You Will Not See the Sword

 "You will not see the sword," so prophesied some false spokesmen for the Lord in Jeremiah's day. They were telling the people what they wanted to hear. That was contrasted with the prophetic words Jeremiah kept proclaiming. Jeremiah called the people to repentance, but they would not listen. False prophets proclaimed a prosperity message. 

Some years ago, I stumbled on a so-called prophetic website. Different ones posted their words from the Lord. They all sounded very similar. Words of prosperity abounded. I scrolled through several pages reading as much as I could stomach. Do you know what I did not see? Not one message about repentance. Not one. 

In a world filled with wickedness, not one person heard God call the church to repentance. That is what Jeremiah did for this whole ministry. It was not a popular message in his day nor is it popular in our day. You can read about the false word from the Lord in [Jer 14:13-14]. 

In verse 14, God sets the record straight. God said He never sent any of those false prophets no more than He sent some who prophesy to gullible people for financial gain today. God also reported that He did not speak to any of those false proclaimers. They invented those supposed words from the Lord. God said they prophesied false visions, false divinations, and deceptions. 

Telling people what they want to hear makes big bucks. It wins crowds and fills the collection plates with love offerings those deceivers love to take to the bank. They abound. These hucksters sell a bright future when the Bible tells us the end times will get infinitely worse leading up to the Great Tribulation. Watching the headlines I see how easily we could be in WWIII. Tensions with Russia and China are escalating for us in the United States. We in the states are an apathetic and hypocritical church age in many places. We are a prayerless impotent church in far too many communities. 

We have allowed wickedness to be legislated over and over again with homosexual marriage, abortion, removing prayer from schools, and allowing ideologies like LGBT to permeate public school classrooms. Censorship of ideas and spreading of Bible truth have been enforced in many places. Do we dare believe that God will turn a blind eye to wickedness of pedophilia and sex trafficking? Do you think God turns a deaf ear to being mocked and ridiculed by academia elites and celebrities? God will have the last word. 

If the multitudes want to be duped by charlatans dressed up in clergy attire, they do so at their own peril. I am called to tell the truth. The future is not looking so bright to me on many fronts. The people of God must repent and pray. There is coming a judgment day when God will account all our deeds. Every false preacher will answer for it. Every silent preacher who tickled the ears out of the desire to be compensated and applauded will answer for it. Preachers and teachers will receive a stricter judgment than the rest. [James 3:1] Repentance is in order. Repentance is needed. Repentance is the call of God on His sin soaked and sick church. Repent before it is too late.