Two baskets of figs

 

 

 

 

Yahuah showed me, and look, there were two baskets of figs set before the sanctuary of Yahuah (Jeremiah 24:1).

Yahuah showed this parable to Jeremiah after the heads of Judah were exiled to Babylon. 2 Kings 24:15-16 And he exiled Jehoiach into Babylon. And the sovereign’s mother, and the sovereign’s wives, and his eunuchs, and the leading men of the land he exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon. And all the mighty brave men, seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths, one thousand, all who were strong and fit for battle, these the sovereign of Babylon brought to Babylon into exile.

 

Jeremiah 24:2 One basket had very good figs, like first ripe figs. And the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten from their badness.

Israel is equated as a fig tree as there were good and bad figs; so was the nation with its inhabitants.

 

The good figs

Jeremiah 24:5-7 So says Yahuah, the Elohim of Israel, like these good figs, so I will acknowledge the exiles of Judah whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good. For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. And I will build them and not tear down; and I will plant them, and will not pluck up. And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am Yahuah. And they shall be My people, and I will be their Elohim. For they shall return to Me with their whole heart.

 

Isaiah 10:22 and repeated in Romans 9:27 clearly shows that although Israel will grow into mighty numbers in their diaspora that only a remnant (good figs) would return. The good figs are the remnant.

Jeremiah 31:33 “For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra’el after those days, declares Yahuah: I shall put My Torah (commands/instructions) in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people. Read Hebrews 8:10.

 

The bad figs

Jeremiah 24:8-10 And like the bad figs which cannot be eaten from badness, so says Yahuah: So I shall make Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his rulers, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt; I will even make them a horror among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, for a reproach, and a proverb, a gibe, and a curse, there in all places where I will drive them. And I will send the sword, the famine, and the plague among them until they are consumed from being upon the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.

 

Jeremiah 9:16 “And I shall scatter them among the gentiles, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I shall send a sword after them until I have consumed them.” Jeremiah 15:2 “And it shall be, when they say to you, ‘Where do we go?’ then you shall say to them, ‘Thus said Yahuah, “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.” ’

Let this be a warning to those who call themselves the chosen people, we cannot do what we want because we are the chosen. The message is: are you from the good figs or are you from the bad figs. It is ONLY the good figs that are the chosen people of Yahuah.

Clearly, not all Israel is Israel and not all who know Yahuah within Israel will be delivered (saved).

Do not let man tell you otherwise.

 

 

‘I have dreamed’ say the false prophet – Part 2

 

 

There are people, say the prophets, that prophesy falsely in the Almighty’s Name. I wonder in those times if they prophesied in the true Name of the Almighty or did they like today say in the name of God, Lord etc. The scripture tells us they did use other names or titles other than the true Name.

Jeremiah 23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, those who prophesy lies in My name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

 

Jeremiah 23:26-27 “Till when shall it be in the heart of the prophets? – the prophets of falsehood and prophets of the deceit of their own heart, who try to make My people forget My Name by their dreams which everyone relates to his neighbour, as their fathers forgot My Name for Baal (Lord/Master).

How many times have you heard people say when they have dreamt “This is what the Lord says……..

Next is an important verse of what Yahuah says about those who dream falsely and those who speak from the truth.

 

Jeremiah 23:28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream. And he who has My Word, let him speak My Word faithfully. What has the chaff to do with the wheat, says Yahuah?

Yahuah at times does speak to His people by dreams and visions but it would be clearly from His Word. In verse 29 He speaks about His Word.

Jeremiah 23:29 “Is not My Word like a fire?” declares Yahuah, “and like a hammer that shatters a rock?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next Yahuah says He is against the following people (false prophets).

Behold, says Yahuah, I am against the prophets who steal My Words, each one from his neighbor (Jeremiah 23:30).

Other words, they twist the Word and deceive the people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Behold, I am against the prophets who use their tongues and say, He says (Jeremiah 23:31).

False people make up their own words and say “This is what the Lord says……..

Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams, and tell them, and cause My people to go astray by their lies, and by their foolishness. Yet I did not send them nor command them. And they will not profit this people at all, says Yahuah (Jeremiah 23:32).

Yahuah gives an instruction on how to react when someone asks you ‘What message did Yahuah give you’ and/or when a prophet or a priest say, ‘This is the message from Yahuah’!

Jeremiah 23:33-34 “And when these people or the prophet or the priest ask you, saying, ‘What is the message (utterance)* of Yahuah?’ then you shall say to them, ‘What message?’ I shall forsake you,” declares Yahuah. “As for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, ‘The message of Yahuah,’ I shall punish that man and his house.

‘* Some translation scripture mention “burden” instead of message. This was spoken to those who called the word of Yah, spoken by the true prophets, a burden, by way of reproach; meaning that it always portended evil, and never good. The false prophets, who said, Peace, peace, it seems, derided the true prophets, whose predictions were full of threatening’s, as if Yah’s messages were a burden which they were weary of hearing; and made a jest of these words. What is the burden — play on the double sense of the Hebrew: an oracle and a burden. They scoffingly ask, has he got any new burden (burdensome oracle: for all his prophecies are disasters) to announce? Jeremiah indignantly repeats their own question, do you ask, What burden? This, then, it is, “I will forsake you.” My word is burdensome in your eyes, and you long to be rid of it. You shall get your wish. There will be no more prophecy: I will forsake you, and that will be a far worse “burden” to you. Brown-Driver-Briggs: load, bearing tribute, burden. Strongs: a burden, an utterance, carry away.

Jeremiah 23:35 “This is what each one says to his neighbour, and each one to his brother, ‘What has Yahuah answered?’ and, ‘What has Yahuah spoken?’

 

Jeremiah 23:36 “But the message of Yahuah you no longer remember! For every man’s message is his own word, for you have changed the Words of the living Elohim, Yahuah of hosts, our Elohim!

Many twists the scripture or make up their own words. Yahuah gives us His will in His word and not by the false utterances of false prophets. In Jeremiah 24:5 it says the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the teaching of the Torah, changed the law, broken the everlasting covenant.

For the second time (verse 35 the first) this is how to react: “This is what you say to the prophet, ‘What has Yahuah answered you?’ and, ‘What has Yahuah spoken?’ (Jeremiah 23:37).

The punishment for saying ‘The burden of Yahuah!’

Jeremiah 23:38-40 “But since you say, ‘The message (burden) of Yahuah!’ therefore thus said Yahuah, ‘Because you say this word, “The message (utterance) of Yahuah!” and I have sent to you, saying, “Do not say, ‘The message of Yahuah!’ ” therefore see, I, I shall utterly forget you and cast you away from My presence, along with the city that I gave you and your fathers. ‘And I shall put an everlasting reproach on you, and an everlasting shame that is not forgotten.’ ”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We need to be very careful as to what we say and not to see the Word of Yah as a burden but a guidance to truth.

His Word is Truth.