O. Addison Gethers
e-mail address [email protected] [email protected] twitter URL http//:twitter.com/OAddisonGethers Messenger contact window live/msn messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS rs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 10:30 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Monday August 17 > Day 229 > > Jeremiah 19-21 (The Message) > > Jeremiah 19 > Smashing the Clay Pot > 1-2 God said to me, "Go, buy a clay pot. Then get a few leaders from the > people and a few of the > leading priests and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom, just outside the > Potsherd Gate, and preach > there what I tell you. > 3-5"Say, 'Listen to God's Word, you kings of Judah and people of > Jerusalem! This is the Message > from God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel. I'm about to bring doom > crashing down on this > place. Oh, and will ears ever ring! Doom-because they've walked off and > left me, and made this place > strange by worshiping strange gods, gods never heard of by them, their > parents, or the old kings of > Judah. Doom-because they have massacred innocent people. Doom-because > they've built altars to that > no-god Baal, and burned their own children alive in the fire as offerings > to Baal, an atrocity I > never ordered, never so much as hinted at! > > 6-9"'And so it's payday, and soon'-God's Decree!-'this place will no > longer be known as Topheth or > Valley of Ben-hinnom, but Massacre Meadows. I'm canceling all the plans > Judah and Jerusalem had for > this place, and I'll have them killed by their enemies. I'll stack their > dead bodies to be eaten by > carrion crows and wild dogs. I'll turn this city into such a museum of > atrocities that anyone coming > near will be shocked speechless by the savage brutality. The people will > turn into cannibals. > Dehumanized by the pressure of the enemy siege, they'll eat their own > children! Yes, they'll eat one > another, family and friends alike.' > > 10-13"Say all this, and then smash the pot in front of the men who have > come with you. Then say, > 'This is what God-of-the-Angel-Armies says: I'll smash this people and > this city like a man who > smashes a clay pot into so many pieces it can never be put together again. > They'll bury bodies here > in Topheth until there's no more room. And the whole city will become a > Topheth. The city will be > turned by people and kings alike into a center for worshiping the star > gods and goddesses, turned > into an open grave, the whole city an open grave, stinking like a sewer, > like Topheth.'" > > 14-15Then Jeremiah left Topheth, where God had sent him to preach the > sermon, and took his stand in > the court of God's Temple and said to the people, "This is the Message > from God-of-the-Angel-Armies > to you: 'Warning! Danger! I'm bringing down on this city and all the > surrounding towns the doom that > I have pronounced. They're set in their ways and won't budge. They refuse > to do a thing I say.'" > > Jeremiah 20 > Life's Been Nothing but Trouble and Tears > 1-5 The priest Pashur son of Immer was the senior priest in God's Temple. > He heard Jeremiah preach > this sermon. He whipped Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks at > the Upper Benjamin Gate of > God's Temple. The next day Pashur came and let him go. Jeremiah told him, > "God has a new name for > you: not Pashur but Danger-Everywhere, because God says, 'You're a danger > to yourself and everyone > around you. All your friends are going to get killed in battle while you > stand there and watch. > What's more, I'm turning all of Judah over to the king of Babylon to do > whatever he likes with > them-haul them off into exile, kill them at whim. Everything worth > anything in this city, property > and possessions along with everything in the royal treasury-I'm handing it > all over to the enemy. > They'll rummage through it and take what they want back to Babylon. > 6"'And you, Pashur, you and everyone in your family will be taken prisoner > into exile-that's right, > exile in Babylon. You'll die and be buried there, you and all your cronies > to whom you preached your > lies.'" > > 7-10You pushed me into this, God, and I let you do it. > You were too much for me. > And now I'm a public joke. > They all poke fun at me. > Every time I open my mouth > I'm shouting, "Murder!" or "Rape!" > And all I get for my God-warnings > are insults and contempt. > But if I say, "Forget it! > No more God-Messages from me!" > The words are fire in my belly, > a burning in my bones. > I'm worn out trying to hold it in. > I can't do it any longer! > Then I hear whispering behind my back: > "There goes old 'Danger-Everywhere.' Shut him up! Report him!" > Old friends watch, hoping I'll fall flat on my face: > "One misstep and we'll have him. We'll get rid of him for good!" > > 11But God, a most fierce warrior, is at my side. > Those who are after me will be sent sprawling- > Slapstick buffoons falling all over themselves, > a spectacle of humiliation no one will ever forget. > > 12Oh, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, no one fools you. > You see through everyone, everything. > I want to see you pay them back for what they've done. > I rest my case with you. > > 13Sing to God! All praise to God! > He saves the weak from the grip of the wicked. > > 14-18Curse the day > I was born! > The day my mother bore me- > a curse on it, I say! > And curse the man who delivered > the news to my father: > "You've got a new baby-a boy baby!" > (How happy it made him.) > Let that birth notice be blacked out, > deleted from the records, > And the man who brought it haunted to his death > with the bad news he brought. > He should have killed me before I was born, > with that womb as my tomb, > My mother pregnant for the rest of her life > with a baby dead in her womb. > Why, oh why, did I ever leave that womb? > Life's been nothing but trouble and tears, > and what's coming is more of the same. > > Jeremiah 21 > Start Each Day with a Sense of Justice > 1-2 God's Message to Jeremiah when King Zedekiah sent Pashur son of > Malkijah and the priest > Zephaniah son of Maaseiah to him with this request: "Nebuchadnezzar, king > of Babylon, has waged war > against us. Pray to God for us. Ask him for help. Maybe God will intervene > with one of his famous > miracles and make him leave." > 3-7But Jeremiah said, "Tell Zedekiah: 'This is the God of Israel's Message > to you: You can say > good-bye to your army, watch morale and weapons flushed down the drain. > I'm going to personally lead > the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans, against whom you're fighting so > hard, right into the city > itself. I'm joining their side and fighting against you, fighting all-out, > holding nothing back. And > in fierce anger. I'm prepared to wipe out the population of this city, > people and animals alike, in > a raging epidemic. And then I will personally deliver Zedekiah king of > Judah, his princes, and any > survivors left in the city who haven't died from disease, been killed, or > starved. I'll deliver them > to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon-yes, hand them over to their enemies, > who have come to kill them. > He'll kill them ruthlessly, showing no mercy.' > > 8-10"And then tell the people at large, 'God's Message to you is this: > Listen carefully. I'm giving > you a choice: life or death. Whoever stays in this city will die-either in > battle or by starvation > or disease. But whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who have > surrounded the city will > live. You'll lose everything-but not your life. I'm determined to see this > city destroyed. I'm that > angry with this place! God's Decree. I'm going to give it to the king of > Babylon, and he's going to > burn it to the ground.' > > 11-14"To the royal house of Judah, listen to God's Message! > House of David, listen-God's Message to you: > 'Start each day by dealing with justice. > Rescue victims from their exploiters. > Prevent fire-the fire of my anger- > for once it starts, it can't be put out. > Your evil regime > is fuel for my anger. > Don't you realize that I'm against you, > yes, against you. > You think you've got it made, > all snug and secure. > You say, "Who can possibly get to us? > Who can crash our party?" > Well, I can-and will! > I'll punish your evil regime. > I'll start a fire that will rage unchecked, > burn everything in sight to cinders.'" > > > > > > > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. 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