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Woe To The Pastors
Jeremiah 23:1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my
pasture! saith the Lord.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.
11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their
wickedness, saith the Lord.
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.
13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal,
and caused my people Israel to err.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet
they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my
words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil
of their doings.
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will
also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten
the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I
change their glory into shame.
Jeremiah 4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish
children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do
good they have no knowledge.
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My people are foolish
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They don't know Me
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They are stupid
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They have no understanding
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They are wise to do evil
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But to do good = They have no knowledge
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Sottish = Dull; stupid; senseless; doltish; very
foolish.
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My people are stupid, they want to listen to men
Jeremiah 23:33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask
thee, saying, What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt then say unto them,
What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the Lord.
34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The
burden of the Lord, I will even punish that man and his house.
35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother,
What hath the Lord answered? and, What hath the Lord spoken?
36 And the burden of the Lord shall ye mention no more: for
every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the
living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.
37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the Lord answered thee? and,
What hath the Lord spoken?
38 But since ye say, The burden of the Lord; therefore thus saith the Lord;
Because ye say this word, The burden of the Lord, and I have sent unto you,
saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the Lord;
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Ye shall not say, The burden of the Lord
39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I
will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and
cast you out of my presence:
40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame,
which shall not be forgotten.
Strictly means one opposed to Christ. In this sense, John
says were already in his time many antichrists, many having the spirit of an
antichrist; unbelievers, heretics, and persecutors
1John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have
heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he
that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world
heareth them.
6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth
not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
• 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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