Jeremiah 13:1-10, 13, 14
Because Israel goes after their imagination and other gods, God
says I will make men collide with one another and I will not pity nor
spare nor have mercy but shall
destroy
the priests and prophets of Israel. Some will say
that God will not have mothers kill their children or have serial
killers to
come in multitudes. Did God kill David's innocent baby (II Samuel
12:15-18).
Yes, because of David's sin of adultery and murder. God will not pity.
God
will have mothers killed
Jeremiah
15:1-14
Because
of Israel's apostasy following other gods and false
doctrine God says I will remove them
to all the kingdoms of the earth
(and when he did it, God
caused millions to die; many were innocent babies in the womb). God
said I
will not have pity on Jerusalem. God said I have brought upon the
mother of
the innocent young the spoiler at noonday. A mother of 7 children shall
die
at the hands of this invading army of Babylonians. The 7 children will
remain
orphans and God will do it because of rebellious sin. He will not pity.
Its
coming America.
God
will maim those who are his leaders who live ungodly.
Jeremiah
21:7-10
God
says because of Israel's rebellion I
will bring the
king of Babylon against Zedekiah and deliver Zedekiah into
Nebuchadnezzer's
hands - God will do it - he will have Zedekiah's sons killed before his
very
eyes then have him blinded and carried away in chains (II Kings 25:7).
Will
God kill or have innocent people killed? You can believe the promise of
his
word that he will kill without pity and without mercy, the nation that
preaches false doctrine and turns away from truth.
God
causes slaughter.
Ezekiel5:5-17
Thus
saith the Lord because Israel hath changed my judgments into
wickedness because they defiled his sanctuary God says I will diminish
thee I
will not spare I will not pity
God says I will accomplish my fury upon
them when I call in the king of Babylon to destroy them in a great
slaughter.
I have arranged it. Yes God will have the Ted Bundys and David
Berkowitzs to
go out and kill mercilessly. He will have mothers kill their children
(Matthew 10:35-37; Luke 12:49-53).
God
will destroy his people because of their idolatry.
Ezekiel
7:4, 9
God
tells Israel because of their rebellion and going after idols
(Baal and the grove) that he will send the sword, famine, pestilence
and
beast. He will not pity
when he sends his anger in the form of these
judgments. He will pour out his fury and accomplish his anger on
Israel. God
will kill people.
God
can be provoked to anger, rage, and fury by his people.
Ezekiel
8:17, 18
Israel
hath filled the land with violence. They have committed
abominations and provoked me to anger. God says I will deal in fury
mine eye
shall not spare I will not pity.
God
will cause slaughter.
Ezekiel
9:5, 10
Six
men come with slaughter weapons in hand to wreck havoc on
Jerusalem. One clothed in Linen and a writer's inkhorn in his hand. God
tells
him to make a mark on those who mourn over the sin of Jerusalem. The
others
go after and kill them do not spare or pity.
Ezekiel
36:21
God
said when I bring Israel back I will have pity only for my
Holy name -- I do not this for you Israel.
Joel
2:18
When
a people are repentant then God will be merciful and have
pity.
Zechariah
11:6
I
will no more pity the
inhabitants of the land.
I
Create Evil
Isaiah
45:7
I
form light
(truth) and create
darkness
(sin) I
make peace and create evil. I the Lord do all these things.
Genesis
2:9
God
made the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the tree of
life, then God made man subject to vanity, but not of his own will
(Romans
8:20).
Evil
- 7451 ra
- bad, evil, evil men opposite of good calamity (Is it a calamity when
international thugs and pirates commandeer an airline and murder
everyone on
board). God causes it and creates it. He said so.
Does
God make men evil and cause evil to enter them? Let's see if
he does.
I
Samuel 16:14-16, 24
Four
times God says, "An
evil spirit from the Lord entered Saul."
I
Samuel 18:10
The
evil spirit from God entered Saul.
God
will cause adultery and sexual immorality.
II
Samuel 12:11
(words
of Nathan to David) I
will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house. I
will take thy
wives and give them to thy neighbor
(II Samuel 16:21, 22 God
caused Absolam to commit adultery
with David's wives in the sight of
Israel (God will do evil. He will cause men to commit adultery)).
Certainly
God will make one person sin over another.
God
tells Israel I will cause you to eat your children. I
will
make you to become cannibals.
God will cause cannibalism.
Deuteronomy
28:49, 53-57 - Lamentations 2:20
Women
shall eat their children when I
put you in the siege.
Ezekiel
5:10
Fathers
shall eat their
sons.
Lamentations
4:10
The
children were the food in the destruction of Israel that God
brought on them.
God
will cause cannibalism. He says I
will cause this!
Jeremiah
19:9
I
will cause them to eat
the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters and the flesh
of
their friend in the siege.
God says I
will cause Israel to involve
themselves in cannibalism.
People
say that God will not cause men to sin and kill the innocent.
God says
I will not only cause my people who have forsaken me to kill their
innocent,
I will cause them to eat
their young and innocent. Is
America killing
their innocent with hypocrisy, crime, drugs, knives (drowning their
innocent), etc.? The worst is coming (II Kings 6:24-32).
The
wicked shall be turned
into hell and all nations that forget God.
Psalms
9:17
Has
America forgotten God? There is no way to measure the cruelty
God is bringing on America. Will God cause David Berkowitz to kill
mercilessly without pity and a mother to drown her five children
mercilessly
in a bathtub in Texas? This is only the beginning for this Godless
nation.
God
will cause cannibalism.
II
Kings 6:33
Behold
this evil is of the Lord (this evil of cannibalism in the
previous verses).
God
will cause the killing of children. God kills children.
I
Kings 17:20
Elijah
says that God brought evil
upon the widow by
killing her son. Elijah says God
kills children!
I
Kings 21:21
Elijah
the prophet of God speaks for God, "Behold I
will bring evil upon thee"
concerning Ahab's wickedness. Then he prophecies the death of all of
Ahab's
"innocent" sons.
I
Kings 21:29
Because
Ahab humbled himself God said I will not bring the
evil in his days but I will
bring the evil in his son's days.
God
will make men "lie"
I
Kings 22:23
Behold
the Lord hath put a
lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets
II
Kings 21:12
Thus
saith the Lord I
am bringing such evil on Jerusalem
whosoever heareth of it both his ears
shall tingle I will wipe
Jerusalem clean as a man wipeth
a dish wiping
it and turning it upside down.
When God does it
as he said he would at the hands of his servant Nebuchadnezzer,
millions will
die in the process. God will use a pagan king with swords, bows and
arrows,
knives, spears etc. What is the difference whether God sends a pagan
king or a
bunch of serial killers with .357 magnums in their hands? They're all
killers
and murderers that God is using to perform his will and judgments.
God's
dishrag was Nebuchadnezzer which he used to wipe Jerusalem clean.
II
Kings 22:16, 20
Thus
saith the Lord I
will bring evil upon this place
- God tells
Josiah, you will not see all the
evil that I will bring: I
will
bring this evil after you are
gone.
God
kills innocent men.
II
Samuel 24:16When God gave David a choice of the evil that he
would bring on David because he had numbered Israel (seven years of
famine,
flee three months before your enemies, three days pestilence) David
chose
three days pestilence. God
killed 70.000 "innocent" men who
had done nothing to deserve to die. When
the angel stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it the
Lord
turned from the evil he was doing
and said "It is enough."
God says this is the price David owes me for his sin of merely
numbering the
people and taking credit with his great army of 1,800,000. God is
saying
"It’s
not your numbers that did it David. It was my power."
70,000 dead is punishment. It is the price I require for your pride.
God
sends disease by pestilence and plague to kill because of
rebellious pride.
I
Chronicles 21:15
This
is the 1st Chronicles version on II Samuel 24 where God
sends pestilence on Israel because David numbered Israel. The Bible
says God
sent pestilence. People say God
won't make people sick. In this same text
the Bible says after God killed 70,000 innocent Israelites, God turned
(repented)
from the evil that he was doing. God does evil.
II
Chronicles 7:19-22
God
warns Solomon that if he turns away from God's statutes to
serve other gods that the Lord
God will bring evil upon Israel
by
causing the ruling empires of Assyria and Babylon to come into Israel
and
slaughter them. God does evil.
God
causes men to lie - lying is sin.
II
Chronicles 18:22
The
Lord put a lying
spirit into these thy prophets
- God causes lies.
God does evil.
II
Chronicles 34:24, 28
Thus
saith the Lord,
Behold I will bring evil upon this place - even all the curses that are
written in the book
because Israel hath forsaken me. God
says, "I will bring evil upon Judah and Jerusalem and destroy them
because they went after other gods. God does evil.
Nehemiah
13:17, 18
Nehemiah
contends with the nobles of Judah. Because Israel (in
the Kings) had rebelled against God, God had scattered them putting
them in
captivity in Babylon. Nehemiah rebuilds Jerusalem 70 years later and
the
people come to the gates of Jerusalem in preparation to defile the
Sabbath
and rebel against God once again. Nehemiah speaks to them. "Did not your fathers
thus and did not our God
bring all this evil upon us and upon this city."
Nehemiah's
reference to the evil that God did is talking about
the sacking and burning of Jerusalem 70 years before, along with raping
and
pillaging. Nehemiah said, "God did that." God did that evil of
destroying his people by the hands of evil men.
Job
1:21, 22
After
all Job's substance was destroyed, his servants killed, his
seven sons and three daughters killed, Job
gave God credit for all this
evil when he said "The
Lord taketh away.
Blessed
be the name of the Lord."
The word name is the word shem
meaning character or authority. Job said blessed be God's authority
that destroyed
me. Then the Bible in verse 22 verifies Job's words: "In all this Job sinned
not nor charged God
foolishly."
The Bible says when Job talks about me in
this case he tells the truth about me. God says here "I killed Job's
children and destroyed all his substance."
Job
2:9, 10
After
God has Satan smite Job, Job's wife says to Job, "Curse God and die."
She did
not say curse Satan and die. She knew this judgment was from God. Job
replies
to her, "What? Shall
we
receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil?"
Job says evil comes from God.
The last sentence in verse 10 verifies
these words of Job about God bringing evil: "In all this did not Job
sin with his lips."
God is saying here, "Job tells the truth about me, I
bring evil."
Job
30:26
Job
speaks concerning his predicament "When I looked for good,
then evil came unto me:
and when I waited for light, there come darkness."
Theprecedent for this verse is set in Job 1:22 and Job 2:10 and that
is, this
evil in 30:26 comes from God.
Job
42:11
The
Bible speaks; "Job's brothers, sisters and acquaintances
comfort Job over all the evil
that the Lord had brought upon him.
Isaiah
45:7
I
form light, and create
darkness: I make peace,
and create evil:
I the LORD do all
these things.
God
says light, darkness, evil and peace are a direct result of
his divine power. When we do evil it is sin - when
God creates evil it is
righteous. When Smith &
Wesson manufactures a gun they are not
murderers. When a man with murder in his heart with a desire for a gun,
purchases one and kills, he is a murderer. The difference is that when
God
creates evil the very nature of man (that God created) cannot keep from
performing it. When God says he does all things in this verse, this is
corroborated in Ephesians 1:11, I Thessalonians 5:18, Romans 8:28
Ecclesiastes 3:14 and much more. God calls the righteous to cease from
evil
but the vessel of wrath he causes to do the necessary evil for the good
of
the saints: Psalms 17:13, 14; Psalms 76:10 - The wrath
(poison, rage) of man shall praise
thee; the remainder (residue)
of wrath shalt thou restrain.
David says here that man's
poison, rage, anger, and wrath shall praise God and the part that will
not
praise God, God keeps man from performing it.
Jeremiah
1:14
Jeremiah
is the last major prophet in Israel - God repeatedly
tells all the prophets and kings of Israel that God will scatter Israel
by
the Beast (Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome - Daniel 7, Hosea 13,
Revelation
13:2) which is like a lion, bear, and leopard. This prophecy is
emphasized in
Deuteronomy 28 when God gives Israel the covenant and continues all
through
the prophets and history of Israel.
Deuteronomy
28:15-25: God says, "If you do not hearken to
the voice of the Lord thy
God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes these
curses
will God bring upon you - The
Lord shall cause thee to be smitten
(burned, pillaged, raped,
murdered, women ripped up. babies slaughtered) --
thou shalt be removed
(carried captive) into all the
kingdoms of the earth.
This is the prophecy of the
deportation and slaughter of Israel in 722 B.C. because of Baal and
grove
worship. It is also the prophecy of the removal of southern Judah
(southern
Israel) in 586 B.C. by Nebuchadnezzer king of Babylon. God caused them
(Babylon)
to come and slaughter and butcher Israel because of their apostasy. On
the
part of Babylon this murder, rape and pillaging is sin that God orders
them
to do. Jeremiah the last great prophet before Israel's captivity in
Babylon
is crying in the streets of Jerusalem, "Nebuchadnezzer is coming to
bring judgment, God is bringing him". This verse in Jeremiah 1:14, 15
says, "Then the Lord said unto
me, Out of the north an evil
shall break forth upon all the
inhabitants of the land of Judah
(all the Assyrian armies and
Babylonians attacked from the north - east of Israel was hundreds of
thousands of square miles of desert - west of Israel is the
Mediterranean).
In verse 15 of Jeremiah 1, God
says he is the one bringing this evil
(Babylonian armies) - "For, lo,
I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the North
(Babylon), saith the LORD; and
they shall come, and they shall
set every one his throne at the entering
of the gates of Jerusalem —
against the walls and against the cities of
Judah."
Verse 16 - (By this Babylonian
multitude) "I will utter my
judgments against Israel concerning all their wickedness, who have
forsaken
me, and burned incense to other gods, and worshipped
the works of their
own hands.
God is saying
through the voice of
Jeremiah I will bring rape,
murder, pillaging, pregnant mothers ripped up.
innocent babies killed by having these dirty, sweaty. Babylonian
soldiers to
pillage, rape and slaughter the Israelites.
God is arranging in the minds
of these Babylonian pagans to commit the most horrendous sins against
Israel
(God creates sin!). All of Jeremiah's words in the following verse in
the
book of Jeremiah are about God's judgments: the sword, the famine, the
pestilence, the beast (Babylon and Assyria). God
says I will bring and do
this evil.
Jeremiah
2:3
(refer
back to Jeremiah 1:14) evil
shall come upon Israel,
saith the Lord(the precedent already set) - God says I am the one who
brings
this evil. I do evil!
Jeremiah
4:6 (refer back to Jeremiah 1:14)
God
speaking, "I
will bring evil
from the north and a great destruction."
God
says I will do this evil on Judah and Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
6:1
God
warns the tribe of Benjamin in southern Judah "Flee from the midst of
Jerusalem for evil
appeareth out of the North, and great destruction."
Verse
6 - God speaks what he is doing
- "Thus hath the Lord said
(to the
king of Babylon), Hew ye down trees,
and cast a mount
(to pile up dirt and make a road up the
walls) against Jerusalem
- God is instructing Nebuchadnezzer to do this evil to Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
6:19
God
speaks, "Hear,
O earth, I will
bring evil upon this people
(of
Judah)."God says I do evil to Israel; they are rebellious people.
Jeremiah
11:11
Thus
saith the Lord, I
will bring evil upon them, which
they shall not be able to escape.
God says I do evil.
Jeremiah
11:22, 23
Thus
saith the Lord, I
will punish them
(Judah and Jerusalem): the young men shall die
by the sword; their sons
and their daughters shall die by famine: —
I will bring evil
upon the men of
Anathoth
(another name for Israelites). God says again I do
this evil to Israel.
Jeremiah
16:10
The
people of Israel shall cry out, "Wherefore hath the
Lord pronounced all this
evil against us? or what is our
iniquity? or what is our sin that we have
committed against the Lord our God?"
The people are
acting innocent and playing dumb as though they don't know. They do
recognize
that this evil is from God. God does evil! See following verses.
Jeremiah
18:8
If
a nation repent
(which they won't because God has their hearts fixed so he can call
the Gentiles to him as prophesied by Isaiah who lived before Jeremiah -
He
will begin to call "all flesh" in Acts 2), I will turn from the
evil that I thought to do unto them.
Jeremiah
18:10
God
says if a nation
obey not my voice I will turn
away from the good where I said
I would
benefit them.
Good and evil come from God
Jeremiah
18:11
God
tells Jeremiah to go to Jerusalem and say "Thus saith the Lord. I
frame
(mould, potter, determine) evil
against you, and
devise a device against you
—
God says the evil against Jerusalem
is something I determine like a potter molding a dish.
Jeremiah
19:3
Thus
saith the Lord;
Behold, I will bring evil
upon this place, the which whosoever
heareth, his ears shall tingle
(reference II
Kings 21:12, 13 - I am bringing
evil upon
Jerusalem and Judah that whosoever heareth of it,
both his ears shall
tingle).
God
does devastating barbarous evil
to his people when he punishes them with
evil men.
Jeremiah
21:10
God
speaking: "For I
have set my face against this city for evil
(speaking of
Jerusalem) and not for good and it
shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon
(whose armies shall rape, pillage, murder and kill women and babies --
and it
will be the will of God).
Jeremiah
23:11, 12
Both
prophet and priest
(of Jerusalem) are
profane; yea, in my house
(the temple) have I found their
wickedness, saith the Lord —
for I will bring evil upon them
saith
the Lord.
Jeremiah
23:17
Jeremiah
warns against the false
teachers who say "Ye shall have peace."
These false
prophets will walk after the
imaginations of their own hearts and say.
"No evil shall come upon
you."
They will say, "God will not send evil on any one." Nebuchadnezzer
is not coming. The slaughter of women being ripped up with child and
babies'
brains being dashed out against the walls and streets of Jerusalem is
not
going to happen. False teachers will say God doesn't do those kinds of
things. This is evil false teaching to say that God will not create and
do
evil against his people to punish them (read the following verses). God
says I
will bring evil!
Jeremiah
24:3-5
God
says to Jeremiah, "What do you see?" Jeremiah says,
"I see the very good figs and the very evil figs; they are so
evil." God says to Jeremiah "Like
these good figs, I will acknowledge them that submit to the king of
Babylon
and they are carried away captive - I
send Israel out of this place
into the land of the Chaldeans
(Babylonians) for their good.
All this death
and destruction will be for the good of the believers (Romans 8:28 all things work together
for good to them that
love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose).
Jeremiah
25:29
For,
lo, I begin to
bring evil on the city which is
called by my name, and should ye be
utterly unpunished?
God
is saying here that the evil
that I bring will be
punishment for Jerusalem because they have not kept my statutes and
law. They
have gone after other gods (Baal, the grove, Molech, Chemosh, etc.).
God says
I do evil
for my reasons.
Jeremiah
26:3
God
tells Jeremiah to
stand in the court of the Lord's house. Tell everyone that comes from
the
cities of Judah all the words that I command and do not diminish the
words in
any fashion. Here is what you shall say, "If
you hearken and turn
from your evil, I will turn
(repent) from the evil which I
purpose to
do unto you because of the evil of your
doings."
God says when I cause the Babylonians
to slaughter you and kill your pregnant women and innocent babies,
pillaging
and burning carrying you naked into captivity in shame it will be
because of
your rebellion.
Jeremiah
26:13
Amend
your ways and doings
and the Lord will turn from
the evil that he hath pronounced
you.
God has already pronounced this evil that he will do.
Jeremiah
26:19
Micah
pronounces the judgment of God on Zion and Jerusalem. They
will be plowed like a hill and become heaps. Yet Hezekiah did not put
him to
death. He feared the Lord and sought the Lord and God
turned from the evil
which he had pronounced against them. Then Jeremiah says referring back
to
Hezekiah's humility, "Thus
might we procure great evil against our souls."
He was
saying we will cause great evil to come from God if we do not fear and
seek
him. God brings evil men against Ms children as swords to cut them down
and
cause them to repent. Then he destroys the sword. God does evil.
Jeremiah
32:23
Jeremiah
says that God gave Israel this land flowing with milk
and honey. He says they came into
the land, possessed it and they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in
thy
law; they have done nothing that thou commanded them to do: therefore
thou
hast caused all this evil to come upon them.
Jeremiah is
saying mat God gave Israel the land when they come out of Egypt. This
came
about during the book of Judges. They went after Baal and the grove in
the 2—
chapter and
continued for 300 years under Judges. Then from their first king Saul
to
their last king Zedekiah they continually went after the Sun
(Baal) and
the moon goddess (grove - Venus) and lived in complete disobedience to
God.
Jeremiah says because of this rebellion God caused all this evil to
come upon
Judah.
Jeremiah
32:32
God
tells Jeremiah because
of all the evil of Israel they have provoked me to anger
-
when God released his anger, rage and fury, he destroyed Israel. He did
evil
to them.
Jeremiah
32:42
For
thus saith the LORD;
Like as I have brought all
this great evil on this people,
so will I
bring upon them all the good
that I have promised them.
God says I bring evil at disobedience and good for obedience.
God says I do good and evil.
Jeremiah
35:17
Thus
saith the Lord the
God of Israel; Behold.
I will bring
upon Judah and upon all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem all
the evil that I have pronounced
against
them
(the great slaughter and destruction of
Jerusalem): because I have spoken
unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but
they
have not answered.
God says I will bring evil
for
rebellion.
Jeremiah
36:3
It
may be that the house
of Judah will hear all the evil
which I purpose to do unto them.
Purpose is a Hebrew word (chashab)
that means plait,
weave or fabricate. God says I will fabricate evil against Israel for
their
wickedness.
Jeremiah
36:30, 31
Thus
saith the Lord of
Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of
David:
and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the
night
to the frost
(his body shall be desecrated in
shame) - and I will punish him
and his seed and
his servants for heir iniquity;
and I will bring upon them,
and
upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all
the evil
that I have pronounced against
them.
God
says in verse 29 because Jehoiakim burned the 1st book
(scroll) of Jeremiah which said the king of Babylon would come and
destroy
this land - because of this disdain in casting off God's instructions. God
will bring all this evil on Jehoiakim.
Jeremiah
39:16
Thus
saith the Lord of
hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will bring my words upon this city for
evil, and not for good; and they
shall be accomplished in that
day
before thee.
While
Jeremiah was shut up in prison because of his words he says
these words to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian. Then he says that God will
deliver
Ebedmelech. God does evil!
Jeremiah
40:2
Nebuzaraden,
captain of Nebuchadnezzer's said to Jeremiah, "The Lord thy God hath
pronounced this evil upon this place
(Jerusalem).
Jeremiah
42:10
Jeremiah
called the princes of Israel and Judah and all the
people unto him saying, "If ye
will not abide in the land, then will I build you and not pull you
down, and
I will plant you and not pluck you up for I will repent (turn) of the
evil
that I have done unto you."
Jeremiah
42:17
God
says that everyone who tries to escape going into Babylon
(where he insists they shall go) by fleeing to Egypt, they shall die by the
sword, famine and
pestilence, that none shall escape from the
evil that I will bring upon
them.
Jeremiah
44:2, 3
Thus
saith the Lord of
hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all
the evil that I have brought
upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day
they
are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein -Because of their
wickedness
(going after Baal and the grove ignoring God's laws) which they have
committed to provoke me to anger,
when they went to serve other gods --
God said I brought
this evil and destruction on Judah.
Jeremiah
44:11
Thus
saith the Lord the
God of Israel; Behold, I will
set my face against you for evil,
and to
cut off all Judah.
The next verse 12 tells
us: "I will take the remnant
of
Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt, and they
shall
all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be
consumed
by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least to the
greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an
execration
(curse), an astonishment, and a
curse, and a reproach."
God says I am the one who
will set his face to do all this evil.
Jeremiah
44:23
God
says because of all your evil and rebellion against me
therefore all this evil has happened to you (your destruction by
Babylon
including the killing of unborn babies and slaughter of women etc.).
God
says, "and I have done it."
Jeremiah
44:27
Behold,
I will watch
over them
(Israel) for evil, and not for good: and
all the men of Judah that
are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the
famine,
until there be an end of them
- God had Jeremiah repeatedly
warn Judah that if they fled to Egypt for refuge during this siege of
Judah
that God would have them chased down and killed or they would die by
famine.
If they went peacefully to Babylon where God has ordered that they
shall live
for 70 years and build houses and plant vineyards, then he would save
them
alive. God says when you try to run away from my judgments men I
will
watch over you to do evil unto you.
This is a message to his people
Israel, the church.
Jeremiah
44:29
And
this shall be a sign
unto you, saith the Lord, that I
will punish you in this place,
that
ye may know that my words
shall surely stand against you for evil:
Jeremiah
45:5
Behold
I will bring
evil upon all flesh
(in Israel)
Jeremiah
49:37
I
will bring evil upon
them
(Elam - descendents of Shem), even my fierce anger,
saith the Lord: and I will
send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.
In
chapter 51 Jeremiah speaks of all the evil that God is going
to bring upon Babylon because they destroyed Israel and God caused them
to
perform this evil. We don't reason this out. God says it and we believe
it.
Jeremiah
51:24, 25
I
will render unto Babylon
and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all
their evil that they have done in Zion
(that I caused them to do) in your sight, saith the
Lord - I am against thee, O destroying
mountain, that destroyest all the earth: and I
will stretch out mine
hand upon thee, and make thee
a burnt mountain
(a
burned capital city (Revelation 18)).
Jeremiah
51:60
So
Jeremiah wrote in a
book all the evil that should come upon Babylon (that
God said he would do), even all these words
that are written against Babylon.
Jeremiah
51:64
(God
says that he will cast Babylon into the Euphrates) And thou shalt say
Jeremiah, "Thus shall
Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the
evil that I will bring upon her."
Lamentations
3:37, 38, 39
Who
is he that saith, and it
cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? Out of the mouth of
the most
High proceedeth not evil and good? God says here when evil and good is
commanded it comes from the mouth of God.
Wherefore
doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of
his sins? Jeremiah is saying, "Why is a man complaining about all the
evil that God is bringing upon him? It is punishment for his sins."
Lamentations
2:17
After
Judah is destroyed and carried away into captivity, they
are in Babylon captive. They were carried away naked and in chains
after a
slaughter that God had arranged leaving a million or more (according to
some
historians) dead in the fields and in the streets.
Jeremiah is
lamenting and weeping because of this sad situation in which his people
are
found. He speaks in verse 17, "The
Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word
that he
had commanded in the days of old: he
hath thrown down, and hath
not
pitied: and he
(God) hath caused thine enemy
(Babylon) to rejoice over thee, he
hath set up the horn
(figurative word for power) of thine
adversaries
(God caused the power of their enemies to
overthrow and destroy them).
Ezekiel
5:5-17
God
speaks of Jerusalem's rebellion and idolatry: I have set her in the
midst of the nations and
countries that are round about her
(speaking of her captivity
- 586 B.C.). They have refused to
walk in my judgments and my statutes
(verse 6). Because
you've done all this idolatry and rebellion (verse7) I am against thee, and
will execute judgments in
your midst in the sight of all nations
(so all can see how I
take vengeance on those, my people, who rebel). Verse 8 - I will do in thee that
which I have not done
(destroying you). Verse 9 - I
will make the fathers eat the sons and the sons eat their fathers
(cannibalism - verse 10) - neither
will I pity.
Verse 11 - I will scatter a third
part to the winds, and I will draw a sword
after them.
Verse 12 - Mine
anger shall be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon
them. I
the Lord hath spoken
(arranged) it, when I
have accomplished my fury
in them
(verse 13) -- I will
make thee waste
(desolation, desolate) and a reproach
(verse 14). I the LORD have spoken (arranged)
it -
verse 15. When I
(the Lord) shall send upon them the
evil arrows of famine, which
shall be for their destruction, and which
I will send to destroy you:
and I will
increase the famine upon you
(verse 16). So will
I send upon you famine and evil
beasts, pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; I
will bring the
sword upon thee. I the LORD have
spoken
(arranged) it (verse
17). Does this sound
like God will do evil?
Ezekiel
6:10-11
They
shall know that I am
the Lord, and that I have not said in vain that I
would do this evil unto
them. For they shall fall by the
sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence.
God says, "All this evil I will
bring upon Judah."
Ezekiel
7:5, 8
Thus
saith the Lord God;
An evil, an only evil, behold, is come
(on Judah).
God has already set the precedent. He has done all this evil. I shortly pour out my
fury upon thee.
Ezekiel
14:21, 22
God
says I
will
send my four sore judgments upon
Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine,
the noisome
(evil) beast
(Babylon,
Persia, Greece, Rome) and the pestilence, to
kill off
(cut off) man and beast. Ye shall
be
comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem.
Does this sound like God
will send evil in the form of
starvation,
disease and conquering armies?
Daniel
9:12
Daniel
says concerning Judah's (southern Israel) captivity,
"God is bringing on us a
great evil."
Daniel
9:13, 14
As
it is written in the
law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us. Therefore hath the
Lord
watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us:
in all his works that he
doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
Evil
comes from God upon his people.
He brings it because of disobedience
(Ephesians 2:2).
Joel
2:13
God
says when his people repent of their wickedness then he will
turn from the evil he has been doing to them.
Amos
3:6
Shall
there be evil in a
city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Amos
9:4
God
says concerning Israel, "I will set mine eyes
upon them for evil and not for good."
Jonah
3:10
God
repented (turned) of the evil that he had planned to
do to Nineveh,
when they repented. God uses evil
men to execute judgment on his people. Only if they repent does God
turn from
executing the evil.
Micah
1:12
Evil
came
down from the Lord.
Micah
2:3
Thus
saith the Lord
against this family do I devise
an evil.
Zephaniah
1:12
God
says, "I
will punish the men
of Jerusalem who say the Lord
will not do good, neither will
he do
evil."
God says he will be
against and punish men
who will not attribute evil to him.
Say that God will not do evil when
you rebelliously reject truth, then evil will come upon you.
Job
God
is cruel to Job - Job 30:21
God
has afflicted Job - Job 31: 10, 11
God
is sovereign over all - Job 26:1-14
God
broke Job asunder. He shook him to pieces, killing his
children and destroying his substance - Job 16:12-16
God
hath overthrown me and
compassed me with his net
- Job 19:6-13
David
God
chooses our way - Psalm 25:12
The
word of the Lord is
right. All his works,
good and evil, are in truth
-Psalm 33:4
God
knows all his works from the beginning - Acts 15:14-18
Man
has no free will to plan evil - Psalm 33:10, 11, 12
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