True gospel based on the Law

“    I saw that the Spirit of the Lord has been dying away from the church. The servants of the Lord have trusted too much to the strength of argument, and have not had that firm reliance upon God which they should have. I saw that the mere argument of the truth will not move souls to take a stand with the remnant; for the truth is unpopular. The servants of God must have the truth in the soul. Said the angel: ‘They must get it warm from glory, carry it in their bosoms, and pour it out in the warmth and earnestness of the soul to those that hear.’ A few that are conscientious are ready to decide from the weight of evidence; but it is impossible to move many with a mere theory of the truth. There must be a power to attend the truth, a living testimony to move them.  {1T 113.2} 

     I saw that the enemy is busy to destroy souls. Exaltation has come into the ranks; there must be more humility. There is too much of an independence of spirit indulged in among the messengers. This must be laid aside, and there must be a drawing together of the servants of God. There has been too much of a spirit to ask, ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ Said the angel: ‘Yea, thou art thy brother’s keeper. Thou shouldest have a watchful care for thy brother, be interested for his welfare, and cherish a kind, loving spirit toward him. Press together, press together.’ God designed that man should be openhearted and honest, without affectation, meek, humble, with simplicity. This is the principle of heaven; God ordered it so. But poor, frail man has sought out something different--to follow his own way, and carefully attend to his own self-interest.  {1T 113.3} 

     I asked the angel why simplicity had been shut out from the church, and pride and exaltation had come in. I saw that this is the reason why we have almost been delivered into the hand of the enemy. Said the angel: ‘Look ye, and ye shall see that this feeling prevails: Am I my brother’s keeper?’ Again said the angel: ‘Thou art thy brother’s keeper. Thy profession, thy faith, requires thee to deny thyself and sacrifice to God, or thou wilt be unworthy of eternal life; for it was purchased for thee dearly, even by the agony, the sufferings, and blood of the beloved Son of God.’” Testimonies for the church, vol. 1, p. 113,114.

This very first testimony is a powerful warning to us, the last generation. It must take first priority in all of our teaching and warning the world of approaching chaos and darkness.

The next two statements keep coming back to my conscience to show me my lack. “By contemplating and worshiping their own conceptions, the heathen had lost a knowledge of God, and had become more and more corrupt.”  {DA 35.2}. “Before faith came, we were kept under the law….” (Gal. 3:23).

In order to protect His children from the encroaching heathen darkness, Jesus kept them under His Law, so that they would get caught up in their own conceptions. Only the high and holy Law of God is inspired by Him who is the truth. Only His pure words devoid of sin and self-pleasing, but reproving and rebuking in love, can keep the Advent movement from straying off into the astral planes of corrupted human conceptions.

And then, “when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the Law” (Gal 4:4). “A body hast Thou prepared Me.” (Heb. 10:5). Jesus brought again His justifying grace to those whose pride was grounded down by the Law. And to ensure that consciences were still open to the Law when the Messiah would appear, God sent his forerunner John the Baptist to restore the forceful language of the Law in condemning sin. Without this the Messiah couldn’t come with His Father’s embassage of peace. “The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.” (Luke 16:16). “Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.” (Gal. 3:23).

In the end Christ’s apostles could safely bring the gospel’s science of salvation to the world without any fear of fanaticism, without “exaltation coming into the ranks”, “an independence of spirit indulged in”, or “a spirit to ask, ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’”, “that we should remember the poor” (Gal. 2:10). “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.” (Gal. 3:24).

And therefore the testimonies were our schoolmaster to bring the Adventists unto Christ that we might be kept safe from fanaticism, and in the end be convicted, humbled, repentant, justified, sanctified, and sealed by the Spirit. They would “get it [the truth and grace gospel] warm from glory, carry it in their bosoms, and pour it out in the warmth and earnestness of the soul to those that hear.” And, as little children, we could “Press together”, “Press together”.

So much propaganda

I've never seen such exquisitely produced propaganda in order to deceive the whole world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2UZdby_emU

But, if you read 2Peter 3:10-12, you know that there is only one second Advent of Christ, not two theologically situated at either end of a seven year tribulation period. So, whether or not the first coming is secret and invisible, or visible, as in this video, the true, sole, biblical return of Christ will leave the world in a total shambles.

"Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of His fierce anger." (Isa. 13:9-13).

"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?" (2Pet. 3:1-12).

The spreading abomination of desolation

Maybe soon I will be considered a terrorist because I have warned of the approaching Jesuit papacy, Jesuit New World Order, and Jesuit New Age/world religion/ethnic pagan culture world. I have used this blog to help people see the signs of the new Jesuit controlled world.

We need to watch for more than the weather and nature to fully obey Jesus’ command,

“Take heed that no man deceive you.” (Matt. 24:4).

And,

“For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left His house, and gave authority to His servants, and to every man His work, and commanded the porter to watch.

Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the Master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:

Lest coming suddenly He find you sleeping.

And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.” (Mark 13:34-37).

We need to study Bible prophecy and see the prophecies being fulfilled in our day, right before our eyes.

The Jesuit papacy is the Revelation 17 eighth head of the Beast power that ascends from the bottomless pit of Hades and goes into perdition. It is the grand finale of Satan’s attempt to restore the great apostasy that occurred in the years following Noah’s deliverance from the worldwide flood. Ham, Cush, and Nimrod created a 180° reversal of the righteous government that Noah established in the new world.

Noah labored to form a world that would never again be destroyed by God. But, not everyone was surrendered to God and His Law. A reaction took place. Out of that reaction were born the basest iniquity and debauchery, prostitution and slavery, dictatorial empires and crimes of the state, necromancy and spiritualism, idolatrous nature worship. Ham, Cush, Nimrod, and his wife Semiramis resurrected all that caused the earth’s destruction, which was everything we read in Romans 1:21-32, 2Tim. 3:1-5, Galatians 5:19-21.

Those last three lengthy texts can be condensed into one,

“Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.” (Eph. 4:18,19).

Read these texts and you will know what is coming to this world—legalized or legislated lawlessness, lawlessness on steroids. Are you interested? It will be the strong delusion that will make part of the 8 billion people decide to go with the Lord all the way, or throw themselves into the circus atmosphere. It is no wonder Isaiah prophesied, “For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people.” (Isa. 60:2). The Bible says that most of the 8 billion will go head or heels, or will go along without a fight. Which way will we go?

This is the perdition that the eighth head of the Beast power brings up from the bottomless pit. This eighth head is the original head of the Beast—the empire of Nimrod. In the long ago, it received a wound by a sword, that is, the sword of Shem. And like the sword of the Bible and of Napoleon, which wounded the second edition of Nimrod’s departure from truth, that is, that wounded the Roman papacy, the sword that wounded the first departure was more than Shem’s physical, state sword. That sword also carried the authority of the Lord God who put Noah on the throne of the world. Noah was heaven’s authorized viceroy of Christ, not Ham, Cush, or Nimrod. 

Both spiritual and carnal swords were the instruments of Providence to crush the serpent’s head. but, it came back to life. The first edition of the Beast returned to power in Imperial Rome because Israel failed to spread the righteousness of Jehovah around the world. Instead they got caught up in worshiping the first edition of the Beast along with the heathen nations. Maybe you know where I am going with this thread. 

Yes, the second edition has returned to life and power again. It was loosed from its imprisonment in the bottomless pit in 1849 during the fifth trumpet of the seventh seal. And, once again the people of God, the Protestant churches—Protestant America has failed to stop its resurgence from its prison. The churches, Protestant and Adventist movements, like the ancient people of God, Israel and Judah, have been unable to stop the Beast’s second and final resurgence. Why the failure?

Because you can’t kill something you worship. Both groups have gotten caught up in worshiping the Beast’s pagan celebration, its praise music, its cheap grace doctrine, and its Spiritual Formation piety. Isn’t that what the people of God are doing today in the Protestant and Adventist churches? Maybe the eighth head is already here? Are we going to go along with the eighth Beast head with the rest of the 8 billion people? Or resist? Are we sure we’ll resist it, if we we'll been worshiping the Beast for so long? We need the grace of God to start resisting now. We need much ingestion of the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy. We need to know Jesus.

The seven heads of the Beast are extra heads that have the Beast’s religion and dictatorial state, and thus the Beast’s spirit. These are the empires around the Mediterranean (Middle of the earth) Sea, and have been used by Satan to keep his place in the fundamental thinking of humanity. The seven heads are ancillary heads to the Beast. The eighth head is the original head described as, “the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.” (Rev. 17:8).

That eighth head is the Beast power that joins all the kings of the earth together at the very end.

“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.

These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

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. 17:12-14).

So here is an article from SDA pastor, Hal Mayer. It is why I’m wondering how much longer I’ll have this blog.

https://ktfnews.com/fbi-wants-tech-track-social-media-criminals-terrorists/

“FBI Wants Tech to Track Social Media for Criminals and Terrorists

Tuesday August 20th, 2019

Raw Conservative Opinions, by Brandi Vincent: The Federal Bureau of Investigations aims to acquire access to a ‘social media early alerting tool’ that will help insiders proactively and reactively monitor how terrorist groups, foreign intelligence services, criminal organizations and other domestic threats use networking platforms to further their illegal efforts, according to a request for a proposal amended this week.

‘With increased use of social media platforms by subjects of current FBI investigations and individuals that pose a threat to the United States, it is critical to obtain a service which will allow the FBI to identify relevant information from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms in a timely fashion,’ the agency said in the RFP.

‘Consequently, the FBI needs near real-time access to a full range of social media exchanges in order to obtain the most current information available in furtherance of its law enforcement and intelligence missions.’

Though the request was initially released on July 8, the FBI amended it this week to extend the relevant dates: The agency’s answers to vendors moved from July 25 to Aug. 7, and the proposal due date shifted from Aug. 8 to Aug. 27. Though the original proposal listed the anticipated award date as Aug. 30, it could be pushed back due to these changes.

Still, the proposal comes at a time when society is growing accustomed to the painful reality of the weaponization of social media outlets to cause harm. Earlier this year, a mass shooter in New Zealand opened fire at two mosques killing 50 people and injuring many more – he posted a 74-page manifesto and images of his weapons online ahead of the attack and livestreamed the shooting directly on Facebook Live. And the shooter who killed three people at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California Sunday also previously posted online about an 1890 racist manifesto, which has been deemed a ‘staple among neo-Nazis and white supremacists on extremist sites.’

‘It is an acknowledged fact that virtually every incident and subject of FBI investigative interest has a presence online,’ the bureau said in the project’s statement of objectives.

‘The mission critical exploitation of social media enables the Bureau to proactively detect, disrupt, and investigate an ever growing diverse range of threats.’

The FBI ultimately wants an interactive tool that can be accessed by all headquarters

division and field office personnel via web browsers and through multiple devices. Interested vendors should have the capabilities to offer the agency the ability to set filters around the specific content they see, send immediate and custom alerts and notifications around ‘mission-relevant’ incidents, have broad international reach and a strong language translation capability and allow for real-time geolocation-based monitoring that can be refined as events develop.

And when it comes to specific persons-of-interest and suspects already involved in open investigations, the bureau wants the ability to obtain their full-scope social media profiles from across the various platforms and insights into their affiliations with various groups across the world wide web.

‘Items of interest in this context are social networks, user IDs, emails, IP addresses and

telephone numbers, along with likely additional accounts with similar IDs or aliases,’ the agency said. . . .

Our Comment:

Surveillance was a feature of Jezebel’s war on the sons of the prophets. In fact, every government that persecutes a sector of society has used surveillance to detect individuals from that particular sector. This FBI proposal is preparing the way for persecution against God’s people.

Prophetic Link:

‘For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.’ 1 Kings 18:4.”

Dear faithful blog readers, time is short.

We need much prayer for conviction of sin, and we need repentance. We need to know Jesus and His love and patience with weak and sinful people. We need to know the Jesus who is touched with the feelings of our infirmities. We need to take our corrected conception of His love and mercy, and help others in their misconceptions of Jesus and the Father. And we need to give up on Nimrod’s evil partnership with the Trinity god. We need to have fellowship with the Father and His only begotten Son Godhead. (See my blog, Semi-Arian Sabbatarian, and go to SDA pastor Nader Mansour, www.revelation1412.org.)

Protestant America soon to suffer at the hands of the Jesuit king of Babylon

“The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.… And the beast that was, and is not, even he… goeth into perdition.” (Rev. 17:8,11).

In three different visions Revelation explains parts of the bottomless pit event: Revelation 9, 11:7, and 17:8,11. Revelation 9 says that locusts would ascend, but Revelation 11:7 and Revelation 17:8,11 both call it “the beast” that ascends from the bottomless pit. Therefore we know that the Revelation 13 beast is referred to by the locusts that would devour everyone not having the seal of God in their forehead. Revelation 9 gives the added evidence that these enemies of beast are all who are green—that is, everyone having the living God in their heart, everyone who is surrendered to Jesus through the Law of God, per Galatians 3:24. And today the Law of God that is quick and sharper than a two-edged sword is the Spirit of Prophecy unvarnished declarations of what sin is.

Locusts are the most feared plague in the Middle East, well-known for the rapidity with which they strip each tree, and their voracious appetite like their bellies never get full. They fly furiously from tree to tree until the whole land is laid bare.

Such an object lesson most accurately reveals the driving force in the beast power as it has been ascending from its prison house made by the Protestant Reformation. When did this bottomless pit come open? When we look closely at the language of the fifth and sixth trumpets we hear the elements that make up the third angel’s message—unappeased torment [no rest day or night], fire, smoke, and brimstone. When did the third angel’s message begin? I’m calling it 1849 because of the major social and spiritual earthquake that shook Protestant America when gold got discovered in California. Most assuredly, the seven trumpets began in 1844. The introduction of the sealing took place before the seventh seal came off the book in the Lamb's hands. The typical feast of trumpets that warned the people of God that Judgment Day would arrive in 10 days. The seven trumpets mirror the type by announcing the coming time of test for the seal or the mark—the pretest for the mighty day that Jesus returns in the power of His Father.

In 1849 Protestant Americans suddenly had a good reason to cross the mighty Mississippi and risk their lives in Indian Territory. (And every American was a Protestant, even the Catholics, because they all loved their government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The Catholic religion was very destructive to the gospel, but they all loved separation of church and state. They loved their peace in the land and a federal budget based on the taxes collected. That made them part of Protestant America.)

Protestant America’s rejection of William Miller in the first trumpet, then the Sabbath and the Law of God in the second trumpet, paved the way for their hearts to be poisoned by Satan in the third trumpet, and their light to go out in the fourth trumpet. All of that took place quickly in preparation for the next major step downward—falling to the first of three woes during Revelation chapters 9 through 11. Therefore we hear a most solemn, august warning to Protestant Americans:

“And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!” (Rev. 8:13).

“And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.” (Rev. 11:7).

But we know from Revelation 9 that the beast’s war and ultimate victory over Protestants is a spiritual warfare—because the war rages over the sealing, or the marking. The mark of the beast from the third angel’s warning results from the fire, smoke, brimstone, torment, language that was first delineated in the fifth and sixth trumpets. Therefore, the message of the third angel is taken from the fifth and sixth trumpets. And so we can tie the warfare of the locusts against the people of God together with the efforts regarding the mark and the seal in the forehead of Protestants.

The fifth and sixth trumpets:

“And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.” (Rev. 9:1-4).

The third angel’s message:

“And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.” (Rev. 14:9-11).

The big picture of the work of sealing has everything to do with surrender. Yes, surrender! The third angel’s message is a gospel-Law issue! There is much gospel in Revelation. The first angel’s message began with an announcement of the gospel.

“And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.” (Rev. 14:6).

But, if plan A doesn’t work and we won’t be transformed by the renewing of our mind through the gospel, then God has a plan B. But plan B isn’t so nice as standing before the Spirit of Prophecy and having our souls stripped by the mighty cleaver of truth and baring our filthiness before the angelic courts. “Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.” (Heb. 4:13).

Plan B works with consequences to not going to the Plan A’s Schoolmaster perfect Law of liberty. But, Plan B means Babylonian slavery, and Egyptian affliction, our “slaves [‘bodies’] and souls” (Rev. 18:13) sold to the highest bidding covert taskmasters, that soon will be enabled to remove their masks and then have full liberty to overtly afflict and enslave. They will have taken back all that they lost in the Dark Ages. It will mean work camps and concentration camps and starvation. That is what Revelation 17:8, 11 forewarns of. (However, in the end Revelation 11:11-17 shows that God wins, and so does everyone who learned surrender and accepted the humiliation of their due punishment from heaven.)

“The Roman Church is far-reaching in her plans and modes of operation. She is employing every device to extend her influence and increase her power in preparation for a fierce and determined conflict to regain control of the world, to re-establish persecution, and to undo all that Protestantism has done. Catholicism is gaining ground upon every side.” Great Controversy, p. 565.   

“Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree [a rod for whipping].

Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten My word to perform it.

And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.

Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

And I will utter My judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken Me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.” (Jer. 1:11-16).

Sadly, Plan B is for us—all of us. Even the Daniels and Meshachs went into captivity. No one gets secret raptured out of here. And no one will be able to fend off the Babylonian juggernaut that is forming as it rises higher and higher around us. Everyone must be punished because it’s too late to expect anyone to come around to Plan A. That is, not without a severe affliction helping them, motivating them along to return to Plan A. we are just as dug into rebellion as was the Jews in Jeremiah’s day. And millions of Protestants (not to mention as many Adventists) have a lot of changing of mindsets and deeply seated, wrong paradigms in order to accept the high standards of the Testimony of Jesus. Much of Protestantism has been convinced these last days to brand the Lord’s special messenger a false prophet, and call it a cult the final movement that she suffered 70 years to establish through the grace of Jesus.

We need to surrender to authority—godly and righteous authority. True, the power that is coming is neither godly nor righteous. However, with God overseeing the restoration of the wicked son of perdition, we can learn surrender to authority if we can see God’s hand behind the punishments that happen during the first time of trouble. Will we grumble and complain? Or, will we fall on our faces before the God of truth and grace, and accept the redemption that He wanted to give us, but which we had no time for while the good times rolled? If we will bow to the merciful hand of the God of heaven, then we will be enabled to accept the punishment. And thus, our surrender under the harshest conditions of Plan B will be accounted for standing before the harsh rebukes of Plan A. But, if we can’t see God’s hand in our punishment and we resist the loss of our every right and privilege and personal property, then that will cause a deepening root of bitterness and a strengthening of rebellion against God. It will mean the mark of the beast. And that is Satan’s purpose behind his beast power.

There must be no resistance, no fighting back the mighty power of evil that takes the good life away from us and strips us of our idols. “They shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised My judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.” (Lev. 26:43).

 “Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.

And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.

For I have set My face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.” (Jer. 21:4-9).

“But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by Myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

For thus saith the LORD unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto Me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.” (Jer. 22:25-27).

“And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;

I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto Me.

And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.

And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.” (Jer. 27:4-8).

“Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in My name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.

Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD’s house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?” (Jer. 27:9-17).

“And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against Me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

Then will I remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised My judgments, and because their soul abhorred My statutes.

And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break My covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.” (Lev. 26:31-45).