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Jeremiah 5
The Book of Jeremiah
Jeremiah 5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now,
and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there
be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
2 And though they say, The Lord liveth; surely they swear falsely.
3 O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they
have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive
correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to
return.
4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not
the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.
5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have
known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have
altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings
shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth
out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and
their backslidings are increased.
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Wolf of the Evenings = deserts =
Arabic people
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Leopard are the kenites = Deut 32
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Transgressions = revolts.
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Backslidings = apostasies.
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Increased = strong, or many.
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Builders of the city are the sons of Cain the kenites
7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by
them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed
adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his
neighbour's wife.
9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this?
10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her
battlements; for they are not the Lord's.
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously
against me, saith the Lord.
12 They have belied the Lord, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come
upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall
it be done unto them.
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.
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.
16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
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.
18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not make a full end with
you.
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.
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes,
and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
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?
23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted
and gone.
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.
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have with holden
good things from you.
26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth
snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore
they are become great, and waxen rich.
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Their houses full of deceit = their church are
beggers
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.
29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this?
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God wrath is going to happen. (Revelation 16)
30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
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?
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The priests bear rule by their means =
My false teaching
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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