Jeremiah Imprisoned and Unchanging Message

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.