Iron Yoke and Rebellion Against God

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.