Jer 15:1-9  I Will Destroy My People, Since They Return Not From Their Ways

[Study Aired August 8, 2021]

Jer 15:1  Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Jer 15:2  And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
Jer 15:3  And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
Jer 15:4  And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
Jer 15:5  For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
Jer 15:6  Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
Jer 15:7  And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
Jer 15:8  Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
Jer 15:9  She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

Moses and Samuel were as close to the Lord as one could be in the Old Testament. The Lord spoke with Moses as a friend:

Exo 33:11  And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

Samuel was the last judge of Israel, and was accepted by all as a prophet of the Lord:

1Sa 3:19  And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.
1Sa 3:20  And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.

Our study today begins with these somber words of warning:

Jer 15:1  Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Jer 15:2  And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.

This is the message of:

Rev 22:10  And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
Rev 22:11  He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

Both these prophecies are simply saying:

Mat 6:10  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

That is what Christ told us to say when we pray to our heavenly Father. The prophets who prophesy things the Lord did not send them to prophesy do not want to hear a word about the Lord’s judgments upon their “smooth things” prophecies and their lying false doctrines. So, they will not pray as the Lord has instructed us to pray:

Mat 6:5  And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Mat 6:6  But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Mat 6:7  But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

“The kingdom of God is within [us]” if Christ is living His life within us:

Luk 17:20  And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luk 17:21  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

1Co 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

1Co 3:17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Christ never sought to be prominent. He simply sought to please His Father:

Joh 8:49  Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
Joh 8:50  And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

The spirit of a false prophet is without exception a very proud spirit which seeks the recognition and approbation of men. This is what the apostle John had to say about one of the early apostates of the New Testament church:

3Jn 1:9  I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

3Jn 1:10  Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

This self-righteous, very proud spirit was at work upon the whole New Testament church before the death of the twelve original apostles. However, God’s judgments are, and always have been, working to demonstrate His power and His judgments upon the kingdom of our old man. We may fool men, but we do not for one second deceive the Lord:

Gal 6:7  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Gal 6:8  For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

We “who have the firstfruits of the spirit” know that “all things are of God”, including the fact that the Lord “makes us to err from His ways and hardens our hearts from His fear”:

Isa 63:17  O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

1Co 8:6  But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

2Co 5:18  And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

The answer to Isaiah’s question, “Why have you made us to err from your ways”, is found in these verses:

Jdg 14:4  But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

Rom 9:13  As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated [“being not yet born” vs 11].

Rom 9:14  What shall we say then? Is there  unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Rom 9:15  For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Rom 9:16  So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Rom 9:17  For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Rom 9:18  Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Rom 9:19  Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Rom 9:20  Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Rom 9:21  Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Rom 9:22  What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Rom 9:23  And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Rom 9:24  Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

The Lord is “working all things after the counsel of His own will” to show His wrath against all flesh which was never intended to inherit His kingdom. That flesh prays to Him only to be seen of men, while this is what we are exhorted of the Lord:

Mat 6:8  Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Mat 6:9  After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Mat 6:10  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

God’s name is “hallowed” when we acknowledge that He makes us to err from His ways, and then He drags us to Himself, after He reveals to us just how corrupt our flesh is:

1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Revealing the corruption of our flesh to us is accomplished only through His judgments, and the Lord’s Word reveals that He is right now judging His elect, and He will judge all the rest of mankind at the great white throne judgment.

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

Christ promised those who followed Him in “this present time” (Rom 8:18), that they would rule and reign with Him in His kingdom on this earth:

Rev 2:26  And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
Rev 2:27  And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

Rev 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Rev 20:5  But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Peter asks, “…what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?” Here is the answer to Peter’s question:

Rev 20:11  And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Rev 20:12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Rev 20:13  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them:  and they were judged every man according to their works.

From these verses we can see that only those who are being judged in “this present time”, will be in “the first resurrection… ruling and reigning with Him a thousand years” (Rev 20:6). Christ called the first resurrection “the resurrection of life”:

Joh 5:27  And hath given him [Christ] authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
Joh 5:28  Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Joh 5:29  And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

Rom 8:18  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Rom 8:19  For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God [At “the resurrection of life… the first resurrection”].

When the thousand years are finished, then all the nations rebel against the rod of  iron of  the Lord’s elect, and they are all destroyed by “fire… from  heaven”:

Rev 20:7  And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Rev 20:8  And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Rev 20:9  And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. [“The nations in the four quarters of the earth… the number of whom is as the sand of the sea”]
Rev 20:10  And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever [eons of the eons, the time needed to judge “every man… and angels” (1Co 6:3)].

1Co 6:2  Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
1Co 6:3  Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? [‘This present time’ (Rom 8:18)]

All the rest of mankind who are not in “the resurrection of life… the first resurrection”, will be judged in the great white throne judgment/lake of fire/second death. This ‘judgment’ or this ‘death’ is the judgment of all whose names were not in the book of life. This ‘death’ is the second group to die to their old man, just as we are doing in “this present time… judgment… on the house of God” (1Pe 4:17). All whose names are in the book of life, are being judged “in this present time”, and we will rule with Christ for a thousand years. All the rest of mankind will be judged in the lake of fire/second death at the white throne judgment. This is “the end of them that obey not the gospel of God” (1Pe 4:17).

The ‘fire’ of the ‘lake of fire’ is the same ‘fire’ which “will try every man’s works, [including] “the house of God [of] this present time”:

1Co 3:13  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is [“Every man” in both resurrections and in both judgments… will be tried by the ‘fire’ of the Word of God (Jer 14:5). The judgment which “is now on the house of God” and the judgment of the “great white throne/lake of fire/ second death”, is effectuated by the same ‘fire… (but) each in his own order” (1Co 15:23)].
1Co 3:14  If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward [“Rule and reign with Christ for a thousand years… judge angels [at the great] white throne judgment”].
1Co 3:15  If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss [Miss out on “the marriage supper of the Lamb, a crown of life which entitles him to rule with Christ a thousand years and then “judge angels” in the great white throne judgment/lake of fire/second death]: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

The scriptures go overboard to inform us of the fact that God is in the process of saving “all in Adam”. Here are but a few of the verses which boldly state this irrefutable Truth:

Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

1Ti 2:4  Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

1Ti 4:10  For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially [not ‘exclusively’] of those that believe.

2Pe 3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

1Jn 2:2  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Self-righteous mankind would rather make God out to be a hate-filled monster, who will burn his adversaries in eternal torment, than to acknowledge:

Ecc 1:13 I applied my heart to inquiring and exploring by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: it is an experience of evil Elohim has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.

1Ti 2:4  Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

It is argued by those who are under the influence of the lying spirit of “free moral agency” that the word ‘will’ in 1 Timothy 2:4 would be better translated as ‘desires all men to be saved”. The argument is that our fabled ‘free will’ is capable of thwarting what God desires for us. If we were to agree that the word ‘desire’ would be better, what then do we make of this verse of scripture?

Job 23:13  But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

Later the Lord reveals just how deeply His sovereignty extends into His relationship with His creatures:

Pro 16:1  The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

“The preparations of our heart”, the forming of a thought is “from the Lord”, and a couple of verses later this depth of His sovereign work with mankind is again proclaimed:

Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

“All things… even the wicked” are made for the Lord’s “experience of evil” which He has given us to humble us before Himself. This truth relieves us all of a very great burden which is based upon the lie that God has given mankind a will that is free from any influence from Him.

Ecc 1:13 I applied my heart to inquiring and exploring by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: it is an experience of evil Elohim has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.

Our old man always prefers church doctrine to these wonderful Truths, and therefore the Lord…

Jer 15:3  …will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

These “four kinds [are] appointed over us” to humble us (Ecc 1:13), to bring us to our wits’ end (Psa 107:27) and to drag us to Himself (Joh 6:44).

Here is Strong’s definition of the Hebrew word translated as ‘kinds’ in this verse:

H4940
מִשְׁפָּחָה
mishpâchâh
mish-paw-khaw’
From H8192 (compare H8198); a family, that is, circle of relatives; figuratively a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extension a tribe or people: – family, kind (-red).

With the exception of this third verse here in chapter 15, and…

Gen 8:19  Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

Except for these two verses, this word is consistently translated as either ‘family’ or ‘kindred’ in their singular or plural forms.

What this tells us is that each of these ‘kinds’ is a ‘family’ of judgments, and the fact that there are four of them indicates that ‘the whole’ of the kingdom of our old  man will be destroyed with the whole of these four families of judgments.

Jer 15:4  And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

Manasseh is considered to be the most wicked king of all the kings of Judah. He was the son of the most righteous king of Judah, King Hezekiah:

Jer 15:5  For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?

We are all brought to our “wits’ end” by the Lord Himself:

Psa 107:24  These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
Psa 107:25  For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Psa 107:26  They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Psa 107:27  They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

The Lord Himself brings us to a time when it seems that all our family and friends all turn their backs on us when we need them most. They may not do so overtly, but they will not tolerate the doctrine of Christ in our mouths. The Lord Himself forsakes us “for a moment”:

Isa 54:7  For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Isa 54:8  In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

The Lord tells Jeremiah the same thing He told Isaiah about how He is dealing with His elect:

Jer 15:6  Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
Jer 15:7  And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

The Lord takes complete responsibility for the destruction of the corrupt flesh of His people for their rebellious, wicked ways. “I will destroy my people” are the Lord’s own words, and that is exactly what He does to the old man within His very elect.

2Th 2:8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Our salvation hinges upon the dying of our old man, just as Christ had to die daily and literally.

Jer 15:8  Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

As our judgment begins, the Lord removes our spiritual ‘husbands’ and renders us as spiritual ‘widows’ with no leadership and no head:

Rom 7:1  Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Rom 7:2  For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Rom 7:3  So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Rom 7:4  Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

1Co 11:3  But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

As our judgment begins, and we begin to “come out of her…” our flesh then turns on our spiritual ‘mother’, ‘Babylon the great’, and we “spoil [her] at noonday”. This very same destruction of our harlot mother by our rebellious flesh is described in the book of Revelation in these words:

Rev 17:12  And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet;  but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
Rev 17:13  These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
Rev 17:14  These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Rev 17:15  And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Rev 17:16  And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Rev 17:17  For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Rev 17:18  And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

The number ‘ten’ signifies the perfection of corruptible flesh at its peak of power in our lives. Here is a link to a study on the spiritual significance of the number ten:

The Number Ten

Isaiah makes clear who this harlot is. She is identified in the first chapter of his prophecy:

Isa 1:1  The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

“Judah and Jerusalem” signify the Lord’s own elect who have “left [their] first love” and have turned their back on their true spiritual husband and committed spiritual adultery and spiritual fornication with many others, and the Lord calls a spade a spade:

Isa 1:21  How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

Spiritual ‘murder’ and ‘beheading’ is defined Biblically in these words:

1Jn 3:15  Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

Using that spiritual definition, combined with the physical murder committed by the religions of mankind against each other, man’s religion has killed more that all the atheistic communist governments of the past century combined, and the Lord will avenge His elect of those who have physically and spiritually murdered and beheaded them since the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ:

Rev 6:9  And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
Rev 6:10  And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

Rev 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

These two verses are speaking of the same people. They are the Lord’s elect who were “slain [and] beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God”.

This destruction of the great harlot of the religions of mankind in rebellion against Christ and His Father is accomplished inwardly in everyone who is dragged out of the grasp of that great whore. However, there is always an outward, climactic, dispensational fulfillment to the words of prophecy, and we are all witnessing the secular humanists within this great harlot turning against her, destroying her with fire and eating her flesh:

Rev 17:16  And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Rev 17:17  For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

Our last verse of our study for today is just an earlier version of Revelation 17:16-17:

Jer 15:9  She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

The Lord’s elect are the latter-day temple in which He now dwells, and the temple in which the Adversary dwells is His latter-day people, who are being destroyed by the ten horns which are “on the beast”. They are the negative application of the words, “Come out of her My people”, and they will “eat her flesh and burn her with fire”, just as we are being tried with fire as we eat the flesh of Christ.

Joh 6:51  I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Joh 6:52  The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
Joh 6:53  Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Joh 6:54  Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Joh 6:55  For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
Joh 6:56  He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
Joh 6:57  As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
Joh 6:58  This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

That is our study for today and these are our verses for our next study:

Jer 15:10  Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Jer 15:11  The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
Jer 15:12  Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
Jer 15:13  Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
Jer 15:14  And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
Jer 15:15  O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
Jer 15:16  Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
Jer 15:17  I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
Jer 15:18  Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
Jer 15:19  Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
Jer 15:20  And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
Jer 15:21  And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.