Jeremiah 50:[SUP]6 [/SUP]My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.[SUP] 7 [/SUP]All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice, even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.[SUP] 8 [/SUP]Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.[SUP]9 [/SUP]For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.....[SUP]10 [/SUP]And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.[SUP] 11 [/SUP]Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;[SUP] 12 [/SUP]Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. [SUP]13 [/SUP]Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. 14Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the Lord. [SUP]15 [/SUP]Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her. [SUP]16 [/SUP]Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
Ezekiel 7:[SUP]3 [/SUP]Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.[SUP]4 [/SUP]And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.[SUP] 5 [/SUP]Thus saith the Lord God; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.[SUP]6 [/SUP]An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.[SUP] 7 [/SUP]The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.[SUP] 8 [/SUP]Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.[SUP] 9 [/SUP]And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth.[SUP] 10 [/SUP]Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.[SUP] 11 [/SUP]Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall there be wailing for them.[SUP] 12 [/SUP]The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.[SUP] 13 [/SUP]For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.[SUP] 14 [/SUP]They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.[SUP]15 [/SUP]The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
The Lord is calling all believers to get ready by going before that throne of grace for help to discern iniquity to depart from them as well as being willing to go in leaving this life and our loved ones behind; to prepare yourselves by trusting the Good Shepherd before the Bridegroom comes; ... or else.