Before you begin your Bible study, as a believer
in the Lord Jesus Christ, be sure you have named your sins privately to God the
Father.
If we
confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. [Known, Unknown and Forgotten sins] (1Jn 1:9)
You will then be in fellowship with God, Filled with God the
Holy Spirit and ready to learn Truth from the Word of God.
God
is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and Truth. (Joh 4:24)
NATIONAL CRISIS
The book of
Jeremiah is one of the timeliest books in the Bible as far as our national
entity is concerned. Conditions existing in Jeremiah’s
day parallel the conditions which exist in our own country today! Spiritual desertion, national degeneration, a departure from
Divine laws and institutions and the resultant self-destruction characterize
both periods of time; then and NOW! The
book of Jeremiah brings out almost every Principle which leads to national
degeneracy and national destruction.
The failure
of the Jews, from the standpoint of their Spiritual, economic, military and
social life, will make up the background for our
study. We shall see the Principles of freedom by which a national entity
functions to the glory of God; also we shall see Concepts of personal freedom,
Divine institutions, the importance of maintaining freedom through the
military, and the Principles of scar tissue and the emotional revolt of the
soul.
We begin at, (Jer 12:10) where we see that basically no nation can survive without a remnant of
those who have a Spiritual life.
Many shepherds
[Pastors] have ruined My vineyard, They have
trampled down My field; They have made My pleasant field A desolate wilderness.
It has been made a desolation, Desolate, it mourns before Me; The whole land
has been made desolate, Because no man lays it to
heart. [No Truth inside the soul] On all
the bare heights in the wilderness Destroyers have come, For a sword of the LORD is devouring From one end of the
land even to the other; [National and personal
Divine discipline] There is no peace for anyone.
They have sown wheat [Truth]
and have reaped thorns, (Mat 13:22) They have strained
themselves to no profit. [Religious ritual]
But be ashamed of your harvest [Divine discipline]
Because of the fierce anger of the LORD. (Jer 12:10-13)
CARNAL PASTORS
The phrase, “Many shepherds
have ruined My vineyard,” describes one group of major contributors
to the destruction of any nation. This was even understood by Joseph Stalin
when, in 1931, he declared that the United States could be conquered without
firing a shot. In the development of his concept, (A
six-point plan) the first paragraph dealt with
the neutralization of Truth in any form and the removal of those who declare
Truth. One of the greatest thrusts in the Communist conspiracy (Satan's) is to influence the clergy. It has always
been true that when those who are responsible for the declaration of Spiritual
Truth are neutralized, Spiritual desertion moves into a nation.
The National
Council of Prophets and Priests.
“Many shepherds
” refers to the “clergy” in the Southern Kingdom; Judah, which
was composed of two organizations, the prophets and the Levitical priesthood.
The prophets generally declared the unwritten Word and became writers of
Scripture, whereas the priests were responsible for the exegesis (Teaching) of
the written Word. (Neh 8:8-9) However, in this particular case, we find the “national council of prophets and priests”
in the opposite position of destroying the vineyard! (Jer 6:13-14) They were false teachers and religious types, who were not
only opposed to Jeremiah, but to anything which would bring about national
prosperity and blessing.
It was this “national council
of prophets and priests” who were the plotters and the leaders of a
national conspiracy, which had reached its peak under King Zedekiah. As
political leaders of the “Egyptian Party,” they were planning to advocate an
alliance with Egypt. In so doing, they were diametrically opposed to Truth, for
the Scripture says, “Woe to them who go down to Egypt for help.” (Isa 31:1)
They were depending upon man; yet the Bible declares, “Cursed is the man that trusts in man.”
(Jer 17:5)
Jeremiah, leader of the “Chaldean Party,” reminded King
Zedekiah that he had sworn an oath of allegiance to Chaldea and urged him to
keep that oath. Zedekiah, a very weak man as well as an opportunist,
instead broke with Chaldea and started a revolt which led to the ultimate
destruction of the nation. This revolt brought about the Chaldean invasion and
an eighteen-month siege.
The Destruction
of the Vineyard. “Have ruined” (Jer 12:10) is intensified in the Hebrew and
indicates that the clergy had already completed their work of destruction. By
now it was merely a matter of how the mechanics would be carried out. The
Hebrew word here means “to overthrow or
to corrupt.” It doesn’t mean that the prophets and priests had actually
done the destroying, but that they had corrupted the nation to such an extent
that destruction was inevitable. The destruction would occur when the Chaldeans
entered Jerusalem.
“Many shepherds have ruined my vineyard.” The references to the “vine”
or the “vineyard” in the Old
Testament apply either to nationalism as a Principle or to the national entity
of the Jews specifically.
(Isa 5:1-30) and (Jer
2:21) tell us that the vineyard in this case is the Southern Kingdom
of Judah. The product of the vineyard is the grape, which, although it is used
in many ways, always depicts righteousness and joy:
Spiritual maturity. (Joh 15:5) As a result, the Jews, like all national entities under
God’s plan, were designed to have great happiness and blessing — a condition which can exist only where Divine laws are
followed!
“They
have trampled down My field” means that the “national
council of prophets and priests” had contributed immeasurably to the
destruction of the people. “My field”
is a phrase which means “that which belongs to the Lord,” and indicates
that Judah is the Lord’s designed nation. He wants them to be blessed, but they have refused the means by which they could be
blessed. (Spiritual
growth)
Now, how did the
clergy destroy that which belonged to the Lord? Jeremiah 23, a passage which
deals entirely with these pastors, describes exactly how the overthrow was
accomplished. The Hebrew word for “shepherds”
in (Jer 12:10) is the same word which
begins: (Jer 23:1) “Woe be unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture says the Lord.” “The sheep of My pasture” refers again to the Southern Kingdom of Judah; and those who destroyed it, as we have seen, are the false
Bible teachers of that day!
Therefore, thus says the LORD God of
Israel concerning the shepherds who are tending My
people: [You see, they are feeding incomplete
and or false Truth] You have scattered my flock, and driven them away,
and have not attended to them: [i.e., have not GIVEN
them Spiritual Thinking] behold, I am about to attend to you for the
evil of your deeds, declares the LORD. (Jer 23:2)
When, in the name of the Lord, false doctrine is proclaimed
on a national scale, the result is inevitably national disintegration!
Now in verse 9, Jeremiah is speaking. Jeremiah has a
heart or right lobe full of Spiritual Thinking: God's Thinking! (1Co 2:16)
As for the
prophets: My heart is broken within me, All my bones tremble; I have become like a drunken man, Even like a man overcome
with wine, Because of the LORD And because of
His Holy Words. (Jer 23:9)
The activities of the prophets (Pastors) grieved Jeremiah when he viewed them in the light of God’s
plan! “His
Holy Words” refers to Jeremiah's capacity
for appreciation of God and His Words! (Thoughts; Pro 4:20-21) And the overwhelming joy of friendship and fellowship with
God as a Spiritually mature believer! (Jer
15:16)
For the land is
full of adulterers; [Pornography; physical and
Spiritual degeneracy and unfaithfulness] For the land mourns because of
the curse. [Divine
discipline] The pastures of the wilderness have
dried up. [Economic depression and Spiritual
food on the decline] Their course also is evil [Their thinking is also Satan's] And their might is not right. [Living by the power of the
old sin nature] For both prophet and priest are polluted;
Even in My
house I have found their wickedness, [Religion] declares the LORD. (Jer 23:10-11)
This is true also of the United States of America today!
Over a period of years, the military has gone down, and with it our very hope
for national survival and individual human freedom. Where
does this degrading and de-emphasis of the military originate? (Satan) Who is opposed to the military today? The
National Council of Churches! Who is opposed to the draft today?
The National
Council of Churches! What organization has provided money for men to dodge the
draft and go to Canada? The National Council of Churches! Who is for Red China?
The National Council of Churches! Who is for socialism? The National Council of
Churches! http://www.ncccusa.org/
So we are not surprised to see a parallel between the days
of Jeremiah and our day.
For both prophet
and priest are polluted; Even in My
house I have found their wickedness, [Religion] declares the LORD.
Therefore their way will be like slippery paths to them, They will be driven
away into the gloom and fall down in it; For I will
bring calamity upon them, The year of their punishment, declares the LORD.
(Jer
23:11-12)
The year of their
visitation was 586 B.C. when the Chaldeans conquered and destroyed Jerusalem
and enslaved the people who survived.
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria [The Northern Kingdom] I saw
an offensive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led My
people Israel astray. (Jer 23:13)
In
other words, since this very same pattern had occurred before in the Northern
Kingdom, Judah should have learned something from history. The Northern Kingdom
had harbored false prophets, and it went down, destroyed under the fifth cycle
of discipline in 721 B.C. Now the same thing would happen in the Southern
Kingdom.
Also among the prophets
of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: The
committing of adultery and walking in falsehood; [Carnality and religion] And they strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one
has turned back from his wickedness. [Satanic and human thinking] (Isa 55:7-8)
All of them have become to Me like Sodom, And her inhabitants like
Gomorrah. [Legitimized homosexuality] (Jer 23:14)
This amplifies
the previous verse in which the prophets prophesied by
Baal, (Demonism) and refers to the phallic cult, (Pornography of
Every kind) which is a double entendre including both idolatry and
adultery. They were involved in the worship of Baal at the Baal sanctuaries. (At Church!) (Luk 4:31-36)
Sodom and Gomorrah were famous for their national degeneracy,
manifested by the rise and the tolerance of homosexual activity. Homosexuality
is not a disease; it is a sin! (Lev
18:22-25) It is a vicious evil! It is a
sign of degeneracy! Today we face a similar situation; No nation has ever
survived the tolerance of homosexuality!
Exchanging the Truth
The same
Principle is found in Romans 1. First of all, there is
a rejection of the Truth!
For the wrath of
God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness [Unbelievers] and unrighteousness of
men [Believers
out of fellowship: carnal] who suppress the Truth in unrighteousness, [Living by the sin nature and false thinking] because that which is known about God is evident within
them; for God made it evident to them. For
since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and
Divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been
made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in
their thinking, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they
became fools, (Rom 1:18-22)
Both the unbeliever and the believer are without
excuse!
And exchanged
the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in
the form of corruptible man and of birds and
four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore
God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. (Rom 1:23-24)
Unbelievers and believers exchanged; the Eternal and perfect, for the temporary and corrupted; to
live by the flesh!
Lust generates from the old sin nature with its mental
attitude sins, area of weakness, lust pattern and human moral and immoral
degeneracy. The
lust pattern takes over the emotions; and the emotions revolt against the
dominant lobe, which contains the frame of reference, memory center, norms and
standards and viewpoint. The result is that we actually have emotional revolt
in the soul stated at this particular point: “... to dishonor their own
bodies between themselves.” The dishonoring of the
bodies and the national degeneration did not occur until their conscience, and
the Word of Truth had been rejected!
Thus says the LORD of hosts,
Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are
leading you into futility; They speak a vision of their own imagination,
Not from the mouth of the LORD. They keep saying to those
who despise Me, [By living by the old sin nature; believer and
unbeliever] The LORD has said, You
will have peace; [Blessing] And
as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, They
say, Calamity will not come upon you. (Jer 23:16-17)
For
they exchanged the Truth of God [God's Thoughts] for
a lie, [Satanic and their own thoughts]
and worshiped and served the creature [Served
themselves, their lusts and creation] rather than the Creator,
who is blessed forever. Amen. (Rom 1:25)
What are the
mechanics of this? Negative volition toward Truth puts scar tissue on the
“breathing apertures” of the soul; that opens up a vacuum and false (Satanic) Truth comes in. “Who exchanged the Truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and
served the creature more than the Creator. . .” This is exactly what the “national
council of prophets and priests” did in Jeremiah’s day, and this is exactly
what the National Council of Churches, the people; believers and unbelievers
are doing in this country; and in the whole world right now! Now what happens?
For this cause
God gave them up [This is the beginning of the
fifth cycle of discipline] to degrading passions; for even their women
did change the natural use into that which is against nature: [Lesbianism] And likewise also the men leaving the
natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men
committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of
their error. (Rom
1:26-27)
In other words, homosexuality and lesbianism are definitely
related to national degeneration. The
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah followed the same pattern! (2Pe 2:6-14) Therefore, the Lord warned Judah
through Jeremiah:
These people are destructive of a national entity. God
has set up a Principle: nations will have to fight for freedom (Spiritually and militarily) (Mat 10:34-39) until the Millennium. (Isa 2:4) Only then will the swords be turned
into plowshares, and the spears into pruning hooks, and men will learn war no
more. So, until
the millennial reign of Jesus Christ, peace must be fought for in our soul, country,
home, family; and on the battlefield!
Nations
go into slavery when their military fails,
and nations maintain their peace when their military
succeeds. Strong military establishment is the basis for peace! A nation whose law-abiding citizens are disarmed and whose
military establishment is neutralized is a nation on the way into slavery.
How did the Jews get into Egyptian slavery in the first place? They lived in
Egypt without a military establishment of their own; and when that Pharaoh, who
did not know Joseph, came to power, there was nothing to hinder their
enslavement. The Egyptian army walked unopposed into the strip of Egypt where
the Jews lived, and immediately put the whole nation in slavery!
It will
always be true that no nation can survive the destruction of its military
establishment. A perfect illustration of this is
the conquest of Norway by the Germans in World War II. The Germans needed only
a few battalions to conquer the entire Norwegian army a very excellent army
made up of good personnel; but Quisling and other high ranking traitors
commanded their men to stack arms and surrender. With the military gone, it
took only about 48 hours to conquer Norway; then the Norwegians went into
slavery to the Nazis immediately. The liberals and the
liberal clergy are always the enemy of the military establishment! http://www.ncccusa.org/
But who has stood
in the Council of the LORD, That he should see and hear His Word? Who has given
heed to His Word and listened? (Jer 23:18)
But if they had
stood in My Council, Then they would have
announced My Words to My people, And would
have turned them back from their evil way [Thoughts]And from the evil of their deeds. (Jer 23:22)
In other words, this is saying: What do these people know
about the Scripture? Anyone who understands the
Word of God knows that these men are false!
Behold, the storm
of the LORD has gone forth in wrath, Even a whirling tempest; It will swirl
down on the head of the wicked. [God employs “natural”
disasters to discipline: storms, famine, flood, drought, earthquakes, disease,
animals, prices of things, allowing homosexual marriage, etc.] The anger of the LORD will
not turn back Until He has performed and carried out the purposes of His heart;
In the last days you will clearly understand
it! I did not
send these prophets, But they ran. I did not speak to them, But they
prophesied. But if they had stood in My
council, Then they would have announced My
Words to My people, And would have turned them back from
their evil way [Thoughts] And from the evil of their deeds. (Jer 23:19-22)
Am I a God who is near, declares the LORD,
And not a God far off? Can a man hide himself in hiding
places [Our minds] So I do not see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill the heavens
and the earth? declares the LORD. (Jer 23:23-24)
God
Knows what we think now, and always has Known, and will always Know; now, and
forever; He wants us to use His
Thinking! Not hide in our own!
I have heard
what the prophets said, that prophesy [Preach] lies in My Name,
saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. [I have had
this great vision from the Lord] How long shall this be in the heart of
the prophets that prophesy lies? They are prophets of
the deceit of their own heart; [Demonism and the
old sin nature] which think to cause My people [Believers] to forget My Name by their
dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers have
forgotten My name for Baal. [Satan] (Jer 23:25-27)
Baal worship is a sign of apostasy. What happens when people
become unfaithful? After a period of grace, there will be Divine judgment!
DIVINE JUDGMENT
The prophet who
has a dream may relate his dream, [False teaching will continue]
but let him who has My Word speak My Word in
Truth! (Joh 3:34) What
does straw have in common with grain? declares the LORD.
Is not My word like fire? (1Co 3:12-13) declares
the LORD, and like a hammer which shatters a rock? (Jer 23:28-29)
Therefore behold,
I am against the prophets, declares the LORD, who steal My Words from each other. [Pastors conferences; about what they think] Behold, I am against the prophets, declares the LORD, who use
their tongues and declare, The Lord declares. Behold, I am against those
who have prophesied false dreams, declares the LORD, and
related them and led My people astray by their
falsehoods [Ignorance of Truth] and reckless
boasting; [Arrogance] yet I did not send them or
command them, nor do they furnish this people the
slightest benefit, declares the LORD. (Jer
23:30-32)
They try to claim that they have a message from God, when in
Reality they do not! What is said here about the clergy in the day of
Jeremiah can be said about a large percentage of the fleshly (Carnal) pastors (1Co 3:3-4) in the United States today. Although
some may personally be believers, they represent religion
and “Satan's thinking.” They
are for social action and social reform,
instead of death to the old man and life to a new creation, (2Co 4:16; Gal 6:15;
Col 3:9-10) they are breast-beaters;
they are “bleeding hearts”; and they are leading us to national destruction! The strongest political organization in this country today is
the National Council of Churches; and everyone, from our President on down, is
listening to what its leaders have to say. What they have to say, in effect, is
national destruction!
If we are going
to follow Biblical Principles, we must have a strong military, we must have
free enterprise, our taxation must be cut down to the basis which is declared
by the Word of God. The taxation of industry and the personal income tax we
have today are just as grossly unfair and out of line with the Word of God as
anything could be. Ten percent is as high as a nation can ever go on income tax
and be compatible with the Word of God. Tithing was in the Old Testament and was not Spiritual
giving but a system of income tax.
Everywhere we turn today we find our country falling apart:
the drug problem, our system of education with its subjectivity, the psychological
and social perversions; are all indications that there is very little time left
for us as a free country. We are rapidly on our way to destruction! Therefore,
this passage is not only for Jeremiah’s day, but for us today as well. The fifth cycle of discipline can
descend on us as surely as it did on Judah!
Therefore behold,
I will surely forget you and cast you away from My presence, along with the
city which I gave you and your fathers. I will put an everlasting
reproach on you and an everlasting humiliation which will not be forgotten. (Jer 23:39-40)
There is the
fifth cycle of discipline! And why the fifth cycle? Who started all of this? A moral and immoral degenerate false clergy! Those who
departed from the filling of God the Holy Spirit and Thinking with the Word of
God! (Rom
8:7-8)
PASTORS AND PRESERVATION
Now back to our
passage in: (Jer 12:10) “Many shepherds
[Pastors] have destroyed My vineyard”
Please notice, it takes MANY pastors to destroy, but only one to keep
things going. That is the grace of God! The
pastor in our passage is the prophet Jeremiah; and
if the people —
from King Zedekiah on down had — listened to him, they would have survived. But they were negative to Truth; and in the time of their
national crisis; the Chaldean invasion; the nation went out under the fifth
cycle of discipline.
In the days of
King Hezekiah, there was a similar national crisis — the Assyrian invasion
under Sennacherib. In that day, too, God raised up a prophet, Isaiah one man against many false prophets. And because the
people responded to the Truth he taught, their nation was preserved! The same thing was true in the Northern Kingdom in the
days of Elijah: one
prophet was raised up — one prophet against many prophets; the nation was positive
toward Truth, and national catastrophe was avoided.
Our country at this
particular time is in the greatest jeopardy it has ever known! You are reading this book today under the Principle of
freedom: you are free to read or not to read. You are free to be on the golf
course this morning or to go to work or to stay home. There is still some
measure of privacy in this country. Yet the
things that have made this country great, the things that have made it
prosperous are all disappearing before our eyes and are being replaced by the
very signs of degeneracy which will destroy us from within, and, in turn will
result in destruction from without!
The attack upon our nation, which is so
devastating at this time, began about 1927 or 1928 when the Russian revolution
was beginning to consolidate in its own territory and to think in terms of
world conquest By the late 20’s and the early 30’s, it became quite obvious
that the Third Internationale, resulting in the Russian Revolution, was going
to be a world conquest conspiracy, which has been borne out through the years.
As early as 1931 and 1932, Joseph Stalin began to give lectures in the Lenin
school of political philosophy on how to conquer the U.S. without firing a
shot. Everything that Stalin set up in his six-point
plan has been fulfilled in this country except for the actual mechanics of
conquest. Today every freedom that we have known is under attack: the freedom of taking in the Word of God, the
freedom of owning and possessing firearms, the freedom of conducting one’s
business without government interference, and many other freedoms. That is also
what we find in (Jer 11:1; thru Jer 12:1-17)
CONSPIRACY
A conspiracy
includes three categories: the plot, intrigue and machination. All three were
present in Judah at this time.
The Plot
This is a
carefully devised plan for the overthrow of authority or establishment.
Plotters are usually few in number, brilliant of intellect, a warped satanic
mental attitude, and motivated by power lust. The plot group in the conspiracy
of Judah was made up of the “brains” of a few people in the Egyptian Party.
They were primarily the clergymen and princes in the land, and of course, were
negative to Truth with the inevitable scar tissue and revolt of the soul.
The Jews had a
two-party system, designated by their foreign policies. The Egyptian Party, which advocated alliance with Egypt against Chaldea;
was liberal both in its Theology and in its politics. The people of this
party had all the characteristics of the liberals today: they were “doves” and
pacifists. No nation has ever survived the rise of “the dove” or the
destruction of its military! The other party was the Chaldean Party, and this
was the conservative party. The Egyptian Party was led by the “national council of prophets and priests,”
while the Chaldean Party was under the leadership of
Jeremiah. Both parties were in great opposition to each other.
Intrigue
Intriguers are
usually the dupes of their intellectual superiors; the plotters. They are
involved in a system of underhanded or petty scheming. There are many people in
this category. They are neither Communists nor members of
the Communist Party; they are not even necessarily in favor of Communism; but
they are socialistic and they are liberal in their views.
These people
think that guns should be taken out of the hands of private citizens, that
there ought to be more socialism and more relief systems. Such people are under demonism! They are sincere; but
because of a negative attitude toward Truth and emotional revolt of the soul,
they have no discernment and have become victims. (2Ti
3:13)
Machination
This is a crafty
and torturous process of overthrowing the establishment or doing harm to
authority. Those involved in machination are generally a petty or superficial
peripheral crowd which cause a great deal of trouble. They
usually have a personal ax to grind, and their personal ax is more important
than Truth, more important than patriotism or freedom, and more important than
the Divine institutions. Often you will find people in the “hippie or
new age” crowd who belong to this group. Because of some
personal problem, they have merged themselves into this insanity of society
called “new age,” which is actually a neo-demonism movement!
(Jer 12:10-11) actually includes all three
categories of conspiracy. “They have made
it [The land] desolate.” The word “to
make’’ means “to establish”; and
since this word is in the perfect tense, it indicates that the plot has now
crystallized; the national plot has come into the land!
The application
of this passage to us today is obvious. Unlike Jeremiah, who knew when Judah
would fall, we, as victims of such a satanic
conspiracy, do not know when our country will fall and go into slavery; but just as certainly as you are reading this book, if we
continue our present disaster course, this country will be in slavery very
shortly. We will suffer military defeat; we will know economic depression; and
this country will lose all the freedoms that we have cherished throughout our
very brief, but important history!
DESOLATION
“They have established her “the land” a
desolation.” In the crystallization of the national conspiracy there is
desolation. There are five areas in which this desolation has been established: Spiritual,
military, economic, social, and in the area of the soul.
The Spiritual Area
In the Spiritual area we have the angelic
conflict, the issue of the gospel, and the Concept of relationship with the
Lord. In other words, everything from the Concept of Salvation to all that God
has provided in His plan of grace are included. We have already seen the
desolation in the Spiritual realm — pastors are
destroying the vineyard; they have destroyed the Spiritual heritage.
The Jews came out
of slavery from Egypt in 1441 B.C. They had nearly one thousand years of a
heritage of freedom, blessing and prosperity; based on Divine Laws and Divine
Standards; yet here is a generation which has destroyed its own nation. The
plotters and the pastors “have
established her a desolation.” This is a firmed-up thing; it is already
established. They have done it first of all in the
Spiritual realm through negative volition toward Truth. But there is
also a second realm in which they have done it: the military establishment,
which has been discredited.
The Military Area
The regular army
of Judah had almost disappeared as a functional organization. Once this
happens, there is a Divine law that goes into operation: no nation ever survives the destruction of its military establishment.
The military establishment is just as necessary to freedom as the Bill of
Rights, since it is the military establishment that saves freedom and keeps it
in existence. Without the military establishment
fighting for freedom, there is no freedom. There
is a Principle of Doctrine found in the Scriptures: armies preserve freedom and armies destroy freedom. The
desolation always starts with negative volition toward Truth. This opens the door for the liberal clergy, and false
teachers who always promote anti-Biblical peace movements to extract money from
the sheep! (Jer 6:13-14) These
peace movements inevitably bring about the destruction of the military. First
of all, it is discredited, and then it is finally neutralized as an effective
organization.
We are in the
process today of destroying the only overt thing that God has designed for our
protection. There is no such thing as world peace until
Jesus Christ returns to the earth. Jesus Himself said there would be wars and
rumors of wars until He returns. (Mat
24:4-8) Therefore, God has set up some Divine laws. How does a
nation protect its sovereignty and its freedom? One way: through its military
establishment! Whenever the military is being
discredited, there is a satanic conspiracy to destroy the nation. You will find the Principle throughout the Word of God that
once you have freedom, you must maintain it by fighting for it!
Now, some of you
are saying, “But people get killed!” Yes, that’s true — people do get killed. Fighting is dangerous! But
the objective is to KILL THE ENEMY, not to give
him blood plasma and a pat on the back nor to condone riots in favor of him.
This country has gone insane. We have given comfort to the enemy; we have
preserved the enemy, when we should have wiped him out. The true Concepts are
all but gone in our country; and because they are, our freedom is on the line! Unless a maximum amount of believers reach Spiritual
maturity; we have had it!
There is a third area of desolation.
The Economic Area
The economic
Principle of the Word of God is free enterprise, which is the basis of our
prosperity. The great industrialization that met the challenge of World War II
was an industry based on free enterprise. What is happening to the great
industrial complex of our country today? One will tell you what is happening to
it: industry is going to foreign sources of labor because labor in this country
is out of line with the whole system! Furthermore, the Concept of free
enterprise is being destroyed because the government has its finger in
everything and is slowly choking our system of free enterprise. The government
has no right to interfere with industry. The government’s only right or duty is
to protect industry from encroachment!
There is no
substitute for free enterprise! Where free enterprise is replaced by government
control; that country is in trouble. So again, the conspiracy in Jeremiah’s
day, as well as in our day, results in economic
desolation.
The Social Area
The social
conspiracy is probably the most obvious. MEN are
scarce, for they are being replaced by males with female souls. Now this is
always a sign of degeneracy. Accompanying this, for example, is the “new
age” movement. Much of the new age movement is characterized by anarchy: you
have anti-establishment; you have murder; you have the same type of promiscuity
as in the days of the Baal activity in Judah; you have the rise of the racial
revolution. All of these factors in social life lead to disintegration.
Basically, this
country was designed no matter what your race — to reward ability and hard
work. If you are not willing to sweep out a floor for a living in order to
survive, then starve. (2Th 3:10) There is a Divine law which says that economic depression is
designed to eliminate the weak or lazy. When cycles of depression occur
and people starve to death, as they did in the Northern Kingdom in the days of
Elijah, then the
people become vigorous again. Out of depression is preserved the vigor of the
people.
So we are today
in the great social vacuum: heavy on the drugs; little sense of or respect for
authority; young people shot down by drug addiction and a gypsy life-style, legalized degeneracy: homosexuals openly serving in the
military; homosexual marriage, marriage redefined, etc. This is all a part of
the social disintegration! It also accounts in part for military
failure. It takes great character, courage, training and self-discipline to be
successful in battle! The whole thing goes right down
to the fifth area of desolation, for the Spiritual, military, economic and
social revolts are but the result of the desolation in the soul.
The Soul Area
The soul was
designed to have a relationship with God and with people; but the soul can get
out of kilter. If you are negative toward God, and if you reject the Principles
which God has set up, such as the Divine institutions (Freewill,
marriage, family, and nationalism) or the
Spiritual life, then your soul will fail to
function properly; you will have an emotional revolt in the soul, and
you will put scar tissue on the soul.
Your soul has
emotions which were designed to respond to the dominant or right lobe. The
emotions were meant to be the appreciator of your soul. But, when your emotions start to dominate your thinking, then you have
emotional revolt in the soul. This is where the desolation begins. A person in emotional revolt becomes a liberal so far as his
concepts of the military and the “downtrodden” are concerned. He gets involved
in social action and tries to love everyone. When you start to think like that,
your soul is desolate. When you go negative
toward God and Thinking with the Word of God; when you get involved in
promiscuity, drugs, mental attitude sins, such as hatred, bitterness, jealousy,
lusting, being sensual etc., you will put scar tissue on your soul. Scar tissue
means that your fellowship with God is shut down, and your relationship with
other people is totally out of phase. A vacuum
is created in the soul and false Biblical and non-Biblical thinking, human
viewpoint and false doctrines of demons are all sucked into your soul. This is
desolation of soul! (2Pe 2:20)
“They [The conspirators] have established
her [Judah] a desolation. . .” (Jer 12:11) Judah has
become a pattern of history: no nation survives the loss of its Spiritual
heritage; no nation survives the neutralization of its military establishment;
no nation survives the destruction of free enterprise; no nation survives
social disintegration; and no nation can survive the scar tissue and emotional
revolt of the soul which produce the other four! (Jer 12:17)
The next phrase in
the English, “it mourns before Me,” is
literally, “she [Judah] mourns for Me.” Even though Judah has gone negative
toward Truth and has rejected God’s Principles for the perpetuation of the
national entity, she will periodically mourn for the Lord. Of course, after
Judah suffers the fifth cycle of discipline, she will mourn perpetually.
“The whole land is made desolate”; or a
better translation, “all the land makes
itself a desolation.” The verb in this phrase is reflexive and indicates
that Judah made herself a desolation. Ultimately, every
person is responsible for his own decisions because every person has volition.
[Freewill] When a
person goes negative toward God and Truth, that person has made a decision from
his own free will to do so and therefore has no one but himself to blame when
the discipline comes. If
a country becomes desolate, the reason is that
the individuals of that country have made it desolate!
But
he who sins against Me injures himself; All those who hate Me,
[God and Truth] love
death. (Pro 8:36)
A nation which
has freedom can use its freedom either to maintain the freedom or to destroy
its freedom. God is always on the side which sponsors
freedom; but the very existence of freedom means that you have the free will to
destroy your own freedom. God has set up all the Laws: they include Laws of
economics, Laws of military Concepts, Laws of social life, and Laws pertaining
to the Spiritual life and the soul.
The very freedoms you have at this time are in the gravest
danger! Never before have things been so bad in
this country. The problem started with Spiritual decline and overflowed into
the military; the military decline affects the economy; the economic desolation
overflows to the social area, which in turn affects the soul. (Everything starts and
or finishes with the soul)The only solution to
the problem is God and His Word!
RECOVERY
In order for the
desolation process to be reversed, there must be a change in the soul. This
change in the soul is indicated in the last phrase of: (Jer 12:11)
“Because no man
lays it to heart.” The heart is the
dominant part of the soul, the right lobe and the place where Spiritual
Thoughts are stored. (A new Spiritual brain
must be created ) In the heart are seven
compartments: a frame of reference, memory center, vocabulary storage,
categorical storage, conscience, momentum and wisdom, and the Divine Viewpoint
about everything you Spiritually Know.
Now that we know
where the change must begin, how is it accomplished? Recovery begins with the
Principle of eternal Salvation:
The LORD redeems the soul of His servants,
And none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned. (Psa 34:22)
In Salvation it
is the soul and not the body that is saved. (1Pe
1:9) The SOUL of the person who believes in Jesus Christ is given
eternal life. “But we are not of them who
draw back into destruction, but of them that
BELIEVE to the SAVING OF THE SOUL.” (Heb 10:39)
“Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will
be saved.” (Act 16:31) Believing is non-meritorious Thinking in the heart. Since
the heart is the right lobe, not the blood-pumping organ, there is therefore no
distinction between a “head belief” and a “heart belief. Thinking is done in
the heart, and this is where the recovery begins — in your Thinking!
Once the soul is
saved through faith in Jesus Christ, that soul must have food: “MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON
EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.” (Mat 4:4) Food for the
soul is the Word of Truth. Then the soul must be stabilized through the DAILY
intake of Truth through the grace apparatus for perception. Truth is taught and
is received by the filling of God the Holy Spirit into the left lobe, which is
a storage place for short-term memory — a staging area. The Truth
must then be transferred BY FAITH, (It is not usable unless it is believed) from the left lobe to the human spirit (Which is received at the point of Salvation) and cycled from the human spirit into the heart. (The new Spiritual brain)
The reason for the decline in Judah was the fact that the
people neither took in Truth nor established it in the heart. It is the Bible stored in the heart that delivers people! As long as we have any freedom left, Truth can be taught; as
long as Truth is taught, it can be taken in; and as long as Truth is taken in,
there is hope for our country. The hope resides in any pulpit in this land
where Truth is taught with the filling of God the Holy Spirit; Verse by Verse,
isagogically, categorically and exegetically. (Joh 4:24) We are in the midst of a
national crisis; but we are not without the remedy — THE WORD OF TRUTH!
So Jesus was
saying to those Jews who had believed Him, If
you continue in My Word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will
Know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free. (Joh 8:31-32)
For to us God revealed His Thoughts through
the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all Divine Thoughts, even the depths of
God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of
the man which is in him? Even so the Thoughts of God no one knows except
the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world,
[Demonism] but
the Spirit who is from God, so that we may Know the Thoughts freely given to us
by God, which Thoughts we also speak, not
in words taught by human wisdom, but in those Taught by the Spirit, combining
Spiritual Thoughts with Spiritual Words. But a natural man
[Unbeliever and or carnal believer]
does not accept the Thoughts of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to
him; and he cannot understand them, because they are
Spiritually Understood.
(1Co 2:10-14)
All your sons will be
Taught of the LORD; And the well-being of your sons will be great. In righteousness you
will be established; [Spiritual Maturity] You will be far from
oppression, for you will not fear; And from terror, for it will not come near
you. (Isa 54:13-14)
It is written in the Prophets, AND THEY SHALL ALL BE
TAUGHT OF GOD. Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, [Through the Teaching Ministry of God the Holy Spirit] comes to Me. (Joh 6:45)
A Supernatural Spiritual life demands a
Supernatural Spiritual means to accomplish it!
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