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Can Mortals Manufacture Gods?

16GOD's Message to me:H1697H3068H559 2"Jeremiah, don't get married. Don't raise a family here.H3947H802H1121H1323H4725 3I have signed the death warrant on all the children born in this country, the mothers who bear them and the fathers who beget them—H559H3068H1121H1323H3205H4725H517H3205H1H3209H776 4an epidemic of death. Death unlamented, the dead unburied, dead bodies decomposing and stinking like dung, all the killed and starved corpses served up as meals for carrion crows and mongrel dogs!"H4191H8463H4463H5594H6912H1828H6440H127H3615H2719H7458H5038H3978H5775H8064H929H776 5GOD continued: "Don't enter a house where there's mourning. Don't go to the funeral. Don't sympathize. I've quit caring about what happens to this people." GOD's Decree. "No more loyal love on my part, no more compassion.H559H3068H935H1004H4798H3212H5594H5110H622H7965H5971H5002H3068H2617H7356 6The famous and obscure will die alike here, unlamented and unburied. No funerals will be conducted, no one will give them a second thought,H1419H6996H4191H776H6912H5594H1413H7139 7no one will care, no one will say, 'I'm sorry,' no one will so much as offer a cup of tea, not even for the mother or father.H6536H60H5162H4191H3563H8575H8248H1H517 8"And if there happens to be a feast celebrated, don't go there either to enjoy the festivities."H935H1004H4960H3427H398H8354 9GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel, says, "Watch this! I'm about to banish smiles and laughter from this place. No more brides and bridegrooms celebrating. And I'm doing it in your lifetime, before your very eyes.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H7673H4725H5869H3117H6963H8342H6963H8057H6963H2860H6963H3618 10"When you tell this to the people and they ask, 'Why is GOD talking this way, threatening us with all these calamities? We're not criminals, after all. What have we done to our GOD to be treated like this?'H5046H5971H1697H559H3068H1696H1419H7451H5771H2403H2398H3068H430 11tell them this: 'It's because your ancestors left me, walked off and never looked back. They took up with the no-gods, worshiped and doted on them, and ignored me and wouldn't do a thing I told them.H559H1H5800H5002H3068H3212H310H312H430H5647H7812H5800H8104H8451 12And you're even worse! Take a good look in the mirror—each of you doing whatever you want, whenever you want, refusing to pay attention to me.H6213H7489H1H2009H1980H376H310H8307H7451H3820H8085 13And for this I'm getting rid of you, throwing you out in the cold, into a far and strange country. You can worship your precious no-gods there to your heart's content. Rest assured, I won't bother you anymore.'H2904H776H776H3045H1H5647H312H430H3119H3915H5414H2594 14"On the other hand, don't miss this: The time is coming when no one will say any longer, 'As sure as GOD lives, the God who delivered Israel from Egypt.'H3117H935H5002H3068H559H3068H2416H5927H1121H3478H776H4714 15What they'll say is, 'As sure as GOD lives, the God who brought Israel back from the land of the north, brought them back from all the places where he'd scattered them.' That's right, I'm going to bring them back to the land I first gave to their ancestors.H3068H2416H5927H1121H3478H776H6828H776H5080H7725H127H5414H1 16"Now, watch for what comes next: I'm going to assemble a bunch of fishermen." GOD's Decree! "They'll go fishing for my people and pull them in for judgment. Then I'll send out a party of hunters, and they'll hunt them out in all the mountains, hills, and caves.H7971H7227H1771H1728H5002H3068H1770H310H7971H7227H6719H6679H2022H1389H5357H5553 17I'm watching their every move. I haven't lost track of a single one of them, neither them nor their sins.H5869H1870H5641H6440H5771H6845H5048H5869 18"They won't get by with a thing. They'll pay double for everything they did wrong. They've made a complete mess of things, littering their lives with their obscene no-gods, leaving piles of stinking god-junk all over the place."H7223H7999H5771H2403H4932H2490H776H4390H5159H5038H8251H8441 19GOD, my strength, my stronghold, my safe retreat when trouble descends: The godless nations will come from earth's four corners, saying, "Our ancestors lived on lies, useless illusions, all smoke."H3068H5797H4581H4498H3117H6869H1471H935H657H776H559H1H5157H8267H1892H3276 20Can mortals manufacture gods? Their factories turn out no-gods!H120H6213H430H430 21"Watch closely now. I'm going to teach these wrongheaded people. Starting right now, I'm going to teach them Who I am and what I do, teach them the meaning of my name, GOD—'I AM.'H6471H3045H3045H3027H1369H3045H8034H3068


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