Jeremiah and Prophesy Free Online Bible Study

JEREMIAH AND PROPHESY III: After 2 and 1/2 years of the monthly

study of Jeremiah and Prophesy, the conclusions and applications to America and the

rest of the world--after all Jeremiah was designated by God to be a Prophet to all

nations-- are coming so rapidly, that it is almost impossible to patiently deal with

them month by month. To speed up the study, SunGrist_Bible passes into a new

phase called "Jeremiah III" where on this page of the biblecombibleman.com website,

you will be able at your own pace to plunge ahead into more meaty aspects of

"Jeremiah and Prophesy". However, you that plunge into this more "post-graduate"

level are encouraged to pick up, at your own pace, on the more fundamental studies,

"Bible Studies in Jeremiah and Prophesy" and the "Advanced Studies in Jeremiah"

Several realities of the contemporary world demand we do so: (1) the changing nature

of the Arab world in countries like Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, and others; (2) the

overwhelming world and US calamities of the first and second kind with the confusion

between the two kinds--after all the word "calamity", and at several levels looms large

in Jeremiah as well as the words "idol" and "idolatry" that often brings calamities of

the first kind; (3) the startling similarities between the false official prophets and

priests of Jeremiah that led God's people into idolatry and the practices and dreams

of false prophets and shepherds of today; and (4) related to number 3 is similarities

to the two top level evils of God's people of Jeremiah--forsaking the God of the living

fountain of water and making broken cisterns as substitutes for God, idols if you

would, that can hold no water--to the 5 stages of the great Apostasy called the

Falling Away that Americans are passing through in this generation immediately

before the Second Coming of Christ, along with some of the broken cisterns that

shepherds of today offer God's people as substitutes like Messianic Judaism,

Mormonism based on 4 new Bibles not recognized by Christians, one thousand years

on earth, a predicted and false rapture before the Second Coming, and the Gospel of

Prosperity and Health. Most of these substitute cisterns of living water completely

ignore the Falling Away {in fact quite often postulated fictions of revival are

substituted to hide the Falling Away of churches and church members from God,

Christ, and the Bible} and the almost immediate withdrawal of the Holy Spirit from

earth!

Prophesy in both the Old Testament, where it was very exclusive as God called only a

few men to receive revelations and where like in the book of Jeremiah all the official

prophets and priests had gone wrong, and prophesy in the New Testament, where it

became more democratic after the Coming of the Holy Spirit and the Ascended Christ

appointed prophets like pastors, teachers, evangelists and apostles; but prophesy

then became not new revelations but rather based on the recorded teachings and

messages of Christ and the Apostles and Prophets. Thus this democratic nature of

prophesy predicted in Jeremiah remained under the control of God's written book, the

Bible, and where the democratic nature of prophesy has been perverted today is by

several methods promoted by Satan: (1) new revelations that are falsely claimed,

primarily by Pentecostals, but also by Mormons with their four extra Bibles not

accepted by Christians, and high level church leaders like the Pope who try to make

extra revelations by their decrees; (2) reading meaning into the Bible, isogesis, like

Scoffield has misled the fundamentalists, rather than taking the time and effort to do

exegesis, "reading the meaning out of the Bible using the ASPI; and (3) trends of the 5

stage Falling Away that develops (a) intolerance toward sound doctrine, (b)

sanctification of personal driven wants of church members, (c) heaping up in churches

and denominations of "itching ears" Bible teachers and preachers (II Timothy 4:3,4),

and (d) the current general trends of the Falling Away as the rising tide of the

mystery of lawlessness and sin (II Thessalonians) overtakes us, the love of most

Christians waxes cold as Jesus predicted, and the number of disguished false prophets

increase who prophesy for profit and status, supported by most church members who

are deep into "turning away from truth" and being "turned into fables." And if you have

trouble accepting that this has happened to 21st century Christianity, then just look

at what happened to all God's people in Judah and Israel, including the official

prophets and priests, during the destruction and desolation phases of Jerusalem

around 587 B.C.

JEREMIAH AND PROPHESY Part 3