I am called by Your name

 

 

 

 

 

Jeremiah was chosen by Yahuah to be a prophet. Jeremiah in the old Hebrew language was YirmeYahu meaning Yahu exalts or Yahu will uplift (Yah loosens).

Jeremiah 15:16 Your Words were found and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness of my heart. For I am called by Your name, O Yahuah, Elohim of Hosts.

Part of Jeremiah’s name included Yahuah (Yahu).

 

 

 

 

 

Jeremiah as prophet did not have it easy as we read in Jeremiah 15:10 he grieved to the point of regretting his very birth.

Verse 10 Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not loaned, nor have they loaned to me; yet everyone curses me.

 

 

 

 

 

Jeremiah also reminds Yahuah of what he was committed too.

Jeremiah 15:15-16 You Yourself know, O Yahuah. Remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on these who persecute me. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that for You I have suffered reproach. Your Words were found and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness of my heart.

 

Jeremiah 15:17-18 I have not sat in the company of the mockers, nor do I exult. I have sat alone because of Your hand, for You have filled me with displeasure. Why is my pain without end and my wound incurable, which refuses to behealed? Are You to me like a failing stream, as waters not steadfast?

Jeremiah is a normal man going the same things we today go through. He was called by Yahuah to a task but did not mean he would be a super human without problems.

Yahuah responds to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 15:20-21.

“And I shall make you to this people a strong bronze wall. And they shall fight against you, but not overcome you. For I am with you to save you and deliver you,” declares Yahuah. “And I shall deliver you from the hand of evil-doers, and I shall ransom you from the grip of the ruthless.”

Some will say verse 20-21 is not meant for Jeremiah but to Israel which could be the case but to me it is meant to Jeremiah as well. Jeremiah 15:19 is directly spoken through Jeremiah to Israel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Jeremiah chapter 16 Yahuah tells the prophet not to take a wife or to have children due to the punishment that will come upon these people of wickedness.

Yahuah instructs Jeremiah not to enter people’s houses, break bread with them or to mourn for them or have feasts with them – Jeremiah 16:3-8.

Jeremiah 16:9 For thus said Yahuah of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’el, “See, before your eyes and in your days, I am making the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride to cease in this place.

 

Hard words to hear

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The words spoken in Jeremiah chapter 15 are hard to hear. These words make me very sad and I can imagine how Jeremiah must have felt when he heard them.

At this point Yahuah had enough with the sins of His people. Yahuah goes so far to say, “even if Moses and Samuel were standing before Me now, this people will not be Mine any longer.” Send them away from My presence, let them go. (Jeremiah 15:1)

Yahuah is speaking about the people He choose to be His, not to any gentles or strangers but the chosen.

While I’m reading this chapter, I think about today where there are a group of people that say they are the chosen people and I wonder to whom are they chosen? Are we been deceived or could it be that this scripture is corrupted? Who do I believe, the people of this world or the scripture I have in my position? Please give me wisdom Father Yahuah.

 

 

 

In Jeremiah chapter 15 Yahuah will destroy His people because their sins became so great that there was no other way but to punish. Remember in this time the animal sacrifices must have still been carried out in the temple but not even these sacrifices could prevent Yahuah from brining punishment on them. For this great punishment to take place we must understand what was going on in Jerusalem for Yahuah to destroy this place. Read 2 Kings 21:1-16 to find out what sins were going on in Jerusalem by the King of Judah and the inhabitants.

Even Jeremiah was asking why he was born in this time just like Job asked when he went through trouble times (Job 3:1 and Job 10:18-19).

In Jeremiah 15:2-3 Thus said Yahuah, this is where these people shall go, “Those for death, to death. And those for the sword, to the sword. And those for scarcity of food, to scarcity of food. And those for captivity, to captivity.” ’“And I shall appoint over them four kinds,” declares Yahuah, “the sword to slay, the dogs to drag, the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

Hard words to hear.

“For who has compassion on you, O Jerusalem? And who mourns for you? And who turns aside to ask how you are doing? (Jeremiah 15:5).

 

Jeremiah 15:6 “You who have forsaken Me,” declares Yahuah, “you have gone backward. Therefore I shall stretch out My hand against you and destroy you. I have been weary of relenting!

Here are some good words to hear from Yahuah in Jeremiah 15:7 as some will be sift out with a fork but the rest of His people shall be destroyed because they did not turn away from their own ways.

 

Jeremiah 15:8-9 tells of all the pain the people will go through when punished. Very sad to read this part.

“Their widows shall be more numerous than the sand of the seas. I shall bring against them, against the mother of the young men, a ravager at noon. I shall cause agitation and sudden alarm to fall on her, suddenly. “She who has borne seven shall pine away. She shall breathe her last. Her sun shall go down while it is yet day. She shall be put to shame and be humiliated. And their remnant I give up to the sword before their enemies,” declares Yahuah.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the next message to follow, we hear what Jeremiah says about these hard words that Yahuah has spoken. Title of next message is - I am called by Your name.

Drought in the land

 

 

 

 

 

What a heartsore story spoken in Jeremiah chapter 14. People and animals suffering from drought with no food or water. I cannot imagine what it was like to be in this situation of not having water to drink, it must have been very tough to survive.

Jeremiah 14:2 Judah mourns, and her gates droop. They put on mourning for the land, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

 

Jeremiah 14:3-6 speaks of struggles the people and animals are going through because of no water.

With the water dried up with the grass, is showing that Yahuah's presence is not with the people any longer due to their sin and rebellion.

Jeremiah 14:7-9 O Yahuah, though our iniquities witness against us, act, for Your Name’s sake. For our apostasies have been many, we have sinned against You. O Expectation of Yisra’el, its Savior in time of distress, why should You be like a stranger in the land, or like a traveler who turns aside to lodge? Why should You be as one who is stunned, as a mighty man that is unable to save? Yet You, O Yahuah, are in our midst, and Your Name has been called on us. Do not leave us!

Some people realize their sins and plead for Yah to save them. They plead “YAH DO NOT LEAVE US!”

 

 

Jeremiah 14:10-12 So says Yahuah to this people: So, they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet; therefore, Yahuah does not accept them. He will now recall their iniquity and punish their sins. Then Yahuah said to me, do not pray for good for this people. I will not listen to their cry when they fast; and when they offer burnt offering and food offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, and by famine, and by the plague.

This sounds like an Almighty that does not have grace or mercy but you need to read all the books of the prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel etc.) to understand how Yahuah came to this point that He would no longer be with this rebellious people.

 

 

 

 

A parent having a child that is rebellious would act in the same manner as Yahuah, after speaking and warning many times having no choice but to punish the child. Punish does not mean the parent did not love the child but a manner to help the child learn and turn away from been rebellious. The same thing happened to Israel, Yah’s punishment is done in love for His people.

Punishment is not nice but a true person will learn and turn away from sin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Jeremiah 14:13-16, the prophet says to Yahuah that there are so-called prophets that tell the people Yah will not punish them but they will prosper. Yahuah then warns these false prophets that they will be punished together with the people listening to their false lies.

Read Jeremiah 23:11-36  of these false prophets and their lies.

In Jeremiah 14:17-18,  Yahuah’s heart is full of sorrow.

People ask in Jeremiah 14:19 Have You completely rejected Judah? Or has Your soul hated Sion? Why have You stricken us and no healing is for us? We waited for peace, but nothing good came; and for a healing time, but, behold, terror!

People acknowledge their wickedness in Jeremiah 14:20.

People plead more in Jeremiah 14:21-22 Do not scorn us, for Your Name’s sake. Do not despise the throne of Your esteem. Remember, do not break Your covenant with us. Are there among the worthless idols of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Are You not He, O Yahuah our Elohim? And we wait for You, for You are the One who does all this.

 

 

 

 

 

Are we in this same stage of been rebellious and at a point where punishment is coming or will we turn away from sin before it happens?

Are we shouting out, “YAH DO NOT LEAVE US!”

 

 

Girdle gone to ruin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeremiah was instructed to buy a gridle (belt or band) that you put around your waist. He had to bury this gridle in the ground and at a later stage dig the gridle up. The gridle was completely ruined when Jeremiah dug it up from the hole, where he buried it (Jeremiah 13:1-7).

Then Yahuah said to Jeremiah, “You see, I have ruined the pride of Yahudah (Judah) and Israel – Jeremiah 13:9.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is a break down of what would occur to Yahudah and Israel because of their sin – read Jeremiah 13:10-14 for your own understanding.

1)      Yah says the evil people refuse to hear My Words, walking after their own heart (Israel/Judah).

2)      Yah compares the ruined gridle to the people’s sins, completely useless.

3)      For as this girdle holds fast to the loins of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me, to be My people.

4)      But they WOULD NOT LISTEN TO ME.

5)      Yah says, because you have not listened, I will bring drunkenness on all of Jerusalem, including the priests and prophets.

6)      Yah will not have pity or compassion on them because they would not listen.

7)      Although in the people's complacency they looked for prosperity (illustrated by the wine), in reality they would behave in the coming crisis as a drunkard unable to distinguish ally from enemy.

Jeremiah then pleads to the people to repent and turn away from their sin (Jeremiah 13:15-17).

Jeremiah says to the people “Listen to Yah’s word, do not be proud, before He brings punishment on us.

Jeremiah warns the people of the punishment to come, and pleads that they humble themselves (Jeremiah 13:18-21)

 

 

 

 

 

Then when the people are punished for their sins, they ask why has this happened to me but it would be for your sin that you would not turn away from (Jeremiah 13:22-23).

The next word is an eye opener for me.

Jeremiah 13:23 Does a Kushite change his skin and a leopard its spots? You who are taught to do evil are also unable to do good!

Can those who are taught to do evil be able to do good. Is sin like second nature. Leopard is a leopard, cannot change its spots.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

People still did not listen after Jeremiah spoke to them and then the punishment came upon the people – read Jeremiah 13:24-27.

This Yahuah did to the people He chose to be His, because they did not listen to His voice but went after the world’s idols.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now the question? Are we listening to His voice and following His words?

Do you think the same thing will happen to us who do not listen to His voice as what happen to Israel and Judah in those times?

You have the choice to listen or not to listen.