Jeremiah 3:6 - Prayer Tents

Jeremiah 3

Your Sex-and-Religion Obsessions

3GOD's Message came to me as follows: "If a man's wife walks out on him And marries another man, can he take her back as if nothing had happened? Wouldn't that raise a huge stink in the land? And isn't that what you've done— 'whored' your way with god after god? And now you want to come back as if nothing had happened." GOD's Decree.H559H376H7971H802H1980H312H376H7725H776H2610H2610H2181H7227H7453H7725H5002H30682"Look around at the hills. Where have you not had sex? You've camped out like hunters stalking deer. You've solicited many lover-gods, Like a streetwalking whore chasing after other gods.H5375H5869H8205H7200H375H7693H7901H1870H3427H6163H4057H2610H776H2184H74513And so the rain has stopped. No more rain from the skies! But it doesn't even faze you. Brazen as whores, you carry on as if you've done nothing wrong.H7241H4513H4456H2181H802H4696H3985H36374Then you have the nerve to call out, 'My father! You took care of me when I was a child. Why not now?H7121H1H441H52715Are you going to keep up your anger nonstop?' That's your line. Meanwhile you keep sinning nonstop."H5201H5769H8104H5331H1696H6213H7451H3201

Admit Your God-Defiance

6GOD spoke to me during the reign of King Josiah: "You have noticed, haven't you, how fickle Israel has visited every hill and grove of trees as a whore at large?H3068H559H3117H2977H4428H7200H4878H3478H6213H1980H1364H2022H8478H7488H6086H21817I assumed that after she had gotten it out of her system, she'd come back, but she didn't. Her flighty sister, Judah, saw what she did.H559H310H6213H7725H7725H901H269H3063H72008She also saw that because of fickle Israel's loose morals I threw her out, gave her her walking papers. But that didn't faze flighty sister Judah. She went out, big as you please, and took up a whore's life also.H7200H182H4878H3478H5003H7971H5414H5612H3748H898H269H3063H3372H3212H21819She took up cheap sex-and-religion as a sideline diversion, an indulgent recreation, and used anything and anyone, flouting sanity and sanctity alike, stinking up the country.H6963H2184H2610H776H5003H68H608610And not once in all this did flighty sister Judah even give me a nod, although she made a show of it from time to time." GOD's Decree.H901H269H3063H7725H3820H8267H5002H306811Then GOD told me, "Fickle Israel was a good sight better than flighty Judah.H3068H559H4878H3478H6663H5315H898H306312Go and preach this message. Face north toward Israel and say: "'Turn back, fickle Israel. I'm not just hanging back to punish you. I'm committed in love to you. My anger doesn't seethe nonstop.H1980H7121H1697H6828H559H7725H4878H3478H5002H3068H6440H5307H2623H5002H3068H5201H576913Just admit your guilt. Admit your God-defiance. Admit to your promiscuous life with casual partners, pulling strangers into the sex-and-religion groves While turning a deaf ear to me.'" GOD's Decree.H3045H5771H6586H3068H430H6340H1870H2114H7488H6086H8085H6963H5002H306814"Come back, wandering children!" GOD's Decree. "I, yes I, am your true husband. I'll pick you out one by one— This one from the city, these two from the country— and bring you to Zion.H7725H7726H1121H5002H3068H1166H3947H259H5892H8147H4940H935H672615I'll give you good shepherd-rulers who rule my way, who rule you with intelligence and wisdom.H5414H7462H3820H7462H1844H791916"And this is what will happen: You will increase and prosper in the land. The time will come"—GOD's Decree!—"when no one will say any longer, 'Oh, for the good old days! Remember the Ark of the Covenant?' It won't even occur to anyone to say it—'the good old days.' The so-called good old days of the Ark are gone for good.H7235H6509H776H3117H5002H3068H559H727H1285H3068H5927H3820H2142H6485H621317"Jerusalem will be the new Ark—'GOD's Throne.' All the godless nations, no longer stuck in the ruts of their evil ways, will gather there to honor GOD.H6256H7121H3389H3678H3068H1471H6960H8034H3068H3389H3212H310H8307H7451H382018"At that time, the House of Judah will join up with the House of Israel. Holding hands, they'll leave the north country and come to the land I willed to your ancestors.H3117H1004H3063H3212H1004H3478H935H3162H776H6828H776H5157H119"I planned what I'd say if you returned to me: 'Good! I'll bring you back into the family. I'll give you choice land, land that the godless nations would die for.' And I imagined that you would say, 'Dear father!' and would never again go off and leave me.H559H7896H1121H5414H2532H776H6643H5159H6635H1471H559H7121H1H7725H31020But no luck. Like a false-hearted woman walking out on her husband, you, the whole family of Israel, have proven false to me." GOD's Decree.H403H802H898H7453H898H1004H3478H5002H306821The sound of voices comes drifting out of the hills, the unhappy sound of Israel's crying, Israel lamenting the wasted years, never once giving her God a thought.H6963H8085H8205H1065H8469H1121H3478H5753H1870H7911H3068H43022"Come back, wandering children! I can heal your wanderlust!" "We're here! We've come back to you. You're our own true GOD!H7725H7726H1121H7495H4878H857H3068H43023All that popular religion was a cheap lie, duped crowds buying up the latest in gods. We're back! Back to our true GOD, the salvation of Israel.H403H8267H1389H1995H2022H403H3068H430H8668H347824The Fraud picked us clean, swindled us of what our ancestors bequeathed us, Gypped us out of our inheritance— God-blessed flocks and God-given children.H1322H398H3018H1H5271H6629H1241H1121H132325We made our bed and now lie in it, all tangled up in the dirty sheets of dishonor. All because we sinned against our GOD, we and our fathers and mothers. From the time we took our first steps, said our first words, we've been rebels, disobeying the voice of our GOD."H7901H1322H3639H3680H2398H3068H430H1H5271H3117H8085H6963H3068H430