The Book of Jeremiah

1970–1971 Series 540

Jeremiah 1:1–9                              1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0001)

Diverê comes from the verb dâbar, which usually deals with the content of a message. The message comes before the messenger. Daniel and Ezekiel were great students of Jeremiah. There was a Hebrew scholar that Bob asked if it had been taught. Jeremiah is colorful repetitious, and he does not seem to have the dignity of the prophetic office going for him. Isaiah is very high-fallutin, but Jeremiah is at a level that you can enjoy. Jeremiah faced about 90% hostile audiences most of the time. He was a phenomenal person. It might take a half a day just on one verse. Bob made a test-run previously with the fickle filly in heat, where he did not reveal all that is in there.

The first sermon starts in Jer. 2.

Jirmejah is his actually name.

Jer.  1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who resided in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,

We get the time frame in the next two verses.

Jer.  1:2 to whom the Word of Jehovah came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 626 b.c.

Jer.  1:3 It also came in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month. 586 b.c.

The call of Jeremiah the prophet. He had an experience which got him into the prophet business. Diverê, which refers to the message. Jeremiah was called into the ministry. There was a place where Sconey and Bob used to go, and some gal stood up and said she had been praying for her son to be another Moody. There is only one of each person. There is one call for any person, and that is in the Doctrine of Divine Decrees, which took place billions of years ago. That God decided to give Thieme the gift of pastor-teacher, to show He had a sense of humor. No one deserved or earned the right to be a communicator of the Word of God. It is something which no one can attain. There is no system of merit badges or gradual improvement.

God by His character, grace and sense of humor, taps certain men to be pastor-teachers, and does so in eternity past. Recognize it and prepare. It is a battle. Rare for a person to want to go into the ministry. Where can you get so much suffering, heartache and trouble. Some people pray for it, to grow up, which involves suffering, heartache, disaster. No one earns or deserves it. Many of Bob’s friends still can’t believe it, “Tell me again, are you really a minister?” It is just one of those things, when God taps you on the shoulder, and you’ve had it. You think you will outrun God, and He will simply fetch a whale for you.

No casting director would choose Bob as a member of the clergy.

Jer.  1:4 Then the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,

V. 5 tells us that this is eternity past. Jeremiah, when you were not yet, I called you. An embryo is not human, “Before you were an embryo and before you were not yet, I called you” is what God said to him, meaning that Jeremiah did not earn or deserve this.

Before Jeremiah came out of the womb, God consecrated him. There is no place that says, “You are talented, scintillating, and impressive, so you will be a pastor-teacher.” The 3^rd stage of consecration. By the time Jeremiah was born, he had been in the plan of God for millions of years .

Jer.  1:5 I knew you before I formed you in the belly; and before you came out of the womb, I consecrated you. I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

He was a prophet to the Chaldeans and to the Egyptians as well. God told Jeremiah that He consecrated Jeremiah when he was a nothing. Before he was a fetus, God chose him as a prophet.

Jeremiah says, “I am too young and inexperienced.” 1Kings 3:7, this word was used to mean young and inexperienced; it refers often to a young man at the age of 20. Experience is not an issue under grace. The practical experience class at Dallas Theological Seminary is a waste. So Jeremiah says the same thing that Moses says. Moses was a great musician, a great general, and great builder, and a great speaker; a genius in many fields. When he came to the burning bush, Moses said, “I’m not a public speaker.” God got his brother to speak instead, and Moses got fidgety, and finally shoved Aaron aside and began doing all the talking.

Jer.  1:6 Then I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! Listen, I do not know how to speak [with intensity] for I am a boy [young and inexperienced].

The Lord said, “Shut up about being young and inexperienced.” If I send you to someone, you will have a message. Shalach in the Qal means to send; but in the Piel, this is intensified.

Jeremiah would have to get a girdle, wear it, and then bury it. He always did these unusual things in preparation. Jeremiah would have to get a big yoke and then start teaching from in this yoke. All Jeremiah had to do was to obey. He did not have to question the order. Wellington had a number of assets; when Napoleon came on the field, and they marched around for 3 hours. Wellington would go up and down the lines. He told them not to cheer him. God told Jeremiah that you just have to keep on obeying those commands, and that is how things are going to be. Jeremiah showed great obedience to the Word of God.

In order to give orders, you need to know how to take orders. Custer died without about 5 troops at the Little Big Horn because he could not take orders. He was given orders and he disobeyed them. Everyone should go through beast barracks, except for women. The principle is, you need to be able to take orders before you give them.

Jer.  1:7 But Jehovah said to me, Do not say, I am a boy; for you shall go to all that I shall send you. And whatever I command you, you shall speak.

It is normal to be a bit frightened in front of an audience; but it is much tougher to stand in front of a hostile audience. The governor walked out from a hostile group at U of H. He had the dignity of office and he knows a lot more about what is going on in Texas than some idiot student who is harassing or booing. Bob, when he started spirituality at Berachah, faced a hostile audience. People want to feel sorry; they want to get their emotions involved. Bob knows what the truth is and he is going to lay it on the line.

God provides for one man to stand up with the truth; the truth of doctrine and one man is a majority. Jeremiah is told not to every be afraid of an audience. The fear of the crowds; the fear of the audience. No matter what, don’t be afraid of an audience, when teaching the Word of God. Jeremiah was one of the most fearless preachers who ever lived. He faced maximum hostile audiences all the time. Let’s see Jer. 20:7: Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me. Everyone is deriding me every day. But Jeremiah admits that God is right. “You have really persuaded me on this one.”

Jeremiah is caused to be snatched from mobs when they would kill him. Jer. 9:2–6: Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. They bend their tongue, as it were their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh. Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity. Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.

Jer.  1:8 Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you, says Jehovah.

There is an act of consecration, God touching his mouth. Qal perfect of I have given, means that this was done in eternity past.

Everything which Bob teaches, he believes.

Jer.  1:9 Then Jehovah put out His hand and touched [caused to effect] my mouth. And Jehovah said to me, Behold, I have given My Words in your mouth.

Jeremiah 1:10–19                 1970 Jeremiah                              (540-0002)

This is a holiday special beginning a bit before Thanksgiving; no testimonies or singing for this coming Thanksgiving. There will be 8 lessons on Jeremiah, starting at 10:30 tomorrow morning. So that is probably Wednesday or Thursday. 8 messages to launch us into the book of Jeremiah.

Qal active participle of to see; and here, it means, you study this, you meditate on this. Paqad means to be commissioned, to be in charge. There are 5 successive rulers beginning with Josiah and ending with Zedekiah.

The negative is presented first, which breaks down the human viewpoint concepts. Nathash means to pluck out, to pull out by the roots; to expel. This is Jeremiah’s ministry related to the 5^th cycle of discipline. He will give a lot of information as to how this nation will be rooted up and destroyed.

Natal means to break down, to destroy and is usually associated with tearing down buildings. Jeremiah had a lot to say about how the Temple would be destroyed. Jeremiah’s ministry against organized religion. He had a ministry against religion. Jer. 11–13 in particular.

Avab means to be destroed, to be cut off. Jeremiah in Jer. 46 told Egypt how they would be destroyed and Philistia in Jer. 47 and Ammon and Edom and another in that same area. Damascus was a great city and it would be destroyed. Arabia would be destroyed , many of these in Jer. 49. Elam, a mountain country, also destroyed and prophecised in Jer. 49. Some others in Jer. 50. Jeremiah is the only prophet to talk about the destruction of 9 gentile nations and he knows what is involved with a nation falling apart.

People see things which are bad, which they are at this time. Jeremiah is sweet and nice, but he will talk about the destruction of all the nations around him. He was quite the ladies man. He was told in Jer. 16 that he would not get married. Jeremiah was a lot of fun, but he had to rip people up. He needs a good sense of humor and some sarcasm. A lot of sarcasm in Jeremiah.

Qal infinitive of haras, which means to lacerate, to leave them bruised and in tact. Like Bobby came out of that last football game.

There is the word to build, first found in Genesis when God built the woman. Natah is used in several concepts. During the 70 year Chaldean captivity, Jeremiah was the most studied book in the Old Testament. Daniel and Ezra both influenced by Jeremiah. All great leaders influenced by Jeremiah. Ezekiel influenced by Daniel, who was influenced by Jeremiah.

Jer.  1:10 Listen, I have today appointed you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to tear down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

First illustration of Jeremiah’s ministry: the almond tree. Jeremiah is asked, “What do you see?” The Qal active participle is linear action sarte. The theology of the almond tree. “I study the sprout of an almond tree.” Jeremiah is studying the sprout of an almond tree.

The sprout of an almond tree indicates alertness and vigilance. Here is where the almond tree gets its name; it is the alert tree. It is the tree which gets there first, the tree which blossoms first. It is an alert tree. Jeremiah is an alert sentinel to warn the people what is coming. These people are destroying themselves.

No nation can survive drug addiction. There are a lot of weird murders in California, and it is drug addiction which often leads to this. A dutch group of those dancing around a victim in their wooden shoes, and they moved closer and closer with pitchforks and then stuck them.

Texas will have its largest budget in years and much of it is for welfare...for those who don’t work and won’t work. Welfare is out of line. Bob’s solution: take every male on welfare and put them in the army and then invade Vietnam with these men. Socialism destroys a people.

Once Josiah died and then Jehoahaz came to the throne and Jehoachin, false religion went rampant.

Jer.  1:11 And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see an almond rod.

The verb jatabh, which means to do well. You have done well to study. God is going to construct out of the apostasy and the negative volition of the people, the 5^th cycle of discipline.

Jer.  1:12 Then Jehovah said to me, You have seen well; for I will watch over My Word to perform it.

The 2^nd time God come to Jeremiah, he is watching a boiling pot. A boiling pot is used to describe warfare. All of this peace movement will lead to WWIII. These peace signs and marching is going to end up killing children. This bit about writing Congressmen, we ought to get them out there in the army; don’t know who they would write...maybe their mothers.

There is a pot facing from the north, and when the boiling water spills out on the land, the invasion will come from the north.

Jeremiah will be a member of the Chaldean party, which is the conservative party; and the Egyptian party was the liberal party. He warned about war and said, “You are doing everything possible to get it to happen.”

in 606or 605 b.c. there was a town called Carcamish and the Egyptians wanted to get involved there and they went to war there and a lion fight broke out, killing many of them. Pharaoh Necco could tell a winner from a loser, and he recognized that his Egyptian army was in trouble and then he was pursued by the Chaldeans. They saw Jerusalem and they cut open an chicken and studied arrows thrown into the air. Then they went into Jerusalem and they found Jehoahaz, who had been put on the throne by Pharaoh Necco. He was removed from the throne immediately. His older brother was put o the throne instead.

A number of the Judaen aristocrats were taken. Jehoakim went for the Egyptian party. Jeremiah taught doctrine and those in the Chaldean party did not like idols. Jeremiah kept telling them not to be involved with Egypt; and there was a revolt against Chaldea, and Nebuchadnezzar returned and captured the city; but Jehoakim died during this. And Jeremiah told all about this already in Jer. 22:18–19. When Nebuchadnezzar broke through, he wanted to find someone he could trust, and he put Zedekiah on the throne.

Then the national council of prophets and priests went to work and convinced him to form an alliance with Egypt, which brought down the whole army. Jeremiah preaching from prison that the Egyptians would run away and they did. 586 was the final Chaldean war and the deportation took place. A large group sent on the death march. Jeremiah permitted to speak to the prisoners before this death march. He knew they would have a tough time. Lamentations and the death march is Psalm 119.

The boiling pot would spill over onto the land.

Jer.  1:13 And the Word of Jehovah came to me the second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot; and its opening is from the face of the north.

Jer.  1:14 And Jehovah said to me, Out of the north, evil will be set loose on all those living in the land.

Mishpaqa which means tribe, clan. Chaldeans were a wild war like people divided into clans, just like the Scots. Shilani and Amucani; there are 35 clans here. The Chaldeans had absorbed the Samrairans, the Acadians, and the .... The Babylonians were really pushed into the background here, apparently absorbed by the Chaldeans.

There would be survivors. The soldiers were turned loose to enjoy themselves as payment. They would leave the gates up, but they might tear the walls down. All of the living people would be gathered at gates, along with these soldiers, gathering with their groups. Those who caused trouble would be executed. Otherwise, they were herded into a group and assembled for the death march. God is telling Jeremiah about this 40 years before it happens. Jer. 39:3

The judges could also release prisoners.

Jer.  1:15 For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, declares Jehovah. And they shall come, and they will give to each his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against its walls all around, and against the cities of Judah.

A ministry of warning against apostasy. Piel imperfect of dabar, which means to declare forcefully, to say with great intensity. In the day of Isaiah, the people were positive and they were delivered; during Jeremiah’s time, they were negative and would be put under discipline.

Jeremiah was a very tender person, and he loved women; but God would not allow him a woman. Jesus really loved Judah, and what we will look at is the unfaithfulness of the woman, which is illustrative of Judah.

Jer.  1:16 And I will speak My judgments against them regarding all their evil, those who have forsaken Me and have burned incense to other gods, and have worshiped the works of their hands.

Girding up one’s loins means to prepare for action. Jeremiah would have a 40 year ministry. For 40 years, Jeremiah is going to charge; here, it means to study; he was a very disciplined person with a great disciplined mind. Ex. 29:11 Job 38:3 It means to remove anything which is in your way and study. Peter even uses this verbiage. The entire ministry of Jeremiah is going to be an aggressive ministry. Jeremiah will be outnumbered many times, sometimes having a 100% negative audience.

God is going to have Jeremiah dig up a girdle and put it on, walk around for awhile, and then bury it again.

Jeremiah is going to face a lot of negative volition, and God tells him not to fall apart because of their negative attitude. Jeremiah is gregarious. Bob has known ministers who are gregarious. Bob also knows those who hate to have people dislike them. No minister should be in popularity contest. Jeremiah was a nice, gregarious person, and he faced animosity all the time.

If you start catering to your audience, you will have a nervous breakdown on the spot. You do not get your orders from people. You get your message from the Word of God. Jeremiah got his message from the Word of God; and God told him to get his information from other things as well, like, studying this pot of boiling water. You cannot ever take orders from those in your congregation. There has to be a right time. 10 years ago, Bob was ready to go with Jeremiah, but he never seemed to be able to get to it. This congregation is the only one ready for Jeremiah because of RM/RW. That is a must to understand Jeremiah.

Jer.  1:17 And you must gird up your loins, and rise up and speak to them all that I command you. Do not be terrified before their faces, that I not prostrate you before them.

The prophet gets a bodyguard. I have given you a defense city. God promises him 40 years of negative volition, but that he will have a ministry for that long. This city would be destroyed in 40 years and Jerusalem will fall, but Jeremiah would not. Jeremiah would remain in tact. This is the same concept as the wall of fire. Such a believer can handle the greatest national disasters. As long as God has a plan for us, all hell cannot take us out. Stormproof; no tornado will take you out.

Jeremiah did get discouraged a few times. Jer. 9:2: I wish that I had a cabin in the desert so that I could leave my people and go from them, for they are all adulterers. They are an assembly of evil men proceeding from evil to evil.

There were kings and princes who were against Jeremiah as well.

Jer.  1:18 For, behold, today I have made you a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against her princes, against her priests, and to the people of the land.

Niphal used here as a reflexive. They will not be permitted to overcome Jeremiah. "Oh, Lord, you have persuaded me" Jeremiah agrees. There was violence and spoil and they mocked Jeremiah daily. His persecutors were his friends. They will be greatly ashamed; they will not prosper.

Jer.  1:19 And they shall fight against you; but they shall not overcome you. For I am with you to deliver you, declares Jehovah.

Jeremiah 2:1–5                              1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0003)

We are studying Jeremiah because of the state of our nation today. Testimonies and songs do not save the country, so we are not doing that this year. The black covered RM/RW booklet is for men, and the white one is for women and those with a strong ascetic trend. Same content. Some of these are rated X, like the fickle footed filly in heat.

The Word of the Lord is the name of the first oracle. The last period of prosperity in the southern kingdom was under Josiah, one of the greatest kings in Judah. Hezekiah is generally classified as a good king, but he is a weak sister. If he was around during the Sennacherib invasion, he would have turned Pentecostal.

Moses made the Jews drink the golden calf. Moses was one of the strongest men who had ever lived. Josiah did this on a mass basis, wiping out idolatry from the land. Josiah lived during a time when negative volition was rampant among the people. Jeremiah among the people, in talking with them, began to realize that the Jews had a very serious problem. They were committing mental idolatry. Cat. #1 love is illustrated by cat. #3 love.

RW was unfaithful mentally, and a smart man would recognize this, dust off his hands, and leave. There are 6 oracles in the first 20 chapters.

Jeremiah was always a prepared speaker. You cannot communicate what you do not understand or what you do not believe.

Jer. 2:1 And was the Word of Jehovah to me, saying,

He is to proceed with the plan as outlined. Jeremiah was about 20 when he started and 70 when his ministry ended, dying in a peaceful way in Nebuchadnezzar’s kingdom.

Chara means to speak forcibly. He will speak with great animation. His audiences will always be negative. The Jews had become unfaithful to their RM. We begin with a grace verb, which means it will always be true.

zachar is memory, and God remembers the Jews, even though they will unfaithful for 40 years. From Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoakim, and Zedekiah. One of the great functions of love. In the right lobe, there is the cycling up of the information. There is a memory center. This is a verb of fantastic grace, and don’t lose this meaning on this Thanksgiving morning. We have failed God through our legalism, through our indifference to His Word, with regards to our ambassadorship and our priesthood

Any blessing that you have from RM/RW, you thank God because He is the Designer. True thanksgiving is your category 1 response to God for Who and What He is, rather than saying thank you for A, B and C.

God remembers you. This has to do with the unfaithfulness of the Jews. Does God have pleasant memories of you? End devotional. Chesed is grace type love. This is to love from your own character. Jeremiah was 20 when he preached this sermon. The analogy of cat 2 love.

Academic terms do not always communicate. Most nouns are based upon a verb form and the verb form is based on chalal. This means to finish, to complete. There are two phases of cat2 love. There is a soul relationship which categorizes cat2 love. This is what distinguishes us from the animals. When a soul relationship exists, there is a consumation in the physical relationship. Witticism, do not marry and ruin a great relatiosnihp; I guess you aren’t familiar with that witticism; perhaps we have traveled in different circles. One man will enter into a woman’s soul, and he will never get out. He will also enter her body.

Hosea was written before Jeremiah. The bridal state is the Jews in the land before the Judges. No idol helped the Jews. They were even warmed. Deut. 32:12: The RM tells his woman to jump and she jumps, no matter what the girls say. the LORD alone guided him, no foreign god was with him. He took them through some rough times. Every RM/RW has a period of testing, which is described in v. 2 (a wild desert wilderness, a land without roads, a land that is not sown). God was always gracious.

Jer. 2:2 Go and yell in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, So says Jehovah, I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your espousals, your going after Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Israel is God’s right nation. Qodesh is the word for holiness. It means consecrated; it means, “You belong to Me.” The Jews had a lot of word with the same radicals. Change the vowels and you have a verb. Change them again, and you have a male prostitute. God is setting up the precedent for their unfaithfulness. Israel was God’s firstfruits, His consecrated nation to represent Him on earth.

The conservative movement has been destroyed by antisemitism, which is a vicious evil. Bob has one hope for Nixon; he has sent planes to Israel. Some people are conservatives because they are scared. They are yellow or they are selfish. A pseudo conservative blames everything on the Jews. The only nation today standing against the Communists is Israel. South African and Rhodesia as well. We are heping the communist cause and we have deserted nations who fought against the Communists. If we have any sense, we will back Israel to the hilt. You cannot touch the jew and get away with it because the jew is God’s rw.

Jer. 2:3 Israel was holy to Jehovah, the firstfruits of His increase. All that devour him become guilty; evil shall come on them, declares Jehovah.

Who is getting this analogy? The Word of the Lord is the content of doctrine. Who is to concentrate? There are two kinds of Jews. There is Jacob and there is Israel. Jacob means chisler and Israel means prince of God.

Jer. 2:4 Hear the Word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel.

Unfaithfulness to the maximum is what we find here. It comes from a verb which means to turn away, to distort. The woman who gradually moves away. She has mental unfaithfulness in her mind, which leads to overt unfaithfulness. The walk after vanity, which means breath, nothingness, trying to put your arms around your breath. Deut. 32:15–21: "But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation. They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger. They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded. You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth. "The LORD saw it and spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. And he said, 'I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness. They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

The Jews provoke him to jealousy with these strange gods. When you are negative toward Bible doctrine, then you will go off for a cheap substitute, like the tongues movement. That is like going in for a whore. There will be no young people’s programs and there will be no Christian education and no tongues in Berachah church. T&P is to crank out Bible doctrine to those throughout the country who need it. Everywhere we turn, people have gotten away from the ICE approach. Ezek. 23:23–48 so the importance of understand RM/RW in order to understand Judah’s unfaithfulness.

Becoming empty means Israel has taken on a cheap substitute instead of the Lord. Like a woman taking a cheap substitute for her RM.

Jer. 2:5 So says Jehovah, What iniquity have your fathers found in Me, that they went far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

The conclusion of Jonah 2:8: Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love. But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the LORD!"

this is thanksgiving day; if you are empty, it is because you have refused to feed on His doctrine, so you ought to choke on your turkey.

Jeremiah 2:6                                  1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0004)

This is an evening class, so Thanksgiving evening?

V. 6 is the negative answer to the previous verse. God reminds the Jews that they never think about it. You remember those that you love; you do not love those whom you have phased out of your life. God is not on their mind, so obviously, they are not going to say, where is God? When the RW is unfaithful, she does not think about her RM. The Jews have gone negative toward doctrine. When you ask help from nothing, you get nothing. They are like an unfaithful woman that, in the thinking stage of their infidelity, they think of themselves in the arms of another man. Mental unfaithfulness is idolatry. This stage anticipates the destruction of this people. Negative volition sucks in false doctrine. Overt idolatry is an expression of mental adultery. Since they no longer have the Lord in their souls, they no longer say, where is the Lord. Idolatry is the devil’s communion table.

God is forgotten in all of this. Alah the Hiphil participle means that God caused them to be delivered from slavery. God found the Jews in slavery. The RM often finds the RW in slavery, and he liberates her from slavery, giving her freedom and the ability to love him. The Jews, in getting out of Egypt, chose idols to worship instead of God. Everything is constructed around our free will, including the divine institution; nationalism is designed to protect our free will.

God brought them out of Egyptian bondage and caused them to be free. The wilderness is a dangerous place and God caused them to go through the desert. The desert was a place of many dangers. Once the RM liberates the RW, then he provides protection for her. The RW in SOS was protected by him in person or by fragrance of memory when he was gone. Pits here refer to quicksand pits. There was great calamity and death lurking here. Men don’t tend to safely pass through these areas.

Jer. 2:6 Nor did they say, Where is Jehovah who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and of pits, in a dry land and death shade, in a land that no man has passed through, and not a man has lived there?

we leave the desert, which is that testing period for love. A woman who responds to her RW is the glory of the man. If you don’t have your RM, don’t worry about it. But when you find him, you will be a magnificent woman. If you don’t find him or leave him, then you will be a frustrated witch. A lot of women never arrive to the point of being the glory of the man. The Jews came to a point when they arrived. You have not arrived until you have responded to Him over a period of time. Like the RM, the Jews under Joshua responded and entered. God brought them in and under Joshua, they did beautifully. However, when he died, the people went astray. Judges 2:10–13: And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel. And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals. And they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the LORD to anger. They abandoned the LORD and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. This should really be called the book of Dictators.

They had set up and abomination.

Jer. 2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness. But when you went in, you defiled My land and made My inheritance an abomination.

The people did not ask where is God, but neither did the priests. Those who communicate the Law did not know God.

Prophet is speaking what God has for us at this moment. Foretelling and forth telling. They told them what they needed to know for that time and what they needed to know in the future.

Jer. 2:8 The priests did not say, Where is Jehovah? And they who handle the Law did not know Me. And the shepherds rebelled against Me; and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after things not profitable.

God’s warming through judgment. When contend is used with God, it means to warn by chastening. God will continue to deal with the people, even their children’s children.

Jer. 2:9 Therefore, I will contend with you, says Jehovah, and I will contend with your sons' sons.

Jeremiah 2:10                                1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0005)

Bob played football this afternoon and accidentally bit his tongue and he is not going to talk while everyone is shifting about. Kittim is all of the lands west of Palestine bounded by the Mediterranean Sea. Raah is going to be about every other sentence; if you go west, study these other countries; the idea is to look carefully at something and study it. One goes to the western races of gentiles and someone goes to the eastern races of gentiles, and then consider this thing carefully. Hiphil of bean Kedar is the Arabic country which is east of Israel. The heathen nations west and east are quite consistent in their worship of their false gods. These other nations are faithful to their false gods; the Jews have the real God and they are faithless to Him. Eccles. 9:9 even the unbeliever is more consistent in this.

Jer. 2:10 For go to the isles of Kittim and see, and send to Kedar, and carefully consider and see if there is any like this.

Have these nations changed their gods, even though these are not gods? Yamar = to substitute, to alter; to become fickle and seek out substitutes. It is like the RW rejecting her RM and going out to seek others.

Jesus Christ is the God of Israel; the God of Glory. There are many things which could make many of us happy; the RW, money, materialistic things, a modest social life; fun and friends; a little entertainment; and these things have made people happy for a few minutes. If you don’t have a category #1 love relationship where you are faithful to the Lord, these things will eventually make you miserable. Christmas is coming; it is a mad scramble social life, parties, jingle bells, etc. People always get itching feet. They leave Berachah in the middle of a service. A little social life is like a little pregnancy. We all get the idea that there is something which will make us happy. Many of us think we can be happy without Bible class. Some of us have no prospects. The gloom has already set in. You have the Christmas blues and life looks bleak to you. Did it ever occur to you that a little Bible class might be able to straighten you out here? You happiness does not depend upon anything on the face of this earth. Your happiness depends upon Jesus Christ. After the honeymoon, there is nothing but bliss is the idea that some have. If you really want to have happiness and you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you can have happiness. There is nothing to stop you from having it. But do not reach out for cheap substitutes.

Generally speaking, we don’t go in for idols in this society.

What is it that you reach out for which does not profit you?

Jer. 2:11 Has a nation changed its gods, and they were not gods? But My people have substituted their Glory for that which does not profiting.

V. 12 introduces the Angelic Conflict. All human action is related to the Angelic Conflict. This means that angels are shockable. They have undoubtedly gotten some sophistication from all of their travels. You can travel around the world 50,000 times and it won’t change anything. Angels get around. They are still shocked. Bob has always been surprised by this passage.

Shamahim and shaman, and this is a paranamasia. This cracked Thieme up when he first saw it. Angel comes from the word messenger, because they travel around so much and deliver messages. However, Oh heavens also refers to angels. Jeremiah has been hammering away at these people for 11 verses now, and right in the middle of this, God hits them with this humorous remark. One year, about half of the A&M football team was at Berachah, just about to get some doctrine. The aggies were fired up, and they did some real popping, smashing these light blue jersies into the dirt. One guy liked to block them and roll on top of them. As soon as the play was over, they would say, “Way to go fella, nice job.” Texas was not even in the ratings, but they knocked off #1. You ask why should I skip these things? Because you have no sense of humor? Because you are a prude? Bob knows his job is to teach the Word. Stick around, wait till we get to the prude section.

Instead of loving Jesus Christ, these people love a hunk of stone or a beautiful nude silver figure or a phallic symbol, which shocks the angels. Jesus Christ is so wonderful, that it almost defies language. When we accept the cheap substitute for Him, we are shocked. If angels are shocked over the unfaithfulness of Judah, maybe it is time for Judæans to be shocked themselves.

God also tells the angels to be horribly afraid. It is a convulsive notion, a shrinking of the skin in a sudden shock. And be completely astonished.

Jer. 2:12 Be shocked at this, O heavens [O angels], and be horrified; be completely desolated, declares Jehovah.

This brings us to the indictment, and it is twofold. No one becomes idolatrous immediately; they work into it. Asah in the Qal perfect means the Jews have manufactured out of apostasy, idolatry. Negative volition to doctrine and secondly idolatry. Evil 1 and evil 2. Their negative volition manifests itself in idolatry. Reject of Bible doctrine means failure to respond to the Lord Jesus Christ. Azab means to desert, to forsake, to leave. There are two types of apostasy. The unbeliever rejects Jesus Christ and the believer rejects Bible doctrine. The fountain here is a fountain which has been opened up by digging. Digging is comparable to positive volition. The believer expresses his positive volition by the function of gap.

Chajjim is a reference to the Lord Jesus Christ, Who not only originated life, but he nourishes life. The only way to get anywhere in this life is by the daily function of gap.

First evil is mental, the rejection of Bible doctrine; the 2^nd is the overt expression of it, which is idolatry. Chatsav means to cut something out, to cut trees, to shape up wood like making an idol. This is positive volition toward idols. The Lord and Judah. Judah has gone negative toward the Lord and has gone out from the Lord’s protection. A woman is very vulnerable when she phases out her RM, and she becomes positive toward any man, predatory males who are nothing. Unsatisfactory and nothing.

Broken cisterns which do not have the ability to hold water is maladjustment in life. This is generally threefold. Failure to love Jesus Christ, although you give lip service to it. No capacity because capacity comes from Bible doctrine. No capacity to love RM or RW. God designed a wonderful for world peace, if everyone had RM/RW, that would cut down on the antagonisms of life. Since so many people are unfaithful, fewer RM/RW relationships. Genghis Kahn would break out and go to all of these different areas; dissatisfied and a roving people. The vikings and their rage.

A broken cistern is a believer who cannot hold doctrine. Listening to doctrine is a means to the end. The end is to hold water. The water goes in and out through the fissures. That is doctrine which is not held in the soul. That is maladjustment.

Jer. 2:13 For My people have done two evils: they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Logical progression: self-inflicted misery invv. 14–19. When a woman becomes unfaithful to her RM, she loses the protection of that RM. When she begins to respond to her RM, there is the age of recovery and the period of response. She builds up memories and she builds up experiences. These things become a banner over her. If she goes negative toward her RM, then she moves out of the bracket of protection. She is extremely and highly vulnerable. Bob advises divorced women not to date for a year after your divorce. She become a slave, someone who is out from under the protection of establishment. Two words for slave here.

The God of Israel—Judah is under God’s protection. Judah goes negative toward Christ and comes out from under His banner of protection. God warned the Jews for 40 years using the gift of tongues. 30–70 a.d. was how Judah was warned. The jews were slaves 40 years before they were slaves.

Our life in national disaster depends upon Bible doctrine in our soul. Bob was almost shocked when he heard some people in Phoenix were going to go up into the mountains in Phoenix to ride out the depression. The correct application is the soul. When someone asked Bob about this, he said he would turn into a cannibal and shoot everyone who walks by and eat them. The answer is to put doctrine into our souls.

In a catastrophe, too many want to go to some place where all your stuff is. The key is movement. You win wars by moving against the enemy. During a depression, you move on. Is Israel a slave? Are you a slave?

Is he a homeborn slave? This refers to someone born into slavery. That means, you have no prospect of freedom. 40 years before the fifth cycle of discipline, they were already plunder or booty.

Jer. 2:14 Is Israel a servant? Or is he a servant of the house? Why has he become a prey?

A young lion is a nation which wants to plunder Judah. They are protected for some time, but eventually, God will allow the lion to take out Judah. Young teenage girls are protected by the doctrine in her soul. A teenage girl, when the doctrine goes, she become vulnerable. When the jews reacted negatively toward God, they went berserk, and they got into idolatry.

When the lion of Chaldea attacks, they will be helpless. They yelled when the lion attacked; this is the scream of the victim, who screams in pain. Self-inflicted misery. When Chaldea attacks, Judah will scream in pain.

The word for waste is desolation. They are completely consumed by fire. That is the picture here.

Jer. 2:15 The young lions roared against him; they gave their voice. And they made his land a waste; his cities are ruined, without inhabitant.

V. 16 is the kind of verse where you need a dialogue. Charley, what do you think about this verse? Noph was the ancient capital of Lower Egypt (which is northern Egypt) and Upper Egypt is actually souther Egypt. Tahpanhes is a border city of Egypt. At one time, the Jews went down to Egypt for help. Jeremiah is the anti-Egyptian party. Qal imperfect of raah. The noun means to feed, to pasture, to delight in something. It refers to the RW feeding on party grounds. Judah has rejected her RM, and they go to the party boys, the fast crowd, which is Egypt. The crown of the head,

This is the foreign policy blunder in the days of Jehoikim and Zedekiah.

Jer. 2:16 Also the sons of Noph and Tahpanhes have fed on your crown.

Jeremiah 2:1                                  1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0006)

Still continuing to the holiday special on Jeremiah.

Asah here generally means to do; to manufacture something out of something. The Jews have manufactured misery out of their own negative volition. The Qal perfect indicates a permanent status with them. They have deserted the Lord.

In 40 years, they will be thrown out of the land. The Lord led the Jews away from freedom. In the RM/RW relationship, the RM always provides the woman with volition, and she gives from her own free will her love. He frees her to love him, just as we are freed by God to love Him. The Jews of their own free will want to go back to Egypt. There is a self inflicted misery here. One of the great criticisms of Jeremiah of the Jews was their desertion of Jesus Christ to pursue the Egyptians.

Jer. 2:17 Have you not done this to yourself by your forsaking [deserting] Jehovah your God when He led you by the way?

V. 18 is the indictment. Jeremiah was one of the great preachers of all times. Those reading his writings understand that. The first 20 chapters are 6 oracles given during the days of Josiah. Jeremiah is doing what God told him to do.

Egypt represents the human viewpoint of life; it is the human scramble for pleasure. It is searching for pleasure apart from category #1 love. Without category #1 love, we have absolutely nothing. Our capacity for happiness is zilch. There is no way that we will be happy apart from category #1 love. When they are going back to Egypt, this is exactly what some of us will do throughout the year. But God is not trying to deprive us of happiness. God provides for us a perfect happiness. Our capacity for happiness in every field. If you do not function under gap, you will not develop capacity for any of the pleasures of life.

God led Israel away from Egypt and the Jews want to just go right back into Egypt. Egypt represents our free will in trying to go in a direction where we think that happiness exists. Israel has been delivered from the bondage to the details of life. That we want to be happy is perfectly legitimate. Our capacity for these things depends upon our frame of reference and our thinking, and without this, we cannot find happiness. If all of these other things are more important to us than Jesus Christ, then we cannot find happiness in these things. The Jews are going back to Egypt under their own free will.

Abraham ran down to Egypt during a time of pressure, but he brought a little Egypt back with him (Hagar) which caused them problems thereafter.

The Jews in coming to the Land of Promise, lusted for the leeks and garlic of Egypt. As soon as Josiah died of his wounds, idolatry in Israel became more overt. God has delivered the Jews from Egypt. A man’s love is a banner over his RW. He gives her freedom. She can choose him or she can be unfaithful.

 We will see in the rest of this verse, Egypt and Assyria. Egypt is under Pharaoh Necko and he is about to forge an alliance with the Assyrians. This is written in 626 b.c., and in 606 b.c. Nebuchadnezzar and Necko will form an alliance with one another against someone else.

There are two parties in Judah; the Chaldean party and the Egyptian party. The head of the national counsel of prophets and priests heads the Egyptian party; the Chaldean party is the correct party, and Jeremiah supports this party. They will be the only ones to be preserved after the destruction of Jerusalem. After that, they will live in Mizpah.

The Egyptian party is prevailing at this point in time. Egypt represents the RW becoming unfaithful through fornication. There is sublimation (alcohol, dope). Water represents the word. Instead, the drink the waters of Sihor. Sihor is the name of the Nile when it is muddy. They are going to go drink the muddy water of the Nile rather than to drink the clean water in Israel.

Christmas holidays, and finals used to be held in January after a vacation. This has been changed. A lot of people can plan a pretty good holiday.

What is important to you? If it is category #1 love, then you are going to enjoy your life. If you are searching for the waters of Sihor, then you are going to have a miserable life. The way of Assyria is sublimation. Drinking of the River is a reference to the Euphrates. What are you doing in Assyria to drink that water?

Our happiness depends upon the daily intake of Bible doctrine.

Jer. 2:18 And now what is for you toward the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? Or what for you toward Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

Raah is used for various types of wickedness. It can refer to the fifth cycle of discipline. Here, it is drinking from the dirty water in Egypt or from the Euphrates, which refers to either hooking up with Egypt or with Assyria.

Yasar means (in the Piel imperfect) to punish. Our own attempt to find happiness apart from the daily function of gap means intense misery. There is no one else to blame but ourselves. God provided for us 36 things, the priesthood and freedom. There is freedom to come and go. You know we will get Bible doctrine every night and every day. We have the freedom to come and go. We have the freedom to turn on a tape recorder or not. We have privacy to bungle our lives or to be successful. If you turn down Bible doctrine, and stay away from Berachah; get involved with the rah rah rah group. You may sublimate with parties or part or whatever. However, there is no substitute for Bible doctrine. In the US or in the world, the only place to face this issue daily is in Berachah church, where there is Bible class every night.

There is no choir at Berachah because there are people who think more of a choir than they do of Jesus Christ. Bob wants to get us down to the essentials of our priesthood. You cannot love Jesus Christ unless you are daily in the word. Bob is the pastor-teacher of Berachah, our right pastor, and it is by him that we grow.

From wickedness, we go to backsliding. Mashuvah means defection, apostasy, many days of negative volition toward Bible doctrine. When you become disillusioned by the things which you used to depend upon for happiness, but you are still alive, there is a recovery available to us. So we have two Qal imperatives. Know and see; function under gap and perceive. Function under gap and learn and believe Bible doctrine.

God’s pachdah is not with them, and this means love, occupation with Christ, responsive love, concentration, reverence.

Jer. 2:19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your defection [negative volition toward Bible doctrine] will reprove you. Know, then, and see that your forsaking Jehovah your God is evil and bitter; and My reverence-concentration is not with you, declares the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

Jesus Christ has taken care of the Jews; He was represented in many wonderful ways. The yoke has to do with His spiritual heritage. They have torn off the shackles, Piel stem; their revolt was intensive. The bands are those portions of the Mosaic Law which deal with the divine institutions. They have torn these bands all to pieces. These bands are devised by God for protection.

You said, “I will never turn toward idolatry.” Ex. 34:10–17: And He said, Behold, I am cutting a covenant; I will do wonderful things before all your people which not have been done in all the earth, and among all nations. And all the people in whose midst you are shall see the work of Jehovah, for that which I am about to do is awesome. Take heed for yourself what I am commanding you today. Behold, I am about to drive out from before your face the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Take heed to yourself, that you not cut a covenant with the people of the land to which you are going in, that it not be a snare in your midst. But you shall cut down their altars, break their pillars, and you shall cut off their Asherahs. For you shall not bow to another god, for Jehovah whose name is Jealous, He is a jealous [possessive] God; that you not cut a covenant with the people of the land, and they fornicate with their gods, and they call to you, and you eat from his sacrifice; and you take from their daughters for your sons, and their daughters fornicate with their gods, and they lead your sons to fornicate with their gods. You shall not make for yourself casted gods.

You are to destroy this people and cut down their images and destroy their groves. You will not make any molten gods. However, mentally, they had drifted from God.

Dr. C. F. Keil only came close to translating this correctly. There was group sex in one area, but this left them jaded, as God designed sex for one man and one woman. There were various gods, and there were places where there were child sacrifice, and you could burn your grandparents there. Sexual perversion was increased when the screams from those dying revved them up.

Qal active participle of tsaah in seminary they did not study Jeremiah, but you still had to read a commentary now and again. Keil and Delitzsch covered this to some extent. This is generally called the posture of a prostitute. Zanah means to fornicate. From eternity past, you have broken your yoke and you have torn off your bands. And you said you would not transgress, but on every high hill and under e ery green tree, you fornicate like a prostititue.

Judah’s revolt, a rejection of their spiritual and national heritage and they have gone into idolatry.

Jer. 2:20 For long ago you broken in pieces [shattered] your yoke and tore up your bonds. And you said, “I will not transgress,” [I will not get into idolatry] when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a harlot [lit., constantly spread your legs to fornicate].

Jeremiah 2:1                                  1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0007)

This must be the 2^nd service on Sunday. We crossed over the hump this morning. Sounds like this was going to be a temporary study, as Bob talks about the next 3 lessons only.

This is the failure of Judah, the analogy being found in RM/RW. In the analogy, the God of Israel is the Lord Jesus Christ and Judah is His RW, His noble vine.

The grace of God has provided all things well for the nation Judah. God has been gracious and He has been faithful. He portrays everything which is perfect everything which is loving.

There are 3 vines here. The empty vine is the northern kingdom. The noble vine is Judah, responding to Bible doctrine under Isaiah. The people turned to the Lord. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself destroyed the enemy Himself.

The overt idolatry begins with Jehoahaz, put on the throne by Pharaoh Necco. He then puts Jehoakim on the throne, who reigns until the Egyptian party convinces him to revolt against the Chaldeans. Jeconiah ruled for 100 days before the city fell and he was taken into captivity. Zedekiah was all for the Chaldeans under the leadership of Jeremiah. The Egyptian party gained ascendancy, and they were very liberal, supported by the national counsel of prophets and priests.

Zedekiah drank at the waters of Succor, and Nebuchadnezzar came back. Jeremiah survives all of this because of his faithfulness to the Word. They go to a place called Mizpah under the sponsorship of Nebuchadnezzar. Jeremiah ministers in MIzpeh to a group of believers. Lamentations are the messages which Jeremiah gave to these young people right before their death march.

Psalm 119; each letter of the alphabet represented one day of the death march. 626–586 b.c. ministry with the people of the land and to 5 kings. Then to Nebuchadnezzar and then to Mizpah. Jeremiah will tell them not to go to Egypt, but they will and kidnap Jeremiah; and Nebuchadnezzar will send an army and rescue Jeremiah. This man had one of the most phenomenal ministries of all time. One of the greatest ministries in the history of the Jews.

God’s grace is the history of Israel. The noble vine is Judah and those with positive volition. All of the Jews had something which was described here as right. That is emeth, which is truth or doctrine. What God planted was the seed of doctrine; this is what made them noble. They became a very protected and prosperous nation. God showed how the divine institutions provided freedom and this was to showcase their relationship to God, but they rejected Him.

Why would a woman with her RM want to leave him? Now sanctified sarcasm; how can you turn away? How can you change yourself toward Me? Niphal stem; they have changed themselves. God took them out of Egypt. Just as God provides freedom for Judah, the RM gives the RW her volition. He is a banner over her when present and fragrance of memory when he is gone. Judah is a noble vine. The very same free will can also go negative, and Judah has gone negative toward its RM. Free will is used to go in the opposite direction. “You have become a bastard shoot of a foreign vine.”

Suer means a bastard shoot. At this time, in Jeremiah’s ministry, we have the shoot underground, which is Josiah’s reign, but it will come above ground and be a foreign vine. The foreign vine tangles itself around the true vine. Jeremiah is facing an audience who has turned against the seed. The true seed is doctrine and bastard stands for false doctrine. Our country began with wonderful spiritual heritage. Our schools like Yale and Harvard were begun to prepare men for the ministry. They have turned into anti-God institutions.

Bastard shoots is liberalism and socialism; all kinds of false doctrine. Communism is a foreign product and socialism is a foreign product. They were born in western civilization. They are not American products, but in our colleges and universities, we get nothing but these foreign vines. The Bible is our heritage; freedom is our heritage. We have bastard shoots: communism and socialism. Anti-military, world peace, disarmament. These are all bastard shoots which will sprout and they will choke out the divine institutions of law and order. Jeremiah really made something out of this.

Jer. 2:21 Yet I planted you a noble vine, wholly a seed of truth. How then have you turned into the deviant shoots of an alien vine to Me [bastard shoots of a foreign vine]?

Vv. 22–23 the filly footed camel in heat. The people say, “Oh no, we are staying with doctrine.” They have washed themselves intensely. They are ritual minus reality. Jesus Christ is your RM, Israel. Jesus Christ gave you freedom, but you do not recognize Him. They had all kinds of rituals and animal sacrifices. They used these rebound offerings, but they did not re bound themselves. Ritual without reality is mental adultery. The woman begins to conjure up imagins of other men; that is ritual without the reality. The reality is the teaching of doctrine.

Here they are writing with potash and it is the strongest soap that you could buy in the land, and it was imported from Egypt. When a lake would dry up, there would be mineral alkali and it would be mixed with oils and it became the best soap of the day. For us, part of Christmas is a ritual. Lent is coming up and it is a ritual. You change your behavior pattern for 40 days. You have observed some religious ceremony. It makes you feel clean, but it psychologically just helps you to assuage a guilt complex. Cleansing comes from two sources: salvation and then rebound. You keep scrubbing and scrubbing yourself until you feel wonderful and you have a lot of soap bubbles and you feel real good about the whole thing.

Their whole life of guilt is marked, and this means to be engraved. They are hardened in the mind of God. They have not used the grace rebound. They have substituted ceremonial ritual. True rebound is a test of grace. The ceremony appeals to their emotion. They have distorted their emotions. The mental and spiritual is simply naming their sins and being forgiven. As they go through ritual, they feel better.

At some time, you have gone to some stimulating service and you feel closer to God. How you feel has nothing to do with it. Maybe you heard the true meaning of Christmas and a sad stroy and how the toys were finally brought to the poor children, and you feel cleansed and you feel closer to God; and it is meaningless. It is like the RW faking out her RM.

She tells him, “I love you, I love you” on the phone, and then the other guy rings the bell, and she says, “I put him on hold; let’s go out and have some fun.”

God, “You cannot strap it on Me with your phoney rituals.” You fake out the guy and then you go out and fornicate.

Jer. 2:22 Though you [vigorously] wash yourself with potash, and multiply soap for yourself, your iniquity [guilt] is stained [engraved] before Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.

V. 23 is the strap-on. Gomer is faithless and she is taking Hosea out of his boots, or whatever he wore...sandals. Hosea looks at his 3^rd child and says, lo amin, which means not mine. Bob just made a sweep and 4 people are not laughing, but one is too young, so that is okay.

Operation strap on or don’t let a camel get you down.

Interrogative adverb again, God uses it as a sarcastic introduction. “How can you say, I am not defiled?” The Jews of Judah are saying, “We are not unclean.” Tama means unclean.

Beautiful woman and the Baals. There is a big oven with the next idol. Baal sits over the oven. They worship here the first time, and they have a gang orgy here. This gets old and frustrating and it is not enough of a kick for them. So they come back with a human to offer, and sometimes children. As your sacrifice is burning and screaming, you get aroused to a greater sexual pitch. There were even temples where they practiced bestiality.

The Jews are saying, “We are not doing this; we are not in the temple of the dog; we have not chased after Baal.

See means concentrate, take a look. Tolphet; demons are fallen angels. Those from Gen. 6 are incarcerated. They can no longer have sex with human beings, but they can possess people. Someone had to get a child or a slave and burn them, and then enjoy an orgy. These people have just come back from an orgy.

Lying is the basic modus operandi of the unfaithful women, Judah. When a woman lies and lies to cover, she becomes unstable. The unfaithful woman represents Judah. The tissue of lies leads to an instability.

Occupation with Christ is love toward Jesus Christ. The believer, as the RW, responds to the RM. The believer responds to the daily intake of Bible doctrine. Jeremiah is able to discern the problem. You must have something to offset operation strap on. No matter how smart the guy is, love blinds the male. If he loves or thinks he loves the female, he can be strapped on. Bob has too. He grew up in Beverly Hills, the home of the strap on. Bob thought this gal really loved him and she was early dating him.

The valley of Henna and the screams of the human sacrifices went on day and night. While their sacrifice screamed, it was their time to get into the orgy. That stimulated sex for them. Later, in the prophets, there is the Hebrew word Gehenna, and unbelievers will scream in the Lake of Fire forever.

Know what you have manufactured; asah. Out of negative volition toward doctrine, they have manufactured minus H. Know what you have done. Look at what you have done and look at what God has done for you. If you are still alive, go back to God. Jeremiah gave this sermon in 626  b.c. and they have 40 more years.

Kalah means to move quickly toward something if you want something. To move swifty toward a lust or a desire. We have a female camel here. These describes a female camel in heat, moving quickly from one camel to another while in heat.

Then the word criss-cross, which illustrates the Jews throwing themselves at every false idol and every false god.

Jer. 2:23 How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after Baals? See your way in the valley; know what you have done! You are a swift camel criss-crossing her ways;

this leads us to the two insatiable nymphomaniacs. No kids, no house, she has nothing. The she-ass in heat is footloose and fancy free and ready to fly. There are two of them here. We start out with the she-ass and we end up with a nymphomaniac. We begin with an ass quadruped and end up with a nympho biped.

Quadrupeds in the horse family. She uses her nose to sniff for a male ass. She is panting and sniffing. Panting is an uncontrollable sexual desire and sniffing is to find him. A woman who goes into a bar to pick up on a guy. In her sexual lust, she pants for air.

With the prhase in her sexual lust, we have moved to a biped. This is a woman who has turned against her RM. Her RM has always satisfied her, but she is mad at him and is trying to find fun elsewhere. Nymphomania is a result of sexual frustration. This leads to uncontrollable sexual desire. Judah has turned against doctrine. They have turned against doctrine. They go to Baalim, to Ashtarte, to animals in the temple; they are frustrated, just like a nymphomaniac.

In her sexual lust, who can satisfy it? Only Jesus Christ can satisfy the Jews, but they have turned in their lust from the Lord to idols. The idols are cheap substitutes for Jesus Christ; just as a man in a bar is a cheap substitute for a woman’s RM.

Her seducer will discover her or find her; when an unfaithful woman is in heat, the man is out there looking for her. He looks to make her his slave for a short time. Her body is in slavery and her soul is in torment. Her body was designed to be satisfied by one man.

Like a wild she-ass, accustomed to the desert, that in her sexual lust, she pants for a man [ a male ass] so the nymphomaniac her sexual desire, who will satisfy her. All who seek and take her, they will tire themselves out trying to satisfy her, yet, in her month [while in sexual desire], they always take her. She even is taken by men who repulse her. They are slaves to their idols and their souls are in torment.

Jer. 2:24 a wild ass used to the wilderness [accustomed to the desert—running about free without restrictions] . In the passion of her desire she snuffs up [panting with heat, and trying to sniff out a male ass at the same time] the wind in her time [uncontrollable sexual lust]. Who can turn her away [in her sexual lust, who can satisfy it]? All those who seek her [choose and seduce her] will not tire themselves [they wear themselves out, unable to satisfy her]; in her month they will find her.

This is where we will leave Judah.

Jeremiah 2:25–                              1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0008)

We are continuing our study of RM/RW as the background for this passage. RM is pictured by Jesus Christ, the God of Israel. The southern kingdom is called the noble vine. The northern kingdom is called the empty vine. Idolatry is a picture of spiritual fornication.

We begin with an imperative, speaking to the unfaithful woman based upon her freedom which she now possesses, and she eventually used it against him.

Mana Qal imperative, which expresses strong voltioni, and it should be translated refuse. If you turn around and go in the opposite direction, you need to have a starting point. This is a woman caught in the nympho trap. Gomer left her RM as Judah has gone from one idol to another. The frantic search for happiness has resulted in promiscuity. Fornicationi, she reacts to her RM and she rejects her RM, and becomes involved in fornication and sublimation. The advice given to the hopeless nymphomaniac stop fornicating, stop drinking. Obviously, this is a command from her RM, which is the Lord.

Berachah is the only church in the world which teaches Bible doctrine day by day by day. Bob is going to get rid of some of this dead wood, which includes about 300 people who rarely show up. Bible doctrine is the thrust of Bible doctrine, which is the only way to love Jesus Christ. Our attendance at Berachah church is not some goofy church loyalty concept, but our attendance gives us doctrine in our souls.

Believers, at some point, need to have a desire to love Jesus Christ, and that can only be developed through Bible doctrine. The foot being bare is fornication; the throat drinking is sublimation. Whether we love Jesus Christ or not depends upon how much doctrine we take in and how consistent we are about it. If you ever get to a point where you like Bible doctrine, then you will like Berachah. There would be no tapes in existence without people attending Berachah. If people do not come and sit in these pews, there would be no tapes. The teaching of the Word of God is a monologue, not a dialogue, and it is taught under authority, but Bob is personally expressing his appreciation for those who show up. Those who are not here do not love Jesus Christ. If you live in the city of Houston and depend upon tapes, then you are out of line.

Bob is going to a place where they love Bible doctrine and they would do anything to get face to face teaching. Bob is going to 5 places where they have a tape recorder for a pastor and they want some face to face teaching.

These people had their unshod feet in the tent of Ishtar, in the tent of Astarte. Somewhere along the line, you must decide what is important. Bob says, next time he makes a move, he won’t have a T&P.

The despair of the despondent doxy. In the Niphal, it means to become despondent; no one who is negative to Jesus Christ can get too far into idolatry and other things like that without getting despondency. There are a lot of reasons for despondency, but it is also a warning signal to someone in reversionism. It says turn around and come to me. If you put some man or some woman before Jesus Christ, that is idolatry.

The daily intake of Bible doctrine keeps first things first. Zar is the word for strangers, and this is someone that you are attracted to, but are turned off to. This is a loathsome person. After fooling around with him, she comes to loath him. Loathsomeness and nausea. This is what happens when you get away from the right one.

Jer. 2:25 Withhold your foot from being bare and your throat from thirst. But you said, It is hopeless [I am despondent]! For I love strangers, and after them I will go.

A thief caught in the act of stealing. The case of the mortified thief. He is the 4^th illustration, ganabh, and this analogy to the thief brings home to the Jews the objective recovery, which is spiritual adultery. Bosheth has 4 meanings: shame, the mental attitude of idolators. When the idols cannot help, they are caught in shame. Shame is also the mental attitude of the woman who is not provided with what the RM can provide. Shame when disaster hits, there is no occupation with Christ and he falls apart and the result is shame. Bosheth is actually used for an idol. Disappointment and frustration for those who are involved in idol worship. The idol represents the details of life, which can provide nothing by way of permanent happiness.

The house of Israel refers here to Judah; the 10 tribes of the north had already been dispersed and some of the Jews from Israel came down to Judah to live and for Bible doctrine. The Qal stem of Jabesh is to dry up, the Hiphil means to be without resources in time of catastrophe. Bible doctrine is the resource; no category #1 love means no Bible doctrine. The vacuum sucks in idolatry. 4 kings would reign before the fifth cycle of discipline. Every kind of administrative leader in the land. They have all been caught without resources of Bible doctrine.

Jer. 2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed. They, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets are

they say to a piece of wood, “My father.” Obviously, you are out of resources when you view the stone or a tree as if they are deity. “You have given me birth.” These men are devoid of resources; there is no doctrine in their souls. The stone and the piece of wood are pseudo lovers. They bounced all over the place. The Jews went from one to another. They vacillated. The most unstable people are in and out of Berachah; and stable people are those at Berachah regularly.

You cannot lose your salvation because you are a jackass. “Arise” has nothing to do with resurrection. They are simply asking God to get up out of bed and come help them. They figure that all of this time they have been horsing around with a stone or this stick that God just fell asleep and they needed to get Him up and help them.

Jer. 2:27 saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You gave us birth. For they turned their back to Me, and not the face. But in the time of their evil, they will say, Arise, and save us!

There is a sarcastic interrogative. There needs to be a bit of sarcasm here. “Where are your dear friends, those you manufactured?” You made a god out of wood and stone. Why don’t you call on them for help?

They manufactured these gods out of their own free will. Of their own free will, they went negative. When things go bad nationally, there will be those who get right on the phone and call for help. Those you have to counsel are those who do not come to Bible doctrine. They want instant doctrine. Bob beats his brains out day after day and week after week. Bob doesn’t mind. However, what breaks his heart is the lack of dedication. “You will not find a pastor who will do as much as I do.” Some of you have really missed the boat. Some of you in personal and national crisis.

Bob does a minimal amount of counseling. Buddy Dano counsels for as much as 6 or 7 hours a day idiots who don’t come to Bible class. There aren’t 2 people in the world who can do the kind of counseling which Bob does. You don’t need counseling, you need Bible doctrine. That is what Jeremiah was chara-ing about to the people. “Did you know I have been doing more shouting since I have been in Jeremiah?” Idols are manufactured out of negative free will, negative toward doctrine.

Let them arise. Let your idols wake up and come save you. This is beautiful sanctified sarcasm. Where are your gods? Let them get up if they can save you?

The number of your cities are the number of your gods, O Judah. The woman was designed for her RM and no one else will do. Bible doctrine is the manner in which they have the capacity to love the Lord Jesus Christ. The believer has the free will to love God under gap. Negative volition creates spiritual impotence in the believer, then as now.

Jer. 2:28 But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your evil; for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.

Apostasy’s self-inflicted misery. Judah has been quarreling with God. Meribah means to complain. Riv means to complain. All of you have rebelled against Me, says Jehovah. Occasionally, Bob hears those complain about Jesus Christ. You have the collosal inconsistency to complain about Him. If you go negative, do not complain about Him. If you are negative toward the doctrine taught in Berachah, you have no right to complain about Berachah church. Yet, that is the inconsistency. Those who do not like doctrine complain the most. Some of you will have a +H Christmas and others will have a meribah Christmas.

Jer. 2:29 Why do you contend with Me? All of you, you have rebelled against Me, says Jehovah.

God tried to bring them back around, but it was in vain. He brought a little disaster their way. He tried to make them understand how important doctrine was. A negative generation destroys their children. Parents need to take children at the most tender age and teach them doctrine. Without that, they will ruin their children. The idolaters ruined their children. “Correction, they have not taken.” This means discipline, the whole concept of discipline and authority.

This is historical, and it means to seize, to grasp something which is beneficial. The children will wind up on the death march.

The sword which they had to defend themselves turned around and destroyed them. It devoured the only hope that they had. Instead of using it to defend their country, they used it to destroy their prophets.

Jeremiah 2 and 3 coming up for the pearl harbor special.

And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them rising up the times and sending because He had compassion on His people and their dwelling place. They mocked the messengers of God and despised His words. They despised Bible doctrine.

It is not a personality conflict; it is doctrine. Any idiot knows that. Personalities do not mean a thing. We have people who have reached a point of no remedy. Only Bible doctrine. Bible doctrine only comes on the basis of free will. You have to love do before you can love the Lord.

Jer. 2:30 In vain I have stricken your sons; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 2:1                                  1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0009)

These next two lessons are equivalent to the Pearl Harbor Special:

1970 Pearl Harbor Special

Jer. 2:31–37                     Pearl Harbor Special (861 0001)                                   1970

Jeremiah began in 626 b.c. under Josiah, one of the good kings; in fact, one of the greatest. The Jews were involved in mental idolatry. Then Jehoahaz, who was his second son, put on the throne by Pharaoh Necho, who put Jehoahaz on the throne after defeating Josiah. A switch in rulership, and then Nebuchadnezzar came to Israel. 598–586 b.c. was a new rulership, with Josiah’s 3^rd son.

This is the first of 6 oracles given by Jeremiah during the rulership of Josiah. The Jews, again, are seen as the right woman of Jesus Christ. God says to the Jews, “Am I boring you? Am I disturbing you? Why do My people say, ‘We roam freely. We will not come again to You’ ” Does God bore you? Do you find coming to church very boring? Is it painful? If that is true, we are in the same boat as these Jews from Judah. This is strictly between ourselves and God. We are the only ones who can answer this. If we don’t care for doctrine, then we have no capacity for love and we are bored with doctrine.

Do you love your bf, gf, children, parents? Or do they bore you? That means no capacity for love. When you are bored, you are saying, “I am dull.” It is not that we are boring you; it is that you have no capacity for life; you have no capacity for God.

Jer. 2:31 “O generation [or, race], concentrate on the Word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness [a dried up land] to Israel, or a land of fear-darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We roam freely; we will come no more to You?’

There was a point in the history of Israel when they loved God; they loved Bible doctrine. Sometimes, it is in the memory center that we need to go to. The ornaments found in v. 32 are grace gifts from God; because He loves Judah, he has given great gifts.

If a gal wants to be snotty with her guy, she will take up all of the little gifts and send them back or box them up or something like this. The rw treasures these things because she associates them with her rm.

The bride of the ancient world had a fabulous gown. Around the middle was an ornamental belt, keshur is the word and it is called a girdle, but it is worn on the outside. It gave the robes style. This is a moment of great memory for rm/rw. God says, “Can you forget the wonderful gifts and blessings from association with Me?” A women with a right man will leave the rm at times, but she will never forget him. However, the people of Israel have forgotten God.

Jer 2:32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments [gifts from her right man], or a bride her ornamental wedding girdle? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.

All that is going on is going to result in the 5^th cycle of discipline.

There is a Hebrew idiom here. They are trying to find their way, but they cannot find it apart from their rm, Who is God. A woman is trying to fake out everyone with the wrong man, to act like she is doing well; however, it means nothing. She is seeking to gain from her wrong man, but she cannot. There is no substitute for God’s plan or God’s way. Spiritually, you will head off after some substitute. You try to get into some movement of some sort. All of these things are cheap substitutes. Believers who are negative toward doctrine are unhappy but trying to find happiness; even, if it involves self hypnosis. Just like a woman giving her body to the wrong man, but she does not find happiness, but soul torture.

The more that you attempt to find happiness apart from God; and you try any substitute and you will never be happy apart from Bible doctrine. There are things which are considered legitimate and illegitimate; but it does not matter; you cannot chase after substitutes and expect to find happiness. Believers go through the tongues movment, some victorious life thing, or some alternate approach; but the only way is to go after Bible doctrine through grace apparatus for perception. The emphasis in Berachah is the teaching of the Word of God.

Who has to train you how to witness if you love Jesus Christ? You don’t have to think in terms of systems or answer this if they say that, etc. There is no substitute for Bible doctrine. Anything which is substituted for doctrine is evil; even if these things are not sinful. Even mental stimulation is not a substitute for loving Jesus Christ. No Bible doctrine and we are running around with cheap substitutes.

You cantry to fake love of God by singing, witnessing, praying, etc. However, there is only one way; we have to love a person Whom we have never seen, and we must know Him through the Word. This is the only way that we can know Jesus Christ. Our capacity to love Jesus Christ is based upon the intake of Bible doctrine.

Jer 2:33 How good [or, how nice] you make your way to seek love? Therefore you have also taught [or trained your ways to] a principle [or, system] of evil women your ways.

The next few verses give us the results. Kanaphim = the long, flowing robe of a judge about to pronounce a verdict. 1Sam. 15:27 and two other places, this is used the same way.

The system of justice found in the Word of God is the most objective law anywhere. It calls for several witnesses; people were convicted on the basis of laws of evidence. Questions were eliminated with regards to self-incrimination (really?). There were specific punishments for specific crimes.

Two great systems of law: SPQR the law of the Roman empire. Innocent until proven guilty. If a lower court finds you guilty without following correct juris prudence, then you could appeal to a higher court. Jewish law was also exceptionally objective. Roman law was infiltrated with expediency and the Jewish law had been filled with legalism. These two great systems of law met for tor the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. These two great systems of law were used to persecute born again believers as well. In Jeremiah, some were burned for not participating in idolatry. The law was distorted.

Jeremiah went to prison many times and they wanted to kill Jeremiah, but God’s plan called for Jeremiah to be kept alive. Those who are guilty of crime go free (those who sacrifice their children); but these robes of judges have been dipped in the blood of innocents. The people who demonstrate their love for the Lord, the law is used to persecute innocent people 2Kings 21:16. Jeremiah is speaking of his day; but there is also Menasseh, Jeconiah, Zedekiah, Jehoaikim would all do the same things which are found here.

When believers do not truly love Jesus Christ, they always find some system for self-justification. When believers do not truly love Jesus Christ, they always seeks to justify whatever cheap substitute that they pick up. Self justification is a must for those types.

Jer 2:34 Also in your flowing robes [of judges] is discovered [or, found] the blood of the souls of the poor innocents [believers]; I did not find them by breaking in, but on all these.

Josiah said, “Well, God has not brought tthe 5^th cycle of discipline to us, so He is not angry with us.” They will think up a system and then use it to justify themselves. “I have been innocent; I have been blameless. God does not change His character or His grace to accommodate your negativism, your sin. “If this is true, then why aren’t we dead right now? We are still alive so we must be okay.” This is how they justify their own lives. You can go through all kinds of cheap substitutes and say, “I am innocent.” But you are not; if you don’t take in God’s Word, then you are not innocent.

You think that God is like you. Step out of line and He is going to turn on us. The worst people are those who sound holy.

Now, we may think that God is going to get on His knees and plead with us, but the word is shaphat, in the Niphal. I myself with judge you. The judgment is already beginning, but we don’t know.

Jer 2:35 Yet you say, Because I am innocent [or, blameless], surely His anger shall turn from me. Behold, I myself will judge you, because you say, I have not sinned.

This results in a disastrous foreign policy. Azah is to be impetuous to go down to Egypt. Isaiah warns over and over agin about going down to Egypt. One form of human viewpoint leads to another. A self-righteous people, which he have in the world council and national council of churches. They are going to depend upon Egypt, and Egypt will let them down. In the days of King Ahaz, they depended upon Assyria.

Jer 2:36 Why do you depart impetuously [or, go about so much] to change your way? You also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

The national coucil of prophets and priests are very much in favor of depending upon Egypt. Hands over the head is a sign of slavery. We find it in 2Sam.  they depended upon things which God has rejected. They reject Bible doctrine which gives them capacity. God does not love our cheap substitutes; and their confidences in Egypt would result in slavery.

Salak + the negative: they would never succeed. Our capacity to love in every facet of life, it depends upon Bible doctrine. There is no substitute for Bible doctrine.

Jer 2:37 Yes, you shall go out from this place, and your hands on your head. For Jehovah has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.

Jeremiah 2:1                                  1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0010)

this lesson is equivalent to: ;

Jer. 3:1–5                         Pearl Harbor Special (861 0002)                                   1970

We will also study a passage in Jeremiah and get more of the true story of Pearl Harbor and what really happened. Brains, ingenuity and a year of planning at Pearl Harbor.

Bob just back from Wichita, Kansas; some of them drove 300 miles one way, listened to 3 hours of teaching, and then hung out and asked questions for an hour. People came from Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and as well as, pardon the expression, Arkansas. A marvelous auditorium with the temperature at 60; one could be exhausted and sleepy, and still able to take in the Word of God.

A grace appeal in v. 1; grace can overturn a lot of things. If a man puts away his wife means to divorce. Shalach; it also means to dismiss. This is ish dismissing his ishshah. She ran away from him and was unfaithful. She was unfaithful before he dismissed her. RM/RW is the analogy. Jesus Christ is the RM and Judah is His RW. Once a woman become unfaithful to her RM, certain principles come into play. His love is short-circuited and she suffers soul pain. The paramours here are idols; the Jews have gone in for idotlary. Apostasy is comparable to divorce. The man did not divorce the Ishshah until she went and slept with another man.

After a woman commits adultery, may the man return to her? The Mosaic Law recognizes that he can’t. However, there is a grace answer in this situation: “May He yet return to her?” Under these conditions, would not the land suffer? In Deuteronomy, this answer is, the land would suffer. Lev. 18:6– teaches the same concept. It now looks like a hopeless situation. In Jer. 2:25 (which was studied last Sunday?).

In category #2 love, this would pollute the land; however, not under cat. #1 love. Qal perfect of zanah, which means to fornicate; this has been done in the past. In the analogy, the woman goes to several different men. The people of Judah is like the footed filly camel in heat. The female ass keeps smelling the air, hoping to pick up the scent of a male ass.

Here is a woman who has fornicated all over the place; one had some funny lines; another was very serious; another is blonde, another has dark hair; and she goes from one bed to another.

Many lovers, yet return to Me again, says the Lord. Qal infinitive absolute of shub, which is a stronger imperative than an imperative. You have been unfaithful and indiscriminant and a man can dump a woman who has slept with another man; but, God will take Judah back. We should get the idea that the Jews do not earn or deserve God’s love. The literal rendering is very strong. The woman has been highly unfaithful. No amer and no dabar but the word here is naam, which means to speak in a low, pleasant voice. A Qal passive participle. This is a phenomenal grace invitation. When you return to the Lord, you come back to something which is incredible and perfect. If you stay out, you will be as bad as the Arab in the desert.

Jer 3:1 They say, If a man puts away his wife, and [because—a causal wâw] she goes from him and will be for another man, may he [yet] return to her? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you play the harlot with many lovers; yet come back to Me, says Jehovah.

Qal imperative of to lift up, which means to lift up your head when you look up. There are bare topped mountains all over. These were mountains used for the phallic cult. These hills are higher than those found around Jerusalem. Hos. 4:13 1Kings 4:23. The woman Ashterah, Ishtar; and the man over the oven, Baal (Molech?). You make an offering first and then join in with the group sex orgy.

When this does not work, you dance erotically with others and put your children into the fire and get excited while they scream. Temples of bestiality. Shagal, which even Bob won’t translate. Pual stem means to have violent sex without true satisfaction. This is in the name of idolatry? “On which hill have you not been ravished?”

Along the highways, you have cohabited with others; even after coming back from having sex on the high places. The Bedouine lies in wait in the desert to rob those who come by; this woman waits along side the road desiring anyone who comes along for sex. He does it for money and the woman tries to gain happiness from it.

Capacity for happiness and for life come from Bible doctrine. A minister came from Manhattan, Kansas. “You teach over an hour? Every night?” When he heard the schedule, he said, “Gosh, you never have any fun.” The further you go from the Lord, the less details will make you happy. The closer you are to God, the more you can enjoy the details of life. Once you develop the capacity to love doctrine, your capacity for life increases as well. If you go the other way, you are like an Arab lying out in the desert. It would be like Bob looking us right in the eye and calling us an SOB. The Jews did ot appreciate being called Arabs in the desert. It is strong language.

You have polluted the land with your whoredoms; idolatry and fornication wen together. Sometimes they mixed it all up.

Jer 3:2 Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see where have you not been lain with [or, ravished]? By the highways you have had sex for them, like the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have defiled the land with your fornications and with your wickedness.

When showers are held back, that means there is an economic depression. The economy of the nation has been hurt. You have a whore’s forehead—what does that mean? Bob heard it once at Dallas as some kind of a mark. Commentaries have nothing to offer here. They go off on weird tangents. The people of Jeremiah’s time understood. If the woman’s forehead is smooth, no matter what she says, she is not satisfied. The woman cannot hide her feelings from her RW. If she is happy, this can be seen in her forehead. There is no way a woman can have this series of ridges; it cannot be faked. She can make all of the proper noises and all of the proper declarations, but if she does not have it in the forehead, then she is not telling the truth. The prostitute could care less; her forehead would be smooth, even though she might be convincing her John that he is the greatest lover ever. Here, the jews are compared to a whore faking out some character (as they tried to fake out God). This is strapping it on God; this is doing these things for some other reason other than capacity #1 love. To say that you love the Word and to cry out how much they love Jesus is phoney. You do not love Jesus Christ with 1 cc of doctrine. This is one of the great takeouts in history.

You refused to suffer disappointment. Even though they just give lip service and even though it is a lie, they are just strapping it on.

Jer 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed [or, to suffer disappointment].

When you have gotten to the lowest point, then you can come and call to God. You only have to do it once. The Qal perfect means you just have to do it once. This is a prayer, and it is addressed to the Father. Aloof, is used here; not guide but right man. Call to Me, “My Father, you are the right man of my youth.”

God does not take us back and ask us to review our failures over and over again, as we might get in marriage.

Jer 3:4 Will you not from this time call to Me, “My father, You are the guide [right man] of my youth?

Qal imperfect of natar. “Will He always bear a grudge?” This is the rejection of Jeremiah’s ministry. Well He God always bear and grudge and cherish this grudge?” God keeps on saying, come back. God cannot change. He does not change His perfect character.

Jer 3:5 Will He keep His anger [or, bear a grudge] forever? Will He keep it to the end?” [God answers them]: “Behold, you have spoken and done all the evil things you could do.”

However long you have put doctrine off, you will need to come back to it.

There was no information on Pearl Harbor.

Jeremiah 24:1                                1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0011)

Jer. 24:1                          Pearl Harbor Special (861 0003)       Sunday Dec. 6, 1970

Dec. 7, 1941, a bosan’s mate named Milligan glanced up and saw planes above and he did not think much of it, since there had been air force and air personal training lately. He saw 20-25 circling planes. This group had arrived before the rest. 1750 lb. torpedo and they have practiced this for about 2 months.

6000 b.c. a japanese prophet said that his people would conquer the world; all 8 corners. This militaristic group would soon dominate Japan. If we are going to understand why Pear Harbor, we need to understand this doctrine, used for many attacks.

In 1926, Hirohito came to power, and this meant the militaristic groups came to power. Shoah in the Japanese, which means enlightened peace, which means subjugation to the Japanese. There are many things which must be omitted tonight. There was a treaty about a ratio of ships and how the Japs got around it.

American ambassador to Japan, there is a lot of talk around town that in case of a break with the US, they are planning to go all out in a surprise attack against Pear Harbor. Jan. 27, 1941 treaty with Russians, which released Japs from Manchuria. Roosevelt put Japs under an oil embargo and locked American japs up. FDR knew this, if the Japs are cut off from oil, and they get their oil from us, it inevitably means war. They would have to attack us or the Dutch East Indies. And we were a part of rainbow 5, which meant we would fight no matter what.

If the Japs attacked the Philippines, Hongkong, Singapore, etc. and when FDR cut off oil, war as inevitable. To show this would require 8 types of documentation to show this.

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Japanese knew about rainbow 5 and they began making preparations long before this.

Less than a month before pearl Harbor, General Karache and Admiral Yamamoto. Karache had charge of all Jap troops for beach attacks.

Simultaneous amphibious landings on several beaches. Yamamoto in paragraph 2 was going to attack Pearl Harbor. Paragraph 3 attacks against several major cities. Already 423 pilots had been in training for 30 days at that time in preparation to attack Pearl Harbor.

The younger officers knew that war was inveitable. Admiral Stark to Admiral Kimmel: This dispatch is to be considered a war warning. An aggressive move by Japan is expected within the next few days. Execute appropriate defensive deployment. Response was to be in accordance with War Plan 46.

Best poker player, excellent chess player, Yamamoto was one of the few who believed in carrier warfare. He out talked the whole Jap navy and came to the top in the 1930's.

Different types of planes given, their speed and what they could carry...and their range as well. If the Japs were going to attack Pearl Harbor, they had to get within 300 miles. They had to launch somewhere 300 miles out. Some could be far enough to be 500 miles out.

Yamamoto sold the Japs on the idea. 10 aircraft carriers in their Navy and 6 used in Pearl Harbor. 8-9 battle wagons all tied up in Pearl Harbor with most of the Pacific fleet, all anchord in Pearl Harbor.

In Jan. Of 41, Yamamoto knew an attack would be necessary and began to put plans ono the table.

4 battleships and 9 destroyers. They met up in the Carilles. Coming down through the central islands, there would be too much of a chance of being seen. They started out on Dec. 2 during a great storm. Refueled under very difficult circumstances. Then the Jap fleet went to condition 3. They bagn to sail without radio useage. When they came out of the storm, and they hoisted the Z flag, the good luc, flag.

Before dawn, in the darkness, the command was given, climb Mount Nataka. That coded message launched the attack. They had prepared for this years before, intensive before this.

Pearl Harbor has a long neck entrance, which can be jammed up to keep a whole fleet tied up. Ford Island sits right in the middle of Pearl. Then there is Pearl city. The main attack was against the battleships. The Japs at 1 day out, they got a coded message that the aircraft carriers were gone. Battleship row anchored near Ford Island. Sticking out of Ford Island was the Nevada. The Tennessee and the West Virginia. The Japs could not come through in shallow water from one direction.

The advance attack, 27 itai subs had been sent out the night before. They had a range of 1200 miles. Midget subs which could launch a mean attack.

A young ensign named McCloy. He patrolled and was 2 miles outside of Pearl and said there was a midget sub, although everyone told him, no way. They found the sub and sank it and a coded message was sent. They could have had a few hours warning along this line.

The Japs had excellent navigation and moved in close 230 miles, so they could strafe, which made the attack double tough.

Generaly speaking, the highest ranking person on board was a luitenant and an ensign who had control fro 33 hours.

Japs came in from behind on two mountain rangers. The first ship to get it was the W. Virginia. Torpedo bombers and dive bombers. WV took quite a number of hits. Though hard hit, 3 officers saved the WV. They would have bull sessions, and one was on damage attack, and one guy had the idea of what do to. Counter flooding keeps a ship fo capsizing. The WV was in serious trouble. By the time it had a 35 degree lisp, it went straight down as a diver’s dream, and very few casualties this way.

2 officers and 103 men died on that ship, which is quite phenomenal.

The Tennessee was attacked next with a phenomenal crew. WV in the way to keep them from being hit by torpedoes, so they got bombers that hit them. Very few casualties and the Tennessee went back to get fitted for real combat.

Arizona is sitting there by itself, and the vestal was no protection. Torpedo hit below the armor belt. 2^nd bomb went down the turret. Over and 1000 men killed and 47 officers. Arizona no longer used.

Nevada super structure destroyed. 10-15 ensigns, who managed to beach the Nevada, and they were able to use the ship again.

Attack on the Oklahoma, hit by 3 torpedoes. The trouble was, they had no time to set condition Zed. They had even 150 degree list, but it did not turn over completely, because its mast got stuck in the mud, keeping it from rolling over. One command saved the dead from being double.

Short was bout to write some Christmas cards, but he heard the attack and shot down a torpedo plane. The other men manned their stations and the courage was so unusual, they only lost 2 officers and 2 men. Superb men on the Maryland. They had never been under fire before and they met the attack with great courage.

The California was the least prepared the most of the officers were shored and it was in a complete unbuttoned condition. No counter flooding, no counter-zedd, and those from the other ships helped California. He managed to keep the ship from capsizing, but using an unorthodox method. Then the other ships came to help the California and they kept it from sinking to 3 days, and then when it sunk, they sunk it in such a way to salvage it again.

Chaplain in the army air force and when the zeeks began to strafe them, he mounts a machine gun on his pulpit and begins shooting.

There were a generation of Americans, not a bunch of long-haired sissies, not on dope and under the worst possible pressure conditions, they knew how to fight. 2 hour attack, and the Japs made a lot of mistakes. They went for anything that moved, but they should have gone for the oil tanks. The main part of the fleet was at sea. the means of refueling them still ar Pearl, so 5 out of the 7 battleship fought in WW2 and the Japs got the pants beat off of them at Midway.

Pearl Harbor will look like a clam bake the next time that this happens. It will either be Russian Communists or Chinese Communists, and they are vicious.

The temple in Jeremiah’s day represented the edification complex The baskets of figs. We still have a structure before the Temple and we still have two baskets of figs.

Two kinds of people in Judah and two kinds in the US.

598 b.c. is when this occurs.

Jer 24:1 Jehovah made me see, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Jehovah, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had exiled Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the rulers of Judah, and the craftsmen, and the smiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

The basket of good figs refers to believers of Judah who will survive the destruction of Judah. Good figs are believers with doctrine in the right lobe. Evil, degenerate traitor figs are the other ones. No mental attitude like, better Red than dead. They fought well. Where can you find men to man ships today like that? Our country is filled with traitors right now. It will just take some power to come along and they will back right down.

On Pearl Harbor day, it was a quiet, beautiful day. These were men ready for the occasion. bad figs were so bad, they could not even be eaten.

Jer 24:2 One basket had very good figs, like first ripe figs. And the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten from their badness.

God asks Jeremiah what he sees and he says, I see figs, and the good figs are very good and the evil figs are very evil; In a time of disaster, there is nothing in between. Pressure never leaves anyone in the middle. If you spend your life walking a fence, pressure knocks that fence down and then where will you walk?

Jer 24:3 And Jehovah said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so that they cannot be eaten from their badness.

A large group of young people will be energized as good figs. Causative stem. I will look upon them with love and compassion and grace.

Those carried away captive as the death march of Psalm 119, which over and over again, refers to the importance of the Word of God. Bible doctrine, the importance of the resources of God’s grace. Those young people who marched in a 22 death march became the nucleus for a great nation, with prosperity based upon Bible doctrine. When the chips are down, what is important is Bible doctrine.

V. 6 will be the recovery of the good figs. Many of them must have heard of this land. God is going to put them in the cruciful of testing.

Jer 24:4–6 Again the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying, So says Jehovah, the God of Israel, Like these good figs, so I will acknowledge the exiles of Judah whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good. For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. And I will build them and not tear down; and I will plant them, and will not pluck up.

Jeremiah 24:7                                1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0012)

Jer. 24:1                          Pearl Harbor Special (861 0004)       Sunday Dec. 6, 1970

Going to conclude the Pearl Harbor study.

Bob’s been asked to repeat the doctrine of Figs, having been shocked about Pearl Harbor. Those who lived in Judah when the country was still in tact and the fifth cycle of discipline had not yet occurred.

Jeconiah had been ruling for 100 days. There were two baskets of figs. Fig leavess are associated with the first act of human good. Poltice of figs applied to Hezekiah, which cured him, which describes the cross. Fig tree is used for the production of Israel in Matt. Israel as the fig tee was the custodian of divine truth. Pattern of Israel in the Tribulation; putting out leaves is evangelism.

Jeremiah keeps studying these figs. He shows kindness or favor on the basis of having knowledge of someone. Those carried away captive is Psalm 119.

Jer. 24:6a: I will set [Qal perfect of sum; when used of God, it combines an anthropomorphism and an anthropopathism. It explains a divine action] My eyes upon them for good.

Sometimes, people can look into your eyes and figure out things. People do that and can tell a lot of things. A doctor can look into your eyes and make a medical diagnosis. Eyes indicate the character of the person. We can tell something about the character of God from this idiom. Noah was preserved because of the grace of God. The land had prosperity because of God’s grace. Grace plan of God and His character is behind His plan. His eyes are related to deliverance, which is because of who and what God is. It emphasizes the character of the Lord. All provision is based up the grace of God. Doctrine expresses who and what God is. Reflected glory. All of these points are related to who and what God is.

They will return to the land with an edification complex and inner happiness. Qal imperfect of haras, which means to destroy; God will not destroy what He builds. It is incompatable with His character. He builds it through Bible doctrine. The edification complex cannot be destroyed by God. There is only one person who can destroy an edification complex. God cannot tear down what God builds up. Only the person who is negative can tear it down. Dope is a quick way to destroy anything in your soul. God will never touch one brick in your edification complex. If you get an edification complex, and it starts to go down, you did it yourself; when you are miserable, you did it all by yourself. Don’t blame anyone else. God cannot make anyone miserable. We can have God’s happiness He also gave us free will. RM/RW. The RM begins to reflect the glory of the RM. However, if she goes in the opposite direction, then she tears down. There are a number of women parked at a bar stool tonite who are shot and they do not reflect anyone’s glory. They walked away from it. Whatever it takes to build freedom is also what it takes to destroy freedom. The woman can take the same free will and tear it up. The God of Israel was their RM and Israel walked out on God.

There were some Jews, young people, who were learning under Jeremiah, and they developed an edification complex before returned to the land. God says, I will not pull it down. The only attack that we can ever have from an edification complex is from our own free will. The sovereignty of God will not tamper with the edification complex.

The edification complex also preserves the national entity from the fifth cycle of discipline.

God will never take doctrine out of your soul. God never fights anything which He builds. If there is a fight, He does it. We can tear down, but God never does. He does not fight doctrine or the edification complex. If we lose it, we can blame ourselves.

Jer. 24:6b: I will bring them back to this land. And I will build them up and I will not tear them down. I will plant and I will not pluck it up.

The good figs are those who will rebuild the nation. Category #1 love of the good figs. In spiritual phenomenah, the doctrine is built up and fed into the right lobe and into the frame of reference. This is where we have fragrance of memories with regards to category #1 love and category #2 love. Fragrance of memory is based upon something in the right lobe. Some day, Bob wants to figure out why the heart is shaped like a heart. Looks like a tomato which got punched. The heart in the Bible never refers to the physiological pump. The heart refers to the right lobe of the brain. Doctrine must reside there to form divine viewpoint of life. Most people associate “You gotta have heart” with emotion but it is associated with doctrine.

Nathan is the verb of grace. This is the key to love. You cannot love God unless you know Bible doctrine. Knowing the Lord means that you know who and what He is. When the people come back into the land, they will be occupied with Christ. Relationship is based upon love, love is not based upon relationship. That is the difference between true love and pseudo love, the difference between fun and something which is fantastic.

The good figs then returned, when they have a heart to know God. They will return to God with their whole heart, which is maximum love (and a completed edification complex).

The good figs have doctrine. They leave with some love for God and they will leave with maximum love for God.

Jer 24:7 And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am Jehovah. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God. For they shall return to Me with their whole heart.

Let’s take a look at the bad figs. Bob does not like figs at all. He can understand how we might not like a bad fig at all.

Pharaoh Necco killed Josiah, and he did not like Josiah’s oldest son, so he puts his second oldest on the throne and he puts his eldest son on the throne. Jehoakim revolted, and then Coniah came to the throne. Coniah take to chains to Babylon. Then Nebuchadnezzar looks for someone else to put on the throne, which is Zedekiah. Nebuchadnezzar returns and besieges Jerusalem and destroys the Temple and Jerusalem. Zedekiah is shown his sons being killed, then he is blinded and he was taken to Babylon to die in slavery. Zedekiah was a bad fig.

Jer 24:8 And like the bad figs which cannot be eaten from badness, so says Jehovah: So I shall make Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his rulers, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt;

They are going to be upset and given to agitation. They will be a reproach and a proverb. A proverb, which means their failure will be inculcated into the culture. What happens to the bad figs? They end up in a mess. The woman who leaves her RM makes everyone miserable, including herself. Wherever they go, there will be trouble. Any guy who is smart, will stay away from a woman who was unfaithful to her man.

Believers who are negative toward doctrine are trouble-makers. Are you a good or a bad fig? Do you create trouble wherever you go?

Jer 24:9 I will even make them a horror among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, for a reproach, and a proverb, a gibe, and a curse, there in all places where I will drive them.

What happens when a nation goes negative. God sends war, economic disaster and disease. We have been in war in Vietnam long enough to have killed off every single person in Vietnam, the snakes, the elephants, the rice. There is no excuse for any viet cong to still be alive. When the enemy is in battle, they should be killed. Grace came before judgment.

Jer 24:10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the plague among them until they are consumed from being upon the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.

There were other things about Pearl Harbor. Yesterday, Bob had a telephone call from Barry Goldwater. He asked if Bob knew what they were doing 29 years ago. Someone gave Barry a tape of the Pearl Harbor. He spoke to a number of people in Lamarque. He said, when you make that fatal decision to go to war, you should do so with the intention of winning it. To not do so is the mistake of 3 American presidents. The air force will be in Vietnam for a long time after Nixon takes them out. The way to get Hanoi to negotiate is to bomb the hell out of them.

Some of you were in Berachah church way back. The senior Jap flying officer is Futshita. He flew in that attack as a full captain. He was the highest rankig officer in Pear Harbor. He came to Berachah church in the 50's he speaks very good English. He believed in Jesus Christ. He was summoned to MacArthur. A missionary gave him a tract. “I was a prisoner” and he explained the effect that the tract had upon him. He read about the crucifixion and he began to investigate these things further. A crowd was giving an evangelist a hard time. He stood up and said who he was and told them, “I have now given my heart to Jesus Christ.” He gave a very short talk, an excellent talk when in Berachah and he spoke of how important Jesus Christ was to him.

He was going to go to Hawaii and lay a wreath on the Arizona. And 7 months will the house of Israel be burying them that they may cleanse the land. The bad figs have to go. The 3 ways for this to happen. The man who led this attack on Pearl Harbor, he gave this Scripture and applied it to Japan. A lot of bad figs had to die so that there could be the gospel and the good figs in Japan. “I am no longer an enemy, but a brother of the United States.” was one of the things which he inscribed.

Jeremiah 3:6                                  1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0013)

Will Rogers, “Pacifists say, you get into a war when you get ready for one. Let me add that, no one challenges Jack Dempsey to a fight since he became champion.” And “Only the United States begins preparing for war after entering into war.”

We are going to spend the holidays studying the book of Jeremiah. Now people ask Bob, “When are you going to do Esther?” instead of Jeremiah.

We terminated the Thanksgiving holiday with Jer. 3:5, so here is where we start up.

Vv. 6–11 is what we will try to get through tonite. A grace message to the southern kingdom about the northen kingdom. We are first introduced to the apostasy of the northern kingdom.

A tremendous amount of doctrine here. Now and against we see adultery and harlot and we think that maybe there is some x-rated stuff here. However, with this is some fantastic message of grace.

Whatever your private or personal areas of shock ability might be, this is spoken by God to Judah. In the King James English, we can take some very rank language and make it sound nice.

Amar means to say, to utter what you think. To deliberate work out a system and communicate it.

God is speaking to Jeremiah, and Josiah is the best king they every had as a divided kingdom. The Hiphil stem means to cause to see. Perfect tense, have you been caused to study what Israel has done? This study is from the book of Hosea, which has this information in it. Isa. 28 as well. The word backsliding is meshubah, which comes from the verb shub, which means to turn, to return. Meshubah means to defect, to revolt, to apostatize; as an adjective, it means apostate. The northern kingdom has negative volition to doctrine and they have been building up scar tissue, dope addiction, alcohol, sexual sins all cancelling out the right lobe. Apostasy, idolatry, frustration and misery all under the fifth cycle of discipline.

Halak is a revolt against God. Legitimate grievances. A lot of believers from the ten tribes did go south. They go up to every high mountain, which means idolatry is linked with the phallic cults. There is a statue of a beautiful naked woman, with a fat man sitting over a furnace, and thirdly, there are some phallic things and a temple for bestiality, which is what occurred on every high mountain and on every green tree.

Ishtra, Venus, Aphrodite. The fat man is called Baal and the offering of sacrifices to this naked lady is followed by group sex orgies. When the woman gets bored with this, she is aroused by bringing her own children up to be sacrificed. There is no RM here, so that is frustrating, which leads to auto-eroticism.

She fornicates there; it is used for illicit sex, and it refers to where they are fornicating. Idolatry is spiritual fornication. Idolatry is also literal fornication.

Jer. 3:6: Jehovah also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what the apostate Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree, and has fornicated there.

God always has a grace appeal the key to this verse is important. This is God speaking. God is tinking love toward unfaithful Israel. In true love you do not change your love because the object of your love acts like an idiot. This is true love. When you begin to react, you do not truly love. Some of us will probably never truly love because we are children all of our lives. That is not true love, being nice to someone only because they are nice to you. The man is the initiator does not mean that the woman has to be exposed to what she expects all of the time. Just because you love someone and they do wrong, that does not change your love. God is the perfect illustration of true love. The whole phallic package for Israel, and God still loves them. He does not act like a child. God thinks grace and He offers grace.

After she does these things, God says, “She will return to Me, but she did not return.” Mental attitude sins are destructive to love. When you go negative toward God, you suck in false doctrine which produces mental attitude sins. These cycle up from the old sin nature and wipe out the right lobe. They destroy capacity for love. True love depends upon your capacity to love and not upon the object of your love and their behavior. This requires behavior and capacity from Bible doctrine, and an relaxed mental attitude. These are still points to the above and that was point 8.

After all of these terrible things had be done, God says to Israel, “Return” but she did not return. Jeremiah has been studying Hosea. His RW is Gomer, but she is a very beautiful woman. This was his RW, but she became unfaithful to him. She has many lovers. Gomer was negative and she was under a frantic search for happiness. She wound up on a slave market and Hosea went and bought her back. This was based upon his capacity and not hers. Hosea got her for half price. She was in bad shape. She did not love him but he loved her. She had no capacity for love. God is appealing to the southern kingdom.

However, she did not return. In fact, her treacherous sister observed this. Her forsaking her RM for a lot of idiots. Very bad choice of lovers. Under the analogy, and idol is a very poor substitute for the Lord Jesus Christ. There were warnings from Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and they had an example in the northern kingdom. The Qal imperfect means that Judah is without excuse. As long as you have freedom and free will. If you choose to go negative, you have made your own misery. You can never blame anyone else.

Bob is trying to catch up with this guy starting some Bible classes on the side with a few girls.

Ex-party girl is now a lush. The party boys have passed her along. Young Judah is looking at the fast crowd and she forgets to see what the idols do to other people. Perfect illustration for how you can mess it up.

Jer 3:7 And after she had done all these, I said, She will return to Me; but she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

Jeremiah 3:8                                  1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0014)

the concept of fornication is important for us to get here. Fornication may be fun but it fizzles; every verse has some of it, so we might as well begin to accustom ourselves to it.

Raah means to see; but it also means to study, to examine. Jeremiah studied all the causes for the fall of the northern kingdom. We are studying Ephraim and how it fell. Jeremiah had been probably studying Amos and Hosea.

Infiltration of false doctrine as a result of scar tissue which creates a vacuum and into this vacuum goes false doctrine and creates human viewpoint in the soul. Sublimation chapter, which has a girdle, a jug of wine and the king who passed out. Mental idolatry which is mental adultery, which both lead to overt actions of idolatry and adultery.

Mishubah is an adjective which means faithless. She goes negative because she is minus the capacity for love. She goes away from her RM and she fornicates with her lovers. We have a double-entendre all the way through.

When you say no to doctrine, you must have a substitute. When you begin to pick up a substitute. Today, we have the same phallic cult today, but without the idols. When you continue to say no of your own free will, and guy tells her, “Go out and do what you want; you are bitchy.” The point of no return for a nation is the fifth cycle of discipline. The Northern Kingdom was God’s RW, and when the woman is out there fornicating with paramours, she is becoming miserable. With doctrine, you will have a lot of things which you like; you build up capacity and you respond to God’s love. If you continue to say no to your RM, you will eventually pick up a substitute. This passage almost has dignity in the KJV, but this is just strait, raw, right down the middle dirty Hebrew. “I have put her away.” She came back wanting whatever, and God gives her what she asks for from her own free will. She is getting a writing of phase-out; a writing of cut off.

The Jews and Judah learned nothing from these 8 points.

Jer 3:8 And I watched. When for all the causes for which the apostate Israel committed adultery, I sent her away and I gave the writ of her divorce to her. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and fornicated.

Isa. 28 warned them of this. Treacherous here means faithless. Judah is called treacherous because she did learn something from the southern kingdom; she learned to attempt to fake out God. Instead of profiting spiritually, Judah learned to act as though she was faithful. She was out late-dating God. Judah did not fear. True love is to concentrate on someone. True love is concentrate on someone. You can’t do anything else. God is the RM and Judah is the RW. Judah lacks the capacity to love God. She learns to pretend when with God. She would say to God, I love you, but, in the meantime, she was out with idols. Judah does not have the capacity to love. Lack of capacity to love. Mental attitude yalak, which means when Judah saw the fall of the northern kingdom. She was frightened by what happened, and committed adultery in her soul, but smiled at her loved one. She still gives her RM the smokescreen. She is still thinking about some other guy. If you don’t get this, some gal will fake you out of the stands.

The beauty in the fast crowd is unable to enjoy it. When a person is fading and they do not enjoy sex, they are faking it in order to stay with the fast crowd. Through the shouting of her fornication. She uses her voice to fake them out. The key here is the word voice. In order to stay with the fast crowd, the woman begins to fake it. These noises are made for the benefit of the fast crowd. They are worshiping in front of Ashtaroth. The northern kingdom is making the appropriate noises. The screams of the children are designed to turn them on; some even go to the temple of bestiality. The northern kingdom becomes professional apostates and professional idolaters. They make all the right noises, but they do not enjoy it. The woman uses her body to stay in the fast crowd. A perfect example of staying in the fast crowd. Those who practice tongues are the same group. There is no difference between the tongues movement and this woman making noises in order to fake out the guy. People go into the tongues movement because they have no Bible doctrine in their souls, so they just suck in this false doctrine. There is no greater phonier group in the world than the tongues people. They are as phoney as the phoney unsatisfied woman using her voice to fake everyone out.

The northern kingdom comes into the fast crowd and then she is moving out, and she becomes involved with the phallic statues. She commits adultery with stones and pieces of wood. The land was seduced. They did not have doctrine; they had a vacuum in their souls. The northen kingdom seduced the land. Fornication for fun going to fornication for profit. They tried fornication the regular way, then with their burning children and then with the phallic statues.

Nothing produces nothing but insatiability. When you make love to a piece of stone or a piece of wood, the stone is nothing and the wood is nothing. You cannot turn nothing into something. They have left God for these idols. A stone was not designed to take the place of God. A wrong man is nothing. When a woman leaves her RM, she leaves him for a stone. She goes from something to nothing. She commits fornication with the wood.

Jer 3:9 And it happened, from the wantonness of her harlotry she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with pieces of wood.

Jeremiah 3:6                    1970 Jeremiah Christmas Eve                          (540-0015)

A horse trader and he finally said, “Horses are inherently stupid and not mean, and stupidity makes them mean.” Bob is studying the Jews of the southern kingdom, and each sip of wine is self-induced misery, apostasy, and so on. The whole passage describes each sip of wine, and at the bottom of the jug, it is the fifth cycle of discipline. Surprise at the bottom of the jug, are God’s tears.

Two sisters are out of line, but one is more vindicated. The voice last night was a strap on voice; the voice tonite is one of true love.

The northern kingdom is on the way out in the fifth cycle of discipline. The jaded party girl has turned into a professional. Coming in is the newer sister, Judah, and her eyes on are on the fast crowd of the idols and she does not noticed her sister on her way out. Amos, Hosea, Elijah and Elisha all are prophets warning the people telling them to return to doctrine. Again and again, we find the verb shub, to return. There will be nothing left but the tears of the Lord Who loves them.

Josiah has suppressed idolatry, and Judah is looking for ways to express their negative volition. Brgoda from the verb bagad. Begoda means secrecy, faking out, strapping it on. We should ask ourselves, are we trying to strap it on God?

Began with jealousy and ended with the fifth cycle of discipline. They told God how much they loved Him, but are chasing after idols. Sometimes we have the two lobes. Perception and frame of reference. If there is no Bible doctrine in the human spirit, there is no edification complex, and everything become operation strap on. In the analogy, Judah is going to God and acting as if she loves God, but does not.

When Judah becomes bored with God, she heads off to the groves and the high places to get involved with idolatry. Judah is offering sacrifices every day; the priesthood is functioning and the ceremonies are being observed, but they really are in mental adultery. Judah does not return to Me, but only with a deceitful heart. A RW can return to her RM even with deceit in her heart, and he can do this on the basis of his own character and be deceived. After sh ehas left him a few times, she begins to catch on.

God is the RM in both cases. In the northern kingdom, they were honest and said, “We do not love you.” The Southern Kingdom said, “We do love you” which was dishonest, but they were doing the same thing.

Jer 3:10 And yet for all this her treacherous [faithless, false, strapping it on] sister Judah has not returned to Me with her whole heart, but with deceit [and falsehood], says Jehovah.

No capacity for her RM, and the Northern Kingdom made no pretense for loving God. The Piel stem for to vindicate. There was honesty in their negative volition. The southern kingdom has a dishonest soul.

In order to understand more than, we need to go back and literally translate v. 10. And yet because of all this, her deceitful sister Judah did not return to Me with her whole heart, but with deceit.

Now to Ezek. 23:11: And her sister Oholibah saw. And she was more corrupt in her lustfulness than she, and her fornications were greater than her sister's whoredom. She lusted to the sons of Assyria, neighboring governors and rulers clothed most perfectly, horsemen riding horses, all of them desirable young men. Then I saw that she was defiled, one way was to both of them. And she added to her fornications. And she saw men carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans engraved with vermillion color, girded with girdles on their loins, with overflowing turbans on their heads, the appearance of rulers, all of them, like the sons of Babylon in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

Unfaithfulness + deceit = treacherous here. The kingdom of Judah returns and makes up a lot of strapping it on. The Northern Kingdom does not make any attempt to do this. The southern kingdom is dishonest and neither kingdom has capacity for love.

Hosea 7 and Ezek. 23:1: And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying, Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother. And they fornicated in Egypt; in their youth they fornicated. Their breasts were handled, and there their virgin nipples were worked. And their names were Oholah, the oldest, and Oholibah, her sister. And they were Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And their names: Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah. And Oholah whored under Me. And she lusted on her lovers, to Assyrian neighbors, clothed with purple, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding horses. And she bestowed her harlotries on them, the choice sons of Assyria, with all of them, and with all after whom she lusted. She defiled herself with all their idols. And she did not leave her fornications from Egypt. For they lay with her in her youth, and they worked her virgin nipples and poured their fornications on her. So I have given her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the sons of Assyria on whom she lusted. They uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters. And they killed her with the sword. And she was notorious among women, and they executed judgments on her. The yankee Jews are called Oholah, which means that she had her own tent for fornication. That expresses the honesty of her apostasy. The second one is Oholibah, and this means my tent is in her; my doctrine is in her. She burned with insatiability toward her lovers, her friends the Assyrians. Idolatry is spiritual fornication and literal fornication in one package. When she saw Assyria, that was it. She sought happiness, and they destroyed her.

Ezek. 23:11: And her sister Oholibah saw. And she was more corrupt in her lustfulness than she, and her fornications were greater than her sister's whoredom. She lusted to the sons of Assyria, neighboring governors and rulers clothed most perfectly, horsemen riding horses, all of them desirable young men. Then I saw that she was defiled, one way was to both of them. And she added to her fornications. And she saw men carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans engraved with vermillion color, girded with girdles on their loins, with overflowing turbans on their heads, the appearance of rulers, all of them, like the sons of Babylon in Chaldea, the land of their birth. There were illustrations of these men, which was pornography at this place. She burned with insatiability toward them. The WM can possess the body, but not the mind. Ezek. 23:16: And she lusted after them, to the sight of her eyes, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea. And the sons of Babylon came to her, to the bed of love. And they defiled her with their fornications. And she was defiled with them, and her soul was alienated from them. And she uncovered her fornications and uncovered her nakedness. Then My soul was alienated from her just as My soul was alienated from her sister. And she multiplied her fornications to recall the days of her youth, in which she had fornicated in the land of Egypt. And she lusted on their paramours of whom the flesh of asses resembles their flesh, and as the issue of horses was their issue. And you longed for the wickedness of your youth, when from Egypt they worked your nipples, for the sake of the breasts of your youth. Therefore, O Oholibah, the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I will arouse your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated. And I will bring them against you from all around,

this gives us enough background. Israel has justified her soul more than her sister, Judah.

Jer 3:11 And Jehovah said to me, The apostate and faithless Israel has justified herself [lit., her soul] more than treacherous Judah.

Every sip of wine is fornication, apostasy, self-inflicted misery. The bottom of the jug is filled with the tears of God. Once the northern kingdom goes out under the fifth cycle of discipline, God turns the cup upside down, and His tears come out upon them. Even under the fifth cycle, God calls for them to return to Him.

Preach fervently, with a loud voice and a very dogmatic statement. Shuba mashuba, Israel. A paranamasia, which is a play on words by a relaxed person, a person with a sense of humor, some who is not uptight. God is the greatest lover of all. The principle is, God is going to treat Israel in grace; just come back with your free will. Israel has gone under the fifth cycle, and God still calls Israel back. God has perfect righteousness, but He loves Israel; grace found a way for Israel to turn to Him. Every Levitical offering portrayed some portion of the cross; and this is the greatest example of grace. God send Jeremiah to Israel and He tells Jeremiah to shout this to them. It is the expression of a sense of Hebrew, which is grace. Real capacity for love crowds out mental attitude sins. You cannot be jealous and vindictive and come up with a relaxed statement like this. In the midst of the greatest unfaithfulness which could exist, the northern kingdom went out. Israel is a worn-out whore and God says, “Shuba mashubah” and when did you last say that to an old worn out whore?

their apostasy is honest and their return would be honest. Jeremiah probably went from place to place, and kept saying, Shuba mashuba, Israel.

When someone gets mad, their face falls on you. The translator recognized the idiom and translated it in that way (anger). I will not keep My anger against you forever, for I am gracious. God cannot say Shuba mashuba to Judah, because they are dishonest here. This is benevolent graciousness.

Jer 3:12 Go and cry these words toward the north, and say, Return, O apostate and faithless Israel, says Jehovah. I will not cause My face to fall on you, for I am merciful, says Jehovah; I will not keep anger forever.

The grace response requires rebound. Only acknowledge your iniquity. This is simply rebound. Acknowledge that you have transgressed against God. All sin is against the Lord, and it is Against You and You only have I sinned. Pazar means to disperse, to scatter but with the noun the way, it means to fornicate indiscriminately. These are men with whom they have intimacy, but they do not even know their names. They have turned from the true love of the Lord and the idea is, they have fornicated around loathsome strangers. They are acting without any discernment. They have no capacity to love God.

Jer 3:13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have rebelled against Jehovah your God and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says Jehovah.

Return, O rebellious sons... We have a second paranmasia here. The Qal perfect of the verb “I am baal to you.” You went for Baal; I am Baal to you. We can have all of the intimacy that you wanted with Baal, but it will be with your RM. God says that He will seize her passionately, even though He is speaking to a worn-out old bag. In effect, God is saying, “I am your RM.”

Bible doctrine is the biggest divider of families; positives and negatives never get together; merry Christmas to you. God says, “I will bring you to Zion.” Hiphil perfect of bow. The prophetic perfect. God will estore to the land those who were negative toward doctrine.

This is applied to the Jews in the northern kingdom and they will be there for the historical restoration which is in 516 b.c. There is a second restoration and that is prophetical, which takes up the slack for the descendants of these jews at the 2^nd advent.

Jer 3:14 Return, O apostate sons, declares Jehovah; for I am Lord over you. And I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

The capacity to love is based upon Bible doctrine in the soul. People pick up commentaries here and go backwards. You have to go, sit, listen and concentrate. All of it involves free will.

Here, they are being taught with authority and dogmatism. With the sheep, you hook him to keep him out of trouble and whack him now and again. The capacity to love God comes through doctrine and in no other way.

Jer 3:15 And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Jeremiah 3:16                                1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0016)

All prophets of the southern kingdom and the last 4 were all contemporary with Jeremiah and the rest with Isaiah.

Two categories of doctrine from v. 16. For these people, the Ark of the Covenant did not even come to mind. Is there any hope? It will come to pass. The word when indicates that there is a time which will come. There will be a population explosion in the Millennium. Parah means that they will increase, which is a perfect tense. Thieme talks about the waw conversive, but I don’t buy into that.

In those days will refer to when Christ reigns on the earth. People will continue to say this and they will keep on saying this. If you have a picture of someone that you love, you go for the person and not the picture. The Ark is the picture of Jesus Christ; the Person is there. The universal knowledge of Him will eclipse the Ark.

Neither will it ascend to the right lobe. Frame of reference. Intensity of memory; the memory of a loved one. No stimulant of memory is required. Memory does not have to be stimulated since Christ will be there in the Millennium. The Ark was visible and seen from time to time.

Jer 3:16 And it will be, when you multiply and increase in the land in those days, says Jehovah, they will no longer say, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah! Nor shall it come to the heart, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they miss it, nor shall it be made any more.

Jerusalem will become the throne of the Jehovah and all nations will gather to Jerusalem. Nationalism is not removed by the world rule of Jesus Christ. All nations will be gathered unto it. You can receive hope in assembly worship, face to face teaching. It would be tempting for Bob to rip the hide off those who do not feel that assembly is not important. He’s going to leave it just there, however.

They will not walk in the imagination of their evil heart. Shareruth which means wicked imagination; wicked imagination comes from negative volition. Better rendered obstanancy. Hard-headedness, which comes from an evil heart, which comes from negative volition toward doctrine.

Jer 3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah. And all nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem. And they shall not walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

Mental attitude sins caused the split between the northern and southern kingdoms. They would be merged in their life together and they would come together. They will be merged and, in every way, one nation. They would come out of the land of the north. The northern kingdom went out in 721 b.c. and the southern kingdom in 586 b.c. by the Chaldeans. How is it possible to take a bunch of hard-headed Jews as we find here; and how is it possible to restore these people and this nation. How can this all be accomplished?

Jer 3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north, to the land that I have given for an inheritance to your fathers.

The first “I said” is from eternity past. He states the problem. Then God gave a solution. He stated the problem and He stated the solution. The dealing with Israel in grace all the way through was all settled in eternity past.

Sheeth means to constitute, to decree; to work it out for you to be among the sons. How is it possible to give you a pleasant land? A heritage of the chief of splendor. How is it possible to take you whores and make you a part of the whole. This is the dilemma which God had. Grace finds a way. There will be a heritage of the chiefest splendor of the nations. The only way that God can do this is by grace. Grace takes an old whore and turns her in to a raving beauty. Only God in His grace can do this. Your free will is directed toward God.

The 2^nd “I said.” This is the answer of grace. “You will call Me, my Father.” Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. God accomplishes the Jews’ restoration the same way He does this for us. You will notice, only a born-again Jews can call God “My Father.” Through salvation, the Jew is born into the family of God and the 1^st person becomes his Father. God the Father found a way through grace by which the Jews could inherit the land.

Why do you think we have the Levitical offerings and the brazen altar and the holy days and other things which present the Lord Jesus Christ so lucidly. You almost get the impression that salvation is more clear to them than to us.

If you had to guess tonite, shall not turn away is what verb? Shub. Never be unfaithful again. Once the Jews get into the Millennium that’s it. You will never have to say shuba mashuba again. Positional truth and just as God designed one RM for one RW, He designed Jesus Christ as the only God of Israel.

Positional truth for the Jews are the covenants. A believers unfaithfulness in time does not hinder the plan of God. With this glorious dissertation on grace, we can come Sunday morning...

Jer 3:19 But I said, How gladly would I put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful inheritance among the multitudes of nations! And I said, You shall call Me, My Father; and you shall not turn away from Me.

Jeremiah 3:6                                  1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0017)

We have the northern and southern kingdoms; the northern kingdom is out under the fifth cycle of discipline; and the southern kingdom is 40 years out from disaster. Bob did 10 hours studying and covered 15 verses in the Hebrew. He beats his brains out studying, and when he begins writing on the overhead, he expects it to work. People got sloppy after being on vacation.

The northern kingdom has been in the fast crowd and has gone out as a worn out party girl. The southern kingdom is about to follow suit. Baal is really a title. There is an oven for child sacrifice, there is Ashtaroth a naked woman statue, and a temple for bestiality. Phallus symbols for autoeroticism.

The Hebrew makes it clear that operation phallic cult is what has been going on. Aken is a strong affirmative, and this is the illustration of Judah’s unfaithfulness. Isha can mean wife, woman, RW. Judah has her RM, God. Ephraim has her RM, God.

Min reah, which can mean companion, friend; lover, RM. This is someone who is in the soul of his RW.

Jer 3:20 Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her lover, so you have acted deceitfully with Me, O house of Israel, declares Jehovah.

The licentious sounds of the phallic cult, the sounds of the sex orgy, turned to weeping and supplication. Beki is the dropping of tears from a miserable person. The objection and avoidance of Bible doctrine which comes from maximum unhappiness. Then we have supplications. Weeping is the character of the voice and supplications is the content. Tachanuth which is a prayer for mercy.

In the Niphal stem, the verb means to receive perversion; in the Hiphil, it means to cause to act perversely. When they left God for idols, they were caused to act perversely. They have perverted their ways. As they became involved in these, they have forgotten their God. To forget, to neglect, to disregard. When a RW becomes unfaithful, she forgets; it is out of sight and out of mind. Then she neglects him in every way. They she disregards him.

You can neglect a pseudo lover, but a woman cannot neglect or forget her RM without a total loss of capacity. If the woman does not miss the man when he is absent and does not think about him, then she lacks the capacity for love (or he is not her RM). They could go to parties without RM/RW, but they had to sublimate, often with alcohol. Any time a person can go partying, and have a ball, there is something missing. Here is a good measuring stick for those who are moving around in single bliss.

Jer 3:21 A voice was heard weeping on the bare heights, pleadings of the sons of Israel; for they have perverted their way; they have forgotten Jehovah their God.

The grace appeal to Judah’s unfaithfulness. Shub in the Qal imperative. Now that you have rebounded, come on back. It is one thing to rebound; and it is another thing to come back to Bible class regularly. It is the consistency which counts. The edification complex is the reflected glory of God. Shuba shoba here, another paronomasia. “I will repair your backsliding.” This means to sew a wound up. In the ancient world, when someone had a hole in them, they stitched it up. This is called Raphah. They did not know about surgery and going in an tying anything up, but they “repaired” the backsliding. Meshubah. Shuba shoba meshuba, a triple compound paronomasia. A sense of humor is often involved in capacity to love. A bunch of people came off the mountain and responded to God’s call.

Jer 3:22 Return, O apostate sons; I will heal your apostasies. Behold, we come to You, for You are Jehovah our God.

All the way through this passage, we have had come (bow) or shub (return), and they respond with apah, a strong decision to come to doctrine. It is coming for the purpose of taking in doctrine to respond to doctrine. It has the sound of love. They are not just coming back to the Temple to get doctrine and to get capacity for love. They had recognition of God as being their RM. This brings up the issue of Judah’s unfaithfulness. A strong affirmation of doctrine. A word for deceit. It means fraud of deceit and it is one who deceives or disappoints. There are many mountains on which idolatry is practiced. Idolatry and adultery. The many mountains. The same strong affirmative, and the Lord our God is the Deliverer. If the unbeliever is going to come to the Lord, they must come with faith in Christ. As in the case with Judah, this country will not have a chance for survival, whether rebound or faith in Christ.

Jer 3:23 Truly, for delusion comes from the hills, tumult on the mountains. Truly, in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.

The wages for Judah’s unfaithfulness. Bosheth means disgrace, idol. It is used to describe the idol as well as the licentious practices involved in the worship of the idol. Bosheth is found under the concept of shameful things. Consuming with a voracious appetite. The wealth. Idolatry sucks up the wealth. Our fathers refers to the immediate generation of Jeremiah. These are the young teens coming off the hill listening to Jeremiah. Many of them will surive the whole thing. They see the error of their parents. They bring in themselves from this point. The youth here refers to the young people. Bible doctrine is the only hope for the youth of our nation. It depends entirely upon Who and What God is. Thousands of young people, the sons and daughters of their apostate parents, they will return to the land in 536 b.c.

2Chron. 36:14–17: Also, all the heads of the priests, and the people were continually acting unfaithfully according to all the abominable idols of the nations; and they defiled the house of Jehovah that He had sanctified in Jerusalem. And Jehovah, the God of their fathers, sent to them by the hand of His messengers, rising early and sending, for He had pity on his people and on His dwelling place. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised His Words, and scoffed at His prophets until the wrath of Jehovah went up against His people, until there was no healing. And He caused the king of the Chaldeans to go up against them; and he killed their choice ones by the sword in the house of their holy place, and had no pity on the young man and the virgin, the old man and the very aged; He gave all into his hand.

Zephaniah, Jeremiah, Habbakuk and someone else all teaching at the same time. They mocked the messengers of God and they despised His words. They mock Him until there is no remedy. God gave all the people into the hand of the Chaldeans.

The last phrase will be continued next time in the second service.

Jer 3:24 For the shameful thing has eaten up the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Jeremiah 3:24b–                            1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0018)

Review of vv. 23–24a: the worst time to deal with a series is second service Sunday AM, which is a group who are not all keeping up with the series.

RM/RW is the parallel to God and Judah (and Israel). God, as the RM, has initiated love to Israel, and the response to the RW is the same way. The RW has become negative toward doctrine and has become unfaithful. Naah which is fornication for pleasure and zaah, which is fornication for profit. Statues would be set up of naked women, and there would be fornication in front of them. Baal is essentially a title rather than the name, and he is a fat man in front of a furnace where there is the burning of children and slaves. Then phallic things and then a temple for fornication with animals.

There are two kingdoms, the northern kingdom going out under idolatry, apostasy and fornication. The southern kingdom is in its last 40 years. In the Hebrew, we actually have a picture of the fast crowd, and they have already cast off this jaded party girl, which is Israel. She has become ugly, she has become a lush, and she has become a prostitute. However, coming into the picture is a brand new party gal. She has stars in her eyes. She likes the fast crowd, she likes the fornication and she is moving in here. She like the social life and the action and she does not look at her jaded sister who is on the way out.

We will study a linen girdle, a leopard with spots and something else coming up.

V. 23 gives us a picture of the issue. Strong affirmative for an assertion of truth. It is a very strong affirmative. The hill is where the idols are hanging out. You can see the naked woman, the fat man Baal hanging over the furnace. The people have gone negative toward their RM. They are sublimating by going to idolatry. Every believer has the right to ask himself, which way is he really going. You are either going to be positive or negative as a believer.

The ancient old time religion was, they began with ritual, and it moved into idolatry and into a sex orgy. When you begin to drink from this jug, you go further and further into optimum misery.

Jer 3:23 Truly, for delusion comes from the hills, tumult on the mountains. Truly, in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.

Bosheth means ignominy, disgrace, idols. The definite article means this refers to the idols. We find this same phrase in Jer. 11:13. Jeremiah’s generation have lost capacity for love and they have gone off into the mountains and they are frustrated and miserable, and it has never worked out before.

The idols have devoured their labor, which means profit. All of their earnings and wealth have been eaten up by the idols. The youth of two generations. Those of Jeremiah’s generation and their children, and both of these generations have failed. The parents failed in their youth, going negative toward Bible doctrine. There is a right God and a right people. The Jews believed in Jesus Christ and turned and worshiped the Father. Those who stayed with Bible doctrine have +H. They have dissipated their youth and their happiness. All of the nonsense at Berachah has been cut out. All of the young people have begun to respond to this. Their parents were negative toward doctrine but their children have turned around. There are parents here today who are not happy; they are sublimators, parents who are not happy with their children, who will go for navigator programs or campus for Christ programs, or some other young people’s group. There are young people who have been in Bible class every night because they recognize the importance and that doctrine is what counts. With doctrine, they have the capacity to have fun. They do not need programs or musical chairs or church activities to keep them engaged. Fundamental churches have fallen down here, and other organizations have tried to fill in the gap. This is the generation who will survive the death march, who is live under Gedeliah, who will form the nucleus for the new Judah. Young people can catch on, and Berachah’s auditorium was filled with young people; a lot in uniform. This generation will save this country.

The sons and daughters had been offered up as sacrifices.

Jer 3:24 For the shameful thing has eaten up the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Pitiful English. Shakab has a root meaning of a sick person lying down because they feel bad. It is also used for a mourner throwing themself on the ground. Her loved one has just been buried and she falls on the ground and screams in frustration. 2Sam. 12:16 used of an unhappy unbeliever dying.

The meaning of a word is determined by its usage. Shakab is used for laying down with a woman, which means to fornicate. Gen. 34:2 39:77 Deut. 22:23 raped in the Niphal stem. The men who translated this passage were either sheltered or confused. They have been fornicating with their shame. What is wrong with fornicating with an idol? Judah is pictured as the RW and God as the RM. They have accepted the idol as their lover. Fornicating with idols is the analogy. An idol is nothing, as they learn from 1Corinthians. When a person seeks happiness apart from divine design, there is no happiness. There is no happiness apart from divine design. God is our RM and we cannot love Him with Bible doctrine in our soul. There is no other way. Without doctrine, it is like spiritual masturbation. When a person rejects divine design and goes to autoeroticism, it is an unhappy, frustrating situation, which is exactly what the Word of God says here. For those who just tuned in, you are probably in a slight state of trauma. If you as a believer in Jesus Christ are neglecting Bible doctrine, you will lack capacity for love. Bible doctrine is our capacity to love. Spiritually speaking, if we reject Bible doctrine, that is comparable to some form of sublimation. The form used here is autoeroticism. God did all of this designing in eternity past. He designed for us a RM or a RW, and that person is perfect, designed to be in our souls and body. If you reject Bible doctrine, you just like the frustrated whores or the frustrated masturbator. The body is designed to go with a soul.

Masturbation fails to recognize that the soul comes first. The RM/RW has such a soul relationship, their physical love is phenomenal. It is so good and marvelous and relaxed and satisfying. Where there is no RM/RW relationship, there is operation lush; operation getting old and moving out of the fast crowd. Now we have operation masturbation.

If you neglect Bible doctrine, you will be under anathema maranatha. Without believing and without doctrine, you will be grabbing at straws all of your life. God has designed the believer for doctrine and doctrine is the capacity to love Him. You can effervesce but there is no reality. Some of you have dabbled in the tongues movement, and that is a form of sublimation. We begin with a woman faking it and end up the masturbation and sublimation. No sense in wishing you a happy new year because it won’t be a happy new year. This is the annual pilgrimage to Berachah for some. Some of you expect to be patted on the head, hear some nice cliches, and then you go. However, you will never be happy apart from Bible doctrine.

To make this very clear and so you see how sticky this really is, we fornicate with our shame; we fornicate with idols. Our confusion covers us. Idols are pictured here in a humorous way. Kelimah means confusion and it pictures and idol making love.

Sublimation becomes a habit and they are locked in negative. They have not obeyed the voice of the Lord their God. This is the third time we have the word voice. Vv. 9, 21, 25. She defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and stalks. She is faking satisfaction; she is frustrated and unhappy with sex and she is faking satisfaction.

the voice of misery and frustration in v. 21.

2^nd voice in v. 9 faking it in sex. V. 21, the voice of frustration, but also the voice of rebound. Our confusion, our idols, are superimposed over us. We have sinned against the Lord. We have sinned against the Lord. The true perspective of rebound. David had committed many sins, but he said, “Against You and You only have I sinned.”

There are some younger people who will make it. Daniel, Zerubabel, etc.

We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord. The voice of the Lord is Bible doctrine. This is God making love to us every day; all doctrine is contained in the canon. God as the RM is the aggressor. We have free will, we can say yes or no. if we reject Bible doctrine, then we have no capacity to love God or to be able to respond to His love. God is the RM, Who initiates love to us through doctrine. He gives us a human spirit at spiritual birth, which is empty. It is cycled up and down. Exhaled toward God and exhaled toward man.

Jer 3:25 We lie down in our shame [we keep on fornicating with our shame], and our confusion covers us [superimpose over us\. For we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.

Our conclusion is found in 2Chron. 36: Isaiah, Micah and Nahum were all sent, and they listened. Jeremiah, Obadiah, Habakkuk were sent to Judah the second time. They spent their time in the Word and they were prepared.

The Temple portrays the edification complex of the soul. They despised His words (doctrine). Jeremiah was thrown into prison many times. We are moving rapidly to a place of no remedy. He brought in the Chaldees who had no compassion.

2Chron. 36:14: Also, all the heads of the priests, and the people were continually acting unfaithfully according to all the abominable idols of the nations; and they defiled the house of Jehovah that He had sanctified in Jerusalem. And Jehovah, the God of their fathers, sent to them by the hand of His messengers, rising early and sending, for He had pity on his people and on His dwelling place. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised His Words, and scoffed at His prophets until the wrath of Jehovah went up against His people, until there was no healing. And He caused the king of the Chaldeans to go up against them; and he killed their choice ones by the sword in the house of their holy place, and had no pity on the young man and the virgin, the old man and the very aged; He gave all into his hand.

They fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah. The principle is, when the Jews went out, it fulfills what Jeremiah said. We in our nation are on the verge of destruction. We can go up the hill of sublimation or we can go to the temple of Bible teaching.

2Ch 36:18 And all the vessels of the house of God, the large and the small, and the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king and his leaders, he brought all to Babylon. And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem; and they burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its beautiful vessels. And he removed to Babylon those who were left of the sword; and they were slaves to him and to his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia; in order to fulfill the Word of Jehovah in the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths; all the days of the desolation it kept the sabbath, to the full measure of seventy years.

Jeremiah 13:1                                1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0019)

We are going to study girdle, which is hidden today, but everyone seems to know about it, thanks to television. After walking a thousand miles with a girdle, you get your sermon from a jug of wine, then the next from the Ethiopian and a leopard with spots.

When you get a generation like ours with a lot of people with a religious background or with a phoney background, and it is then hard to translate some of these things. This oracle began in Jer. 11:1.

Jeremiah is told to go and purchase an expensive girdle, the purpose of a girdle has not changed in several thousand years. A woman’s girdle has not changed its use in several thousand years. It is designed to give the woman the greatest appearance with the least amount of comfort. It is designed to fit very snugly. The purpose of the girdle is to make a woman’s figure look symmetrical. The loins of the prophet is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. Putting it upon one’s loins is a picture of category #2 love as an illustration of category #1 love. In the doctrine of RM/RW, there is a perfect soul fit. Their souls coalesce. If the RW can go out anywhere and forget about her man then he is not her RM. This illustrates the God of Judah, Jesus Christ, and the southern kingdom Judah. As the girdle fits the loins of the prophet, so Judah fits her RM, which is Jesus Christ.

The relationship between a perfectly fitted girdle and the loins of the prophet, is a very intimate relationship. Put it on is sum; but put it not is a different verb and in a different stem. Bow can be used for (Gen. 6:4 16:2) sexual relationship. Do not have sexual intercourse with water. Water refers to the idols and Judah, as idolatrous, is as unstable as water. Judah was designed to love the Lord and to fit the Lord. The RW is Judah and Judah is not to have intercourse with water, which means no idolatry. Fornication in the worship of idols. When you get something which fits perfectly, then don’t go anywhere else.

Jer 13:1 So says Jehovah to me, Go and buy for yourself a linen girdle, and put it on your loins, and do not put it in [do not have sexual intercourse with] water.

So Jeremiah obeyed. Purchasing a girdle illustrates salvation. There were thousands of Jews who had believed in Jesus Christ. After believing, they went up on the hill to worship idols. The Jews could distinguish between the Father and the Son. They went to the Son for salvation and recognized the Father afterwards.

A different analogy than in the past. RW has had a relationship with her RM and then she has left him. She has some capacity, but the girdle is purchased. The analogy goes back to category #2 love.

Jer 13:2 So I bought a girdle according to the Word of Jehovah and put it on my loins.

The second time that the Word came to him, Jeremiah bought a girdle. In the second stage, the RW goes negative toward her RM, even though she has actually enjoyed a good life with him up until this time. The first time, he wears the girdle. Then he buries the girdle and digs it up again.

Every now and again, God takes a man who has a capacity to love, like Jeremiah, like the Apostle Paul, and he knocks out RW; and they have a double-love for God. God will more than make up for the RW. They will not have the trouble that they would otherwise have. Don’t feel sorry for either of them. God had other things. A RW can be very possessive and even jealous of God. There is a lack of capacity. God was not only under category #1 love but God filled the category #2 love slot; true only of the great ones.

Jer 13:3 And the Word of Jehovah came to me a second time, saying,

The loins of the prophet represent God and burying the girdle represents unfaithfulness of Judah, which has not capacity for love. The digging up of the girdle represents the fifth cycle of discipline.

Buy and wear a girdle; take a walk and bury it; and dig up the girdle. The buying and the wearing is category #1 love love. The burying is unfaithfulness. Jeremiah did a lot of work for this message. The digging up of the girdle means a second chance for category #1 love.

Laqak means to seize, to grab, to take. Jeremiah grabs the girdle, however he does that, and grabbing the girdle is free will, which is the free will of the unfaithful woman. Of her own free will, she is unfaithful. Free will can go negative. When the woman goes up on the mountain, she does not know the men up there, but she goes up there, offers her sacrifice, and has sex with these men. She is doing this of her own free will.

The girdle is on his loins, which means it is still RM/RW. He is going to arise. For this, you have to be on your feet. Arise and go, from Jerusalem where he has been wearing it, and take it to the Euphrates River, 250 miles away, which is a long ways to take a girdle to bury it.

Then he is to hide it there in the cleft of a rock. The Euphrates River and the rocky soil. Hiding it in rocky soil and the girdle is a picture of Judah in unfaithfulness. Optimum misery. When you are unfaithful to the Lord, you make your own misery. You compound the problem. RW becomes unfaithful to her RM. He had to bury this girdle deep enough so that he cannot dig his way out. Once you get yourself into this kind of a jackpot, the only thing that will help is doctrine.

Jer 13:4 Take the girdle that you bought, which is on your loins, and rise up. Go to Euphrates and hide it there in the cleft of the rock.

Jeremiah walked 250 miles and obeyed the Lord. The girdle is the southern kingdom, which had become unfaithful to God. Negative volition makes a vacuum in the soul. Judah was bored and went off to go behind her RM’s back. Negative volition toward doctrine. Boredom, instability.

Jer 13:5 So I went and hid it by Euphrates, as Jehovah commanded me.

The recovery of the girdle. Jeremiah went to the Euphrates, deposited the girdle, came back; and, after many days, was sent off to the Euphrates. Grab it and seize it and haul it out of there. The volition of the Jews led them to their own fifth cycle of discipline.

Jer 13:6 And it happened at the end of many days, Jehovah said to me, Rise up, go to Euphrates and take the girdle from there, which I commanded you to hide there.

Jeremiah goes back to the Euphrates. He digs it up and seizes it. The girdle was useless. If a believer stays too long locked in negative toward doctrine, he becomes useless. He can no longer function correctly. There is this point of no return. You keep going negative; fornicating over and over again until there is no return. Once you pass this point, negative pursues a point of uselessness. For the nation, this is the fifth cycle. For the believer, this is the sin unto death. Once a believer gets past the point of grasping category #1 love, God takes him home.

The girdle was in the dirt too long; it rotted and it was prospered for nothing. In other words, all of the time that the Jews were trying to have fun on the mountain, away from God, their RM, on the mountain, they had their short moments of stimulation, but it was nothing. There is no blessing, happiness, stimulation, etc. under category #1 love. There was no fit left; there was no elasticity remaining. When Jeremiah dug this girdle up, it was in shreds. This is their apostasy period, and all their capacity for love was destroyed. Either you are faithful to the one you fit or you are fit for nothing.

Jer 13:7 And I went to Euphrates and dug, and I took the girdle from the place, there where I had hidden it. And behold, the girdle was rotted! It was not useful for anything.

God permits certain laws to continue, and He allows people to use their own free will against Him. Gaon is reflected glory, which is marred or destroyed. They have passed the point of no return with regards to the edification complex structure. RM/RW come into contact and are involved enough with one another so that she reflects the glory of her RM. She has become bored with her RM, and now she fornicates with idols, which is done from her own free will. She has gotten to a point where she no longer thinks about her RM, and the glory has been destroyed.

The preservation of a national entity comes from the edification complex, and this is the reflected glory of individual believers. This preserves a nation.

Jer 13:8–9 Then the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying, So says Jehovah, So I will spoil the pride [or, glory] of Judah, and the great pride [glory] of Jerusalem.

Here, evil means worthless. The girdle is worthless; the people are worthless. Because they are worthless, out they go. If Bible doctrine isn’t your life or your breath, then you have lost the reflected glory of God. Slowly but surely, there has been a shifting of gears in Berachah church. There have been worthless people on the board, in the congregation, and they are leaving. They cannot take it. Jeremiah will push the rest right out. But the girdle will not be marred.

In days of apostasy, you cannot be a mealy mouthed pastor. Slowly but surely, the worthless people are going. A person who thinks more of music than Bible doctrine. Or thinks more of sweetness and light than Bible doctrine. A person who does not understand the thrust of T&P. Who does not recognize the importance of Bible doctrine. You need to understand that the only way you can grow is through the intake of Bible doctrine. A worthless person thinks you need to have Christian education gimmicks; who believes in spirituality by legalism. Churches are marred girdles all over the place. They are worn down. If you stick around here, you might as well cinch up your girdle tight. If you do not get the point of Bible doctrine, you will not be able to stick around Berachah.

The girdle has free will. It can do its job or be buried in the rocky soil. When a woman finds her RM, she has the one who is designed for her. Without the capacity to respond to him, she is going to be worthless. With one worthless RW, God puts her out under the fifth cycle. Mental adultery. She looks for other men. In mental adultery, a woman sees a man, on tv, in the movies, in her social life; and she cycles that man through her soul to frame of reference. When she is alone, she brings this man into her thinking and commits mental adultery with him. This is the imagination of her heart. Idols are nothing just as paramours are nothing. While she is being unhappy in her fornication, she is also destroying her capacity to love. She is not only building up misery, she is destroying any capacity to love her RM. This is what happens with believers who go negative toward doctrine. While they are singing Do Lord or talking in tongues, they are destroying their capacity to love God. They serve and worship these idols. They do this from their own volition and they still go in for idols. There are believers who are born again, and they go awry. The temporary stimulation and it is all nothing. Qal imperfect of tsalaq. There is no prosperity for the individual or for the nation without Bible doctrine. It is either God’s design or you have had it.

Jer 13:10 This evil [worthless] people who refuse to hear My Words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them and to worship them, shall even be like this girdle which is not useful for anything.

The girdle perfect clings to the man. God causes them to cling to Him. The Hiphil stem in eternity past. God designed in eternity past, and the house of Judah and Israel both rebelled against God.

Tehilah means the day by day responding to God through Bible doctrine. This is the discovery of His grace and his stability. There is a long period of discovering wonderful things about the other. This does not mean to run around singing “Praise the Lord.” If you have a good Christmas, you can perpetuate who and what the Lord is.

Deut. 26 describes the marriage of God and Israel. Jeshurun, honorable; a purpose and praise and then reflected glory, the crown on the edification complex of the soul. But, the girdle then just buried itself in misery and frustration. “They would not hear.” Negative volition creates a vacuum into which everything that is dishonoring to God is drawn.

Jer 13:11 For as this girdle holds fast to the loins of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me, says Jehovah, to be to Me for a people, and for a name, and for praise, and for glory; but they would not listen.

Jeremiah 13:12                              1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0020)

The new message is the sign of the jug of wine. This is an advance on the first analogy. The girdle emphasized RM/RW. The jug of wine emphasizes the misery, sublimation and frustration when the divine design is rejected. A new message—what happens when you reject divine design.

There were no bottles in the ancient world; this was a jar, a jug or a skin filled with wine. The British picked up the word hogshead from this, referring to a large, liquid measure. The jug of wine represents people who have gone negative toward Bible doctrine. The wine in the jug is a picture of the misery, as they sipped it and as they drunk it. Zek. 23:31–35. Every sip or every gulp, whichever it is, is a picture of seeking sublimation and winding up with misery. For every person in the land, there was a jug of wine.

Male means right up to the brim. Wine does not represent God stepping in and judging, but certain laws which are automatic judgment, which just kick in. God does not have to step in every time a person steps out of line. It is paying the piper sort of a law. The piper plays a tune and you dance to it, then you owe the piper money for the tune. The judgments which are about to occur are in the process. These are believers who learned doctrine and they have turned from it. They do have perception and cognizance. They knew the alternative to negative volition to doctrine.

Jer 13:12 So you will speak to them this Word: So says Jehovah, God of Israel, Every skin shall be filled with wine. And they shall say to you, Do we not know full well that every skin shall be filled with wine?

The kings are Jehoahaz, put on the throne by Pharaoh Necco and removed by Nebuchadnezzar. Jeconiah (Coniah) was put on the throne and lasted for 100 days. His uncle, 21, came to the throne as Zedekiah. They were wine sippers from the jug of supplication. The priests communicated the written word. The prophets are the communicators of there spoken word. In habitants of Jerusalem, who were apostate. These are 4 categories and they are all drunk. Drunkenness represents the content of the jug and self-inflicted misery. Outside of that circle, you can look and look and look, and outside of that is the jug, minus H. Here is an empty jug, the RM and another one, the RW; and here they smash into each other and they destroy each other. No capacity for love means that they smash into each other, and now they are empty jugs.

Jer 13:13 Then you shall say to them, So says Jehovah, Behold, I will fill all those living in this land, even the kings that sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all those living in Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

Naphats, and they are empty jugs. This time the jugs are empty because the RM jug has the capacity for love, but the RW is empty. The full one does not break, but the empty one breaks. The empty wine skin is brittle. God has capacity to love them in our analogy. When they come to see God, they came on the feast of atonement. No capacity to love God. A man against his counterpart

You category #3 love friends will peal off because you are always complaining about your category #2 love relationship. If you want to have a miserable life, all you need to do is lack capacity. The US does not have the statues for the phallic cult, but we have partying without the religion. A maximum number of brittle people, and when they come into contact with God, they are brittle with their contacts in life. The smashing of the jug is illustrated in this verse.

4 Steps The Lord says, I will not pity. This has to be rather carefully studied. This lover is a gentleman, up against sublimation, the empty pot, the brittle pot. This means to have sympathy, compassion-type love. You can love someone, but it is based on compassion.

1.       God is a full jug and he does not smash, and He still has love for them.

2.       They have rejected doctrine from their own free will. God is a gentleman and He does not cut off divine design without getting into brittleness of soul.

Pity is emotion toward someone, but not love; and compassion is with love.

How can a loving God smash a believer? Smash them now, see them in heaven. That is love. Some of you will never understand this.

Jer 13:14 And I will smash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, declares Jehovah; I will not pity nor spare nor have compassion, to keep them from their destruction.

Jeremiah 13:12–15                        1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0021)

We will add two new categories to the doctrine. Bob omitted categorical teaching to have a panoramic view. Negative volition to Bible doctrine.

The girdle represents RM/RW; the wine represents sublimation.

Jer 13:12 So you will speak to them this Word: So says Jehovah, God of Israel, Every skin shall be filled with wine. And they shall say to you, Do we not know full well that every skin shall be filled with wine?

Jer 13:13 Then you shall say to them, So says Jehovah, Behold, I will fill all those living in this land, even the kings that sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all those living in Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

End review; two new doctrines.

A doctrine is a principle taken from one passage where a doctrine comes from many.

We have already seen that with two bad generations, God sometimes destroys them to preserve the next generation.

I will not pity, we have points on this. Girdle is marred and the jug is smashed, same words for both.

Jer 13:14 And I will smash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, declares Jehovah; I will not pity nor spare nor have compassion, to keep them from their destruction.

Is there any solution? Is there any hope? God will not make love to the believer if the believer is negative toward doctrine. People who have never concentrated in their lives go positive toward doctrine and pay attention.

Hiphil imperative: in the Qal stem, it means to be sharp, acute [animal’s ears go strait up to hear something]; to become alert. In the Hiphil, it means to be caused to become alert; you are keening the air for doctrine. Once God makes love to you through doctrine, you want more of the same every day. These two imperatives recognize the problem of Judah.

Negative toward God, which is a left bank response; they reject their RM or RW and have sex with strangers, which is a right bank response.

Bob has gotten the weirdest group of letters in all time. It is really bad around here. Buddy claims that it is just Christmas, but Bob thinks that this is perpetual Halloween. Self-justification, self-vindication is the type of pride here. There is pride and jealousy here. They both make the same lofty sin in jealousy and pride. Flip the coin one way and you have pride; flip it the other way and you have jealousy. Self-justification and self-vindication. Always find a patsy. Be no proud. God has provided doctrine. That is what it means when it says, the Lord has spoken. God makes love to the believer every day, but this is stopped by negative volition toward Him. Some people will say, “I’m not going to be a robot; I am not going to take in doctrine every day.” When God speaks, it is doctrine.

Jer 13:15 Hear and give ear; do not be proud, for Jehovah has spoken.

The second hope. Qal imperative of nathan, which is an order. How do you give glory to God? Glory is kabowd. Give glory to God is like a RW making love to her RM. She become his reflected glory. Glory refers to the edification complex. In other words, as you take in doctrine every day, and you respond in a positive way, you will accumulate doctrine in the human spirit and your soul is fulfilled by God.

You have an edification complex, which is the reflected glory of God. The tabernacle first of all and then the Temple in the Old Testament. The Shekinah glory is the principle of the edification complex. As you take in Bible doctrine and erect the edification complex of the soul, you reflect God’s glory. You become lights to the rest of the world, reflecting His light.

The next phrase is give glory to God before... Literally, this means, in the not yet. This is a warning given before the Jews go into the fifth cycle of discipline. This principle is a part of life. No one is brought into contact with the RM/RW without first having the capacity for love. This means that nothing but a brittle soul will. Darkness, calamity in the Hiphil. Catastrophe is the shattering of the jug. It is not a sudden shattering; you build up to it. Give glory to God your RM before He causes a catastrophe. They will keep sipping the jug until it is empty. The RM has the capacity to love. When the jug is empty, there will be nothing in the jug but the tears of God. No jug left and the tears will spill to the ground.

How do you work up to catastrophe? Nagaph. The act upon yourself. You sip yourself from the jug, and each sip is an act of sublimation. The feet stumbling is a different analogy. The word means to stumble, fall, get up, and then you stumble and fall again. You stagger. You are up and then you are down. You stumble from your own volition. You stumble upon the dark mountain. They are doing 2 things: they are rejecting Bible doctrine. They are rejecting Jeremiah’s ministry. Idolatry and fornication up on the mountain. They are going up there looking for happiness. They are going up on the mountain waiting for the big break. The woman does not have the capacity to love her RM so she waits for some person, waiting for some happiness to come through. The thing that you touch for happiness is dead. Idolatry is what is in view here. Idolatry will make them misery instead of happy; the idol will destroy them. By everything that you use to seek happiness, it has already been decreed as unhappiness.

The fifth cycle of discipline, the shattering of the jug. God doesnot change His love, but Judah lacks the capacity for His love.

Jer 13:16 Give glory to Jehovah your God before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains. Yea, while you look for light, He puts it into death shade, setting up deep gloom.

The weeping anthropopathism. If you continue to reject God’s love, you will begin to expect something. Volition, concentration. Sorrow of soul; this is soul-weeping. Bakah, which is true love and capacity for love missing the RW in this case. The inward expression of true love. God is weeping for His true love, which is Judah. Is God weeping for us tonite? Are we taking in doctrine or not? True love, with no place to go, remains in secret.

God’s love is in secret places because of Judah’s pride. Overt weeping, and it is found twice. To be observable. Qal infinitive then followed by the Qal imperfect of dama. Weeping, they will weep. There is tremendous intensity. God does not just do a little weeping; it is intense. Just before the judgment, the tears on the inside cannot change the brittleness of the jug. The whole thing which makes the RM/RW operate is free will. God could drown the world in tears, but it would not change on volition. When the jug is smashed, the jug is filled with tears. God expresses maximum love, a jug filled with tears, but God’s tears do not destroy the brittleness of the bottle as the brittleness came from volition.

Niphal of shavah, which is the passive, and it means to be shattered and it means to be carried into captivity; and in the Niphal, it means to receive captivity. There is more volition sublimation. God is always positive. When God loves us, He still has to chasten us.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin and can the leopard change his spots? The answer is yes and no. God cannot change our spots; He cannot change out skin. It requires positive volition.

Jer 13:17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for [because of] your pride. And my eye shall bitterly weep and run down with tears, because the flock of Jehovah was captured.

Jeremiah 13:18                    1970 Jeremiah (540-0022)           1970 New Year’s Eve

In these last 3 hours of the old year, every believer is a priest, so this must be the New Year’s Eve message, part I. Embarking on another year is simply a matter of grace. We have been sustained based upon Who and What God is. God’s grace and faithfulness are with us.

The brittle jug is empty, and it is brittle because of free will. The believer has gone negative toward Bible doctrine. As we saw the jug shattering, the tears of our Lord fell to the ground. God is a gentleman and because of this, He will not violate the volition of the believer. Why the empty jug and why the tears? The answer is, the Ethiopian cannot change his skin and a leopard cannot change its spots.

A message to King Jeconiah and to the Queen mother. A Qal infinitive construct which begins this particular verse. Amer is making a dissertation based upon what one is thinking. In context, it is important to understand this passage in context.

This message is for Jeconiah, and his father has died and had the burial of an ass. His mother had a very bad influence on him. A mother ruined her son, the king. Ahushta was involved in the phallic cult and so was her husband and they got their son into it. He will reign for only 100 days. Nebuchadnezzar appointed him for 100 days and then deposed him. He began his reign in 6Dec. 598 b.c. and it will last until 16March 597 b.c. gibirah refers to the queen-mother. Coniah’s mother is Ahushta, and this is addressed to her and to her son. This could be “Tell mother I’ll be there, because mother went ot hell and Coniah almost did.” Mother and son, the 2 generation curse. Mother and son both sipping out of the same jug. A saturation of degeneracy of sipping out of the same jug. There will be the opportunity to get out of it. Principle, grace before judgment. God is always fair. No one receives divine judgment without a lot of warning.

Shakal Hiphil imperative. The time is short and the grace warning is given in the imperative mood. The infinitive construct can also carry the force of an imperative. Salvation appealed to her. Apparently she is a believer. There is no way to really discern. We may all get a shock and see her there. It is definitely a command to orient to grace. Orientation to grace and people have been sipping out of their jugs in sublimation. Going from negative to positive toward doctrine. Most of us have probably gone through this, being negative and then going positive.

The next verb is, sit down. This means to actually sit down in a place of happiness and blessing. Happiness comes through the daily intake of doctrine. With Bible doctrine, you superimpose your happiness upon unhappiness.

The king, up until this point, has displayed nothing but more negative volition. He has 100 days left to sip wine, and what will remain will be all tears. The queen mother apparently is in the same shape.

Wine is an excellent illustration. Once you get to sipping and sipping, you can’t quit. You have this beautiful opportunity, they are given this tremendous grace opportunity.

Bob is going to stop here for a rather lengthy application, and use several areas

Jer 13:18 Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down. For the crown of your glory will come down from your head places.

So Jeremiah appeals to Coniah and his mother. For, from your heads fall the crown of your glory. Yarav means to fall. Many years before Coniah came to the throne, this is a prophecy. 2Kings 24:17 and another passage give us the detailed story. Bob is saving Coniah for another passage. Sagar, the qal stem means to shut up, to close a door; the Piel stem means to dliever over to the power of someone else. The Pual is the passive if the Piel. The point is, when you become a slave to the details of life, you become the slave to someone else. If you become the slave to drugs, you eventually become the slave to those who peddle the drugs. Whatever the detail of life you are interested in, that is your price. The cities of the south will be shut down and enslaved. Pathak is activity in a city, social life in a city.

Judah being carried away captive will not come to pass for awhile. Piel stem for one word, is to make naked for sex or stripping the decks for action, as it was said in the Navy. All of the meanings have to do with nakedness and sex. Then we get to the Hiphil, which means to capture; and the Hophal means to be led away in captivity after suffering indignities. It is the administration of the fifth cycle of discipline.

Peaceniks are cowards and enjoy the comforts of this country without being willing to defend it.

Jer 13:19 The cities of the south have been shut up, and none are opening. Judah has been exiled [after suffering indignities]; all of it has been peacefully exiled.

The leopard did not change its spots and the Ethiopian did not change its skin. This boy king stands on the wall and sees the coming of the Chaldean army.

He is to life up his eyes, to look and study the situation. Take a good look. Behold them who come from the north. Now turn around and look at your flock...those are the people of Judah, those entrusted to Coniah. The king of Israel like any peon of Israel, the king is given responsibility. The God of Israel is still the RM. This is what works will do, what human good does; this is what the do-goobers and the socialists are doing.

The people of Judah are called a beautiful flock.

Jer 13:20 Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?

What will you say when He comes to punish you? This will be punishment in terms of striking someone. They will be punished by taken into slavery and someone will take his place. As an 18 year old boy, he spent so much time up in the hills that he could not run the government. God will put someone He doesn’t like in his place.

No one goes into slavery to the details of life without someone taking your place where you want to do. “Someone’s taken my place” some song that Bob muses about. Once you start going to nothings, you become the slave to nothings.

Coniah will be in jail in Babylon always knowing that someone took his place. The suffering grabs you. It is an onomatpoetic word. Everything that you wanted, you became a slave to it. You men remember that before you let some woman lead you around by the nose. These are not men at all, but let some push female lead them around by the nose. It is pitiful to see. Pregnancy involves volition, but once you start that way, you can’t stop it. This is the picture of Coniah, and it will be like a birth pang; it will grab him and shake him all up.

Jer 13:21 What will you say when He visits [punishes] you? For you taught them to be rulers over you for a head. Will not birth pangs seize you like a woman bearing?

A break for relaxation and there will be some gals singing.

Jeremiah 13:22                     1970 Jeremiah (540-0023) New Year’s Eve 2^nd Service

Jeremiah has been rather difficult to Bob. Coniah is going to play the piper.

The heart is a reference to his right lobe where is his frame of reference. The first thing which comes into his mind is why. Madua is two words, made from the interrogative pronoun ma and yada, meaning, what is there to know, for what reason? Long before Coniah is judged, while he is locked in negative, he knew where he would end up, and he still asks, why? Coniah will question this prophecy from the beginning, even though he hears it as a very young child.

Niphal perfect of shual. The skirts discovered means that his robes are thrown over his head; it is an idiom. “You like sex with idols, I will give you sex in slavery.” He enters into idolatry of his own free will. God puts him into slavery.

This may seem strong, but the difficulties of life are moving in on the people. This will require strong swift action of a great ruler.

Chamas in the Niphal perfect which means to be raped.

Jer 13:22 And if you say in your heart, Why do these things come upon me? It is because of the greatness of your iniquity. Your skirts are bared; your heels suffer violence.

Ethiopian is Cushiy, and it refers to a Black race. Can the Ethiopian wash out his skin? Can a leopard erase his spots?

This parallels drug addiction and alcoholism. They get into a rut and changing their behavior is like a leopard changing its spots.

If that could happen—yachal, when hooked up with other verbs, always suggests if that could happen—you might be able to be caused to good. The Hophal stem, if this could happen. Have you men ever had a doll who was not interested in you, even a little bit? He’s locked in negative. It is very important to realize that a Black in heaven is not going to be Black?

Here is a person on the wrong side of the carpet. Yachal means to receive ability and something which means to do good, to do divine good. Those who have animals have all these smells on the other side of the carpet. They have accustomed themselves to doing idolatry. Piel imperfect. The next word is raa in the Hiphil infinitive, which means to do evil with a mental attitude or overtly.

The grace side and the wrong side of the carpet; one is positive volition toward doctrine and the other is negative volition. God cannot do anything for Coniah because he is stuck in negative. It is impossible for the Ethiopian to change the color of his skin, as long as he is negative toward doctrine; his situation is hopeless.

Jer 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin [wash the black out of his skin] or the leopard [wash off] his spots? Then you also may do good [if this could happen, then you might be able to be caused to good] who are accustomed to doing evil.

Because the leopard cannot wash their spots off, they continue their idolatrous spots off. In a stage of natural degeneracy. God threw the Canaanites out because they were locked in negative. The Jews have fallen into the same pattern. Two analogies, the Ethiopian and the leopard (the first represents the gentiles and the second the Jews).

Kutz means to be scattered, to be dispersed in the Hiphil. Chaff is that which is not edible in the wheat.

Jer 13:24 And I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away to the wilderness wind.

This is your lot (destiny).

To disregard, to neglect, to forget. Once you start fornicating with pseudo lovers, there is violence and rape. When you pay the piper, you then get partners that you did not choose; you are raped.

Jer 13:25 This is your lot, the share of your measure [your destiny, your portion of the carpet] from Me, declares Jehovah, because you have forgotten Me and have trusted in falsehood.

The wages of fornication. Skirts over your face. Double entendre.

God has seen their shame for a long time. He has seen their shame in the mountain tops and in the groves. A punishing nation will see their shame.

Jer 13:26 So I also have stripped off your skirts over your face, that your shame [shameful action] may appear [be seen].

God has seen their shame for a long time. There are loud screams and groans in group sex orgies.

However, God offers them some hope. Even at this point, God makes a grace appeal to them. The word clean refers to rebound; and to be shiny means to build an edification complex. The Ethiopian and the leopard can move to the grace side of the carpet and grace can accomplish the impossible.

Jer 13:27 I have seen your adulteries and your neighing [loud screams and groans in group sex orgies], the plot of your infidelity [perverted sexual activity], your abominations [filthy and soiled garments from sex orgies] on the hills, in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you not be made clean? Until when will it still be?

Jeremiah 22:20                              1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0024)

Bob got a couple of hours of studying in after class, and he hears there was a football game, but he does not want to hear anything about it. Bob did 9 verses today in 8 hours and he is just a little ahead of us. Might be in Jeremiah for the next 3 weeks.

Bob is a bad loser, so he does not want to discuss the game; and he is a worse loser when it comes to anything to do with the pope. This is our opportunity to case off anything which may be casting a pall of gloom over our souls.

Vv. 20–30—cursing and blessing, where are you on the carpet.

Jeremiah is told to go up to 3 mountain ranges. The first range mentioned is Lebanon. He is told to go out of town and go up there. Then he is to come back into town and lay it on the eline for Jeconiah. Lebanon is norther and famous for its trees and scenery. There were mountain vineyards there, with very famous wines in the ancient world (Hosea 14:7). Also famous for idolatry and the phallic cult. Nearby is the Antilebanon mountains, northeast (also called Bashan and the Hermon range).

Jeremiah is to go and shout out to them. These are imperatives to Jeremiah. He is ordered to throw out his voice. He is to preach to the idolaters in that range. For centuries, the Baal sanctuaries and phallic cults had existed in the Bashan mountains; even as far back as the time of the exodus.

Jeremiah is supposed to yell over the sounds of those engaged in the phallic cult worship. Mount Nebo from which Moses saw the land, from Moab and Ammon. Also called Mount Pisgah and due east of Jerusalem. The overall mountain range is southeast of Jerusalem. This is from whence Balaam tried to curse Israel. Cultic worship there (Num. 42:21?).

Jews going across the borders to Baal sanctuaries and they are doing this in 606 b.c. in the year of cursing Jerconiah. Piel stem is for the body only, the use in the bad sense only. Reference to idols, with whom the Israelites are involved in spiritual fornication.

Shabar means to smash a pot of vessel; to shatter, to break in pieces. The people involved in the phallic cult have no capacity for love; they are sublimating and they will fall apart. Jeremiah is going to these centers of idolatry to announce this judgment.

Jer. 22:20 Go up to Lebanon and shout. And lift up your voice in Bashan, and shout out from Abarim; for all those loving you [your lovers] are destroyed [smashed into pieces].

Fornication; unfaithfulness. Piel is the intensive stem and there are two Piel’s. One is unfaithfulness and the other is God making love to the jews, which He does through doctrine. The Jew can choose between doctrine or unfaithfulness.

There are two periods of prosperity. During Hezekiah and during Josiah. These were good kings, and there was a leading prophet and other prophets. During Hezekiah’s time, it was Isaiah, and there was Micah and Nahum. During Josiah’s time, there was Jeremiah, Zephaniah, Habakkuk and Obadiah. We have 7 great men.

God always gives periods of prosperity during which we can take in doctrine. We have enjoyed great prosperity in Houston for taking in doctrine. Every Black panther should have been shot on sight and every Communist organization should have been jailed. We are going to run out of gasoline, we will have murder in the streets. Our period of prosperity may be over.

Two great periods of prosperity here. However, the Jews said, “I will not hear.” negative volition to Bible doctrine. This was the attitude of the people during a time of prosperity and this will be why they will go under the fifth cycle of discipline. God communicated doctrine to the Jews during prosperity, and they would not listen to Him; and they have been that way since their youth.

When people reject Bible doctrine, being on the wrong side of the carpet, believers in the plan of God, they have to have a crutch. God will kick the crutches out from under them.

Jer. 22:21 I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed [listened to] My voice.

Bob spent an hour on the next verse. All the shepherds will feed the flock wind. These teachers cater to the people and what they want to hear. When he teaches what they want to hear, he becomes a crutch. All the shepherds will feed the flock.

The first crutch to be knocked out will be the false teachers. There is a purging time when a nation goes out under the fifth cycle. That is the religious crutch. The second crutch is fornication. The sex orgies in the hills and the groves destroy the RM/RW relationship, which results in a chaotic society which destroys itself. The trouble spreads from there. It is true of any organization. Why do you think there are all these idiotic women fighting for their freedoms and push around and try to get aggressive. They have no capacity for RM is the problem. You go to a party with one feisty pushy female, and it ruins the party. All it takes is one little feisty female. This doesn’t mean that men can’t be this way as well.

Someone went to Buddy and said, “Why is he down on women?” No lover will every take the place of RM/RW. The religious crutch is gone or the fornication crutch is gone. They have gone into hedonism. The wind does not satisfy category #1 love and sex will not satisfy category #2 love. When you dance to the piper’s tune, you have to pay him.

Primitive particle kiy. Then there is the demonstrative particle aaz, and together, it means for at that time. You will be ashamed and disappointed and frustrated (bosh). Then you will be put to shame, disappointed and frustrated. Take away your crutches and you are disappointed and frustrated.

Jer. 22:22 Those feeding you [the shepherds] shall feed the wind, and those loving you [your lovers] shall go into captivity. Surely then you will be ashamed and will blush for all your wickedness.

The destruction of the social life. Yashab refers to wealthy Jews of Judah who have retreats and summer houses in the Lebanon range. There is no making a nest; this is building a palace. Pual and this refers to high living on the part of those who can afford to live high on the hog. This is intensive social life. This is a third crutch. This is having a heavy social life. Breeding, good manners, partying. Then will disaster come upon you. God is going to bring it and the partying crowd always get around to doing a little dancing.

Then we have what could be a very sensual dance or a woman in the process of giving birth. Two types of women danced this dance at both ends of the line. How much fun will you have when the fifth cycle comes? The partying is the last crutch to go. This is a form of sublimation. A person who has to party all the time. Lack of capacity to love and no capacity for one person. In category #2 love, you do not need a party. They can have a ball without a party. “I know this is strange to some of you.”

Jer. 22:23 One dwelling in Lebanon, nested in the cedars [build a palace], how you will groan [party hardy] when pangs come to you, the pain [dancing, twisting and turning] as of a woman in labor!

The judgment of Coniah. Even if Coniah was a signet ring, God would pull him off.

God did not approve of this appointment. Coniah was raised in degeneracy. Throwing away the ring means lack of capacity for love. Coniah had no capacity to love God; he was minus Bible doctrine. God is using an anthropopathic, anthropomorphic illustration.

Jer. 22:24 As I live, says Jehovah, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah were the signet on My right hand, yet I would tear you out of there!

Nathan and nathak; a play on words he will give Nebuchadnezzar a ring to put in jail. I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life. Nebuchadnezzar took a good look at Coniah and decided 100 days later to throw him into prison.

Jer. 22:25 And I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose face you fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

God will cast him out, and he will go to another country where he will die. Chaldea. Jeconiah is thrown out and his mother as well.

Jer. 22:26 And I will cast you and your mother who bore you into another country, there where you were not born; and there you shall die.

The Jews want to go back to their land, but they will not return there. They will lift up their souls to return, but they will not return there. You love with your soul.

Jer. 22:27 But concerning the land which they lift up with their soul, to return there, they shall not return there.

V. 28 would have been great for a Christmas message. An act of free will puts you on the wrong side of the carpet and an act of free will get you to be good side.

Jeremiah 22:28                              1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0025)

This must be Sunday am; and Bob is continuing Jeremiah in every service. This may have begun Bob teaching the same thing every day?

We have been studying the principle of the carpet, and people lived in tents and they had oriental rugs which they made. There is a good side and a bad side of the carpet. The cursing and the blessing side of the carpet. This is a study of contrasts and these occurred as Nebuchadnezzar was approaching Jerusalem.

Jeremiah had been sent to 3 different mountain ranges where there was a lot of idolatry, and Jeremiah was to speak to them.

3 crutches were removed: pastors who were not true to the Word of God and simply catered to the people. Then the operation of fornication in the practice of idolatry. Bob continues to review what was covered on Friday.

Coniah means Jehovah had established. At birth, his name was Jeconiah, which means Jehovah will establish. Once he is on the throne, Jeremiah calls him Coniah, meaning that Jehovah had established; he is being judged. He was a great admirer of Jerhoikim, so he took the name Jehoichin, Both names means the Lord will establish him.

As Coniah was growing up, he was loved by the history, but he was on the wrong side of the carpet, and in 597 b.c., he was on the cursing side. Those on that side during a catastrophe do not survive a catastrophe. Since God is unseen, He cannot be loved except through His own aggressiveness. The believer must take in doctrine daily. The primary purpose of doctrine is the erection of the edification complex: grace orientation, mastery of the details of life, relaxed mental attitude, capacity to love all categories, and +H. We are loaded with Coniah’s today. Everything is being done today to get around the historical interpretation of the Bible.

Coniah is despised because he repeats the mistakes of his father. He was dashed in pieces. There is two concepts here: an idol manufactured for worship; and also a person who is a celebrity of sorts. Rejection of doctrine always produces a vacuum which sucks in false doctrine.

Doctrine will be iron in the soul which cannot be broken by enemies. God is unseen; He makes love through doctrine. There is no substitute for knowledge of doctrine. We remain in this life so that God can continue to show us love. Some people are sipping victorious life systems, some are sipping tongues, or they are sipping some sort of sublimation. The whole system of Christian education is sipping from the jug of sublimation. Coniah was removed by violence. There is one surviving son of Coniah, Shealtiel. He is directly descended from David through Solomon. David had two sons through Bathsheba, Solomon and Nathan. Josiah’s eldest son is the heir, who is Jehoiakim, and his son is Jeconiah. Now Jeconiah is out, and he will spend the next 36 years in prison, but he will go positive. Sheltiel means I have asked God, which suggests that Coniah began to come along spiritually. Sheltiel also has a son, Zerubbabel. However, another passage tells us of a different father and grandfather for Zerubbabel. In many places, Zerubbabel is called the son of Sheltiel. Coniah is said he will be childless, even though his grandson would be a great man and he brought the people back into the land.

Jer. 22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised, broken jar, or a vessel in which is no pleasure? Why are they hurled, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they do not know?

A triple repetition to give emphasis, and this is a call. Civil rulers, then the spiritual rulers and then the people themselves. O land land land, hear the word of Jehovah.

Jer. 22:29 O earth, earth, earth! Hear [and concentrate] the Word of Jehovah!

Ordain or write Coniah as being childless, or destitute, cut off from the line. 1Chron. 3:16–18 explains this.

This brings us to the virgin birth and its importance. Joseph was the legal but not the real father of Jesus Christ; Joseph is from Coniah, and he was cut off again from Jesus Christ. If you choose to reject doctrine, you will live a miserable life without doctrine.

Those who have the iron of the soul will make it in a disaster and those without will fall apart. When Adam sinned, he knew what he was doing, but the woman was deceived.

Jesus is spoken of as the seed of the woman. The virgin birth is one of the qualification points for Jesus Christ, no old sin nature. The Coniah curse is turned to blessing by the virgin birth. Through most of Coniah’s life, there will be no child. No person in Coniah’s line would be able to permanently sit in blessing on the throne.

Zerrubbabel knew this, so he never even tried.

Jer. 22:30 So says Jehovah, Write this man childless, a man who will not prosper in his days. For not one from his seed will succeed, a man sitting on the throne of David and ruling any more in Judah.

The Davidic Covenant.

2Sam. 7:8–12: And now, so you shall say to My servant, to David, So says Jehovah of Hosts, I have taken you from the resting place, from following the flock, to be ruler over My people, over Israel. And I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you and have made you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth. And I will designate a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and not be made to tremble any more. Nor shall the sons of evil afflict them again, as at the first, even from the day I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. And I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. And Jehovah declares to you that Jehovah will make you a house. When your days are fulfilled, and you lie with your fathers, then I shall raise up your seed after you, who shall come out from your bowels, and I shall establish his kingdom.

This promise is fulfilled in such a way to fulfill the Coniah curse:

2Sam. 7:15–16: But My mercy shall not be taken from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. And your house shall be established, and your kingdom before you forever. Your throne shall be established forever.

Psalm 89:24–27, 34–37: But My faithfulness and My mercy is with him; and his horn shall be exalted in My name. And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. He shall cry to Me, My Father, You are my God, and the rock of my salvation. And I will make Him My first-born, higher than the kings of the earth. I will keep My mercy for him forever, and My covenant shall hold fast with him. And I have established his Seed forever, and His throne as the days of the heavens. I will not profane My covenant, nor change what goes from My lips. Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David. His Seed shall be forever, and his throne as the sun before Me. Like the moon, it shall be forever; and a faithful witness in the sky. Selah.

As always God found a way through grace.

Jeremiah 35:1                                1970 Jeremiah                                       (540-0026)

Hundreds of people who have never had a drop who suddenly decide to drink, now that is a party. Some of you self righteous types will be all tied up in knots over this. Pharaoh Necco took one king into captivity into Egypt. He put Jehoiakim in power; then Nebuchadnezzar came through and he allowed Jehoiakim to remain in power, Then Coniah was put into power for 100 days.

Then a very strange thing happened; the Recobites came into the walls, who represent the blessing side of the carpet.

On the cursing side of the carpet will be Jehoiakim. On the blessing side of the carpet will be the Rechabites.

Jer. 35:1 The Word which was to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

The drinking party for the Rechabites.

This is an odd thing. They are to be brought to the house of the Lord and given wine to drink. They normally would not go anywhere where alcohol was offered up. They would drink goat’s milk and they would drink water, but they would not even go down to the local 7-11 to get a beer after the game. They are gotten to the Temple. Bob suggests a double-session and beer would be served in between classes. The Hiphil means that they are caused to make them drunk. What can be gained here by causing them to tie one on?

Nabal was the town drunk and he drank this. Bob gave some other examples of this.