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Were they (My people) ashamed because of the abomination they had done? They certainly were not ashamed, and they did not know how to blush; Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time of their punishment they shall be brought down, declares the Lord (YHWY).
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Jeremiah has often been called the weeping prophet, and many reasons have been put forth as the cause for that. Though this may sound a bit counterintuitive, the source of both his joy and his weeping was God’s word!

Jeremiah found God’s words and ate them and they became the joy and the delight of his heart. {Jer.15:16} Even Job, a righteous man who faced so many trials and tribulations, proclaimed that he treasured God’s words more than his daily bread. {Job 23:12} Jesus said “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me.”{Jn.4:34}

Jeremiah’s sorrow and his weeping did not come from the fact that the people rejected and persecuted him, though they certainly did, but rather from the fact that the Lord’s people were rejecting God’s word, and therefore rejecting Him. They were rejecting their glorious history, delivered by God’s mighty and miraculous power from the bondage of Egypt and brought to a land flowing with milk and honey, and trading it for what does not profit. Those who handled the Law did not know God, the rulers transgress against Him, and the prophets prophesied falsely. {Jer.2:5-8}

The Lord then said, “Has a nation changed gods, when they were not gods? But My people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.” {Jer.2:11} That statement begs the question in our day, regardless of what country you are in, who is the god of your country. And P.S. imprinting your answer on the money of that country does not make it so, it may as a matter of fact proclaim something quite the opposite of what you think.

And as a slight aside (not really) you may want to recall what the Lord has said through His servant Paul: ‘Our citizenship is in heaven from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.’ {Php.3:20} That may also bring to mind that Jesus said that ‘no one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to one and despise the other.’ {Mat.6:24} No dual citizenship in this Kingdom!

Today, I believe based on decades of experience traveling to many, many countries around the world teaching and preaching in churches of numerous denominations, and many non-denominational, that we indeed are facing the same situation as Jeremiah did; the ‘people of God’ who sin grossly without any shame. Like the prophet Isaiah spoke of those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! {Is.5:20}

Of course there is a worldly saying that the darkness is deepest just before the dawn and it was true in the time of Isaiah that darkness covered the earth and deep darkness the people. {Is.60:2} If anything, it grows progressively worse in the perilous last days {2Tim.3} culminating in a time when so many of the ‘people of God’ will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths. {2Tim.4:3-4}

So join me in praying, ‘Even so come Lord Jesus’ {Rev.22:20} UNTIL…..

“And I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and He who sat upon it is called Faithful and True; and in righteousness He judges and wages war. And His eyes are a flame of fire, and upon His head are many diadems; and He has a name written upon Him which no one knows except Himself.
And He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood; and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses.
And from His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may smite the nations; and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.
And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, “King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.”
(Revelation 19:11-16)


STAY FAITHFUL TO THE END