Jeremiah 8:1 At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
I am going to use the illustration of when the Jews came out of the holocaust looking like skeletons. I don't think that this verse is referring to that because it says "the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem" but at the same time we know that there is nothing new under the sun, that which has happened is that which will be.
2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
Look at the Jews today, this is certainly true. They are "new agers", they are worshipping every god under the sun. Many Jews say that being jewish is simply a cultural thing, not a religious thing. We call them secular Jews. 45% of the Jews in Israel identify as "secular" Jews.
3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts.
The Balfour declaration was in 1917, so why were these Jews still in Germany? Why did they choose death rather than life? Why did they remain in places like Russia, Germany, Poland, Austria, France, etc. instead of returning to Israel?
4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
It certainly looked that way, but God.
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Perpetual backsliding, they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. This was what we saw in the 1930s. It was becoming obvious the hatred for the Jews, the persecution of them, and yet they refused to return to their own land. We are seeing the rise of antisemitism again, today, and yet the Jews in the US refuse to return. This is a perpetual backsliding.
6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
This is also true. We have the testimony here of a so called "orthodox Jew" from Ireland, living in Canada who is "not crazy about Israel right now". No one is repenting of their wickedness. God dispersed them as a lesson, a discipline, a punishment for their wickedness is not appreciating Him and the covenant they have with Him. That covenant and the worship of God is directly tied to the land of Israel. That was the promise, God said He would give them this land and He commanded them that in that land there would be a place they were to go to worship Him. But they don't care, 49% of the Jews in the world live in the US and will justify that somehow.
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
I asked this person about this, how do they reconcile their stance with the Bible since they claim to be "orthodox". They refused to answer. I asked them about Israel if this was the appointed time prophesied in the Bible, they refused to answer. Instead they accused me of asking in bad faith.
8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
How do they do this? They do it because their rabbis and scribes write up justifications. They tell them that you can ignore certain verses in the word, they tell them times have changed and those words no longer apply. But not only are those words a lie, they are also vain. How well did that reasoning hold up during the holocaust? When push comes to shove, when the fire of persecution is there all those vain words disappear in a puff of smoke and all people wanted was to return to Israel.
We have the same thing today with the apostate church. They lie because it is profitable to them.
We had the same thing during the slavery years in America, they "justified" their evil acts by twisting the Bible, by lies from their scribes.
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