Jeremiah 10:1-15 -- The time of trial and punishment
1 Hear the word which the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel. 2 Thus says the Lord: Learn not the way of the [heathen] nations and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens, though they are dismayed at them, 3 For the customs and ordinances of the peoples are false, empty, and futile; it is but a tree which one cuts out of the forest [to make for himself a god], the work of the hands of the craftsman with the ax or other tool. 4 They deck [the idol] with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers so it will not fall apart or move around.
A clear picture of a Christmas tree decked with silver and gold tinsel. It is also a central idol for a materialistic society. Force people to buy a lot of junk in December in a foolish and stupid attempt to help your economy. Consider Governor Hochul -- There are people out there who are not smart, they are not vaccinated, I need the vaccinated to be my apostles, go out and talk to one another, share the gospel of getting the vaccine.
5 [Their idols] are like pillars of turned work [as upright and stationary and immobile as a palm tree], like scarecrows in a cucumber field; they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it possible for them to do good [and it is not in them].
Their idols are like scarecrows. We call them “paper tigers”. Before high school football games they will often have a big paper banner that the team runs through. This is what the idols are like, a great big paper wall saying you can’t go here. Just run right through it. Think about it, if 50% of the work force was concerned about getting the vaccine if they had just said no it would have been a paper tiger. The economy could not survive losing 50% of its employees and 50% of its tax revenue. The governments books are in worse shape than yours are. The same is true of kids, if 50% of kids simply refused to be vaccinated and stayed home the schools would collapse. They could not afford to lose that income.
6 None at all is like You, O Lord; You are great, and Your name is great in might. 7 Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? For it is fitting to You and Your due! For among all the wise [men or gods] of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.8 But they are altogether irrational and stupid and foolish. Their instruction is given by idols who are but wood [it is a teaching of falsity, emptiness, futility] 9 Silver beaten [into plates] is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; the [idols’] clothing is violet and purple—they are all the work of skillful men.
“Their instruction is given by idols who are but wood” or they are silver plates and made of gold. This is money. It is clothed in violet and purple, the printing plates are all the work of skillful men. But when you set up your economy and your entire civilization based on these idols it is irrational, stupid and foolish. For example, we have a problem this year with the pandemic. How can we get our economy back up and running? What did they do? They simply printed trillions of these little idols. Seriously, you think these little pieces of paper will solve the problem? That is irrational, stupid and foolish.
10 But the Lord is the true God and the God of truth (the God Who is Truth). He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth quakes, and the nations are not able to bear His indignation. 11 Thus shall you say to them: The gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.
The heavens and earth were not made from little pieces of paper with pictures of kings, and dead presidents. This will be the ultimate test, do you love the Lord Jesus or do you see those little pieces of paper as your savior? Is it the blood of Jesus that heals you or that vaccine made by sorcerers? Do you have fellowship with the Spirit or with the Beast? Have you been marked by the cross of Christ, is Jesus standing with you in the fire, or have you been marked by the Beast?
12 God made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and by His understanding and skill stretched out the heavens. 13 When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind out from His treasuries and from His storehouses.
God’s word is filled with the wisdom and light to lead us through any crisis. We should have some self respect, the church is filled with those of every skill, every talent. We have teachers and can assist anyone with homeschooling. We have doctors and nurses. We have lawyers and accountants. We have construction workers, mechanics, farmers. True we don't have very many politicians or lobbyists or talking heads from Main Stream media, but we will survive without them.
14 Every man has become like a brute, irrational and stupid, without knowledge [of God]; every goldsmith is brought to shame by his graven idols; for his molten images are frauds and falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 15 They are devoid of worth, usefulness, or truth, a work of delusion and mockery; in their time of trial and punishment they shall [helplessly] perish.
This is the point, in the time of trial they will perish. There is no “wise investment” in the world at the time of trial and punishment. Watch the movie “the big short” these guys were investing in “a time of trial and punishment”. They realized the mortgage market would collapse and so they bought investments to profit off of that collapse. The problem was they soon realized it was like trying to profit from a condemned building that was going to collapse. There was a very real chance that they would get buried alive. It is like the guy on the street with the sign “the world will end tomorrow” and sure enough there is a huge nuclear war and all that is left of him is a shadow on the wall of a building shouting “I was right”. Money is a work of delusion, what happened to Germany will happen to the whole world. The money will become worthless, that is why you are forced to take the mark of the beast. They essentially put a gun to your head and say you continue to buy into our delusion or we will blow your brains out.
The satanic worldy system is built on idol worship and it is irrational. How do they explain where the universe came from? They say it is evolution, you mix a little of this and that and give it a million years and poof, you have life. OK, where did you get "a little of this and that" from? It is stupid, evolution doesn't explain where everything came from, it simply talks about how marvelous and amazing everything is. For example we can look through human garbage dumps and we can find the first light bulb and this evolved into a Xerox machine and an X ray machine and even a computer. Yes, the discovery of electricity is wonderful and there have been many derivative discoveries and inventions as a result. But where did the light bulb come from? Someone created it. Yes we had glass and metal prior to this but saying that a light bulb evolved from glass and metal doesn't explain where the glass, metal and electricity originally came from. So then why would anyone think that the theory of evolution explains away a creator? The truth is they didn't want to believe in a creator because then they would have to walk according to truth and righteousness knowing one day they would stand before the creator. Since they refused to accept the truth God sent them a delusion.
They argue that if you have millions and millions of mutations eventually you will get a mutation that works. OK, but we can calculate the odds of all the right mutations taking place to create a single valuable protein in our body. The problem is that this protein is synthesized in our body, it is a complex system so the entire system would have had to have mutated at the same time (the chicken and egg paradox). If you do that and use an implausibly fast speed with which each mutation would take place you still don't have anywhere near enough time to get this one protein and our body has a whole host of them. They say that the theory of evolution is scientific and yet mathematically it has been disproved.
1 Hear the word which the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel. 2 Thus says the Lord: Learn not the way of the [heathen] nations and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens, though they are dismayed at them, 3 For the customs and ordinances of the peoples are false, empty, and futile; it is but a tree which one cuts out of the forest [to make for himself a god], the work of the hands of the craftsman with the ax or other tool. 4 They deck [the idol] with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers so it will not fall apart or move around.
A clear picture of a Christmas tree decked with silver and gold tinsel. It is also a central idol for a materialistic society. Force people to buy a lot of junk in December in a foolish and stupid attempt to help your economy. Consider Governor Hochul -- There are people out there who are not smart, they are not vaccinated, I need the vaccinated to be my apostles, go out and talk to one another, share the gospel of getting the vaccine.
5 [Their idols] are like pillars of turned work [as upright and stationary and immobile as a palm tree], like scarecrows in a cucumber field; they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it possible for them to do good [and it is not in them].
Their idols are like scarecrows. We call them “paper tigers”. Before high school football games they will often have a big paper banner that the team runs through. This is what the idols are like, a great big paper wall saying you can’t go here. Just run right through it. Think about it, if 50% of the work force was concerned about getting the vaccine if they had just said no it would have been a paper tiger. The economy could not survive losing 50% of its employees and 50% of its tax revenue. The governments books are in worse shape than yours are. The same is true of kids, if 50% of kids simply refused to be vaccinated and stayed home the schools would collapse. They could not afford to lose that income.
6 None at all is like You, O Lord; You are great, and Your name is great in might. 7 Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? For it is fitting to You and Your due! For among all the wise [men or gods] of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.8 But they are altogether irrational and stupid and foolish. Their instruction is given by idols who are but wood [it is a teaching of falsity, emptiness, futility] 9 Silver beaten [into plates] is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; the [idols’] clothing is violet and purple—they are all the work of skillful men.
“Their instruction is given by idols who are but wood” or they are silver plates and made of gold. This is money. It is clothed in violet and purple, the printing plates are all the work of skillful men. But when you set up your economy and your entire civilization based on these idols it is irrational, stupid and foolish. For example, we have a problem this year with the pandemic. How can we get our economy back up and running? What did they do? They simply printed trillions of these little idols. Seriously, you think these little pieces of paper will solve the problem? That is irrational, stupid and foolish.
10 But the Lord is the true God and the God of truth (the God Who is Truth). He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth quakes, and the nations are not able to bear His indignation. 11 Thus shall you say to them: The gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.
The heavens and earth were not made from little pieces of paper with pictures of kings, and dead presidents. This will be the ultimate test, do you love the Lord Jesus or do you see those little pieces of paper as your savior? Is it the blood of Jesus that heals you or that vaccine made by sorcerers? Do you have fellowship with the Spirit or with the Beast? Have you been marked by the cross of Christ, is Jesus standing with you in the fire, or have you been marked by the Beast?
12 God made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and by His understanding and skill stretched out the heavens. 13 When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind out from His treasuries and from His storehouses.
God’s word is filled with the wisdom and light to lead us through any crisis. We should have some self respect, the church is filled with those of every skill, every talent. We have teachers and can assist anyone with homeschooling. We have doctors and nurses. We have lawyers and accountants. We have construction workers, mechanics, farmers. True we don't have very many politicians or lobbyists or talking heads from Main Stream media, but we will survive without them.
14 Every man has become like a brute, irrational and stupid, without knowledge [of God]; every goldsmith is brought to shame by his graven idols; for his molten images are frauds and falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 15 They are devoid of worth, usefulness, or truth, a work of delusion and mockery; in their time of trial and punishment they shall [helplessly] perish.
This is the point, in the time of trial they will perish. There is no “wise investment” in the world at the time of trial and punishment. Watch the movie “the big short” these guys were investing in “a time of trial and punishment”. They realized the mortgage market would collapse and so they bought investments to profit off of that collapse. The problem was they soon realized it was like trying to profit from a condemned building that was going to collapse. There was a very real chance that they would get buried alive. It is like the guy on the street with the sign “the world will end tomorrow” and sure enough there is a huge nuclear war and all that is left of him is a shadow on the wall of a building shouting “I was right”. Money is a work of delusion, what happened to Germany will happen to the whole world. The money will become worthless, that is why you are forced to take the mark of the beast. They essentially put a gun to your head and say you continue to buy into our delusion or we will blow your brains out.
The satanic worldy system is built on idol worship and it is irrational. How do they explain where the universe came from? They say it is evolution, you mix a little of this and that and give it a million years and poof, you have life. OK, where did you get "a little of this and that" from? It is stupid, evolution doesn't explain where everything came from, it simply talks about how marvelous and amazing everything is. For example we can look through human garbage dumps and we can find the first light bulb and this evolved into a Xerox machine and an X ray machine and even a computer. Yes, the discovery of electricity is wonderful and there have been many derivative discoveries and inventions as a result. But where did the light bulb come from? Someone created it. Yes we had glass and metal prior to this but saying that a light bulb evolved from glass and metal doesn't explain where the glass, metal and electricity originally came from. So then why would anyone think that the theory of evolution explains away a creator? The truth is they didn't want to believe in a creator because then they would have to walk according to truth and righteousness knowing one day they would stand before the creator. Since they refused to accept the truth God sent them a delusion.
They argue that if you have millions and millions of mutations eventually you will get a mutation that works. OK, but we can calculate the odds of all the right mutations taking place to create a single valuable protein in our body. The problem is that this protein is synthesized in our body, it is a complex system so the entire system would have had to have mutated at the same time (the chicken and egg paradox). If you do that and use an implausibly fast speed with which each mutation would take place you still don't have anywhere near enough time to get this one protein and our body has a whole host of them. They say that the theory of evolution is scientific and yet mathematically it has been disproved.