The Book of Jeremiah (Zedekiah's Reign 597-586 BC) -The Fall of Jerusalem and the Future Redemption

Shalom friends. My name is Chadwick Harvey. Welcome to Faithful Performance. Thank you so much for joining us tonight as we conclude our series on the book of Jeremiah by going through the third king of the series that Jeremiah had to deal with, which is King Zedekiah. King Zedekiah reigned from 597 BC to 586 BC, which is when Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed and the final exile occurred in 586 BC.

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But tonight, my friends, we're going to go through the bottom section or the last section of the book of Jeremiah, a very important section. And we did it, if you're not familiar with the series that we're doing, we did it with the reign of the kings. Jeremiah's book is not written in order. So if we look at it from the reign of each king that he had to deal with, we get more of an accurate chronological understanding or prophetic timeline of how God deals with people, especially in the land of Israel or the promised land. There's very specific rules that we have to follow to live in the promised land. So Jeremiah goes through that, and we see all of God's attributes, you know, from Jeremiah chapter 1 to all the way to Jeremiah chapter 39, which is when Jerusalem, the fall of Jerusalem. We see all of God's attributes that he gives the people. The patience that he has, the longsuffering that he has, the call to repentance, the mercy, the grace, the love. But at the same time, once the prophets go for a certain amount of time and warn the people, if they do not repent, then here comes destruction, and we see that attribute of the Almighty as well. So the book of Jeremiah will give us all of God's attributes on how he deals with the people in the land and the requirements, the standards that we have to understand, or bad things are going to happen. And so we're going to relate it in history, and then we'll correlate it to today as well, as we see some of the same things going on in the promised land that were going on at the time of Jeremiah's ministry and what he warned the people would come upon the people and the land.

Remember that God anointed him. He touched his lips and he put the words in Jeremiah's mouth. So whenever we read these hardcore understandings in the book of Jeremiah, please understand that this is God's words, thus sayeth the Lord. So when we read these hardcore sayings, this is what the Almighty told, commanded Jeremiah to speak in front of all the people. So we have to have the heart right, heart position, not only towards people but also towards Yahweh and what he commands and his commandments and the understanding of what is required to stay in the land. We have to understand that because what we're seeing today goes into that with the Mosaic covenant. People forget about the Mosaic covenant and the covenant that is required in the promised land to keep, or the land will vomit the people out. We've seen that happen throughout many empires, including the Jewish people, but also many other empires as well, once they are in the promised land. So the Mosaic covenant is only for the Jewish people in the land. It's not for any other empire. But what I am saying is the land will vomit the people out and the empires out as well, as we've seen throughout history.

So the book of Jeremiah, as we conclude it tonight, we're going to see the finality of God's anger and his wrath upon the people who were disobedient, who did not listen to the call to repentance, who openly rejected the word of God. And then here comes destruction through what God raised up, his servant Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon. So we went through that in Jeremiah chapter 25, which was very important in King Jehoiakim's reign, the last video, and warned the people that what was going to come to the people if they did not repent. What's so beautiful about the book of Jeremiah and God's attributes is he warned them to the last minute. And we're going to read that tonight. King Zedekiah could have repented at the last day, before Nebuchadnezzar came, and God would have turned Nebuchadnezzar back, but he did not. His pride and his ego and the pressure of the politicians of the day and the religious leaders of the day, he could not do it. And then they were judged tremendously for that.

So we're going to read this book. It's going to conclude. There is a lot of chapters in this. We're going to try to work through them as quickly as possible, but as thoroughly as possible, to get the understanding of how God deals with people in the promised land, his heart for the land, his commandments, and also the love of the people as well. So with that being said, my friends, we're going to start with chapter 20. But before we do, we need to understand Zedekiah's reign was from 597 to 586 BC. That's super important because what we were doing on this series is showing people the three kings that Jeremiah had to deal with. The first king was Josiah, who was a righteous king. He made a lot of reforms, took down some of the high places, all of these things. But the people did not want to follow King Josiah and his reforms. So he reigned, or Jeremiah's time with Josiah was from 627 BC to 609 BC. And then 609 BC to 598 BC is when King Jehoiakim reigned, and he had to deal with him. And that was the open rejection of God's word. They were openly rejecting Jeremiah and God, the kings, the people were. And then here comes King Zedekiah in 597 BC all the way to the destruction of Jerusalem and the final exile of the people in 586 BC.

If one's not familiar with the exiles, there were three exiles that Nebuchadnezzar did. It started in 605 BC with Daniel and his three friends. That was the first exile. And then 598 BC, I believe, was the second exile, which was when Ezekiel the prophet was taken along with other captives. And then we'll see in 586 BC the rest of the exile and also the destruction of the temple and also Jerusalem as well. So that's kind of where we were going with the series, my friends. If you didn't catch the first two videos, that's the first king and the second king that Jeremiah dealt with. And now we're on the third king that Jeremiah dealt with, which is King Zedekiah. And again, he reigned from 597 to 586 BC. So this is the section of the series is the fall of Jerusalem, but also the promise of restoration. It's super important. That's why we read it in the order that we do because now we're going to see in this section of the series, in this king, that Jeremiah pronounces the time of Jacob's trouble, Jeremiah 30, for future tense. He also proclaims the new covenant, Jeremiah 31. He also confirms the new covenant and the restoration in Jeremiah 32, Jeremiah 33. So amongst all of the bad, hardcore stuff that God pronounced over the people, he left the people with restoration hope, with the hope of restoration, with the hope of redemption, at the end of the age. It's very clear when he does that. So this is an awesome ending, if you will, to an unholy thing, if you will, with the people being exiled, captivity, all of these things. It does leave us with a glimpse of hope instead of just total destruction.

So with that being said, let's go through this with the heart posture of God, the heart posture of Jeremiah, and look what Jeremiah had to deal with with the last king that he dealt with. His ministry was about 40 years. This is the last 17 to 18 years of that ministry that he had to deal with King Zedekiah. So with that being said, we'll begin here with chapter number 20.

So the theme of this reign, my friends, is if Josiah, the first king that Jeremiah dealt with, represents God's final appeal, and Jehoiakim represents Judah's open rejection of God's word, then Zedekiah represents the consequences of the rebellion of all of those years. Babylon does surround Jerusalem. The warnings Jeremiah preached for 40 years finally come to pass. Yet in the darkest days of Judah's history, God gives Jeremiah some of the greatest promises of hope in the entire Tanakh, or the Old Testament. And these are the things that Jeremiah received here: the new covenant, Jeremiah 31; the restoration of Israel, the Branch of David, Jeremiah 23; the rebuilding of the nation. The darkest days become the backdrop for God's brightest promises. Amen.

So with that being said, we'll begin with chapter number 20 as we work through the last portion of the book of Jeremiah with King Zedekiah. So in chapter 20, it says, "Now Pashur, the son of Immer, the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. Then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of Adonai. And it happened on the next day that Pashur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, 'The Lord has not called your name Pashur, but Magor-missabib. For thus says the Lord, behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends, and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it. I will give all of Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and slay them with the sword. Moreover, I will deliver all the wealth of this city, all of its produce, all of its precious things, all of the treasures of the kings of Judah, I will give into the hands of their enemies, who will plunder them, seize them, and carry them to Babylon. And you, Pashur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity. You shall go to Babylon, and there you shall die and be buried there, you and all of your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.'"

So Jeremiah is dealing with the false prophets of the day. As we can see throughout the book, there were a lot of false prophets. We'll deal with one more as we go down the chapters here. But he was dealing with Pashur. He was telling the people false hope that the king of Babylon would not destroy the temple, would not destroy the land, a bunch of lies. And Jeremiah told him that he was not called by the Lord. So Jeremiah had to deal with a lot of things, including the false prophets of the day, the kings of the day, the princes of the day. He had to deal with all of the people that God warned him would come against Jeremiah because of the word of Adonai, thus sayeth the Lord. So we find Jeremiah right in the beginning of Zedekiah's reign going against the false prophets and telling the kings and also the prophets that they are false, that the king of Babylon will come and do what God has ordained to the city and also to the people.

In verse number seven, "Oh Lord, you induced me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I and have prevailed. And this is Jeremiah crying out to the Lord, everybody. I am in derision daily. Everyone mocks me. For when I spoke, I cried out, I shouted violence and plunder, because the word of the Lord has made me a reproach and a derision daily. Then I said, I will not make mention of Him, nor speak it anymore in His name. But His word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones. I was weary of holding it back, and I could not, for I heard many mocking, fear on every side. 'Report,' they say, 'and we will report it.' All my acquaintances watch for my stumbling, saying, 'Perhaps he can be induced, then we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.' But the Lord is with me as a mighty awesome one. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. They will be greatly ashamed, for they will not prosper. Their everlasting confusion will never be forgotten. But, oh Lord of hosts, you who test the righteous and see the mind and heart, let me see Your vengeance on them, for I have pleaded my cause before You. Sing to the Lord. Praise the Lord, for He has delivered the life of the poor from the hand of evildoers. Cursed be the day in which I was born. Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me. Let the man be cursed who brought news to my father, saying, 'A male child has been born to you,' making him very glad. And let that man be like the cities which the Lord overthrew and did not relent. Let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noon, because he did not kill me from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always enlarged with me. Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?'"

So, my friends, right here in the opening of Zedekiah's reign, we see not only Jeremiah calling out the false prophet but also in anguish, crying out to Adonai. He did that a couple of times throughout the book, and I'm sure throughout the 40 years, he did it a lot that's not even recorded. With the mantle that God put on this man to come across everybody, remember what he said? Against the kings, against the princes, against the city, against Judah, against the people, against everybody is what God put Jeremiah against to speak the word of God. And people have a problem with that, right? Even today, people have a problem with the word of God. Even the Jewish people do, the Christians do. People have a problem with God's commandments. And that's why we're in the position that we're in right now, and also that Judah was in the position that they were. So Jeremiah was crying out to the Lord and really cursing the day that he was born. He was really in a lot of anguish. I don't think that was a pity party, so to speak. I think it was just a lot of anguish. That's why he's called the weeping prophet, because he loved God and he loved his people. The two greatest commandments that there are. And that's what you see throughout the Holy Bible. King David, Moses, Abraham, all of them loved God and they loved His ways, His commandments. So Jeremiah is in anguish right at the beginning of Zedekiah's reign. I'm sure he was in anguish throughout Josiah and Jehoiakim's reign as well. But Zedekiah, this is the ending of the 18 years, if you will, that Jeremiah dealt with Zedekiah. And this is how he felt, so to speak.

So the theme that we have with chapter 20 is Jeremiah's persecution and personal struggle. Pashur strikes Jeremiah and places him in the stocks. Jeremiah becomes discouraged. He even wishes he had never been born. Yet he cannot stop proclaiming the word of God because it was shut up in his bones like a fire, so to speak. And he had the zeal of the Lord. And my friends, that's what we've got to get back to right now is the zeal of the Lord. You know what I see? And there's nothing wrong with this to a certain degree, but we take up for mankind, but who's taking up for Yah? Who's taking up for God? Who's taking up for His commandments? Who's standing on the promises? Who's standing on the restoration? The true restoration, not the false or the political restoration, the true restoration. Who's standing on that? Who's standing on the promises of God? Very few people. Only the remnant are standing up for the word of God. And that's the way it's always been. And Jeremiah, of course, is a great example of that.

So the major points: Jeremiah is publicly humiliated. God's word burns within him. He struggles honestly with discouragement, but God sustains him. A good teaching point for all of us to understand is even faithful servants like Jeremiah, Moses, David, you name it, experience deep discouragement, but God's word continues to compel them. Just like Jeremiah said, if God puts the words in your mouth or my mouth or Jeremiah's mouth, there's nothing we can do about it. It's going to be in our bones to come out. It's going to come out because the Almighty has anointed you or Jeremiah or whoever it is to make those statements to whoever it may be, as a group or as an individual. But my friends, this is a great example of walking the way. Following the Lord is never easy. And Jeremiah, of course, is a great example of someone reaching their calling, their full calling. And look what this man had to endure to reach his redemption, which we will find in chapter 39 tonight.

Jeremiah chapter 21: "The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashur the son of Malchiah, and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying, 'Please inquire of the Lord for us, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps the Lord will deal with us according to all Your wonderful works, that the king may go away from us.' Then Jeremiah said to them, 'Thus you shall say to Zedekiah, thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls, and I will assemble them in the midst of the city. I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched arm and with a strong arm, even in anger and fury and great wrath. I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They shall die of a great pestilence. And afterward, says the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, and such as are left in the city, from the pestilence and the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. He shall not spare them or have pity or mercy.'"

So my friends, this is again very hardcore language, of course, but this is where we are. Remember, Jeremiah's been to the people for about 23 years now, 24 years now, through Josiah, through Jehoiakim. He's been 23 years, just like he said in Jeremiah 25, rising up early, talking to the people. They declined this. And now Nebuchadnezzar has breached the walls. They're warring. He's already had two exiles right now of the people: Daniel, the first exile, his three friends; Ezekiel, the second exile. And they're about the last exile right here as well. But my friends, when you read language like verse number five, "I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched arm and with a strong arm, even in anger, fury, and great wrath." My friends, that is something to really understand how the Lord can give, as part of His attributes. Once we decline, once we reject His word through a period of time, and once the grace and the mercy runs out, this is what you get. This reminds me of the story of Exodus. Remember in Exodus 15, He says, "I brought you out on eagle's wings." I brought you out with a strong arm, an outstretched arm, on eagle's wings, as a covering, as deliverance. Now, it's reversed. And now He's fighting against them with the outstretched arm and with a strong arm, even in anger and fury and great wrath.

So again, my friends, we're going to see the same things today as what we did back then. Nebuchadnezzar just didn't come and mow down the city for round one. There were three rounds. I mean, he came, he gave the people time to repent. God gave the people time to repent because He is longsuffering. But after 23 years, and then these extra 18 years that Jeremiah dealt with Zedekiah, then you run into this kind of language right here. He warned them about this kind of language in Josiah's reign and also in Jehoiakim's reign, same kind of language, hardcore language of what would occur if they kept on with their rebellion. The people did not listen, as we know. And then here we go with Himself, "I Myself will fight against Judah with an outstretched arm, with a strong arm." My friends, that's what it will become if we don't repent. Even today, we're going down that same road. Jerusalem's being breached. Hezbollah's breached them. Hamas has breached them. Iran's breached them. Nebuchadnezzar breached them. So it's time to wake up and understand that again, He's trying to get our attention in the promised land to understand we've got to repent. We've got to call on the Jewish Messiah, because again, we're going down the same trajectory as the people did in the prophet Jeremiah.

Verse number eight: "Now you shall say to these people, 'Thus says the Lord, behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.'" So He's reminding everybody again what Moses said in Deuteronomy chapter 28 through 30. "This day, choose life or death." So Jeremiah is just reminding them of what Moses told the ancestors and the requirements and the statutes that they have to observe to live in the promised land. "He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. But he who goes out and defects to the Chaldeans who besiege you, you shall live, and his life shall be as a prize to him. For I have set My face against this city for adversity and not for good, says the Lord. And it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. And concerning the house of the king of Judah, say, 'Hear the word of the Lord, O house of David! Thus says the Lord: Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him who is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go forth like a fire and burn so that no one can quench it because of the evil of your doings. Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley and rock of the plain,' says the Lord, 'who say, "Who shall come down against us? Or who shall enter our dwellings?" But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings,' says the Lord. 'I will kindle a fire in your forest, and it shall devour all things around.'"

So my friends, again, this is just another warning to the people that if they do not get corrected, King Zedekiah and all of the people, then this is what's going to happen. He's going to execute judgment. He's going to turn against them. He Himself will bring the king of Babylon against them. Very serious stuff. So again, it's too late for deliverance is the theme of this chapter. In chapter 21, King Zedekiah asks Jeremiah to seek the Lord. Instead of promising deliverance, Jeremiah answers and announces judgment. You will find this all throughout the reign of Zedekiah. To a certain degree, you're like, man, I wish this guy would have opened his heart to the Lord because he was right there at it. God gave him so many opportunities to repent, and he caused the whole place to be destroyed, as we will read here later on in the series. But King Zedekiah asked Jeremiah throughout his reign, "What does the Lord say?" And Jeremiah kept telling him, "This is what's going to happen if you don't repent and fall underneath the king of Babylon."

So in today's world, and I guess back then as well, pride is something to deal with, right? So we have the pride that we can't humble ourselves to understand that God is serious, that He will destroy the city, He will destroy the people and the land if we don't get corrected. And that goes for today as well. What's so amazing when you read this, He says to defect to the Chaldeans and you will live. If you have your pride and you try to fight against it, then you will be destroyed. Think about that. That's so opposite of the way that we think. We think, hey, let's rise up and let's fight against everybody so that we can win. And God is saying through Jeremiah, "No, defect to the Chaldeans, fall underneath the king of Babylon and serve him 70 years as the punishment of what the behavior was in the promised land." So if the people would have repented, if King Zedekiah would have repented, then King Nebuchadnezzar would not have destroyed the temple and the city. They would have just fallen underneath him and been subservient to the king of Babylon. So God was trying to humble the people with humility. But they were prideful, and they were fighting against God, and they were fighting against Jeremiah, and they were fighting against the king of Babylon, who God raised to come against the people to get them to repent. Remember, He loves the people to go the distance with them. That's why we're going to go through the time of Jacob's trouble, the distance. He will go the distance with them. Think about a 15-round or 12-round boxing match, go the distance. He will go the distance. I think He's proven that twice with Jerusalem and Judah. He'll go the distance. And when He goes the distance, it winds up not being good. It winds up being a TKO for all of us here that are in the promised land or in the world. It comes against us because He's going to win that fight, so to speak.

So very important to understand the trajectory that Jeremiah is going on right now to quench the pride, to lower the pride, to fall underneath the king of Babylon because we have sinned, and He's making us pay for our sins for 70 years. And it can be the easy way, not being destroyed, not being exiled, or everybody exiled, or it can be the hard way, total destruction. It's totally up to us on what that would be. So King Zedekiah asked Jeremiah to seek deliverance. Jeremiah announces judgment. The major points: Babylon will prevail. Nebuchadnezzar will prevail. And God Himself fights against Jerusalem because of its sins. Life is offered only through surrender. So again, that goes against what we have today with the pride and heart posture and stuff like that. We want to obviously fight and all these things. Sometimes God wants us to surrender, number one, to Yeshua, but also in this circumstance, He wanted them to surrender to the king of Babylon, to fall underneath them, to pay for their judgment, the easy way and not the hard way.

So a good teaching point for all of us is persistence. Persistent rebellion can bring a point where the consequences can no longer be avoided.

In Jeremiah chapter 24: "The Lord showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jehoiachin the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and the smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon." So he's talking about the second exile under Jehoiakim, in 598 BC. And he has two baskets of figs. One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe, and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. "Then the Lord said to me, 'What do you see, Jeremiah?' And I said, 'Figs, the good figs, very good, and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad.' Again, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good into the land of the Chaldeans. For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land, and I will build them and not pull them down. I will plant them and will not pluck them up. Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart.'"

How beautiful is this? But it's going against common how we think in real life, right? He says for those who do go under the yoke of the king of Babylon, if you will, who goes into captivity, but He will look upon them for good. And He will bring them back into the land. So even amongst the anger and the wrath that God had for the people of disobedience, He still talks about restoration. Why? Because of the Abrahamic covenant, the Davidic covenant, and the new covenant, which Jeremiah talks about here going forward. He's about His everlasting covenant. So even though He's mad in His wrath with the people, there's always a remnant that will be pulled back into the land of Israel because of the Abrahamic covenant. Once you get into the land by the Abrahamic covenant, the promise to the Jewish descendants, then you have to obey the Mosaic covenant to stay in the land. And that's what people forget, even in the land of Israel right now, is yes, of course, the Abrahamic covenant, they have the right to the land, but to stay in the land, they have to obey Moses, or God, and what He told Moses. So I think that's pretty common. You know, we all know this, but that's why it's so astonishing that we're seeing these things that are going down in the promised land that Jeremiah had to deal with as well, is because it's all in Moses. He carries you back to Moses about the blessings and the curses. Choose life, not death. So Jeremiah is going to bring the people back to Moses because that was the job that God anointed him for as a prophet, is thus sayeth the Lord, go back to what I told Moses about staying in the land of Israel.

So for the good figs, those were the ones who didn't have the pride, the ego, that were going to go fall under the captivity of Babylon and look at the blessings that they were going to have. "For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back into the promised land. I will build them and not pull them down. I will plant them and not uproot them. Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord, and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart." And we will know when that will be once we get through this video tonight.

"As for the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says the Lord, so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, those who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt. I will deliver them to trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth for their harm, to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse in all the places where I will drive them. And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them until they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers."

So, my friends, there's two different ways. There's the good figs, fall underneath the Babylon, surrender, if you will, which today goes against the ways that we do things today and back then as well. And then the bad figs are the ones who have the pride, who want to fight the king of Babylon, who want to go to Egypt, who want to put their faith in other foreign nations that we will get to as well. So my friends, there's two different ways. Once God gets to this point, the judgment was going to occur no matter what for 70 years. However, it was up to them whether that 70 years was going to be a little bit lighter or a little bit heavier. Well, obviously they chose the heavier side with the fall of Jerusalem. So we can get from today's understanding, we can get a lot of revelation to being the good figs as well. That's not saying follow under the king of Babylon. That's just saying to recognize when we're out of alignment in the promised land and to clean up the land and to repent and all of these things that we're seeing in the land that Jeremiah calls out. We've gone through it on the previous two videos. He calls out all of these things. And again, unfortunately, we're seeing these things today in the promised land. And I just don't truly understand it. I do understand it because it's biblical prophecy, but at the same time, if we're reading the Torah, if we're reading Moses every single weekend, then we should understand that we're out of alignment over in the promised land with all of these things that we've discovered in the first two videos, with the homosexuality, with the abortion, the free abortion, the idols, the false gods, the innocents being killed in the promised land, etc., etc. I mean, there's the breaking of the Shabbat, the breaking of the Shmita, etc., etc. So again, we've discussed all of these things that Jeremiah calls out himself in 597 BC and 609 BC and 627 BC, warning the people to behave better or the king of Babylon was going to come down. And we're going to see the same understanding with the time of Jacob's trouble. We're in the same position now. God's warning His people. He always has His prophets over there warning the people. I don't believe they're listening. And again, then we're going to get into the time of Jacob's trouble, the last seven years, and then it's going to be bad stuff. And He's going to bring a Nebuchadnezzar down. People know it as the Antichrist, but really it's a military commander. It's not just a political antichrist, it's just whatever smooth whatever it may be politician. It's going to be a military commander. He's going to rock Egypt, he's going to rock Libya, he's going to rock Sudan, he's going to rock Judah, he's going to rock Syria, he's going to rock all of it. And that's why I tell people another Nebuchadnezzar is going to come. People have the wrong interpretation of who the Antichrist is and what he's going to be. He's going to be Nebuchadnezzar. He's going to do exactly what Nebuchadnezzar did. And we've shown that through the biblical prophets. And we're going to keep showing that so people can recognize when that military leader comes on the scene, which should be obvious to everybody who knows theology and eschatology. But there will be brothers and sisters who will not know this, that we need to help them understand to be the good figs and not the bad figs.

So the theme of this chapter, obviously, is the two baskets of figs, one good, one bad. Jeremiah sees two baskets. The major points that we have is the exiles taken to Babylon are the good figs. God will restore them to the land and their descendants. Those remaining in Jerusalem become the bad figs because they refuse correction through their pride. A good teaching point: Sometimes God's discipline is actually His mercy. So think about that. Sometimes God's discipline is actually His mercy to get us to repent. Pretty amazing.

Now, as we go to Jeremiah chapter 27, we'll continue down this row of what Jeremiah was dealing with in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim. Excuse me, I'm sorry. This was misplaced. I'm sorry. This was last series. So this is the reign of Jehoiakim. Sorry about that, my friends. I've misplaced that. So sorry about that.

So, we'll go to Jeremiah chapter 28. "And it happened in the same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur, the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and all of the people, saying, 'Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. Within two full years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the Lord's house that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon. And I will bring back to this place Jehoiachin the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah who went to Babylon,' says the Lord. And that was 598 BC is what he's talking about. 'For I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.' Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people who stood in the house of the Lord. And the prophet Jeremiah said, 'Amen. The Lord do so. The Lord perform your words which you have prophesied to bring back the vessels of the Lord's house and all who were carried away captive from Babylon to this place. Nevertheless, hear now this word that I speak in your hearing, in the hearing of all the people. The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries and great kingdoms of war and disaster and pestilence. As for the prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, the prophet will be known as one whom the Lord has truly sent.' Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke off of the prophet Jeremiah's neck and he broke it. And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, 'Thus says the Lord: Even so I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years.' And the prophet Jeremiah went his way."

So, we'll stop there. So, as you can see, there was basically a battle of the prophets in front of the people. Hananiah spoke out saying within two years that he's going to turn around the fortunes of Jerusalem and Judah and the king of Babylon, you don't have to worry about it. He's going to bring back the vessels. He's going to overtake the king of Babylon within two years. Did you see what Jeremiah responded with? He did not say that the Lord would not do that. He just disagreed with the timing of that, the two years. So again, Jeremiah confirmed, yes, He will bring back. He said, "Amen. He will bring back the vessels. He will turn around the king of Babylon, but not in two years." So that's where Jeremiah had the difference with Hananiah. And then look at what he says in verse 15: "Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, 'Hear now, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie. Therefore, thus says the Lord, behold, I will cast you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have taught rebellion against the Lord.' So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month." Very important, my friends. Those who have been with us on the channel understand the seventh month. They call it the month of Tishrei now, but that is when the books are opened for the individuals and the nations. Everybody, Feast of Trumpets to the Feast of Yom Kippur, the first day Tishrei one to Tishrei 10 for the modern-day understanding of it. And look at what happened. Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month. The verdicts, the righteous rendered verdicts of the Almighty. This is another example of how the courts work up in the courts of heaven, kind of like with Nebuchadnezzar, kind of like with Joseph, the story of Joseph. Now we have this with Hananiah died in the seventh month. And that's when the verdicts are given. That's not saying that everything has to happen in the seventh month, but that's just very interesting that it did happen in the seventh month because that is when the verdicts are given, and that's when this false prophet passed away and what Jeremiah proclaimed.

So for all of the prophets out there who want to be prophets, we've got to be very careful with prophesying against the Lord. And we've got to realize that especially with the heart posture that we have. For instance, I'll give you a good example. The Christian Zionist and the political Zionist. And let me define that so people don't get sideways with me on that. They're talking about the Abrahamic covenant, really, when they say Zionism. The Abrahamic covenant. I don't know why we have to get all these new names and all this stuff. It's really the Abrahamic covenant. The Jewish people have a right to the promised land. That's theology. That's the Abrahamic covenant. But the Zionists believe that the government are going to do the greater Israel. So, in my opinion, and this is just my opinion, they're leading the people in rebellion against the Lord because only the Jewish Messiah is going to do that. I mean, that should be common sense for all of us, proper theology and proper eschatology for sure. So again, the Christian Zionist and the political Zionist thinks that they're going to do the greater Israel project and conquering the promised land. And that will not happen. So they've got to be very careful that they're not going to turn into false prophets, if you will, by telling the people, "Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Do it. You've got God's favor with it and all these things." And they just do not right now. I know that's hardcore to understand. They don't have the favor to do that. I think that's obvious right now with Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, you name it, Iran, Turkey, you name it. It's obvious what's going on right now is the Lord's bringing these empires, these Islamists against them to make them repent. He's not interested right now for them to conquer the promised land. He's interested right now in them returning to His Son Yeshua, the King of Israel. And when they do, He's going to do this for them. You see what I'm saying? So again, we're out of alignment with the understanding of the end of the age. The Christian Zionist and the political Jewish Zionist, they believe that they're going to do it. The Bible says He's going to do it. So that's very clear. We've got to get into it. I mean, again, loving the Jewish people is telling them the truth, not to go with false understanding and false prophets and all this stuff. We've got to get real biblically. Unfortunately, we're not understanding the biblical prophets in the proper order that they were written. They're taking the Day of the Lord scriptures, which we're going to do a series on that after tonight. We're going to start a series on the Day of the Lord scriptures with the three great prophets, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and show everybody that they're trying to do right now what Yeshua is going to do at the Day of the Lord. And that's where the confusion is right now. And then people will think you're anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, and anti-everything. And that's just not the case. The case is we're out of alignment with the biblical prophets who God spoke through that said that we're out of alignment because we're doing all these things in the land that's not kosher. And He's not going to show favor to all of us over there. I include myself in that. He's not going to show us favor until we repent. Until we repent and call on Yeshua, and then He will do it Himself. So again, when He says you have taught rebellion against the Lord, to a certain degree, and I'm not accusing them, they just have to be very careful of not falling into a false prophet understanding, the Christian Zionist, the Jewish Zionist, because they're leading the people to think that they're able to do this, and they're not able to do this without the Jewish Messiah.

So again, very clear that Jeremiah comes against the false prophets who are prophesying peace, peace, peace, but there's no peace. And we've got to understand that loving the Jewish people is not just believing in Yeshua, dual covenant, go do your thing, none of that. Loving the Jewish people is loving them like you love everybody else in the world, but also giving them Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah, provoking them to jealousy, all of the things that the Bible requires a true believer to do, not just to be a part of political Israel and go conquer the promised land. That will get these people judged tremendously. And that's where we're going right now, is to judgment, not to redemption, to judgment. And that's where the disagreement comes in with myself compared to a Zionist or whatever. I mean, I believe in the Abrahamic covenant. If you want to call Zionism the Abrahamic covenant, count me in. If Zionism is conquering the promised land, count me out, because Jeremiah would be against that, because they will not be able to do this without the Jewish Messiah. And that's what the people, because I believe this, I believe the government has indoctrinated the people, and the people believe that again, the scriptures say that they can go conquer the promised land. And right now, it's about repentance. It's about Yeshua coming to the Jewish Messiah, is what this is about. And that's we're about to go through the time of Jacob's trouble, which we're going to read here soon. So my friends, it's just a heart position change, but it will get you judged by other people if you have this understanding, because the people believe they can do this. And from what my eyes can see over the last two or three years, or last 20 or 30 years, they will not be able to do this. So we've got to understand this. That's all for our Jewish Messiah, Yeshua. So again, let's take up for Yeshua, what our Savior is going to do, and not reject Him, and be a false prophet and say, "Yeah, go do everything you want to do and go conquer the promised land." That will not happen until He returns to do this for them. And that is very biblical, very eschatological, you name it. I mean, this is very all over the place, but we have to read the prophets the way that they wrote it.

So again, Jeremiah was dealing with false prophets. The true prophets in Israel are dealing with false prophets now. Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, they're false. They're false people. That think that they can do all this stuff, and whoever else who believes that as well with those two guys. The Israeli government is out of line right now tremendously. And now you've got the radicals in there who think that they can do these things. How's that going? I don't... good.

So Jeremiah had a yoke on his neck, a wooden yoke. Hananiah took it off and he broke the wood. And look at what God says: "I put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations that they may serve the king of Babylon." So this is pretty amazing. So let me go back and read verse 12 and we'll continue to the end of the chapter. "Now the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah after Hananiah the prophet had broken the wooden yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, 'Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says the Lord: You have broken the yolks of wood, but you have made in their place yolks of iron. I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar the king, and they will serve him, and I have given him the beasts of the field also.' Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, 'Hear now, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie. Therefore, thus says the Lord, behold, I will cast you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have taught rebellion against the Lord.'"

So Hananiah died that same year in the seventh month, which is when the books are opened on the courts of heaven. So my friends, this is very serious stuff. He took off the broken yoke, or the wooden yoke, and he broke it. And then God said, "Guess what? You've broken the wooden yoke. Now you've got an iron yoke." So again, we can fight against God all we want, but He'll keep upping the ante. He'll keep upping the ante until He has His way with either repentance or with destruction. That is up to us to understand that.

So my friends, we cannot trust in lies. We cannot trust in falsehood. And He says that these false prophets are teaching rebellion against the Lord. What did Samuel say in 1 Samuel 15? "Obedience is better than sacrifice. To heed is better than fatted rams. Rebellion is just as the sin of witchcraft." My Jewish friends and my Christian friends, and being stiff-necked is just like idolatry. So right now, we have Jewish friends and Christian friends in idolatry and witchcraft because they're rebellious. They're stiff-necked. They don't want to follow the ways of God in the promised land. The Christians don't want to do it either. And so we're just a bunch of stiff-necked people right now. And God is going to break that yoke over us. Just wait and see. He's trying to get everybody's attention right now over in the Middle East. And no one seems to be listening over there. But He will have the last laugh when He gets the beast kingdom and Nebuchadnezzar coming to all of them over there. All of them. All of them will get it, just like all of them got it previously in Jeremiah's day.

Hananiah promises a quick deliverance. Jeremiah says he is speaking lies. Hananiah breaks Jeremiah's wooden yoke, and God replaces it with an iron yoke. False hope is more dangerous than hard truth, everybody. False hope is more dangerous than hard truth. We've got to take these pacifiers out of everybody right now, because goodness, just look at the Middle East right now. It's on fire, and it will continue to be that way. We've got to wake people up and get the pacifier out of their mouth. And no, you will not be liked. No, you will be called whatever it may be. But wasn't Jeremiah called that? Wasn't Moses called that? What did Yeshua say? If you're persecuted, well, you're in the company of Jeremiah and the prophets. So take it as a good course.

So this is super important for all of us who are living at the end of the age right now to saddle up, giddy up, and to speak it out to Jewish friends, Christian friends, Muslim friends, this friend, atheist friend, whatever friend, you know, to speak it out because the time is getting nigh. Whenever I see all these people dying in the Middle East, these 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds, IDF soldiers, American soldiers, look at the couple that's passed here, 19 years old, 18 years old. So this is what it's about, ladies and gents, is the truth, and not just, it's not affecting us. You, it is affecting you. You just don't know it yet, and it is going to affect the entire world if we're not careful.

In Jeremiah 29, as we continue down Zedekiah's reign with the prophet Jeremiah: "Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the remainder of the elders who were carried away captive, to the priests, to the prophets, all of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon. This happened after Jehoiachin the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem. The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And this is what Jeremiah wrote to the captives of Babylon: 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon.'"

And this is what Jeremiah told the exiles in Babylon: "Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit; take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters, that you may be increased." Build up the Jewish people in Babylon. Build them up in Egypt as well to bring them out. "And seek the peace of the city which I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it. For in its peace you will have peace. For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them,' says the Lord. For thus says the Lord, 'After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good work toward you, and cause you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,' says the Lord, 'thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with your whole heart. I will be found by you,' says the Lord, 'and I will bring you back from your captivity. I will gather you from all nations and from the places where I have driven you,' says the Lord, 'and I will bring you to the place from which I have caused you to be carried away captive.'"

Okay, let's stop there. So again, amongst the captivity, amongst the exiles, amongst the destruction and all of these horrible things, God still gives hope. He still gives restoration hope. And this is what's beautiful. Most Christians, they might not know the book of Jeremiah, but they do know Jeremiah 29. And that really is towards the Jewish people coming out of Babylon. But if you want to take it personal, then I'm all for that. But just understand what goes into this. It's kind of like 2 Chronicles 7:14. "If My people who are called by My name, will humble themselves and seek My face and all these things, if they will repent." Well, people only read that one section of the scripture. They don't read the curse if you don't do it. And that's the problem that we have is people want to just get, "If My people are called by My name, who will humble themselves," which is great, but if you don't, you're going to be rocked. You're going to be destroyed. That's what our Jewish friends and our Christian friends don't like to hear. They don't like to read because everybody just wants the good stuff. Well, if you take the entire prophecy, it's going to give you a little bit more circumcision of the heart and more obedience, so to speak, to understand the blessing, good, and then the curse if we don't. And that's the way that the Bible works. That's the way the Torah works. That's the way Yeshua works as well. Blessings, curses. And this is one of those restoration blessings that after 70 years, "I know the thoughts that I think of you for good, not of evil, for hope, not destruction." That's the covenants. That's the everlasting covenants that God is speaking through. The Abrahamic, the Davidic, the new covenant. Also, the ordinances, the statutes, the laws, the Torah. All of these things that are out of His mouth. That's what He's speaking of. For the people to return to the righteous ways of Yahweh, and you will have peace.

But look at what He says. He tells the Jewish people to build houses in Babylon, dwell in there, plant gardens, eat their fruit, wives, husbands, give your children wives, husbands, all of these things that He can increase the Jewish people in Babylon because of what's happened with the destruction. "Seek the peace of the city," is what He says. So seek the peace of Babylon is what He said, "where I have caused you to be carried away captive. Pray, pray for Babylon to the Lord, and in its peace you will have peace." Now, that's not saying to go act like a bunch of Babylonians. That's not saying that at all. That's saying to keep the ways of Yahweh amongst Babylon. And that's something that we can get great understanding as well. The world is Babylon, as we all know. So don't take this personal when I say that. The world is Babylon. So is America. So is Israel. So is all of the world. And He wants all of us to live His ways amongst Babylon. Kind of like Daniel did. Kind of like He told the people to here as well. So we've got to understand is yes, the whole world is Babylonian system. Of course it is. And we're called to not be a part of all of that. We're called to live accordingly to the word of God, and that's it. Because no country is going to uphold those values and standards. Not even Israel right now is upholding the Torah and the values and the standards that goes with the promised land. But He expects them to, and He expects all of us who are not living in the promised land to live accordingly to the best of our ability. Whatever pertains to us, not talking about sacrifices, whatever pertains to us amongst the Babylonian captivity that we are all in, if you really think about it, so to speak.

Verse number 10: "For thus says the Lord, 'After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good work toward you, and cause you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, O people of Judah,' says the Lord, 'thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek My face and find Me, when you search for Me with your whole heart.' Yeshua says the same thing. Search for Him with your whole heart. Ask and receive, seek, knock, all of these things that we're saying. So look at what He says. He says, 'Then you will,' not 'you maybe,' 'you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.' This is not maybe stuff. This is 'I will,' and 'you will.' Seek My face and find Me when you search for Me with your whole heart, and I'll be found by you, says the Lord."

So even through all of this hardcore language that we read in the prophet Jeremiah, there's always restoration. There's always hope. But for all of my Christian friends, we cannot take chapter 29 out of context and not know what went into chapter 29, with rebellion and with stiff-neckedness and all of these things, and then captivity and exile, and then if you seek Me with all of your heart, then I will return to you. So again, we can't think that God's not going to do these hardcore things. But in the midst of these hardcore things, He's going to show us redemption. He's going to show us restoration if we return to Him with all of our heart, with all of our soul, with all of our mind, and with all of our strength.

In verse number 15: "Because you have said, 'The Lord has raised us up prophets for us in Babylon,' therefore thus says the Lord, 'Concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, concerning all the people who dwell in this city, and concerning your brethren who have not gone out with you into captivity. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and I will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.' Remember what we just discovered with the two different figs, right? That's what He's going back on. 'Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and I will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad. I will pursue them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence. I will deliver them to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, an astonishment, a hissing, a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them, because they have not heeded My word,' says the Lord, 'which I sent to them by My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, neither would you heed,' says the Lord. Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, all of you in captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab, who prophesied lies to you in My name, behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall slay them before your eyes. And because of them a curse shall be taken up by all the captivity of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, "The Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire, because they have done disgraceful things in Israel, have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, have spoken lying words in My name, which I have not commanded them." Indeed, I know, and am a witness,' says the Lord."

"You shall also speak to Shemaiah. Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You have sent letters in your name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the priest, and to all the priests, saying, 'The Lord has made you priests instead of Jehoiada the priest, so that there should be officers in the house of the Lord over every man who is demented and considers himself a prophet, that you should put him in prison and in the stocks.' Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you? For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, 'Captivity is long. Build houses and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat their fruit.' Now Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet. Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, 'Send to all those in captivity, saying, Thus says the Lord concerning Shemaiah: Because he has prophesied to you, and I have not sent him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie, therefore thus says the Lord, behold, I will punish him and his family. He shall not have anyone to dwell among this people, nor shall he see the good that I will do for My people,' says the Lord, 'because he has taught rebellion against the Lord.'"

So again, we have another false prophet rising up, telling the people in captivity that they're not going to be there for 70 years, basically, that it's going to be shorter than that. And Jeremiah, through the power of the Lord, told him he was a liar. He was prophesying in falsehood, so to speak. So again, he was teaching rebellion against the Lord, and it goes back to 1 Samuel 15. Rebellion is just like witchcraft. So that's something to really understand what the prophet Samuel has said.

So the theme to the letter to the exiles in chapter 29: Jeremiah writes to those already in Babylon. The major points: He says to build houses, plant gardens, seek the peace of the city, do not listen to false prophets. The captivity will last 70 years. Even in exile, God has not abandoned His covenant people. Again, God is not like a man. He's not a liar. He has put His name in Zion, put His name in Jerusalem. He's put His name on the Abrahamic covenant, and the Davidic covenant, and the new covenant. These are "I will, I will, I will." The Mosaic covenant is, "If you obey, then you can stay in the land. If you do not obey, then you will be exiled from the land." That's the Mosaic covenant. It's a bilateral contract. The Abrahamic covenant, the Davidic covenant, and the new covenant is unilateral. It only depends on God's sovereign righteousness. It does not depend on the Jewish people. It just does not. Staying in the land depends on their behavior with the Mosaic covenant. But He will have a generation that He will bring into the land, and they will obey Him. They will turn to the Jewish Messiah. They will repent. And again, I believe that this generation is that generation. There's going to be a time of trouble, and then they will repent.

So that's Jeremiah 29, a very pivotal chapter to understand with the captivity. Jeremiah was dealing with. He dealt with a lot of false prophets who did not understand what God was trying to do. Jeremiah and the true prophets were the ones that God spoke through. And most of the time, that is not going to be good. But there's always restoration and redemption in this prophet. And that's what we're about to get into now with Jeremiah chapter 30, Time of Jacob's Trouble. And then Jeremiah 31 is the New Covenant. So whenever we read these next two chapters, take out the chapter breaks, because they're really the same. It's really just one long prophecy of what Jeremiah is saying. Jeremiah did not write his book with chapter breaks in it. That's what man did later on. Another whatever. I'm not saying something's wrong with that. I'm just saying he did not write chapter 30, chapter 31. Chapter 30 and chapter 31, as you will see, is a consistent prophecy that goes through the end of the age. This is where Jeremiah bleeds into the end of the age with Jeremiah 29, Jeremiah 30, Jeremiah 31, and 32 and 33. Bleeds into the end of the age. This whole section of those four or five chapters, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, these five chapters are really important to understand with the bleeding into the end of the age. Kind of like with Jeremiah 16, which we went through with Josiah's reign, the fishermen and the hunters. That's never happened before. They were never fished back, and they were never hunted back. Now they are. They're being fished back. 1948, 4 million Jewish people have made Aliyah to the promised land. They've been fished back, wouldn't you say? And now here comes the hunters for the end of the age. Very important.

So now with that mindset involved, remember Jeremiah 16, the fishermen and the hunters. We're seeing that right now. And now let's talk about the time of Jacob's Trouble. And we'll relate those two together once we read the prophecy. All right.

So Jeremiah 30: "This is the time of Jacob's Trouble. The last seven years of the age is what Jeremiah is speaking about here. So of course, this is at the very end, the last seven years of the age. The word that came to Jeremiah from Adonai, saying, 'Thus speaks the Lord God of Israel, saying: Write in a book for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you. For behold, the days are coming,' says the Lord, 'that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah,' says the Lord, 'and I will cause them to return to the land I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.' And this is what you're seeing right now. Now these are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah. For thus says the Lord: 'We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask them and see whether a man is ever in labor with a child. So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor, and faces pale? Alas! For that day is great, and there is none like it, and it is the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.'"

Okay, so we'll stop right there, my friends. We talk about this all the time on the videos. Jeremiah 30, this is what it's talking about. The people have returned to the land. The fishermen have been released. Jeremiah 16, 1948, 4 million plus Jewish people have made Aliyah. That's just facts.

Now you're seeing the hunters rise up in Europe, in America, and obviously in the Middle East. Something to look out for is the continuation of the fishermen and the hunters, but then it's going to run into the time of Jacob's trouble. The way Jeremiah wrote it, to the time of Jacob's trouble, refers back to the patriarch Jacob. In Genesis 30, he had to work for Rachel, the one he truly loved, for an extra seven years. That was the time of Jacob's trouble. He worked seven years for Rachel, but then he was deceived and had to work seven extra years for the one he truly loved. So, the time of Jacob's trouble is seven years, not three and a half years. There's no biblical correlation for three and a half years. Jacob's trouble was for seven years. The antichrist's reign was for three and a half years. The first three and a half years are the first half, and the last three and a half years will be the antichrist's reign, followed by the day of the Lord. People often confuse this with the prophetic timeline. The last seven years of the age before Yeshua's return is the time of Jacob's trouble, also called the seven-year tribulation period. This is seven years because of Jacob's trouble with Rachel. If the patriarch Jacob had not wanted you to understand what he went through for the one he truly loved, he would have written it differently. The Jewish people truly love the Jewish Messiah, but they do not recognize Yeshua right now. They will go through seven tough years for the one they truly love, and He truly loves them as well. We must relate this to the Torah, as Jeremiah did. The seven years are not arbitrary; they relate to the Torah of the Bible. In the last seven years of the age, the tribulation period will be the time of Jacob's trouble, but he will be saved out of it. This means it will be bad, and then Yeshua will save the Jewish people. It will be so heavy because of the beast kingdom, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Arabia, Libya, Sudan, Egypt, and Pakistan, that Yeshua will have to break them out of it.

The prophecy states: "We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask now and see whether a man is ever in labor with a child. So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor and all faces turn pale? Alas, for that day is great. There is none like it. And it is the time of Jacob's trouble, but he will be saved out of it." My friends, it's going to get very bad in the Middle East, even in Israel. They use the imagery of a pregnant woman being delivered, with Israel being delivered at the very end through Yeshua, as Isaiah 66 says. The breakthrough, the delivery of the baby, is what is described. Jeremiah uses this same understanding, with men holding their loins because of how bad it is, and all faces turning pale because it is the time of Jacob's trouble, but Yeshua will save them out of it.

"For it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord of Hosts, that I will break his yoke from your neck, and I will burst your bonds. Foreigners shall no more enslave them." This tells us they will be enslaved. There is a time of trouble, as Daniel 12 and Matthew 24 also state. There is one more exile coming, and that is what Jeremiah is talking about. The foreigners will no more enslave them, but they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, Yeshua, whom I will raise up for them. "Therefore, do not fear, O my servant Jacob, says the Lord, nor be dismayed, O Israel, for behold, I will save you from afar, not from the work of our own hands, from Yeshua, and your seed from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, have rest, and be quiet, and no one shall make him afraid." Has this happened yet? The Jewish people have returned, but do they have rest and peace right now? Is no one making them afraid? No, everyone in the Middle East is making them afraid right now because of what is happening. This has not come to fruition yet; it will only come to fruition in fulfillment with Yeshua's second coming. They will not have peace and there will be no rest until they return to the Jewish Messiah, and then He will deliver them. This is why we must go through the time of Jacob's trouble so that the remnant can come to Yeshua, and we can have the one new body and the one new man.

"For I am with you, says the Lord, to save you. Though I make a full end of all nations where I have driven you, yet I will not make a complete end of you. But I will correct you in justice, and I will not let you go altogether unpunished." "For thus says the Lord, Your affliction is incurable. Your wound is severe. There is no one to plead your cause that you may be bound up. You have no healing medicines. All your lovers have forgotten you. They do not seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, the Antichrist, for the multitude of your iniquities because your sins have increased." He is talking about right now, bleeding into the present with the people in the land. "Why do you cry about your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable because of the multitude of your iniquities. Because your sins have increased. I have done all of these things to you. Therefore, all those who devour you shall be devoured, and all your adversaries, every one of them shall go into captivity. Those who plunder you shall become plunder, and all who prey upon you, I will make prey. For I will restore health to you and heal all of your wounds, says the Lord, because they called you an outcast, saying, 'This is Zion, and no one seeks her.'"

"Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will bring back the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places. The city shall be built upon its own mound, Mount Zion, and the palace shall remain according to its own plan in Ezekiel 40-48. Then out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them and they shall not diminish. I will also glorify them and they shall not be small. Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all who oppress them." My friends, when it says "their congregation shall be established before me," that is the millennial kingdom. This is the last seven years of the age he is talking about. It will be reversed. The curse will be reversed, and then they will plunder everyone who has plundered them. Yeshua will get the vengeance for them as their leader, and all of these things. But he is talking about the seven years in the time of Jacob's trouble right here, that He will glorify them after that is done. This leads into the next chapter. "Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before Yeshua in the millennial kingdom. I will punish all who oppress them. Their noble shall be from among them, and their governor shall come from their midst. Then I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach me. For who is this who pledged his heart to approach me, says the Lord? You shall be my people, and I will be your God." That is not the case right now, but it will be at the end when they turn to Yeshua.

"Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind. It will fall violently on the head of the wicked." This is second coming event language. "The fierce anger of the Lord will not return until He has done it and until He has performed the intents of His heart." In the latter days, you will consider it. My friends, this is for the latter days. Jeremiah told you it's for the latter days: the time of Jacob's trouble, the last seven years of the age, at the very end. "Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord goes forth with fury. A continuing whirlwind. It will fall violently on the head of the wicked. The fierce anger of the Lord will not return." Think about that. Until He has done it and until He has performed the intents of His heart. Please read Isaiah 63 about the intents of His heart when He returns. In the latter days, you will consider it. We pray that the Jewish people do consider it right now.

Jeremiah 30 has the theme of restoration, or the time of Jacob's trouble, but he will be saved out of it. It is the restoration of Israel. The book of consolation begins right now. God promises restoration after judgment. The enemies will be judged. Israel and Judah will return to the promised land. David's kingdom, the Davidic kingdom, will be restored when Yeshua returns. Judgment is never God's final word.

Now we go to Jeremiah 31. Just keep reading; don't worry about chapter breaks. Right at the beginning, it tells you to read it consistently. This is where the new covenant is, my friends. The new covenant is not first mentioned in Matthew 27. The new covenant is mentioned in Jeremiah 31, Ezekiel 36, and Isaiah 59 and 60. Everything must be prophesied before Yeshua could fulfill it. The new covenant is right here in Jeremiah 31.

At the very beginning of chapter 31, it tells everyone to read this consistently with Jeremiah 30. "At the same time," meaning at the same time as the time of Jacob's trouble. It's a continuing prophecy: the seven years, and then the new covenant. The new covenant is the millennial kingdom. We are not living in the new covenant, but we are all saved by the new covenant, the blood of the Lamb, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, forgiveness of sins, etc. But we are not literally living in the new covenant because the Jewish people have not received Yeshua as their Savior. When we read the prophecy, it must be about the Jewish people receiving Yeshua, and then the one new body and the one new man. It cannot just be a bunch of Gentiles. It must be the remnant of the Jews and the remnant of the Gentiles, both parties. Right now, we have the remnant of the Gentiles coming, and the remnant of the Jews coming as well. But there will be a great redemption of the Jewish people, and a great restoration of the Jewish people at the very end when they call upon Him.

Let's read this consistently with the time of Jacob's trouble, and you will see what we are talking about. "At the same time of Jeremiah 30, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people." My friends, that is not the case right now. They are not believers in Yeshua the Messiah, so they are not His people right now, and He is not their God. That must happen before all this comes to fruition. "At the same time of the time of Jacob's trouble, after that I will be the God of the families of all of Israel, and they shall be my people." This is after the seven years of Jeremiah 30. "For thus says the Lord, the people who survive the sword found grace in the desert, Israel, when I went to give Him rest." Yeshua says to flee to the mountains at the three-and-a-half-year mark of the tribulation in Matthew 24. So, the people who survived the sword because they fled to grace in the desert, Mount Sinai, Petra, Israel, when the Lord went to give them rest. "The Lord has appeared to me of old, saying, 'Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore, with lovingkindness, I have drawn you again. I will build you, and you shall be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel.'" When He calls them "virgin of Israel," it means they are clean, they are saved. He is not calling them harlots or prostitutes anymore. He is calling them "O virgin of Israel," meaning they are cleansed, they are believers. "Again, I will build you up, and you shall be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel. You shall again be adorned with your tambourines and shall go forth in the dances of those who rejoice. You shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria. The planters shall plant and eat them as ordinary food. For there shall be a day when the watchmen will cry on Mount Ephraim, 'Arise, and let us go up to Zion to the Lord our God.'" That has not happened yet; He is not on this earth, He is not on Zion yet. They did not do that at the first coming. But there shall be a day, the day of the Lord, when they will arise and say, "Let us go up to Zion to Yeshua, the Lord our God," at the millennial kingdom.

"For thus says the Lord, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations, and proclaim, give praise, and say, 'O Lord, save Your people, the remnant of Israel.' Behold, I will bring them from the far north country and gather them from the ends of the earth." This is second coming events. "Among them the blind and the lame, the woman with child, the one who labors with child together. A great remnant shall return there through Yeshua." (Jeremiah 23). "They shall come with weeping and with supplications. I will lead them." Zechariah 13 and 12 say there will be mourning for the pierced one, for the ones whom they have pierced. Jeremiah is confirming that in Jeremiah 31. "They shall come with weeping and with supplications. I will lead them. I will lead them. Yeshua. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of the waters in a straight way in which they shall not stumble. For I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd does his flock.'" (Jeremiah 23). "For the Lord has redeemed Jacob and rescued him from the hand of a stronger one than he. Therefore, they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, streaming to the goodness of Adonai, for wheat and new wine and oil, for the young of the flock and the herd. Their soul shall be like a well-worked garden, and they shall sorrow no more at all. Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together, for I will turn their mourning to joy." This is the second coming events, the millennial kingdom. "I will comfort them, and I will make them rejoice rather than sorrow. I will satisfy the soul of the priest with abundance, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the Lord."

"Thus says the Lord, A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children because they are no more. Thus says the Lord, Refrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work shall be rewarded, says the Lord, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy. This is hope in your future, says the Lord, that your children shall come back to their own border. I have surely heard Ephraim bemooning himself. You have chastised me, and I was chastised like an untrained bull. Restore me, and I will return, for you are the Lord my God. Surely after my turning, I repented, and after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, because I bore the reproach of my youth. Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a pleasant child? For though I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord. Set up signposts, make landmarks, set your heart towards the highway, the way in which you went. Turn back, O virgin of Israel, turn back to these your cities. How long will you gad about, O you backsliding daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth: A woman shall encompass a man. Israel. They shall again use this speech in the land of Judah and its cities, and I will bring back their captivity. The Lord bless you, O home of justice, and mountain of holiness, and there shall dwell in Judah itself, and all of its cities together, farmers and those going out with flocks. For I have satisfied the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. After this, I awoke and I looked around, and my sleep was sweet to me. Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord. And in those days they shall say no more, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.' But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge."

And then here we go with the new covenant, everybody. "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord. Right after the time of Jacob's trouble, Jeremiah 30-31, I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my Torah in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, saying, 'Every man know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." Amen. "For thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinance of the moon and the stars for a light by night." (Genesis 1:14). "Who disturbs the sea and its waves roar. The Lord of hosts is His name. If those ordinances, the sun and the moon, depart from me, says the Lord, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before me forever. Thus says the Lord, if heaven above can be measured, and the fountains of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off the seed of Israel for all they have done, says the Lord. Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that the city shall be built for the Lord, from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. The surveyor's line shall again extend straight forward over the hill of Gibeath. Then it shall turn towards Goath. And the whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all of the fields as far as the brook Kidron, the Kidron Valley to the corner of the Horse Gate towards the east, shall be holy to the Lord. It shall not be plucked up or thrown down anymore forever." My friends, this is obviously second coming events, millennial kingdom language. "It shall not be plucked up or thrown down anymore forever. It will be concluded no more." So, the new covenant is from the time of Jacob's trouble. We are all saved by the new covenant through Yeshua, but until the Jewish people receive Him as their Savior and the Torah is on their minds and in their hearts, we will not be literally living in the new covenant. Ladies and gentlemen, we need the Jewish remnant to come in to the new covenant, which is through Yeshua, but also the Torah. Please understand that, my Christian friends. It's not just the blood of the Messiah; it's the blood of the Messiah and His commandments.

"Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, two houses, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them out of Egypt. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, one house, after those days, says the Lord. I will put in their minds and write it on their tables of their hearts, the Torah, the law, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." Only then, my friends, only then. So, my Christian friends, if this is the way with the Jewish people, God is consistent. He is not two-sided, not schizophrenic or bipolar. One way. That's it. Yeshua, commandments, Holy Spirit. That's it. That's the way, the truth, and the life. And that's what King David said about the Torah: the way, the truth, and the life. Yeshua is the living Torah, everybody. That's what John chapter 1 says. "In the beginning was Yeshua, the Word. The Word, or Yeshua, was with God the Father. And Yeshua, or the Word, is God." Please understand that.

Jeremiah 30-31 is beautiful if we read it accordingly. The time of Jacob's trouble, Jeremiah 30, but he will be saved out of it. At the same time, the new covenant with the Jewish people. "I will make a new covenant with them, the house of Israel and Judah, two houses." And then He consolidates it into one house. "But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, the commonwealth of Israel, the kingdom of Israel." When will You, Yeshua, restore the kingdom back to Israel? At His second coming events, the millennial kingdom. That is the new covenant, right after we get out of the time of Jacob's trouble. So, we just need to understand that Jeremiah said to read it at the same time. The new covenant will be right after the time of Jacob's trouble, or the last seven years of the age, or the seven-year tribulation period. This is very beautiful. We have to understand this from a chronological standpoint of Jeremiah 30-31. Take out the chapter breaks, read the prophecy within itself. It's very beautiful about the restoration of the kingdom of Israel.

In King Zedekiah's reign, he not only pronounced judgment, and judgment did occur during Zedekiah's reign of 18 years, but the main understanding is the restoration and the redemption. Jeremiah chapters 29, 30, and 31. We will read 32 and 33 later because they are not in order right after this. But my friends, this is beautiful. Most people think that Jeremiah is just the weeping prophet of judgment and all these things, but he got the new covenant, everybody. Jeremiah did, and Isaiah did as well. He got a beautiful understanding of the new covenant that really helps us to understand the end of the age timeline with the seven years, then redemption for the Jewish people, the remnant, and then the one new body and the one new man in the new covenant and the millennial kingdom. It's really beautiful where He will establish and fulfill everything that He has not fulfilled during the first coming events and the second coming events. He will get it done during the millennial kingdom, send the Torah out to the nations, etc.

Jeremiah 31 is very beautiful. As we continue, he challenges everyone who believes that he has done away with Israel, because that would be calling God a liar to say that He is done with the Jewish people, as that would break the covenants He made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He challenges everyone right here with the sun and the moon (Genesis 1:14), remember they are called the two faithful witnesses in the sky. In Psalm 89, he says, "If though if the sun and the moon depart from me, says the Lord, which they will never, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before me." And then he challenges everyone again: "If heaven above can be measured, which no one can, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, again, no one can, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all they have done, says the Lord." This is very beautiful. He makes the promises and then confirms them with the two faithful witnesses in the sky and with common logic that no one can search out the heavens above or the earth beneath, only He can do that. The theme of the new covenant is perhaps the greatest chapter in Jeremiah: the new covenant in Jeremiah 31. The total restoration at the end of the age of the Jewish people and also the believers on the Gentiles, the remnant of the Gentiles. This is, in my opinion, the greatest chapter in Jeremiah. The restoration of Jeremiah chapter 31. Also, 32 and 33 go into that as well. The major points are: God promises a covenant unlike Sinai. His law will be written upon the heart, and Israel will again become His people. Right now, they are not His people because they do not believe in Yeshua. And again, at the end of the age, they will be His people, and He will be their God. They will receive Yeshua, the blessed Holy Spirit. What does Ezekiel 36 say? "I will give you a new heart and a new spirit." Ezekiel 36 is the new covenant in Ezekiel's prophecy. We have to understand these things. Right now, His law is not written upon their hearts. Israel will again become His people when they repent and turn to Yeshua the Messiah.

A teaching point: The solution to Judah's problem is not a better king, but a transformed heart. My friends, all throughout Moses, go read the Torah. Moses, especially where we are right now in the Torah portions, the book of Deuteronomy, these are the words. Again, go read what he says. It's all about the heart, the heart, the heart, the heart. Moses told the people, the heart, the heart, the heart. The people do not listen to him. And then Jeremiah is reminding the people again, the heart, the heart, the heart. And then there will be a generation, and I believe it is this generation, that will repent and return, the remnant will, and return to Yeshua the Messiah, at the very end. I believe we are in that time frame.

As we continue forth with Jeremiah chapter 34, "The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and all of his army, all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion, and all the people fought against Jerusalem and all of its cities, saying, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, go and speak to Zedekiah, king of Judah, and tell him, thus says the Lord, behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from his hand, but shall surely be taken and delivered into his hand. Your eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon.' He's talking about Zedekiah. He shall speak with you face to face, and you shall go to Babylon, Zedekiah. Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah, king of Judah. Thus says the Lord concerning you. You shall not die by the sword. You shall die in peace, as in the ceremonies of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so that they shall burn incense for you and lament for you, saying, 'Alas, Lord!' for I pronounce the word, says the Lord." Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah, king of Judah, in Jerusalem, when the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and Azekah. For only those fortified cities remained of the cities of Judah.

"This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem to proclaim liberty to them, that every man should set free his male or female slave, a Hebrew man or woman, that no one should keep a Jewish brother in bondage." My friends, this was a year that this occurred, because that's when you pronounce liberty every seventh year. Understand the seven-year cycle. The Sabbatical year, the year of the age, the seven-year tribulation is a Sabbatical cycle. It will fall on the exact cycle that we deal with. This is what he's talking about. They are supposed to release the servants or the slaves. If a Jewish person had another Jewish person as a servant, serving them, keeping their cattle, their livestock, whatever it may be, then after the end of six years, they should release them on the seventh year. This is where this comes in. Without understanding the knowledge of Leviticus 25 and Torah, we don't have any clue what this is talking about as believers. We have to understand what Jeremiah is referring to with the Sabbatical year or the seven-year cycle when they were supposed to release the captives on the seventh year.

"This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem to proclaim liberty to them, that every man should set free his male in bondage. Now when all the princes and all the people who have entered into the covenant that everyone should be set free, his male and female servants, that no one should keep them in bondage anymore, they obeyed and they let them go. But afterward, they changed their minds and made the male and female slaves return whom they had set free and brought them into subjection as male and female servants. Therefore, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying, at the end of seven years, let every man set free his Hebrew brother who has been sold to him, and when he has served you six years, you shall let them go free from you. But your fathers did not obey me, nor incline their ear. Then you recently turned and did what was right in my sight, proclaiming liberty to his neighbor, and you made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name. Then you turned around and profaned my name, and everyone of you brought back his male and female servants, whom you had set at liberty, at their pleasure, and brought them back into submission to be your male and female servants. Therefore, thus says the Lord, you have not obeyed me in proclaiming liberty, everyone to his brother and everyone to his neighbor. Behold, I will proclaim liberty to you, says the Lord, liberty to the sword, liberty to the pestilence, and liberty to the famine. I will deliver you to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth. I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, and have not performed the words of the covenant, which they have made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it, the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf. I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead body shall be for meat for the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth. I will give Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his princes into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which has gone back from you. Behold, I will command, says the Lord, and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire, and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.'"

So, my friends, He turned back the king of Babylon because they obeyed the Lord and released the slaves. This is how important it is to Him to follow His commandments and follow exactly what He said. So, six years the people worked for the other people, then on the seventh year, they released them as Leviticus 25 said. They obeyed at first, and then they turned back and got the people back into captivity. And then what does the Lord say? "I'm going to give you liberty. I'm going to give you liberty to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine." That's the liberty He was going to give the people. And then He says what He says about the king of Babylon. Again, think about how many times He warns the people about the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar. Almost every chapter in Jeremiah's book, he warns them about the king of Babylon coming to destroy them.

The theme of this chapter is broken promises and vows. King Zedekiah briefly frees the Hebrew servants. The people immediately enslave them again. Major points: temporary obedience without a change of heart. God condemns covenant breaking, yet He loves and honors covenant keeping. Teaching point: Repentance is measured by perseverance, not emotion. It wasn't just one thing; it was many things: breaking the Sabbatical year, not releasing the servants, idolatry, adultery, spiritual adultery, passing children through the fire, burning incense to other gods, breaking the Sabbath. All of these things they were doing. Unfortunately, today, we are seeing the same things. We are seeing children passed through abortion, and sometimes it's free abortion in Israel. We are seeing homosexuality take root there, with Tel Aviv building a city in Sodom for homosexuals for three or four days. The rebellion is really, no one's blushing as Jeremiah petitions the people to blush. No one's blushing. Everybody's going along with this, it seems. You don't see many protests. You don't see the government coming against this stuff over there. Actually, you see them supporting the stuff down in Sodom. I don't take pleasure in saying this, but they are doing the same things over and over again that will bring judgment. That's why you're not seeing any victories with the military campaign or greater Israel, because there are no victories when you are in disobedience. How can there be victories? No one can show any of us a victory in the last 25 years, or really in Israel since 1973. A major victory. No one can show you that. There hasn't been a victory over the terrorist groups, Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, no victory over Iran, no victory over Turkey. No victory over the beast kingdom, and no victory over Antichrist or Nebuchadnezzar. Until there is repentance and Teshuvah, they will not get any victories. I think that's pretty obvious with the Mosaic covenant. Why, since God wants the Jewish people to repent and turn toward Yeshua, toward Jesus, why would He give Israel a victory and make their pride go higher instead of repentance? There are not going to be victories; there is only going to be what you are seeing. And then He is warning the people to repent, to turn to the Jewish Messiah so that He can get the victory for them and they can have the promised land for all people, including you and me, over there as well. Right now, it's about obedience. It's about Teshuvah right now, not about doing things that the Jewish Messiah is only going to do.

Let's go to Jeremiah 37. "Now King Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah. But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land gave heed to the words of the Lord which He spoke by the prophet Jeremiah. And Zedekiah the king sent Jucal, the son of Shelemiah, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, 'Pray now to the Lord our God for us.' Now Jeremiah was coming and going among the people, for they had not yet put him in prison. Then Pharaoh's army came up from Egypt. And when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they departed from Jerusalem. Then the word of the Lord came to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, thus you shall say to the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me, behold, Pharaoh's army, which has come up to help you, will return to Egypt, to their own land. And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against the city and take it and burn it with fire. Thus says the Lord, Do not deceive yourselves, saying, "The Chaldeans will surely depart from us," for they will not depart. For though you had defeated the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remain only wounded men among them, they would rise up, every man in his tent, and burn the city with fire.'" So, apparently, God turned back the king of Babylon because they obeyed the release of the servants or the slaves. And then when they went against that, then He said what He said. Also, it said that they gave credit to Egypt, going back to Jeremiah 2. God did not want a foreign nation to help Israel out of this. It goes back to what I was just saying. Why would He want Israel to go to Egypt for foreign assistance when He was trying to get the people to repent in Jeremiah's day? It doesn't make sense. That's why He got Nebuchadnezzar to judge Egypt.

Let's fast forward to today. If God was the same way about Israel going to Egypt for help, for deliverance from foreign nations, or Assyria as well, the northern kingdom, if He was against that then, then He is against that right now. And so, of course, America is that lover that Israel has to come over to the Middle East to get their enemies off their back. And God is not going to allow that to happen, just like He didn't allow that to happen with Egypt. He didn't allow Egypt, the Pharaoh, to come help them because He wanted the people to repent. Same way now. He wants the people to repent. And that's why you're seeing America struggle over in the Middle East for the last 25 years. Why would He give America the victory when He is going to get the victory? Why would He give America and Israel the victory when He wants the people to repent in both nations? He is not going to do that. He is just not going to do it. He is not going to give Israel or America the victory. None of it. Why would He? This is the end of the age. He wants the people to repent. This is not 1948. This is not 1967. This is not 1973. This is the end of the age, everybody. He wants the Jewish people to repent. If He was like that with Egypt, He is like that with America. Go read Isaiah 30-31, Jeremiah 2, and also Hosea chapter 4 and 5. And that's why you're seeing America $40 trillion in debt, America's munitions going down, our oil reserves going down. You're seeing the judgment of America to get out of the Middle East so that He can deal with Israel and He can deal with the Middle East. Really, the Middle East and Israel, because He wants the people to repent over in the Middle East, including the Jewish people. And He will not give America or Israel a victory. He has not in 25 years. No one can show any of us a victory that America or Israel has gotten in 25 years. I don't care what president says what, Bush to Trump. They have zero victories in the Middle East. Bush, Obama, Biden, and now Trump, and Netanyahu. Those five have zero victories in the Middle East in 25 years, other than about 10 to 12 trillion dollars spent, thousands of lives destroyed and families destroyed because of these decisions. IDF soldiers, a lot of innocents over in the Middle East, Muslim people died. Two million people, I think, is the estimate of what we've killed, civilians that America has killed. So why would He give America the victory? He has not. He will not. No matter what President Trump says, no matter what Netanyahu says, it's only going to escalate and intensify. And that's exactly what you have seen. What you will see is Israel's pride and American pride. The only thing left is pride, everybody. And God is going to break that pride because that's all that's left, because there are zero victories right now over in the Middle East, and there will not be, because He is trying to get the people in the Middle East to repent, including the Jewish people as well. He wants the Islamists to repent. He wants the Muslims to repent. He wants the people to repent. And we've got to get back into the great commission and repentance instead of the pride of going to go killing everybody and trying to conquer the promised land, which will not happen until the Jewish Messiah returns. It's super important to understand the prophetic understanding of these things historically because we're dealing with the same kind of stuff.

Now let's get into Jeremiah being in prison. "And it happened when the army of the Chaldeans left the siege of Jerusalem for the fear of Pharaoh's army that Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin to claim his property there among the people. And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, the false prophet, remember? And he sees Jeremiah the prophet, saying, 'You are defecting to the Chaldeans.' Then Jeremiah said, 'False. I am not defecting to the Chaldeans.' But he did not listen to him. So Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the princes. Therefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah and they struck him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made that a prison. When Jeremiah entered the dungeon and the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days. Then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out. The king asked him secretly in his house and said, 'Is there any word from the Lord?' And Jeremiah said, 'There is.' And then he said, 'You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.' Moreover, Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, 'What offense have I committed against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison? Where now are your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, "The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land?" Therefore, please hear now, O my lord the king. Please let my petition be accepted before you, and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.' Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah to the court of the prison, and that they should give him a daily piece of bread from the baker's street until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison."

So, my friends, we see right here again, Jeremiah the prophet doing his part, going to the land of Benjamin, which is where he was from. And again, Hananiah, remember Jeremiah came against Hananiah? Well, this was his family lineage came against him. They said he was going to be a traitor, he's defecting to the Chaldeans. They didn't understand what was going on and they called Jeremiah a traitor. And then we know what the rest of the scripture says. So, fast forward today. If one comes against the Israeli government, if one says anything about the greater Israel project, if one says anything about them repenting or Teshuvah, just like Jeremiah said, they would be called anti-Semitic, they would be called a traitor, they'll be called all these things that Jeremiah... You will see the great correlation there in Luke 21, verse 12 or 14 somewhere in there. It says that Yeshua, the Olivet discourse, says to the Jewish believers over there in Jerusalem right now that they will take you up to the synagogues and to the prisons, and they are going to oppose you there. They are going to chastise you there. So, we are going to say the same thing to our Jewish brothers and sisters, believers in Yeshua over there, that the people that are not believers, the radicals or whatever, that think they're going to do all this stuff without the Jewish Messiah, they are going to oppose our Jewish brethren. They are going to put them in prison. They are going to put them in synagogues, just like our Savior said. So all the Christian Zionists need to understand what Yeshua said and get out of this political Zionism stuff and understand that they are going to take the Jewish believers, the government, and also the religious fanatics, the radicals, and they are going to persecute them. Right now and in the future, because of what Jeremiah said and what Yeshua said in Luke 21. So, God's true servants are the ones that are called traitors, are the ones that are normally called anti-Semites or whatever. People use that word. They have not done justice to that word. It's being used way too much right now just because someone opposes the Israeli government's decisions, a political government, by the way. So, anti-Semitism and anti-Semite has lost its hardcore message, which it should not lose, because people need to understand how serious anti-Semitism is and how serious being anti-Semitic is. But just using it because someone disagrees with a political position is not anti-Semitism. Actually, it does a disservice to the word. And they are doing a disservice because they haven't seen anything yet. Anti-Semitism. You're about to see a lot of anti-Semitism. You already are, because that's what the hunters are going to do, everybody. Jeremiah 16. So, we have to really understand that you are only going to see anti-Semitism rise, and you're going to see the true definition of that, not because someone disagrees with Benjamin Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir and Smotrich and the rest of the Israeli government. I mean, that's just nonsense. So, we have to put the proper terms on the proper understanding instead of calling anyone anti-Semitic or Jeremiah a traitor. He's a traitor. No, he wasn't. He wasn't a traitor at all. But that's what people go to when they have nothing else. When their pride has reached that high, they have nothing else but to call somebody a traitor, anti-Semitic, because there's nowhere to go with the scriptures, only then repentance to Teshuvah. And if that's anti-Semitic, then okay, whatever. But Teshuvah is the call for all people, including the Jewish people and Christians too. I mean, look at the Christians. Teshuvah, Teshuvah, Teshuvah. So call that whatever one may want, but that is the call for all people in this world right now, is Teshuvah. 8 billion people to Teshuvah, repentance, including the Jewish people and the Israelis as well.

The theme of this chapter is Jeremiah in prison. Jeremiah continues testifying while Jerusalem is under siege. Major points: the princes opposed him, his family opposed him, everybody opposed him. He is in prison, yet he refuses to change God's message of repentance. God's message does not change because circumstances become difficult. And that's what they are right now, and the pressure is only going to be turned up even more on the entire world, including the Jewish people and the Israelis.

Jeremiah 32: "The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison which was in the king of Judah's house. For Zedekiah, king of Judah, had shut him up, saying, 'Why do you prophesy and say, "Thus says the Lord, behold, I will give Babylon, and he shall take it. And Zedekiah, king of Judah, shall not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face, and see him eye to eye. Then he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall be until I visit him, says the Lord. Though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed."' And Jeremiah said, 'The word of the Lord came to me, saying, behold, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your uncle, will come to you, saying, "Buy my field which is in Anathoth, for the right of redemption is yours to buy."' Then Hanamel, my uncle's son, came to me in the court of the prison, according to the word of the Lord, and said to me, 'Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin. The right of redemption and inheritance is yours. The redemption is yours to buy it for yourself, Jeremiah.' Then I knew that this was from the word of the Lord. So I bought the field from Hanamel, the son of my uncle who was in Anathoth, and weighed out to him the money, seventeen shekels of silver. And I signed the deed and sealed it, took witnesses, and weighed the money on the scales. So I took the purchase deed, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open. And I gave the purchase deed to Baruch, the son of Neriah, in the presence of Hanamel, my uncle's son, in the presence of the witnesses who signed the purchase deed before all the Jews who sat in the court of the prison. Then I charged Baruch before them, saying, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, take these deeds, both the purchase deed which is sealed and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may last many days. For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.'"

So, Jeremiah is offered a piece to buy from the field, and that's what he bought in his land, the land of Benjamin, which is where he was from, and Anathoth, the right of redemption. We all know the story of Ruth with Boaz and Naomi. This was more of a prophetic act of showing the Jewish people that they were going to return to the land and they were going to inherit the land. This was another prophetic act that Jeremiah did, similar to when he broke the vessel to show them that judgment was coming, or the linen sash to show them that judgment was coming. This is another great example, but this was about restoration, not judgment. This was a prophetic act that they were going to be able to inherit the land again, which is very beautiful.

One thing I want to say here is 17 shekels of silver. That's what Jeremiah bought the field for. The numerical number is very important. Wherever God puts a number in the Holy Bible, the number 17 is very important. It is made up of the number 10 and the number 7. The number 7 is spiritual perfection, and the number 10 is appropriate divine order. So, it's about the order, and divine spiritual perfection. Once they are spiritually perfected, which they will be, they will inherit all of the promised land. That was the number 17, representing spiritual perfection in divine order, God's divine order at the end of the age. This goes into what we are seeing right now, what we are about to see with Yeshua returning.

"And now when I had delivered the purchase deed to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord, saying, 'Ah, Lord God, behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and Your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You. You show lovingkindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, whose name is the Lord of hosts. You are great in counsel and mighty in work, for Your eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings. You have set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt to this day, and in Israel and among other men. And You have made Yourself a name as it is to this day. You have brought Your people, Israel, out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand, with an outstretched arm, and with great terror. You have given them this land of which You swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey, and they came in and took possession of it, but they have not obeyed Your voice or walked in Your law. They have done nothing of all that You have commanded them to do. Therefore, You have caused all this calamity to come upon them. Look, the siege mounds, they have come to the city to take it. The city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it because of the sword and the famine and the pestilence. What You have spoken has happened there. You see it, and You have said to me, O Lord God, "Buy the field for money and take witnesses." Yet the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'"

God's assurance of the people's return. "Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, 'Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me? Therefore, this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and he shall take it. And the Chaldeans who fight against this city shall come and set fire to this city and burn it with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal and poured out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger. Because the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only evil before Me from their youth. For the children of Israel have provoked Me only to anger with the work of their hands, says the Lord. For this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My fury from that day that they built it even to this day. So I will remove it from My face because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And they have turned to Me their back and not their face. They have taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive Torah instruction. But they have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name to defile it. And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it enter My mind that they should do this abomination to cause Judah to sin. Now therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city with which you say, "It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence." Behold, I will gather them whom I have driven them in My anger, in My fury, and in great wrath. I will back this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely. They shall be My people, and I will be their God. Give them one heart, one way, that they may fear Me forever for the good of them and their children after them. And I will make them an everlasting covenant with them. (Jeremiah 31). That I will not turn away from doing them good. But I will put My fear in their hearts. Again, I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me. Yes, I will rejoice over them to do good, and I will assuredly plant them in this land with all of My heart and with all of My soul.' Amen. 'For thus says the Lord God, just as I brought all this great calamity on this people, I will also bring all the good that I promised them. And the fields will be bought in this land of which you say it is desolate without man or beast. It has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans. Men will buy fields for money, sign deeds and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, in the places all around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the south. For I will cause their captives to return, says the Lord.'"

So again, my friends, this whole understanding of this chapter is about a prophetic act that Jeremiah did, saying, "Hey, we're going to return to the land. We're going to have the allotments of the land given to the people according to the Lord, according to the tribes, etc." So, this is another prophetic act amongst the craziness that was going on. He was still trying to tell them they will return. They will return, and he did a prophetic act for that.

One thing I wanted to say here is look at what he says in verse 23: "They came in, they took possession of the land, but they have not obeyed Your voice or walked in Your law." So again, let's fast forward to today. The people are back in the land since 1948, 78 years. They have not walked in the Torah. They have not obeyed the voice of God, and they have not turned to the Jewish Messiah, Yeshua. And that's why we're about to see the same thing with the Antichrist or Nebuchadnezzar and the 10 kings and Turkey and all these things.

Second thing I want to mention here is "For the children of Israel have provoked Me only to anger with the work of their hands." What does that mean? If we're trying to do something that Yeshua is going to do, if we're trying to do something and we're in disobedience, or if we're gratifying ourselves because of the work of our hands and what we've created, then that's against the Lord. We've always got to put the Lord in front of the work of our own hands. So it's not the work of our own hands; it's the work of His hands through us. It's very beautiful. But he says that a lot in the book of Jeremiah, that the people brought Him to anger because of the work of their hands. Well, the work of their hands were doing a lot of evil things against the Torah, and they weren't obeying the voice of God. And again, if we're looking at it prophetically speaking, with the people in the land today, the Israelis, who I do stand with and I'll stand with forever, we're doing the same things. We're doing the same things that the ancestors were doing, and they were destroyed by the sword, the famine, and the pestilence. Everybody, we're doing the same things. But look at the beauty of the Lord. He tells the chastisement, and then He says the redemption, which is about what this chapter is all about. It's about the prophetic act of Jeremiah buying the field. And then that's why He says, "I will gather them from the countries that I've driven them in the anger, the fury, the wrath. I'll bring them back to the place. Cause them to dwell safely." They are not dwelling safely right now, everybody. This is a second coming events, millennial kingdom chapter. They're not dwelling safely. I think we can all agree with that. "They shall be My people, and I will be their God." That is not the case right now. That will be the case when they turn to Yeshua. "Then I will give them one heart and one way." That's Ezekiel 36 as well. That has not occurred yet, that they may fear Me forever. That has not occurred yet, for the good of them and for their children after them. "I will make an everlasting covenant with them." That has not been ordained yet, or fulfilled yet. It's been ordained in Jeremiah 31, Isaiah 59-60, Ezekiel 36, but it has not been fulfilled yet until they repent and call on Yeshua. And then look what He says: "I will not turn away from doing, excuse me, I'll make an everlasting covenant with them and I will not turn away from doing them good, but I will put My fear in their hearts." Because Torah will be in their hearts. The fear of God will be in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me. And all of these beautiful things. So look at what He says in verse 42: "Just as I brought all this great calamity on the people, I will also bring on them all the good that I have promised them through the Abrahamic, through the Davidic, and through the new covenant." Amen.

The theme of this chapter is buying the field. Jerusalem is surrounded, and some of the people have been exiled. The city is about to be destroyed, and the temple burned. Jeremiah purchases land to show the future redemption in a prophetic act. The purchase becomes a prophetic sign. Fields will one day again be bought in Israel. You are seeing that today. Pretty amazing. And faith believes God's promises even when circumstances appear hopeless.

Now let's go to Jeremiah 33. "Moreover, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the prison, saying, 'Thus says the Lord who made it, the Lord who formed it to establish it, the Lord is His name. Call to Me, and I will answer you, and I will show you great and mighty things that you do not understand. For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of the city, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been pulled down to fortify against the siege mounds and the sword. They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but only to fill their places with dead bodies of men whom I will slay in My anger and My fury. All for whose wickedness I have hidden from My face from the city. Behold, I will bring it health and healing. I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth through Yeshua Messiah. I will cause the captives of Judah and the captives of Israel to return. And I will build those places as at the first. I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me. And I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me. Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all the nations of the earth who shall hear the good that I do to them. They shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the prosperity that I provide for it.' That has not happened yet, everybody. That's going to happen when Yeshua returns. And then during the millennial kingdom, the thousand-year reign. 'Thus says the Lord again. There shall be heard in this place of which you say it is desolate without a man and without beast. In the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem, they are desolate without a man and without an inhabitant and without beast. The voice of joy, the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say, "Praise the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, and His mercy endures forever." And all those who will bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. For I will cause the captives of the land to return as at the first. Thus says the Lord of hosts, in this place which is desolate, without man and without beast, and in all of its cities there shall again be a dwelling place of shepherds, causing their flocks to lie down, in the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the south, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah. The flock shall again pass under the hands of him who counts them, says the Lord. Behold, the days are coming, says Adonai, that I will perform that good thing which I promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.' (Jeremiah 31, the new covenant). 'In those days and at that time, I will cause to grow up to David a branch, Yeshua of righteousness. He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. In those days, Judah will be saved.' (Second coming events). 'And Jerusalem will dwell safely.' (Millennial kingdom). 'And this is the name by which she will be called: The Lord our righteousness.' For thus says the Lord, 'David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel. Nor shall the priest of the Levites lack a man to offer burnt offerings before Me, to kindle grain offerings and sacrifice continually.' That's even through the millennial kingdom, everybody.

The permanence of God's covenant. "And the word of the Lord came to... If you can break My covenant with the day, the sun, and My covenant with the night, the moon, so that there shall not be day or night in their season, then My covenant may also be broken with David, My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, My ministers. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David, My servant, and the Levites who minister to Me."

Jeremiah, saying, "Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the Lord has chosen, He has also cast them off.' Thus they have despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them. Thus says the Lord, 'If My covenant is not with day and night, and hath not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, then I will cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of His descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captives to return, and I will have mercy upon them.'" Amen. Amen. And amen. My friends, He gives you a great understanding that of course the people were going to be judged, but that was not going to be the end of the Jewish people. Why? Because of the everlasting covenants, the Abrahamic, the Davidic, and the new covenant. The promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the promises to the Levites. Remember, Yeshua is returning in the order of Melchizedek. With that being said, this is still going to go down with the Levites. It's going to be in the order of Melchizedek. But the Levites, the Zadok, the Zadokites, they will still be doing what they are required to do to the Jewish Messiah and honor Him with offerings, sacrifices, and all these things. That's Ezekiel 43-48. It does not replace what Yeshua did. They have to fulfill the Torah of the prophets and the Psalms to Him. They have to do all these things that they have done with Him in the promised land, in the holy district. Ezekiel 47 goes through that very clearly about the land and the holy district and the Levites and the Zadokites being there ministering to Him, serving Him, drink offerings, peace offerings, all these things that they have to do for the Jewish Messiah. So, people get confused with the Levites. The Levites are going to be with Him. The Zadok will be with Him. They have to be for them to fulfill the Torah, the prophets, and the Psalms in the millennial kingdom. Very important to understand that.

The theme of this chapter is the branch and the future restoration, along with all the other chapters we've gone through. God promises restoration despite the temple and the city's destruction. Major points: David's throne, the priesthood, and Jerusalem are restored. God's covenant faithfulness outlasts human failure.

So now we're getting to where Jerusalem is destroyed. We've got about six chapters left, and we're going to go through those.

Jeremiah 38 details a critical moment just before Jerusalem's destruction. Jeremiah declared that those who remained in the city would die by sword, famine, or pestilence, while those who surrendered to the Chaldeans would live. The princes, fearing Jeremiah's words would weaken their defenses, demanded his death. King Zedekiah, yielding to their pressure, allowed them to cast Jeremiah into a dungeon filled with mud, where he began to sink.

An Ethiopian eunuch named Ebed-melech heard of Jeremiah's plight and, with the king's permission, rescued him using old clothes and ropes. Jeremiah was then brought before Zedekiah, who secretly swore not to harm him and asked for God's word. Jeremiah reiterated that surrender to the king of Babylon's princes would spare Zedekiah, his household, and the city from fire. However, refusal would lead to the city's destruction and their capture.

Despite this last chance, Zedekiah, fearing the Jews who had defected to the Chaldeans, hesitated. Jeremiah warned him that if he refused to surrender, his wives and children would be given to the Chaldeans, and Zedekiah himself would cause the city to be burned. Zedekiah, fearing the princes' reaction, asked Jeremiah to keep their conversation secret. Jeremiah was then returned to the court of the prison, where he remained until Jerusalem fell. This narrative highlights the importance of choices, pride, repentance, and humility, emphasizing that even at the last moment, an opportunity for repentance was offered.

Jeremiah 39 describes the fall of Jerusalem. In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, Nebuchadnezzar's army besieged the city. In the eleventh year, the city was breached. Zedekiah and his men fled but were captured and brought before Nebuchadnezzar. Zedekiah's sons were killed before his eyes, his nobles were executed, and his own eyes were gouged out before he was taken to Babylon in chains. The Chaldeans burned the king's house, the people's houses, and the walls of Jerusalem. Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took the remaining people captive, but left the poor in the land.

Nebuchadnezzar, however, gave specific instructions to Nebuzaradan to treat Jeremiah well, allowing him to do as he wished. Jeremiah was released from prison and committed to the care of Gedaliah. While still in prison, God spoke to Jeremiah, assuring Ebed-melech of deliverance because of his trust in God. This section emphasizes God's faithfulness to His servants, even amidst destruction, and highlights the stark contrast between Zedekiah's fate and Jeremiah's deliverance.

Jeremiah 40 begins with Nebuzaradan releasing Jeremiah from his chains. Nebuzaradan acknowledged that the doom had come upon Jerusalem because of the people's sin and disobedience to the Lord. He offered Jeremiah a choice: to go with him to Babylon or to stay in the land, with the assurance that he would be cared for. Jeremiah chose to go to Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor over Judah.

When the captains of the armies and their men heard of Gedaliah's appointment, they came to him. Gedaliah swore to them not to fear serving the Chaldeans, urging them to dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon. Many Jews who had been scattered returned to Judah and gathered provisions. However, Johanan and other captains warned Gedaliah that Baalis, the king of the Ammonites, had sent Ishmael to murder him. Gedaliah dismissed their warning.

Jeremiah 41 details the assassination of Gedaliah. Ishmael, with ten men, came to Gedaliah at Mizpah and murdered him, along with the Jews and Chaldeans present. Ishmael then killed eighty men who were coming to worship at the temple and carried away the king's daughters and the remaining people captive. Johanan and his men pursued Ishmael, rescued the captives, but Ishmael escaped. The remaining people, fearing the Chaldeans because of Ishmael's actions, decided to flee to Egypt.

Jeremiah 42 records the people, led by Johanan, asking Jeremiah to inquire of the Lord for them, promising to obey whatever God commanded. After ten days, God's word came through Jeremiah: if they remained in the land, He would build them up and not tear them down; He would show them mercy and deliver them from the king of Babylon. However, if they refused to dwell in the land and went to Egypt, the sword and famine they feared would overtake them there, and none would escape.

Jeremiah 43 describes the people's rejection of God's command. Despite Jeremiah's warning, Johanan and the proud men accused Jeremiah and Baruch of speaking falsely. They forced Jeremiah, Baruch, and all the remaining people, including the king's daughters, to go to Egypt. In Egypt, God's word came to Jeremiah, instructing him to hide stones in the brick courtyard at Pharaoh's house and prophesy that Nebuchadnezzar would come and set his throne there, striking Egypt and delivering its people to death and captivity. He also prophesied the destruction of Egyptian gods and sacred pillars.

Jeremiah 44 reveals the people's continued defiance in Egypt. Jeremiah confronted them about their wickedness and idolatry, reminding them of the destruction that had already occurred in Judah due to their sins. He warned them that their actions in Egypt would bring further calamity. However, the people, including their wives, openly declared they would continue to burn incense to the "queen of heaven" (Asherah), believing they had prospered when they did so and suffered when they stopped. Jeremiah declared that God would punish them, and none of the remnant would escape to return to Judah, except for a few who escaped the sword. He also prophesied that Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, would be given into the hands of his enemies, just as Zedekiah had been.

The overarching themes throughout these chapters are disobedience, pride, rebellion, and the consequences of rejecting God's word. Despite repeated warnings and devastating judgments, the people consistently chose their own ways, leading to further suffering. The narrative emphasizes that running from God's discipline does not remove His authority and that true repentance is essential for His mercy. The final chapters also highlight the ongoing prophetic ministry of Jeremiah, even in exile, and God's unwavering faithfulness to His promises, even amidst judgment. The teaching concludes by emphasizing that God disciplines His people out of love, with the ultimate goal of restoration.

Zionism thinks they will conquer all the promised land. That is idolatry. Thinking they can do the work of their own hands, with Christian Zionists, Huckabee, John Hagee, and all these people who are so Zionist. There's a difference between understanding that the people have the Abrahamic covenant, and understanding that the people have the right to the land. Amen. And the people have the right to conquer the promised land. Those are two totally opposite things. They will not conquer anything. Again, we must get back to it, everybody, because it's biblical. Biblical prophecy is very clear that the Islamists come against Israel at the very end, and then Yeshua saves them. What I did not grasp, and that's why I always tell everyone, you always get a curveball in biblical prophecy. That's why you always have to keep reading, keep paying attention. I did not realize that our Israeli friends were going to try to do something that only the Jewish Messiah could do. I just didn't realize, because that will bring judgment on them tremendously. Again, they've been breached by Hamas, by Hezbollah, by Iran, by the Houthis. God is trying to wake them up. This is not the time, as the book of Jeremiah tells you, to be proud and go fight and win wars because we have the greatest military backing us up, and we have the great Air Force. No, maybe you do. Congratulations. That's not the heart position God wants. He wants everybody to repent, to *shuv*, not go on the "promised land march," because that will be met with what you're seeing right now: missiles, the beast kingdom, and all these bad, bad Islamists that are coming.

So, my friends, the book of Jeremiah is an awesome book. If one loves God, one loves His commandments, one loves the promised land, one loves the people, the Israelis, the Jewish people, and one loves righteousness and justice, and one loves the Jewish Messiah. Okay? And I'm so sick of everybody thinking that we're going to do this, and not thinking He's going to do this. And that's the difference between me and them: I support them. I'll stand with them to the end. All of them. At the same time, you're not going to do anything the Jewish Messiah is going to do. Okay? That's idolatry. Get away from me. I don't want anything to do with that. That's saying that mankind, the work of our own hands, is going to do it. Go read Jeremiah. How did that go for them? Not good at all. They got the sword, the pestilence, and the famine. Guess what? The same thing is going to happen again: the sword, the pestilence, and the famine. And Nebuchadnezzar is going to come again. Okay? And that's called the Antichrist in modern-day form.

So, friends, it is a very serious time. Look around at what's going on. What's going on is not good at all, basically from our side. He's worried about our side, our side, our side. He could care less about the Islamists. He loves them as individuals; He wants them to come to salvation. But when it comes to Israel and the prophecies of Israel, the promised land, He's worried about our behavior, not theirs. Go read it from Genesis to Revelation. It says, "Our behavior." Quit worrying about a nuclear weapon, quit worrying about the Islamists, quit worrying about whoever. Worry about us. That's what the Bible says. That's what the Torah says. That's what the prophets say, Jeremiah. And until we turn the attention back to what we're doing wrong, instead of accusing the Islamists of everything, which, okay, fair game, great, but let's look at us. And until we understand that basic biblical principle of taking care of us and our behavior, God will take care of the nuclear weapons, the Iran, the Iraqs, the Hezbollah, and all these people. He will take care of them if we repent. But if we don't, He will bring them against us. That's what people need to understand. And that's what you're seeing today. Which tells me we have a heart problem and we have a mind problem with the Torah. We have a new covenant problem, is what it is.

So, friends, thank you so much for being with us tonight, for the distance, and also for the last two videos as well. They're long videos. I don't like to do those as much anymore because they're long. But these are very good at seeing the rhythm of the prophecies of the reign of the kings, each reign, how Jeremiah dealt with them, the rhythm of it, and the anointing of it, which sometimes is not too good. So, friends, thank you very much. If you haven't been with us on the other two videos, we go through the other two kings' reigns. We went in order according to the kings in the book of Jeremiah because it's not written in order. So that's why we did Josiah's reign first, Jehoiakim's reign second, and now Zedekiah's reign last. Josiah was a righteous king. The other two kings were evil. And look what happened: eyes were poked out, sons were killed, went to Babylon. He had a chance to repent. And all he had to do was repent. Well, the same thing today. Benjamin Netanyahu has a chance to repent. Ben Gvir has a chance to repent. And all of the Jewish people who are not believers have time to repent for all of these things. And if they do, and when they do, the Jewish Messiah will come and clean up all these Islamists. But until that time, they will be dealing with the Islamists. And it's only going to get worse and worse and worse. Kind of like Jeremiah's days as well. Nebuchadnezzar only got worse as it went throughout. Not better. Three exiles. So, you're going to see sort of the same thing, not the exact thing, but kind of the rhyme of it. You will see bad things happen. And just know that go back to the book of Jeremiah, and ultimately go back to Torah to understand that Moses said these things were going to happen if the people went out of alignment. And Jeremiah is just bringing them back to Moses's words, which they said, "We will obey." They said, "We will obey it." So they have made a commitment to obey God's word in the promised land. And whoever doesn't, whatever generation doesn't, after a period of time, He will bring the *gavval*. And that's where we are today. And this is just the light stuff right now.

So, thank you so much, everybody, for being with us. Hardcore stuff, hardcore book, but I love it. I love Jeremiah. One of my favorite prophets because it is in your face, cut and dry. There's no mincing words. You're not going to take Jeremiah out of context like people do Paul all the time. Straightforward: obey God or the *gavval*. That's the message of Jeremiah. And those who repent will be restored, and those who do not will not be restored. That's really the summary of Jeremiah.

So, thank you so much again for being with us tonight, my friends. As you guys know, we talk about Jeremiah a lot because I think we're living in the same times that he was living in, obviously, in my opinion. So we've got to understand it. But again, the time of Jacob's trouble, the new covenant, these are important understandings in biblical prophecy to understand that. And Jeremiah is the one who got the trajectory of the seven years and then the redemption, not redemption first. And that's where we've got to do a better job of educating our Jewish friends and also our Christian Zionist friends to help them understand that they're putting, what do they say? Put the cart before the horse. They put a semi in front of a horse to get here. So, we've got to put the horse back in front and understand that there's a trajectory. And right now, it's repentance because the time of Jacob's trouble is coming. He will be saved out of it, thank God. The covenant with death is coming, but it will be annulled, thank God. Isaiah 28. So, we just got to really understand where we are and understand that it's no time for any of this political stuff that everybody's caught up in. It's time for repentance and time to understand where we are on God's prophetic timeline to the best of our ability, not setting dates, not being the prophet of the day, none of that. It's about looking at the prophets and understanding what they have said about the end of the age and the times that we are living in.

So, my friends, thank you so much for being with us. We'll start a new series here in about a week or two about the Day of the Lord scriptures and the three prophets, the major prophets, to prove the point of what we've been saying, that they're taking these prophecies for right now when it's Yeshua who's going to do this. So we hope you stay with us for that series as well, because it's very important, in my opinion, to go back to the biblical prophets to understand what they have said about the end of the age to get the proper understanding and to get the proper wisdom and the proper timeline. So, thank you very much, everybody, for being with us tonight. We do really appreciate it. And those who have been with us on this series of Jeremiah, we really do appreciate it. Now, we'll go to some of the comments and the questions here. Shalom to you, my friend Evan. Thank you so much for joining us. And I'm assuming some of these folks are still online. It's been four hours, so they might be doing something else. But shalom, Evan, thank you so much for joining us, my friend. Good to see you as always. Shalom, brothers and sisters. Looking forward to this evening's lesson. And the prophet Jeremiah gives us a great lesson, right, Evan? He gives us a wonderful lesson. Shalom to you, Denise. Thank you so much for joining us as always. Mr. Michael, the same way. Birthday boy. We hope you had a great birthday yesterday. May God bless you with a great and blessed year ahead. And thank you so much for being the light that you are. Shalom to you, Ma. Can you add your website with a weekly Bible reading schedule, please? Yes, that's a good idea. And yes, I'll try to. The Torah portions is what you're talking about. Yes, I think that's a great idea. And yes, let me take a picture of that because I'm sure I would forget if I did not. But yes, I think we can do that if that's what you're speaking of with the Torah portions. Shalom to you, Tiny Love Boston. Thank you so much for joining us. Great to see you. Mr. Michael, Stocks and I think Mr. Evan Stocks are what they place your arms in and force you to stand in discomfort and pain. Okay, very good. Thank you, Evan, for that. Mr. Michael, I don't believe "once saved, always saved." "Once saved, always saved" is a lie. I agree with you. I don't think someone can say, "Oh, I'm saved and then I'm always saved and let me go live like Babylon." No, I think even the New Testament calls that out a little bit. So, yeah, I don't believe in that as well. Miss Wanda, shalom to you. Thank you so much for joining us. Great to see you. Shalom to everyone, and especially to you, Chadwick. Thank you for your teaching. I was reading Jeremiah earlier. Well, thank you very much for everything that you do for us here. We really appreciate it, and it's just a wonderful book if you look at it in the right way, with correction and with understanding. Mandre, thank you so much for joining us. Great to see you as always. Shalom, everyone. My phone did not work properly for a few hours. Praise God, it's working now. Well, we're glad it's working, and thank you so much for joining us. Mr. David Chin, thank you so much for joining us. Shalom to you, my friend, if you're still with us. Great to see you. We'll catch up soon. I know we've been playing phone tag. I hope all is well in the beautiful country of Mexico. Mr. Evan, awesome. Amen. Miss Bridget, shalom to you. Thank you so much for joining us. It's great to see you as always. Mr. Tom, to you as well. Shalom to you. And it's great to see you as well. We hope all is well with everybody, and thank you as well, Miss Bridget. We really appreciate you joining us tonight and always. Miss Denise, Ecclesiastes 12:13 and 14. Okay. And those are great chapters to read. I'm not sure exactly, other than "all is vanity." All is vanity, right? To speak, and keep His commandments, I think is what he ends it on. And this is what she was saying. "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." Not just the Jewish man, mankind. "For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." So, yeah, I was about to say that's what I was thinking of: the conclusion of the matter. So, thank you so much for posting that, Denise. That's it: "Fear God and keep His commandments. This is the whole duty of mankind." For God shall bring every work into judgment, every secret thing, whether good or evil. Jeremiah 17:7: "Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is." Have you heard about the Noahide Law being set into motion in Jerusalem, November 2026? Okay. So, I did not know that. So, I think I read something on that. I mean, I think that's absolutely insane, actually. So, November 20th. So, that is Kislev 10 on the biblical calendar. I didn't know that. And again, the Noahide laws, they're not—no one can show you the Noahide laws in the Bible. The Torah itself, God Himself said for the citizen and the stranger, Jews and Gentiles, to follow the word of God. So that is Jewish supremacy, if I could say that, or racism, whatever you want to say that. If they don't want people to be anti-Semitic towards them, they can't be like this towards the Gentiles. Thinking that they're not good enough to keep the Torah, that they have to do the Noahide laws instead. That is against the word of God. I don't know what these rabbis are thinking, other than what I just said. So, people can take that the wrong way, whatever, but they don't need to be, in my opinion, that way towards the Gentiles. It looks a little bit racist, in my opinion. And so, they need to understand that the Torah is for mankind. It was given in Arabia. Mount Sinai's in Arabia. So, the Torah is for Jew and Gentile. Exodus 12:49, Numbers 15, and throughout the Torah, "one law for the citizen and the stranger who dwells among you." One. Not different laws, not different whatever. Even though the Noahide laws do go into the Torah, it's just a little bit of a Jewish supremacist mindset, in my opinion, with the Noahide law stuff. And of course, it's not biblical. Have you heard about the Noahide laws being set? Yes. Um, I've read a little bit on it, but I haven't—I didn't know it was going to be November 20th, 2026. Again, persecution's coming to the Jewish believers over there. Tiny Loves Boston, I am personally familiar with the laws. Where can we read about them being implemented in Jerusalem? I'm not sure, but maybe it's probably online, on YouTube and stuff like that. But yes, I'll try to search it out. But very interesting for sure. I think you can just punch it in, Tiny Loves Boston, you know, the Noah laws in Jerusalem, and you'll probably get to a lot of different opinions on that on YouTube. Amen. Also, Tyler Wood Encounter was talking about the Noahide Law. Okay. Yeah. I'm not sure who Tyler Wood is, but go check him out and check out the encounter. Okay, Miss Denise, Chadwick, do you think this could happen to America? What happened to Israel during Jeremiah's time? Yes, I do. I do believe that. I just think that America is going to be judged because of the prophets. Whenever all this stuff happened, I'll tell you the mindset. The last two or three years, 2023, Schmini Atzeret, October 7th, right? We all know that. Even before that, Netanyahu stood up before the General Assembly Council in New York and quoted the Greater Israel project, you know, the blessing and the curse. You can go look that up online. And I saw that because I watch all these people at the UN because I like to listen to them and Islamists and all these people just to see their mindset. And when he did that, it just never sat well with me. I'm like, "What are they doing, trying to do this Greater Israel? What is that?" So, that was the first time that I kind of heard about it was three years, roughly three years ago. And then October 7th happened with Hamas and all that stuff and the terrorist attack in Israel. And so, everybody, I think everybody in their right mind knew that Israel had a right to respond to that. Of course, I mean, who wouldn't, right? But I think what people like me didn't realize is what the scriptures say and then what has happened since that time. And it wasn't just responding back to it; it was actually doing other things that we've discussed so many times before. Over 100,000 citizens have died, which is unacceptable, so to speak. So during that time, you know, and then with Israel not getting the victory against Hamas, once they got down to Rafah, you know, southern Gaza, if you will, on the Egyptian border. And once the peace agreement came, I started looking at the scriptures because I felt like the Holy Spirit was saying, "Hey, you're missing something here." You know, just me personally, you're missing something. Because I thought that Israel would just walk through Hamas. Actually, you know, I just thought they'd walk through it. Why wouldn't they? It's a 40,000 troop deal. They've got the backing of the US military. I mean, why wouldn't they just walk through them? Okay, so that's what I thought, but they didn't. And so after that, I was like, "Okay, what's going on here? There's something going on here. Why aren't we getting the victory over a 40,000 troop terrorist group?" Okay. So, I went to read Joshua, the book of Joshua. And I would advise as a brother to anyone to go back and read the book of Joshua because it will tell you exactly what I'm about to say. He's going to do this in Gaza, in Ashkelon, in Ekron, and all of these things. He's going to do it. He left the land like he left it in Joshua's time for the Jewish Messiah to do it. Even David didn't conquer Gaza. He fought the Philistines throughout his career, throughout all his years, still didn't do it. So only one person is going to do this. So putting all this together, the Greater Israel, the Hamas thing, which is dirty business, okay, the Israeli government allowed that to happen. I think that's pretty proven about that. They stood down a little bit. So again, bad stuff. But anyhow, I started looking at the scriptures and realizing that number one, Yeshua's going to do the promised land, no one else. And number two, that back in Jeremiah's day, in Hosea's day, and Isaiah's day, Israel was going to foreign powers to get military assistance, you know, to keep Nebuchadnezzar off their back. Assyria and then Egypt. Well, Jeremiah deals with the one in Egypt. And that's Jeremiah chapter 2. Hosea 4 and 5, Isaiah 30, 31 chapters. And they will tell you that God does not want the Israeli government going to a foreign nation for military assistance when He's trying to get the people to repent, right? So again, once we put all of this together, it came to the conclusion that the people are out of alignment. Number one, they don't believe in Yeshua. Look at the land, etc., etc. Why would God give them a victory to conquer the promised land? Also, with Isaiah, Jeremiah, and also Hosea saying that they are—that God is against Israel going to Assyria for military assistance. He's against going to Egypt for military assistance. Okay, what happened? Israel got judged by it. How did they get judged? Well, they were going for foreign military assistance to Egypt and Assyria. Isaiah and Jeremiah go through this, and Hosea. And what happened was God wanted to deal with the people like we read in the book of Jeremiah. Well, He couldn't deal with the people because of Egypt and Assyria. So, what happened is He raised up Nebuchadnezzar. And Nebuchadnezzar beat Assyria and Egypt at the same time at the Battle of Carchemish on the Euphrates River because Israel was going for military assistance to protect them from Nebuchadnezzar. Well, God didn't want that. He wanted the people to repent, to come to Him. So He raised up Nebuchadnezzar to judge the idols of Israel, which was Assyria and Egypt. Boom. He got rid of them so that He could deal with Judah. So, if God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, if there's no shadow of turning with Him, if Yeshua does not change, then He doesn't like what American Israel is doing. He's not going to change because of America. He is not happy with the United States of America. We're 40 trillion dollars in debt. You think He's happy with America? That's a cursed nation in the Torah. A debtor nation is a cursed nation, everybody. Deuteronomy 28 through 30. So again, America is a debtor nation. We were not a debtor nation when Bill Clinton handed the baton to George W. Bush. Bill Clinton, no matter—I'm not a Bill Clinton fan, evil guy, horrible human being—but give credit where credit's due. What we try to do here is he had a balanced budget going into W. George W. Bush, War on Terror, 2001 to 2026. You had a balanced budget. Now you're 40 trillion in debt. So, you tell me if the Lord's happy with this. We spent 10 to 12 trillion in war, and the rest of it is just judgment, man. And you ain't seen nothing yet. All of this stuff going on over there right now, a billion dollars a day. Everybody just keep calculating, keep calculating. All you warmongers out there who just want to see all this bombing and explosions and, "Oh, America's great by bombing everything." It's accomplishing zero. Zero is accomplished other than America's going further into debt and the judgment in Israel as well. So, what's going on? If you can take the understanding of Nebuchadnezzar getting rid of Assyria and Egypt back in Jeremiah's day, now we're at the end of the age, 78 years in the land, abominations all over the land, people rejected Yeshua, no Torah following, things like that. Now, Benjamin Netanyahu, man, he looks like a governor of America going to the White House as much as he does. So again, God does not want that. He wants Benjamin Netanyahu to call on Him. He wants all the Israeli government to call on Him and the people to call on Him and not go to America to come save us from the Islamists or from Nebuchadnezzar, because that will never happen. He's trying to get the people to repent, just like He did in the book of Jeremiah. The people said no, and look what happened. Now we've got America, the country I live in, which I love, doing the same thing that Egypt and Assyria did. Now you've got the Christian Zionists who don't have a clue about biblical prophecy going along with this with the Jewish Zionists. And how's that going, everybody? How's that going? You see any victories over there? Of course not. So, God is judging America and Israel, and America is going to collapse. America's coming back home with our tail between our legs with no victories in 25 years after this quagmire we've got over in the Middle East right now. Again, there's no winning this. I've said it for six months, I'll say it again. I thought we were going to win in three or four days. It's been six months, everybody. So, there's no winning this, only losing. And depending on how bad this is, on how bad it's going to be for America. So, to answer my friend's question, just for my personal opinion, do I think this could happen to America? Yes, ma'am, I do. I think it is happening to America. It's just the politicians are stupid and blinded and they can't see it. The Christian Zionists are blinded, can't see it. The political Zionists are blinded, can't see it. So, Israel, yes, Jeremiah right now. America, yes, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Hosea right now. Because America—excuse me, Israel and her lover, Isaiah 31. Read it and weep. Isaiah 31: Israel, you and your lover, Egypt, Assyria, America, whoever is going to be judged. Why? Because He's going to deal with the Jewish people and the Middle East just like He did in Jeremiah's day. So, if we can understand that from a love standpoint and just say, "Hey, let's knock off the nonsense and let's repent," because your bombs will not win this, America. Your money will not win this, America. You're almost out of both, actually. You're actually having to print money or borrow money to do this. How smart is that? From someone who's a businessman, up there, President Trump seems like he'd have a little bit more business sense with this. You're borrowing money and or printing money to do this. How stupid. For 25 years, zero victory. So, yes, Miss Denise, I do believe we're in that stage of judgment. That's why I keep saying it over and over about the history of Israel doing this with Egypt and Assyria. And Assyria and Egypt got rolled by Nebuchadnezzar. And then he rolled Judah. So, just understand that. And then they fled to Egypt, and you read it tonight. He went to Egypt and rolled them in Egypt as well. So, there's no getting away from this, everybody. We can either take it right now, or it's only going to get worse and worse and worse and worse. And then everybody's going to be crying out, "Oh, I can't believe this." Why not? I mean, we haven't obeyed God, and we're starting to tear ourselves out. Okay, so that's what's going down. So, yeah. I mean, I totally believe that. I say that a lot these days because it's very clear, very clear that you're not going to win over there. Why would you win over there? They're trying to do something that Yeshua is going to do. Israel and America are trying to fight against the beast kingdom, and you're going to lose. Only one person can do that, and that's Yeshua. Okay? So, the beast kingdom is raised up, the Antichrist kingdom is raised up to go against Jerusalem to get them to repent. That's it. Well, if America's in the way of all this, what does that tell you? Is God going to give America the victory and all the credit, or is He going to get the victory and the credit? I think we know the answer to that. So, with that being said, America, out of the way. And that can be either the easy way or the hard way. Easy way, if we can understand the biblical scriptures, "Hey, Israel, we love you with all of our hearts. We stand with you. We just cannot go against God by giving all the military assistance that we're your God, basically, and not calling on Yeshua." They're coming to us like we're Adonai. The Israeli government is who I'm talking about. So again, I mean, Benjamin Netanyahu looks like a governor of a state, how often he comes over here to the White House in the war room. I mean, what foreign leader has access to the war room of the United States? Okay, so again, God doesn't like any of this, and that's why you're seeing Israel in debt, America in debt, no victories, munitions are dropping lower. I mean, this can only go on for a couple weeks, everybody. So, don't—I guess for all the people who love this stuff, only a week or two this can go on because we can't do it. We won't have the munitions to do it. Go listen to some of these people who are not Trump's behind, who's talking the truth and all these things about the munitions and Joe Kent, who resigned. I mean, why would he lie? I mean, he resigned for a reason. Go listen to what this man said. I mean, we are not in the shape that our politicians are trying to tell us. And that's for a reason. Because to answer Denise's question, for, I guess, the tenth time, is look what God is doing. Look at what God says through the scriptures. Look what God is saying about Israel and America and look at the debt. Look at the victories. Look at all of these things. There are no victories, but look at all of these things. And you have to ask yourself, we're doing something wrong. And that's called obedience. The Jewish people need to call on Yeshua. America needs to get themselves together here in our own country. Get out of all this crap over there and get back home and take care of our citizens, which is what God wants you to do. Take care of our citizens. He doesn't want America to go broke and bankrupt supporting Israel. I mean, that's just—He just doesn't want that. Why would He? He's their protector. He's their provider. He is their banner. Everybody knows that. He is YHWH-Jireh, YHWH-Rapha. He is not America. America is not the eagle that everybody wants to put America in there. America is not the eagle. That's blasphemy. That's an abomination. That's idolatry. Please repent. Whoever believes that God is the eagle, go read Exodus 15. Go read the Torah. He's the eagle who brought them out on eagle's wings, not America. Okay? So, there's a lot of idolatry going on with Israel and America right now. God does not want anybody to idolize Israel. God does not want anybody to idolize America. He wants us to do His will on this earth. And America is not the protector of Israel. God is the protector of Israel. Please get out of the idolatry. American Christians, please. And understand that. I mean, just a bunch of idolatry going on with America. How is that going? 40 trillion debt. You look like Babylon over here. We look like Sodom and Gomorrah is what we look like over here. We don't look like a righteous nation over here at all. Go look at our politicians. You want to tell me biblically speaking, go evaluate any politician according to biblical principles and you tell me if we've got holy men and women up in Washington D.C. We do not. Period. We do not. And even in Israel, the government, we do not. From the things that come out of the mouth of some of these people. So again, Israel and America, the two countries that everybody thinks God's on our side. No, the *gavval* is coming is what is coming to these two countries. The blessings have been great. Brother Chadwick, thank you for your time and for sharing your vast knowledge of this crucial info. Thank you very much, my friend. I really appreciate it. But praise God, and only the Holy Spirit can open all of our eyes to these things. And I appreciate everybody being a part of these things, you included, my friend, your great wisdom, your great knowledge, and everybody else's great wisdom and knowledge. I mean, we just have to—these are not great conversations to have. These are tough conversations to have because of the idolatry of America and Israel. I mean, goodness, I've never seen so many Christians and Jews idolize Israel and America as much as we do. And again, the work of our hands, the *gavval* is going to come down. It already is. It's just going to get worse and worse and worse and worse. Miss Bridget, thank you so much. You've done a great job explaining. Well, thank you so much. Praise God. I very much appreciate your work, time, and sharing this teaching. May God bless you. And to you as well, my friend. Thank you so much for joining us. It's always great to see you. And tough stuff, tough conversations, but again, that's what the scriptures really are, especially the biblical prophets. And that's why I say what I say about the biblical prophets. Miss Linda, shalom to you. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for everything that you do for us. We really appreciate it. May God bless you, and we hope you are having a great week, and we hope you have a great week and a half. I don't even know what the day is. What's the day? Tuesday. Have a great week ahead. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Miss Bridget, thank you. Miss Denise, thank you for teaching us about the consequences of disobeying God. I mean, again, whenever we look at the scriptures, Revelation 22 comes to mind. "Blessed are those." Whenever you see blessed, then look at it as a curse as well. "Blessed are those who keep the Jerusalem, partake of the tree of life, the blessing. The curse outside are the dogs, the Gentiles who practice falsehood and worship and all this stuff." Okay? So, those are the curses. So, blessing and curses. Blessing and curses is what Moses said over and over. We're either blessed or we're cursed. There's no lukewarm, right? Yeshua says that hot or cold, no lukewarm. Good or evil, no lukewarm. You know, we've got to make a decision on what we are and who we are. And again, there's no middle ground here. You've got to—there's no straddling the fence. That doesn't feel too good anyhow, right? So, you've got to—I mean, get one way or the other: good or evil, hot or cold. Foolish or wise. There's no middle ground with all this stuff. And people think there is. Oh, people think they'll just glide into the kingdom. No, there's no gliding. Get in or get out is the message of the kingdom of God. And again, there's too much lukewarm preaching, lukewarm on both sides going on, rabbis and preachers, Christianity and Judaism, the isms and the schisms. You know, there's too much pacifying, there's too much watering down of everything. "God's on America's side and Israel's side and He hates everybody else." I mean, crazy stuff, man. Just craziness. God's on His side, please understand that. He's on His word. He's on the Torah. That's it. And whatever nation wants to be a part of that, He's for. And whatever nation that doesn't want to be a part of that, the *gavval*. It's really that simple. I mean, go read Jeremiah 18. It says that any nation, any nation, not just the Jewish nation, any nation. Go read Jeremiah 18. Good or bad, He will relent or He will come. One of the two. And right now, the two countries that I love the most, American Israel, we are in horrible shape with the Almighty. I think any biblical standard would say that unless one's drinking the Kool-Aid with the extra sugar cane in it with Israel and America and how great these two countries are. These are the two greatest countries ever. We've got the ability and we've got the authority to go kill all Muslims. How's that going? How's that going, Yeshua? I love you and everyone here. We love you too, Denise. And we love everyone on here. We love everybody in the world, no matter who you are, we love you. But the time is now. The time is now. The time is now, my friends. Because if not now, the pressure is only going to cook more. And it's only going to cook more. We all know that biblically speaking, prophecy speaking, it's only going to be turned up more. So whenever we start to see bad things happen more and more and more, the pressure gets cranked up more and more and more. There's just no victories for America and Israel. There's just not. We've seen this. You've seen this. I've seen this for 25 years. Good night. Half of my life we've seen—half of my life I've seen this. And man, it has been an ugly affair and very disappointing that we don't have the discernment or the biblical knowledge or the biblical love of Yeshua to understand this as Jews and Christians. Zionist. That's what I think is that it's a disgrace, in my opinion. And the focus needs to get back on Yeshua, not the Jews and not the Christians. I'm sick of the Jews and the Christians thinking that it's about them. It's not about them at all. It's about Yah, it's what it's about, and Yeshua. And let's get the focus back on Him and take up for Him instead of taking up for Jews and Christians. That's all I hear: Jews and Christians. No, the *gavval* is coming to the Jews and the Christians, everybody. That's not the popular thing to say. That's just biblically speaking. Let's take up for our Savior, Yeshua Messiah of Nazareth. That He's going to do this. Not America, Donald Trump, Obama, Biden, Bush, Netanyahu, or whoever else thinks they can do it as a prime minister of Israel and a president of the United States that think that they can go over there and conquer the promised land because God gave America the ability to help Israel do that. How idolatrous is that? Think about that. They're saying, "America can do that, not God, not Yeshua." Come on now. Come on, Christians. Come on, Jews. Let's get it together and get out of this stuff. All this idolatry of Israel and America and the Jews and the Christians thinking that they can do it with the work of their hands. How is that going? That will never happen. You've got about 500 million Muslims over in the Middle East. You think America's going to go kill all these people? Do you think Israel's going to—you think they can do that? I mean, goodness gracious, we can't beat Hamas. We can't beat Hezbollah. I mean, even Trump saying he's going to get Syria involved because Israel can't do it and America can't do it. I mean, goodness gracious. Let's get to reality here. Reality. And reality is America and Israel has zero victories in 25 years. And I'm sick of seeing it personally speaking because all that's doing is causing a lot of Jewish people and Americans to get in debt more and more as a country. And if we're in debt as a country and things don't go well as a country, what does that mean for you personally? So again, this is just a time bomb waiting to happen. Everybody needs to do their own research in economics. I'm not an economist. I just keep up with it for my own good, for my own personal family, and also you as well. And try to get people to wake up and go research this stuff out and come to your own conclusion on where this world is, including America and Israel. It's very important. Thank you so much, Bridget. Amen. And thank you for being with us. I really appreciate it. And Miss Linda, amen. "Let your 'yes' be 'yes' and your 'no' be 'no.'" There's no middle ground in the kingdom. That is exactly right. There's no, "Okay, I'm just going to glean in." No, the road is narrow, and I pray we all stay on it in the coming days. And that's exactly right. That's the heart position of someone who understands time is of the essence. As we say in real estate, right? If one doesn't understand that, that means giddy up. Okay? That means let's go. Giddy up. If one doesn't understand time is of the essence, that means the time is now. And our friend here has said it as well: "Let your 'yes' be 'yes' and your 'no' be 'no.'" There's no middle ground in the kingdom at all. The road is very narrow, and I pray we all stay on it in the coming days. Amen to that, Linda. I'm with you. And I pray that as well for myself, family, friends, all of you, Israel, America, Europe, all of the people who truly love God. Because again, just like He told Hagar, and I said it before, you won't believe it even if He told you how bad this is going to be. And He did tell us, it's in the Bible, but it's going to be that bad, my friends, when that time comes. And that time could come again. The time could come in three years from now, on the Feast of Trumpets in 2029. It could or it could not. We're just going to have to wait and see how these three years unfold. But if it's going to go like it's going right now, then I think everybody needs to peel back and look at this stuff honestly. And don't put your rose-colored glasses on. Put your sunglasses on because it's going to get ugly out there more so than it already is in the Middle, especially in the Middle East. It's going to get really ugly over there because all of these people, most of them are unbelievers, and most of them just absolutely hate each other. All of them. Every one of them over there in the Middle East and North Africa. I've never seen anything like it. I really haven't. And the more research you do on it, and the more you see these things in the open, it's just these people just don't like each other. I'm sorry, that's wrong. They hate each other. I mean, absolutely hate each other. And I knew that from the biblical scriptures, but good night, Irene, I've never seen people that just love to hate each other as much as they do. And I'm not just talking about Jews versus Muslims. I'm talking about Muslims versus Muslims, Jews versus Jews. I mean, it doesn't matter. People just hate each other over there. It's unbelievable, the spirit of hate in the Middle East. And that's why I keep saying it: Nebuchadnezzar's coming. He's going to come now. The ten kings are going to come. The Jewish people are going to be put in the pressure cooker. And it's not going to be the time for pride and ego and all that. It's going to be what the book of Jeremiah says: repent. Repent. Repent. Or in Hebrew, *tshuvah, tshuvah, tshuvah, tshuvah*. That's all that it is about right now is repentance. Not any pride, ego, anything like that. Christian pride, Jewish pride, superiority, supremacy, all none of that crap. It's about repentance only, and that's it. And then you will see all the blessings come upon Israel, the promised land, the Jewish people, the remnant, and also the remnant of the Christians as well. So, thank you so much, everybody, for being with us. I know we've been on a long time tonight. Thank you so much for being with us. Those who have been with us for all four hours, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. And really understanding the book of Jeremiah, not for me. That's why I read all the chapters out loud, so you guys don't listen to me, just read what this man said and what God told him to say. And that's why we read it. We will have a book out on the prophet Jeremiah here this fall sometime. It's one of the books I want to get released. And one of the reasons of many that I did the videos the way we did them is because I can take the transcripts and it's easier to do the book like that. So, thank you so much for traveling with us on these three episodes. The videos are longer than we normally like to go these days, you know, with the skeletal system on the chair, and also for you guys as well. So, thank you so much again for being with us on this episode, on the other two episodes in the series, and we'll be back with you here soon. I have a little bit of time off. I've got some things to handle, some matters to handle that will keep me offline for a little bit. Nothing personal with me, but just in general. So, I won't be back with you until next week. And we'll start again with the Hebrew letter, the next one in line, which we have four left. We'll go to the Kof, I believe, is next. And then we'll start a new series on the Day of the Lord scriptures, Jeremiah 46 through 52. As we close out this book, we'll go to Isaiah, we'll go to Ezekiel to give whoever wants to hear the understanding of the Day of the Lord scriptures is for the Day of the Lord. It is not for any of us on this earth to do, but only for Him to do. Only. So, friends, thank you so much for being with us. We do love you very much. We say this in all love to everybody on this earth. We love mankind, you know, love all eight billion people. I don't really get caught up in all this tribal stuff, you know, even though I do understand the pure royal lineage, all these things in the scriptures. I love all people on this earth, and I don't really want to get caught up in all the tribal stuff because all tribes, all tongues, all nations will be a remnant, will come out of all nations. So that's why I love one of the reasons why I love all people is because of that. And in general, I just love people. And that's the two greatest, the second greatest commandment is to love your neighbor. And eight billion people, from my opinion, is my neighbor, not just my next-door neighbor. So, I know you guys have the heart position like that as well, and that's the heart position that will carry us to the truth of these matters is to not be persuaded by anything other than the Holy Scriptures. So, thank you very much for being the Bereans out there and to look at the truth of these things, even though sometimes it's hard to swallow some of these things, for sure, that Moses or Jeremiah, even Yeshua says at times, John the Revelator. But we must understand those with the right heart position and the right circumcision of our hearts so that we can have the right understanding. "My people perish for lack of knowledge." Right? We've got to have the right knowledge, the right understanding, the right theology, the right eschatology so that we can do our part in God's kingdom in a responsible way and to help the Christians and also to help our Jewish friends and Israeli friends to wake up and understand really what's going down here according to the biblical prophets because, like I said, the biblical prophets will override everybody's political opinion on what America, Israel, Donald Trump, Obama, whoever is going to do. Whatever the biblical prophets will tell you what they are going to do, not the other way around. So if you understand the biblical prophets, it makes it really easier to navigate through this geopolitical craziness that you see over in the Middle East and North Africa and even in America, if we have the right understanding of the trajectory that the biblical prophets are on. So that's why we go through a lot of these things is to show people that through the prophets, and we'll continue to do so. So, thank you so much, everybody. Have a great week ahead. I forget it's Tuesday; it only feels like Friday already. Have a great week ahead and have a great weekend, and we'll be back with you here next week as we continue on this journey with the biblical prophets, with the Day of the Lord, and also the next Hebrew letter. Until that time, my friends, may God bless you. May He keep you. May His face shine upon you and give you His grace. May He lift up His countenance upon you and your family and give you His everlasting shalom. My name is Chadwick Harvey, and You have reached Faithful Performance. Good night, everybody. We'll see you soon. Shalom, everybody.