Howdy Friends! “OH That’s The Old Testament!” They say. “That was for then!” They say. Oh but the folly in that thinking. For we should look at the OT not as a history book, but as a living testament, a living message. A living message of warnings, guidance, and mercy. Let’s have a look at a powerful parallel to our world today. Let’s look at Jeremiah 11:11-14 – (I know Jeremiah is a tough book, but that is exactly why we should study it)
So, here is, Jeremiah 11:11-14:
“Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to bring on them disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to me, but I will not hear them. Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods they have been burning incense to, but they certainly will not save them in their time of disaster. Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, Judah, and the altars you have set up to Shame — altars to burn incense to Baal — as numerous as the streets of Jerusalem. “As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to me at the time of their disaster.”
Friends see the parallels?
The cities of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, are our modern cities and peoples. As a wise friend told me not long ago, “Every page in the Bible is a lesson.” … That is every page. Not just the happy-go-lucky-you’re-gonna-get-what-you-want pages. Every page is a lesson. “Burning incense to gods,” Doesn’t this point to “idolizing,” and “tolerating,” our self centered beliefs, worldly fashions, practices, and ungodly officials?
“Your gods are as numerous as your cities.” What’s that mean? I’ll bet you can figure it out. Cars, houses, jobs, entertainment, accepting modern insanities. You know, junk like that.
“And the alters set up to Shame.” Well holy cow, we just finished pride month! We have people dancing naked in the streets to shout they wanna kill God’s children in the womb. We have drag queens reading to 6 year-olds in government schools. We have classrooms and libraries with children’s books that teach homosexuality to young ‘ins.
There is nothing conservative nor Christian about accepting homosexuality or transgenderism. Stop accepting known-sins simply because society makes it inconvenient to reject.
And friends, here is the loudest warning in all the Old Testament:
“for I will not be listening when they call out to me at the time of their disaster.” That dear friends should scare us all back to the LORD, and into action. It’s not okay to simply go quietly about our business, forgoing our commanded duty to call out sin. For as it is written in the New Testament – James 4:17 “So it is sin to know the good and yet not do it.”
Can we go on sinning by negligence, and expect God to hear us? I don’t know. Do you? ~ Gitty Up, Dutch.
