God made Jeremiah a prophet to the nations (Gentiles)…. So that the nations would learn of God’s holiness in His personal dealing with His people Israel and not force God to do the same to all the nations, including & especially Israel & the Church (“My people”) at the close of the age.
““Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, To root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant.” Jeremiah 1:5, 9-10 NKJV
Jeremiah prophesied for his own time, Jesus’ first coming, and the close of the age of the Gentiles – Jesus’ second coming. It was fulfilled in 585 B.C. with the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem & the 1st temple, then again in 70 A.D. with the destruction of Jerusalem & the 2nd temple, and will be fulfilled a final time at the close of the age with the destruction of Jerusalem & the 3rd temple.
The Apostasy of God’s People in Jeremiah’s Time, in Jesus’ Time, and at the Close of the Age
“Has a nation changed its gods, Which are not gods? But *My people* have changed their Glory For what does not profit.” Jeremiah 2:11 NKJV
““For *My people* have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.” Jeremiah 2:13 NKJV
What apostate Israel did to God the Father, and to Jesus the Messiah in those times… apostate Israel & the apostate Church will do again a final time at the close of the age to bring about the wrath of God and the reign of Jesus Christ the Righteous. (The Day of The LORD).
God’s Faithful Remnant
But in every occasion, God always keeps a remnant of faithful prople, then faithful Israel and now faithful remnant Israel & faithful remnant church. All of the rest did and will suffer judgment and then God’s wrath.
““Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries.”
Ezekiel 6:8 NKJV
“Yet behold, there shall be left in it a remnant who will be brought out, both sons and daughters; surely they will come out to you, and you will see their ways and their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, all that I have brought upon it.”
Ezekiel 14:22 NKJV
“Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.” Romans 11:5 NKJV
Apostasy Not Revival
There is not going to be another great revival / repentance of any kind at the close of the age, just like there was not any great revival in Babylon in 585 B.C. or in Rome in 70 A.D. because those who were commissioned & instructed by God as “My people” were apostate.
Only a remnant were faithfully preaching God’s Word and were resisted, persecuted, and murdered by the apostates AND the pagans.
““For My people are foolish, They have not known Me. They are silly children, And they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they have no knowledge.” Jeremiah 4:22 NKJV
“‘Hear this now, O foolish people, Without understanding, Who have eyes and see not, And who have ears and hear not: Do you not fear Me?’ says the Lord. ‘Will you not tremble at My presence, Who have placed the sand as the bound of the sea, By a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it? And though its waves toss to and fro, Yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it. But this people has a defiant and rebellious heart; They have revolted and departed. They do not say in their heart, “Let us now fear the Lord our God, Who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.” Your iniquities have turned these things away, And your sins have withheld good from you. ‘For among My people are found wicked men; They lie in wait as one who sets snares; They set a trap; They catch men. As a cage is full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich. They have grown fat, they are sleek; Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the fatherless; Yet they prosper, And the right of the needy they do not defend. Shall I not punish them for these things?’ says the Lord. ‘Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?’ “An astonishing and horrible thing Has been committed in the land: The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule by their own power; And My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end?” Jeremiah 5:21-31 NKJV
God’s Call to Repentance
“O daughter of my people, Dress in sackcloth And roll about in ashes! Make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; For the plunderer will suddenly come upon us.” Jeremiah 6:26 NKJV
““I have set you as an assayer and a fortress among My people, That you may know and test their way. They are all stubborn rebels, walking as slanderers. They are bronze and iron, They are all corrupters;” Jeremiah 6:27-28 NKJV
“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.”
Revelation 3:19 NKJV
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” II Peter 3:9 NKJV
“Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”” Acts 17:30-31 NKJV
The Watchman’s Duty
““So you, son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me. When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you shall surely die!’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. Nevertheless if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul. Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’” Ezekiel 33:7-9, 11 NKJV
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”” Matthew 3:2 NKJV
“Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,” Acts 3:19 NKJV
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