Jeremiah 23-25
God holds the pastors responsible for not gathering the sheep and teaching them to follow him. Jeremiah prophesies of the day when Jesus will come and rule with righteous judgment and justice.
Next God rebukes the prophets that said many words in His name that weren’t His. Both the prophet and the priests lived their lives as a mockery to righteousness.
Jeremiah was shown two baskets of figs which were set before the temple of the Lord which means that these baskets are before God’s face and getting his attention in heaven. The good ones represented the people that were saved and sent to the land of the Chaldeans. They would one day come back to the land. The other one was full of bad figs and they represented the people who determined to do evil and refused to repent. Their end would be dispersion, famine, and pestilence. They would not return to God’s land.
Jeremiah laid out the plan in chapter 25. God would send them to Babylon for seventy years then after that time, they would come back to the land. Then God would judge the nations that came against his people.
Lord, we pray for our pastors and spiritual leaders that You would put Your word in their mouth and that the fear of You would keep them holy and set apart. May they prosper in gifts of the Holy Spirit and lead us with righteousness.
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