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Woe To False Pastors
Jeremiah
50:6 My people hath been lost sheep: their
shepherds have caused them to go astray, they
have turned them away on the mountains: they
have gone from mountain to hill, they have
forgotten their resting place.
Shepherds = rulers = 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.
Jeremiah 23:20 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.
23 Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?
24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the
Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.
25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I
have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea,
they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams
which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my
name for Baal.
28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my
word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith
the Lord.
29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that
breaketh the rock in pieces?
30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that
steal my words every one from his neighbour.
31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that use their tongues,
and say, He saith.
32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith
the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies,
and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they
shall not profit this people at all, saith the Lord.
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 neighbour, 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;
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.
Ezekiel 13:3 Thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow
their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
Zechariah 7:3 And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the Lord of hosts,
and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating
myself, as I have done these so many years?
4 Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying,
5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye
fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did
ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
6 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and
drink for yourselves?
7 Should ye not hear the words which the Lord hath cried by the former prophets,
when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round
about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
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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