24  With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

‘Arrows’ in this verse refer to the destructive false doctrines of the invading Babylonian armies. “Briers and thorns”, as well as the word ‘arrows’, symbolize the lies and false doctrines which have already infected and leavened the Lord’s own people. The Lord gives us over to Babylon because that is where our heart has been long before we are carried away into that deceived world.

Jer 5:18  Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.

The Lord must retain a remnant, which is the meaning of, “I will not make a full end with you.”

Isa 1:9  Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

It was with “a very small remnant” that the Lord repopulated the earth after He destroyed that evil society.

Inwardly the words “a very small remnant” and “as it was in the days of Noah” signify that even the righteous are “scarcely … saved”:

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
1Pe 4:18  And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
1Pe 4:19  Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

As this “very small remnant… [we] commit the keeping of [our] souls… unto a faithful Creator”, signifying that we know that without our Creator we “can do nothing” to save ourselves from certain death:

Joh 15:5  I [our Creator] am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

It is entirely of the Lord that you and I are being judged in this age instead of being judged in the great white throne judgment. We are the work of His hands and not of our own.

Jer 5:19  And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

As noted above, it was the “briers and thorns” that were growing so well in our own land which occasioned our judgment and our being carried away into Babylonian captivity. Just as we have turned our backs on the words of our Lord and have served false doctrines in the Lord’s temple, so we have also been enslaved to those outside the Lord’s temple and to their false doctrines. In Babylon we live under the burdens of the false doctrines of eternal torment – the keeping of days, months, times and years – and we pay tithes and give generous offering for the privilege of doing so.

Jer 5:20  Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
Jer 5:21  Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

These words were used by our Lord about the masses and multitudes of His day who wanted His name but did not want to wear His clothes or eat His bead:

Isa 4:1  And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Mat 13:13  Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Joh 6:65  And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
Joh 6:66  From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

We just naturally fear the loss of our own old man and the loss of all our families and friends much more than we fear God.

Jer 5:22  Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

The honest answer to this question the Lord is asking us is, “No, we do not fear our own Creator.” Our Creator brings us up out of the sea of mankind and onto the dry land. It is as a beast on dry land that we rebel against Him even as He restrains the waves of the sea from overwhelming us.

Jer 5:23  But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
Jer 5:24  Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
Jer 5:25  Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

While these words certainly have an application to those who will be judged in the great white throne judgment, they also apply to all those who are given to have a part in the first resurrection. Here is what this same prophet has to say about the Lord’s very elect:

Lam 1:8  Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
Lam 1:9  Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
Lam 1:10  The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
Lam 1:11  All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
Lam 1:12  Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Lam 1:13  From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
Lam 1:14  The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
Lam 1:15  The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
Lam 1:16  For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
Lam 1:17  Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
Lam 1:18  The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
Lam 1:19  I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
Lam 1:20  Behold, O LORD; for am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

The Lord wants His elect to acknowledge their transgressions:

Jer 3:13  Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

The Lord’s own people are first “wicked men”:

Jer 5:26  For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

This has all taken place first and primarily within each of us as we lived out our evil experience which the Lord has given us as our part of the great harlot who is the unfaithful wife of Christ. As we come out of her, like Jeremiah we look back and see her impending destruction, and we see exactly why it must be so.

Jer 5:27  As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

“A cage full of birds” is revealed to be a type of the great harlot who rules over the kings of the earth:

Rev 18:1  And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
Rev 18:2  And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Rev 18:3  For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

“Waxed rich” is just the New Testament way of saying:

Jer 5:28  They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

In His own time the Lord prospers us in our sins. We are physically blessed and become self-righteous and proud taking the credit for our success in this world just as Job did (Job 27:5-6). It is in this self-righteous, physically prosperous state that we are farthest from our Creator.

Like King David, we witness the prosperity of the wicked of this age, and we cannot help but wonder:

Psa 73:3  For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Psa 73:4  For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
Psa 73:5  They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
Psa 73:6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
Psa 73:7  Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Psa 73:8  They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
Psa 73:9  They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Psa 73:10  Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
Psa 73:11  And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
Psa 73:12  Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

Because we are prospering in this world, we are proud, and it is that self-righteous pride which keeps us in the chains of bondage and restrains us from the liberty we have in Christ and the peace that comes with knowing He is working every detail after the counsel of His own will (Eph 1:11). “The prosperity of the wicked”, in the overview of the plan of God, is short lived and temporary. What looks so permanent in this age cannot withstand the fire of the words of God:

Jer 5:29  Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jer 5:30  A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

Even outwardly great and strong nations are rotting into social disintegration as we witness the fact that no one “executes judgment [nor] seeks the Truth” (Jer 5:1). Why is this happening to the outward nations of the world?

…Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours (Jer 5:19).

Patiently watching as the Lord lulls this world to sleep, even as He prepares the destruction of Babylon, is a great trial for the new man within us. This is how we feel at that time:

Psa 73:13  Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
Psa 73:14  For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
Psa 73:15  If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

However, the Lord has given His “very small remnant” to see past “the prosperity of the wicked”, and He has given us the unnatural ability to place great value on “the things of the spirit” in His promises to His “chosen… few”:

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.

We have all, in our own time, fallen prey to the words of the great whore who has ruled our lives for far too long, and this is how it was accomplished:

Jer 5:31  The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

The prophets of Babylon are the source of the two hundred million false doctrines which blot out the Truth, the light of the Sun of Righteousness. “What [we all] do in the end thereof” is “wait on [the Lord’s] judgments” (Isa 26:8-9), while being blinded to our own blind state:

Joh 9:39  And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
Joh 9:40  And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
Joh 9:41  Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

Rev 9:2  And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Rev 9:3  And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Rev 9:7  And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

Rev 9:16  And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

Two hundred million false lying doctrines keep us from seeing the Truth. Without Christ living His life within us we are hopeless:

Psa 73:16  When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
Psa 73:17  Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
Psa 73:18  Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Psa 73:19  How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

“Thou casted them down into destruction” speaks primarily of our rebellious “revolting” old man.

This is where we are in the anointed of the Lord. We are “in the sanctuary of God”, and it is here that we understand the end from the beginning:

Heb 12:22  But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Heb 12:23  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Heb 12:24  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Heb 12:25  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
Heb 12:26  Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
Heb 12:27  And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Heb 12:28  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Heb 12:29  For our God is a consuming fire.

That is our study for today, and we will begin with these verses of Jeremiah six next week:

Jer 6:1  O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
Jer 6:2  I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
Jer 6:3  The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Jer 6:4  Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
Jer 6:5  Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Jer 6:6  For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
Jer 6:7  As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
Jer 6:8  Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
Jer 6:9  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
Jer 6:10  To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
Jer 6:11  Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
Jer 6:12  And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
Jer 6:13  For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Jer 6:14  They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jer 6:15  Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

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