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Jeremiah 8
The Book of Jeremiah
Jeremiah 8:1 At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the
kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and
the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of
their graves:
2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of
heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they
have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they
shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of
the earth.
3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that
remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven
them, saith the Lord of hosts.
4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and
not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?
they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his
wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the
horse rusheth into the battle.
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and
the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know
not the judgment of the Lord.
8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly
in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
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1 Chronicles 2:55 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the
Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the
father of the house of Rechab.
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Kenites = These were the posterity of Jethro and
Hobab.
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See Judges 1:16 = They became an ascetic people,
and, by being mentioned here in connection with
"scribes, "may have been teachers.
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This perhaps accounts for Jehu's action in 2
Kings 10:15,16.
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Rechab = Compare Jeremiah 35.
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected
the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that
shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given
to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth
falsely.
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Did you know some states have a dead tax and the government wants
50% tax of your land, etc... ?
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Luke 19:43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a
trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every
side,
44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within
thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because
thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
45 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold
therein, and them that bought;
46 Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but
ye have made it a den of thieves.
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Church of God is for teaching God's word
47 And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the
scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
He didn't hid from the chief priests and the
scribes
The chief priests and the scribes wanted to kill
Him
48 And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very
attentive to hear him.
The people wanted to hear Him, because He was
teaching the truth, God's word.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying,
Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at
all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that
fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.
13 I will surely consume them, saith the Lord: there shall be no grapes on the
vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I
have given them shall pass away from them.
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced
cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence,
and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.
15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold
trouble!
16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the
sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured
the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be
charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that
dwell in a far country: Is not the Lord in Zion? is not her king in her?
Why
have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange
vanities?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment
hath taken hold on me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the
health of the daughter of my people recovered?
• 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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