SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/16/2014
2:37 PM
My Worship Time Focus: A Message
About the Drought PT-3
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Jeremiah
14:13-16
Message of the
verses: We will be looking at the
third sub-point from Warren Wiersbe’s commentary from the fifth chapter of his
book on Jeremiah.
The Protest of the Prophet (Jeremiah 14:13-16): “13 But, "Ah, Lord GOD!" I said, "Look, the prophets are telling
them, ’You will not see the sword nor will you have famine, but I will
give you lasting peace in this place.’" 14 Then the LORD said to me, "The prophets are
prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them
nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination,
futility and the deception of their own minds. 15 “Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name,
although it was not I who sent them-yet they keep saying, ’There will be no
sword or famine in this land’- by sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end! 16 "The people also to whom they are
prophesying will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the
famine and the sword; and there will be no one to bury them-neither them, nor
their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters-for I will pour out their own
wickedness on them.”
I realize that Jeremiah knew that what the Lord was
telling him was true, yet Jeremiah still had a great love for these people and
did not want to see them destroyed, however God was doing this because they had
broken the covenant that He had made with them.
Jeremiah is sticking up for the people because they had
been given false information from the false prophets and the bad priests, so he
must have figured that it was not their fault.
To this God agreed that the prophets were bad and were leading the
people astray with their false visions and prophecies. God tells Jeremiah that these people would be
punished for leading them astray, for they were the leaders and to them is
given more responsibilities and because of that more punishment would be given
to them. James writes “Jas 3:1 Let not many of you become teachers, my
brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment.”
Dr. Wiersbe writes “The people, however, were responsible
for their actions because they should have known that the Lord had not sent
these prophets. There were two tests of
a true prophet or prophetess in Israel:
(1) their predictions were 100 percent accurate (Deut. 18:20-22), and
(2) their messages agreed with the Law of God (13:1-18). Any prophet who permitted the worship of
idols, contrary to God’s Law, was a false prophet.” He latter adds “Miracles are no guarantee of
a divine call (2 Thess. 2:7-12).” “7 For
the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will
do so until he is taken out of the way. 8 Then that lawless one will be
revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an
end by the appearance of His coming; 9 that is, the one whose coming is in
accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, 10
and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did
not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. 11 For this reason God
will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is
false, 12 in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth,
but took pleasure in wickedness.”
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