Did our
“Christian
Group (church),”
up the street get it wrong?
Believe me we have
dealt with this “Church” many times since moving to Central Florida.
After looking up the
phrase in a bible I see that Gods saying was cut short for their own use,
something that their Christian frowns on!
Jeremiah 1:5
"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest
forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto
the nations."
God was talking to Jeremiah
because
‘he will become a profit of
God’!
“Before I formed
thee”: This is not reincarnation; it is God’s all-knowing cognizance of
Jeremiah and sovereign plan for him before he was conceived
(compare Paul’s
similar realization, Gal. 1:15).
This is the Word of
the LORD.
The LORD called Jeremiah to prophesy, even before he was born.
His
sole purpose in life was to prophesy to Judah.
This is very similar to the call
of John the Baptist.
They had no private life at all.
Their lives were for the
purpose of God to be fulfilled.
The LORD not only called him to prophesy before
he was born, but set him aside for the purpose of God (sanctified him), before
he was born.
We remember from the book of Luke, that John the Baptist was
filled with the Holy Ghost in his mother's womb.
This is a very special call.
The LORD did not want Jeremiah weighted down with worldly things.
He separated
him for a purpose.
Jeremiah did not choose to be a prophet.
God poured out His
Spirit on Jeremiah and ordained him for this purpose.
Notice that Jeremiah was
to prophesy to the nations (plural), not just to Judah.
Deuteronomy 4:2
2Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract
from it, but keep the commands of the LORD your God that I
give you.
Proverbs 30:5-6
5"Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge
in him. 6Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke you and
prove you a liar.
Revelation 22:18
18I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone
adds anything to them, God will add to
that person the plagues described in this scroll.
The definition of
true religion is found in Micah 6:8. "He hath showed thee, O man, what
[is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to
love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"
He (GOD), still
calls them Jacob, which is speaking of all twelve tribes of Israel.
Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob (Israel)
Reuben, Simeon,
Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin.
Today's Israel
(Jews), God still calls Jacob!
