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Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Jeremiah 16:17
For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
For further study - Jeremiah 16:10-21
Jeremiah was a Prophet, chosen and set apart for his ministry by the Lord, in eternity past. We know this from His statement in Jeremiah 1:5, "Before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, set thee apart for service."
In fact, the first part of verse 5 says
that "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee," referring to
Jeremiah who God knew in His mind in eternity past. Jeremiah was set
apart to be the "prophet to the nations" which included the nation of
Israel as well.
In Jeremiah 16 the
Lord, through Jeremiah, speaks to the Jews about the way their fathers
failed to obey the Lord and walk in His way. Then he says to them, verse 12, "and ye have done worse than your fathers."
This is exactly what is happening among the Jews today, but there is a
"spiritual application" in these verses as well. The "Body of Christ," the Church, is moving each and every day away from the purpose of the
Church, set in place by Jesus, the "Head of the Church."
The purpose of the Church is basically two-fold, to be Holy as He is
Holy and to go out into the world and win people to the Lord for their
eternal salvation. By the way, we are to "go out" not try and bring the
people into the church.
The early Church, during the first century, set the pattern, Acts 5:42.
The new Christians daily went into the Temple, which was not a church,
but a gathering place, and house to house as they "ceased not to teach
and preach Jesus Christ."
This is a "spiritual application" from this passage. As we come back now
to the "technical interpretation" of the passage notice in verses 13-15 that
the Lord speaks of scattering the Jews across the world, casting them
out of their land to places they knew not, where they would serve other
gods and the Lord would show them no favor.
This prophecy is being fulfilled even today as we witness over one
million Jews from Russia, the "land to the north," immigrating into
Israel. There are Jews who have come from over one hundred nations of
the world, back into the land as Jeremiah said they would do in the last
days.
Please notice one other verse before we leave this passage. It's our key verse for today, verse 17.
"They are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity hidden
from my eyes." The eyes of the Lord are upon us at all times. He sees
everything that we do, 24/7.
That is an awesome thought as we watch the Jews returning to the land,
nearing the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. That Bible prophecy will be
completely fulfilled at a time soon after we have departed from earth at
the Rapture. At that point we will stand face to face with Jesus. That
could happen very soon, perhaps today.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Please Lord help me to live in the realization that Your eyes are upon me at all times.