Seien Sie vorsichtig, denn alle prophetischen Worte des Propheten Jeremia hätten gerade in dieser Zeit des Endes ihre Erfüllung gefunden, in der Laodizäischen Kirche der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten!

Dieser Artikel enthält weitere Überlegungen zum Buch Jeremia. In der ersten Überlegung haben wir herausgefunden, dass der Prophet Jeremia tatsächlich eine doppelte Aufgabe zu erfüllen hatte. Als Prophet seiner Zeit hatte er den Auftrag, die Führer zu warnen, wie sie ihre Schritte leiten sollten, und alle alten Juden zu überzeugen. Und zusätzlich zu dem, was er für die Juden seiner Zeit getan hatte, wurde er auch damit beauftragt, das Verhalten des Volkes Gottes in dieser Zeit des Endes zu leiten, sogar den Zustand und das Schicksal der Nationen, aus denen es als Volk Gottes hervorgehen sollte rief aus ihrer Mitte. 

Darüber hinaus müssen wir noch einmal über bestimmte Verse im Buch Jeremia nachdenken, die uns vielleicht noch mehr davon überzeugen könnten, dass diese Verse tatsächlich an die Endzeitkirche der Laodizäer gerichtet waren. Und dann gleichzeitig die Fähigkeit unseres Geistes zu testen, als Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten zu verstehen.

Beginnen wir nun damit, die folgenden Verse darüber zu lesen, wie Jeremia in Jeremia 1: 5, 9 und 10 berufen und berufen wurde: 

1:5  Bevor ich dich im Bauch formte, kannte ich dich; Und bevor du aus dem Mutterleib hervorkamst, habe ich dich geheiligt und dich zum Propheten für die Nationen eingesetzt.

1:9 Da streckte der HERR seine Hand aus und berührte meinen Mund. Und der HERR sprach zu mir: Siehe, ich habe meine Worte in deinen Mund gelegt.

1:10 Siehe, ich habe dich heute über die Nationen und über die Königreiche gesetzt, um auszurotten und niederzureißen und zu vernichten und niederzureißen, um aufzubauen und zu pflanzen.

Aus den obigen Versen hätten wir verstehen können, dass der Herr Jeremia seine Worte anvertraut hatte, nicht nur um des Schicksals des Volkes von Juda und seines Königreichs willen, sondern auch „für die Nationen und für die Königreiche“, was bedeutet In den nächsten Kapiteln bis zum letzten des Buches Jeremia ging es nicht nur um die jüdische Nation – Jeremias eigene Nation –, sondern um das Schicksal der gesamten Nationen und ihrer Königreiche auf Erden. Die folgenden Worte: „ausrotten und niederreißen und zerstören und niederwerfen, bauen und pflanzen“ machen uns verständlich, dass diese Worte des Herrn durch Jeremia nicht von den Nationen sprechen und Königreiche vor seinem Leben, sondern nur die Nationen und Königreiche während und nach seinem Leben, sogar nach der Generation Jeremias bis zur Zeit des Endes. Warum wagen wir es, das zu sagen? Weil ………. :

1. Die Worte: „ausrotten und niederreißen und zerstören und niederwerfen, bauen und pflanzen“ werden alle im Präsens und im Futur dargestellt. 

2. It is impossible for Jeremiah to root out or to pull down a nation and a kingdom that existed  beforehand, such as Israel of the ten tribes, because the nation and their kingdom had been fallen before his presence and even before he was sent by the Lord. And the fall of the nation and kingdom of the ten tribes has nothing to do with the words of Jeremiah above.      

The words : “to root out, and to pull down and to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant”, also to show that the word of God from Jeremiah would cover a long period of time to exceed his own lifetime, which from the moment the Lord through prophet Jeremiah the first time issued a warning, and then avenged the sins of His unfaithful people, and at last to lift up again and to restore all things. These are the facts from the words “to build and to plant” in the sequence after the words “to root out, to pull down, and to destroy.” Certainly all these are the work of restoration from an overall broken down. And they would certainly be accomplished at the end of the plan of God. 

Again from Jeremiah 23 : 20 which was deliberated in the first part of this article we read : 

23:20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.

It is more clearly understood from the above verse, that those spoken by the Lord through Jeremiah would just be understood in this time of the end. It means that actually Jeremiah himself as the mouthpiece of the Lord was yet in the dark at the time, when he wrote the statement. In regard to new cases, therefore, they would have been just understood in the time of the end. Similar to the case was the one of prophet Daniel at the time when he finished his book. He was himself not as yet fully aware of all the plans and purposes of the Lord as those provided in his book. 

So as well as in the book of Daniel which was yet very limited understood by him of his own life experience, so was it with the book of Jeremiah which was partly applied to his own time and the rest to be a prophecy, which was yet to be understood later than his lifetime. 

The anger of the Lord mentioned in that verse would certainly be the same of its kind with that mentioned in Jeremiah 1 : 9, that is, “to root out, to pull down, to destroy and to throw down.”  

And since it is said, that “in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly,” it should then be understood that the anger of the Lord mentioned in that verse would just be poured out in the time of the end, just upon the Israelites and the Jews of this time of the end, who are no more to be Jeremiah’s people of the time when this prophecy was written.  

Furthermore in relation to the deliberation of Jeremiah 1 : 9 above, this could also be concluded that there are two occasions to come to pass : first when the Lord is to root out, to  pull down, to destroy and to throw down, and secondly after that, the Lord is to build and to plant. Both occasions are to take place in the time of the end.

Such perception is going along with what Jeremiah said in the following verse, when he said : 

Jeremiah 31 : 28 :

31:28 And it shall come to pass, [that] like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.

To whom will the Lord do : “to root out, to pull down, to destroy and to throw down” and  then “to build and to plant”, if not for the sake of His own people, the Israelites and the Jews, and not to other people, nor to the heathen. Just after the restoration of His own people will then come the turn of all the heathens to become people of the living God.  

If we study the whole book of Jeremiah with the above perception in mind, we would have understood, that there are two times “anger” of the Lord : the first anger is against the Jews  in the time of Jeremiah himself, and the second anger is upon both the nations :  the Israelites and the Jews in the time of the end : the one in the time of Jeremiah is a type,  and  the other which is to come to pass in this time of the end is to be the  antitype. 

As well as in the time of Jeremiah before the Lord to pour out His anger, He would have first sent Jeremiah as His messenger to turn the Jewish people from their backslidden, so is in this time of the end, the Lord should have done the same thing by sending us the end time Jeremiah of His own choice. And he would have interpreted the prophecy of Jeremiah that should have met its fulfillment in this time of the end, to convert us from our backslidden that we may be delivered from the coming anger of the Lord.

The same things could be understood from the following verses here below, such as among others  :

1. The people to whom addressed by the words written by Jeremiah at his later days :  

a. The people who were commissioned to proclaim the warning message of the Lord,  

Beside the commission to proclaim the message of warning was given to Jeremiah personally, the fact is that the commission applied more to other people, who are to be invincible, and then delivered as related in Jeremiah 1 : 17 – 19 : 

1:17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

1:18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

1:19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

From the same verse we know, that : 

1) In verse 19 is found the words : “….but they shall not prevail against thee ;  for I am with thee, to deliver thee.”  Here we see that as a prophet Jeremiah got God’s protection so that they who were against him could not prevail. However, the fact is that Jeremiah personally already died. Whereas from the word of the Lord that Jeremiah was yet “to build and to plant”, they were not as yet accomplished. At the time he died the Jews as a nation was still dominated by other people, even up to the first coming of Jesus the Jews were still under the domination of another nation. And at last after their status as the chosen people of God terminated in the year 34, they as Jewish nation were then destroyed completely in the year 70 by an  heathen nation.  This  means  that “t h e e“ mentioned in the verse 19 is not as yet fully fulfilled with only Jeremiah’s personality, who was to be delivered. That certainly the “t h e e“ mentioned, who was to be delivered by the Lord, would yet exist even up to the time of the end, which is the day wherein the Lord would have restored all things.

2) In verse 18 we read : “Behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.“

“I have made thee a defenced city ……..” ; this is also similar with verse 19, that could not be meant to Jeremiah personally. This is, therefore, more fittingly to meet its fulfillment with the people of God, who are at the end no more could be prevailed by their enemies.

b. Those targeted by the word of the Lord through prophet Jeremiah.

According to the introductory verses of the book of Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1 : 4 – 19 about “The call to Jeremiah to be sent”, among others in verse 14 we read, “Then the Lord said unto me, “Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.” And in verse 17 : “Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee : be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.” 

From the words of the verse are found “t h e  l a n d” and “t h e m“, both words show us clearly, that the nation to whom Jeremiah was sent is none other than his own people, the Jewish nation. Thus it is, that in the time of the end the warning message from the Lord should have first been given to His own people.  

c. The condition of the Israelite and the Jews at the time Jeremiah was sent to them with a message.

Jeremiah 3 : 12 :

3:12 Gehe und verkünde diese Worte gen Norden und sprich: Kehre zurück, du abtrünniges Israel, spricht der HERR! und ich werde meinen Zorn nicht auf dich fallen lassen; denn ich bin barmherzig, spricht der HERR, und ich werde meinen Zorn nicht ewig behalten.

Die Anweisung des Herrn an Jeremia im obigen Vers unterscheidet sich von der in Kapitel 1 gegebenen Anweisung an die Juden – die Nation aus zwei Stämmen des Propheten Jeremia selbst. Wir alle wissen, dass die Zeit, in der Jeremia lebte, die Zeit ist, in der die zehn israelitischen Stämme bereits 721 v. Chr. vom König der Assyrer aufgelöst wurden und sie dann in die Irre gingen und durch den Prozess der Assimilation in die ganze Welt zerstreut wurden . Seitdem hatten sie bis zum heutigen Tag alle ihre Rassenidentitäten verloren.

Somit wäre die israelitische Nation, zu der Jeremia gesandt wurde, eine andere Nation als die physische Israelit der Alten. Sie müssen zwangsläufig allein die geistigen Israeliten sein. Und da im gesamten Buch Jeremia nie eine Aussage gefunden werden konnte, die uns zeigen würde, dass er jemals in den Norden gegangen war, soll dies zeigen, dass es nach dem Leben des Propheten Jeremia noch weitere Jeremia geben wird, die beauftragt werden sollen mit einer Nachricht gehen. Und so verhält es sich auch mit den erwähnten „Israeliten“ , dass sie zwangsläufig die Israeliten sein würden, die nach dem Leben des Propheten Jeremia kommen würden. 

In diesem Vers hatte Jeremia erwähnt, dass die israelitische Nation eine abtrünnige Frau sei. Er hatte es seit Beginn von Vers 3 erwähnt, sogar die Juden in Jeremia 3,7 wurden als verräterische Schwester erwähnt. Die Frage ist nun: Sind nicht alle Kinder Jakobs männlich und zwölf an der Zahl? Dies ist sicherlich nicht im Sinne von Jeremia, dass die Israeliten und die Juden im eigentlichen Sinne Frauen sind. Deshalb wollen wir anhand von Jeremia 23,20, in dem es heißt: „…….. in den letzten Tagen werdet ihr es vollkommen bedenken“, verstehen, dass mehrere Teile des Buches Jeremia immer noch prophetisch sind und noch interpretiert werden müssen. Daher wäre die Erwähnung der „rückfälligen Frau“ ein Symbol und ein prophetisches Zeichen, das später interpretiert werden muss.

Von dem Befehl des Herrn an Jeremia an schienen beide Menschen (die Israeliten und die Juden) in diesem Vers abtrünnig und nicht treu gewesen zu sein. Es ist eine Tatsache, dass sie zuvor unvermeidlich ehrliche und treue Frauen gewesen wären. Gerade als Jeremia den Auftrag erhielt, sie zu sehen, wurden sie verändert und verließen ihren Gott. Dies ähnelt dem Vorbild zur Zeit Jeremias, als er zu der jüdischen Nation gesandt wurde, als diese sich in schwerer Übertretung befand, damit der Herr seinen Zorn über sie ausschüttete. Dies alles wird uns in den folgenden Versen gesagt: 

Jeremia 4:1-3:

4:1 Willst du umkehren, Israel, spricht der HERR, so kehre zu mir um. Und wenn du deine Greuel vor meinen Augen hinwegtun willst, dann sollst du sie nicht entfernen.

4:2  And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

4:3  For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

The verses as mentioned above, that the ten tribes Israelite at the time Jeremiah was commissioned to deliver the message, they had been already gone astray and scattered among all the nations. Thus this verse would have applied fully to the Israelite and the Jews of the time of the end.  

The words of Jeremiah which were presented in Jeremiah 23 : 24 were again emphasized by him in Jeremiah 30 : 24, that “The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of His heart : in the latter days ye shall consider it.” To show that the Lord through prophet Jeremiah warned us, who are now living in this time of the end, that we may soon understand to be made convinced, that now is the time to awake and understand, that just in this time of the end the Lord will truly pour out His wrath upon His people for their transgression, for their failing to make use of the call from the Lord that was presented us time and again through the message of Jeremiah, until He at last would have restored all things, and to have healed all those, who have understood and have made use all opportunities presented in  the call by Jeremiah in the Book chapter 30.

After having deliberated those verses above we may now choose to understand, that those mentioned by Jeremiah of the spiritual condition of both nations the Jews and the Israelite, even of God’s warning to pour out His wrath upon both the nations as those presented ever since the beginning of the book of Jeremiah, such as from chapter 2 and so on up to the last verses of the book, beside the transgression story of  the Jewish nation and the kings, which  are truly to be fulfilled in us as the Laodicean Church of God in this time of the end.

When we compare the Sabbath School Lessons of the fourth quarter of 2015, which tended to conclude that those warnings and threatens from God were addressed specifically to only the Jewish nation in the time of prophet Jeremiah, then the question may arise : Are they all  fully in accord with the context in the mind of Jeremiah ? And after digging out the whole story of transgressions of the Jewish nation and their kings, during the life time of Jeremiah the prophet, and then to compare with our own daily life, what does make us to understand the will of God toward us of His great plan when He said :  “…….. in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly ?“

Is it not true, that those that should be investigated more deeply, are that portion of the prophecies of the book of Jeremiah, which were actually addressed to us, and to be fulfilled in this time of the end ? The prophecies of the book of Jeremiah apply for us, and to be understood just in this time of the end.  Is it not clear enough, that due to the fact that God is to pour out His wrath upon our Laodicean Church, that this prophecy of Jeremiah which predicted the fate of Israel and the Jews of this time of the end, should be made our priority of investigation, that due preparation on our part should be made as early as possible ?

But how could you see from Sabbath to Sabbath, specifically through your Sabbath School lessons quarterly of this year of 2015 ?  Are all the warnings predicted in that prophecy of Jeremiah having been interpreted fully right and true ? Or are there yet several more verses very much decisive for our salvation in the future, are still deliberately kept in mystery by the leaders ?  

It is now time for every one of us to wake up to the realization that our condition at this time is actually the same as those mentioned by prophet Jeremiah in his book, when he said : 

Jeremiah 30:12-15 :

30:12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.

30:13  There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

30:14  All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.

30:15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? Thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

May all those deliberated above be observed, that when the time comes and all the warnings given us by prophet Jeremiah meet their fulfillment in the near future, we should no more need to be crying  and be of deep remorse, and then say :

“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved !” —  Jeremiah 8:20.

T h e  S u m m a r i e s

The very important things from the book of Jeremiah that need the attention of our Laodicean Church of Seventh day Adventists, specifically at this time when the prophecy is now beginning to meet its fulfillment, is among other things :

1. The writings of prophet Jeremiah are the prophetic words, to meet their fulfillment in this time of the end. They are actually of very great benefit for the Laodicean Church of SDA. 

2. The spiritual condition of the Church at the time this prophecy meets its fulfillment, is  said prophetically “backslidden” for the nation of the Israelite and  “treacherous” for the Jewish nation ; extremely different from those taught up to now in the Churches by the leadership of the Organization and their ministers of the gospel.

3. Since the spiritual condition of the Laodicean Church is “backslidden and treacherous”, and since she keeps on to oppose the call from the Lord to repent, He would pour out His wrath upon the Church unless she repent from opposing the merciful call.    

4. Beforehand there should have been a message first delivered to them to plead and warn them of their transgression. So as well as in the past, a message of  warning to make the Jews aware of their transgression, had been addressed to them by prophet Jeremiah on behalf of God, then now since Jeremiah had died long before the time of the end, then the statement, “…….. in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly“, must unavoidably be transferred to somebody else, who is the antitypical Jeremiah in the time of the end, who is to be mocked and derided similar to what Jeremiah had suffered in the past. He should have been accused as a rebel and trouble maker in the Laodicean Church.

5. Thus is the messenger of God then developed to be more than only one Jeremiah in this time of the end to come up with the same message of warning.

6. And since Jeremiah of Old as a  messenger of the Lord had his origin with the Jewish nation,  so is the antitypical Jeremiah in the time of the end, must unavoidably come from within the Laodicean Church of SDA, and not from any other Church outside. 

7. Those  culprits who had misled the Jews in the past to turn them away from the Lord  and His will, were none other than those from within their own nation ; even the leaders of the Jewish nation themselves. Thus it is now, as well as those presented in the prophecy of Jeremiah, to be fulfilled in this time of the end, then those who caused the people backslidden and be no more faithful in the Laodicean Church today, will be none other than the leadership of the Laodicean Church itself, who are now blowing their trumpet with uncertain sound : “PEACE, PEACE, AND PROSPEROUS IN THE LORD, NO MORE CALAMITIES TO BE POURED UPON US, FOR GOD IS TOO MERCIFULL ON HIS OWN CREATURES !”

C o n c l u s i o n

Every member of the Laodicean Church of God should have unavoidably see for himself, that   actually the whole prophecies of the  prophet  Jeremiah were n e v e r  b e f o r e successfully interpreted in our midst. And even those deliberated in the Sabbath School Lessons of the fourth quarter of the year 2015 were honestly very misleading. If only the Leadership of the Laodicean Church of SDA would be willing to be convinced, that every prophecy that came through the writings of the Old Testament prophets under the inspiration of the Lord God, should have been interpreted also by the prophets under the same Spirit and of God’s own choice. And they must come from among those prophets prophesied in Amos 3 : 7. Then all their interpretations must first be accommodated in the SPIRIT OF PROPHECY of Revelation 19 : 10, to be the rules of implementation of the basic Law of the Ten Commandments. 

Allerdings aus der Tatsache, dass sie auf dem Gebiet mittlerweile völlig anders sind. Aus diesem Grund wurden wir schon lange im Voraus durch die Prophezeiung des Propheten Sacharja in seinem Buch Sacharja 4,6 wie folgt gewarnt: „Dies ist das Wort des Herrn an Serubbabel, der sagt: nicht durch Macht, noch durch Macht, sondern.“ DURCH MEINEN GEIST.“ – Sacharja 4:6. Das heißt, nicht durch die Kapazität der Geistlichen und ihre Predigten von den Kanzeln in den Kirchen, noch durch die Macht der Organisation der Generalkonferenz der STA durch ihre jedes Jahr vierteljährlich herausgegebenen Sabbatschullektionen, sondern allein durch den GEIST GOTTES konnten alle geheimen Dinge der biblischen Prophezeiungen und der Gleichnisse Jesu vollständig in den GEIST DER PROPHEZEIUNG der Offenbarung 19:10 interpretiert werden. Und nur so werden alle Regeln der Umsetzung des Grundgesetzes von Die Zehn Gebote könnten uns jemals zur Verfügung gestellt werden. 

Denken wir immer daran, dass niemand von uns auf der ganzen Welt jemals in der Lage sein könnte, GOTT zu gehorchen, indem er sein Gesetz der Zehn Gebote in die Praxis umsetzt, ohne von diesen Regeln zur Umsetzung des Grundgesetzes im GEIST DER PROPHEZEIUNG Gebrauch zu machen Religion. Kurz gesagt, niemand könnte jemals seinen Schöpfer auf die richtige Weise verehren, gemäß dem Verfahren, das uns das Gesetz Gottes vorsieht. Zu diesem Zweck sagte der Prophet Jeremia:  

„So sprach der Herr: Verflucht sei der Mann, der auf den Menschen vertraut und seinen Arm zu Fleisch macht und dessen Herz vom Herrn abweicht.“ — Jeremia 17:5.