Jeremiah was very thought provoking to me as I read it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "O.Addison Gethers" <[email protected]> To: "Deaf-blind inspirational life groups" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:23 PM Subject: {dbilg} Fw: Daily Bible Reading For Tuesday August 18
> > > 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: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:35 AM > Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Tuesday August 18 > > >> Day 230 >> >> Jeremiah 22-24 (The Message) >> >> Jeremiah 22 >> Walking Out on the Covenant of God >> 1-3 God's orders: "Go to the royal palace and deliver this Message. Say, >> 'Listen to what God says, >> O King of Judah, you who sit on David's throne-you and your officials and >> all the people who go in >> and out of these palace gates. This is God's Message: Attend to matters >> of >> justice. Set things right >> between people. Rescue victims from their exploiters. Don't take >> advantage >> of the homeless, the >> orphans, the widows. Stop the murdering! >> 4-5"'If you obey these commands, then kings who follow in the line of >> David will continue to go in >> and out of these palace gates mounted on horses and riding in >> chariots-they and their officials and >> the citizens of Judah. But if you don't obey these commands, then I >> swear-God's Decree!-this palace >> will end up a heap of rubble.'" >> >> 6-7This is God's verdict on Judah's royal palace: >> >> "I number you among my favorite places- >> like the lovely hills of Gilead, >> like the soaring peaks of Lebanon. >> Yet I swear I'll turn you into a wasteland, >> as empty as a ghost town. >> I'll hire a demolition crew, >> well-equipped with sledgehammers and wrecking bars, >> Pound the country to a pulp >> and burn it all up. >> >> 8-9"Travelers from all over will come through here and say to one >> another, >> 'Why would God do such a >> thing to this wonderful city?' They'll be told, 'Because they walked out >> on the covenant of their >> God, took up with other gods and worshiped them.'" >> >> Building a Fine House but Destroying Lives >> 10Don't weep over dead King Josiah. >> Don't waste your tears. >> Weep for his exiled son: >> He's gone for good. >> He'll never see home again. >> 11-12For this is God's Word on Shallum son of Josiah, who succeeded his >> father as king of Judah: >> "He's gone from here, gone for good. He'll die in the place they've taken >> him to. He'll never see >> home again." >> >> 13-17"Doom to him who builds palaces but bullies people, >> who makes a fine house but destroys lives, >> Who cheats his workers >> and won't pay them for their work, >> Who says, 'I'll build me an elaborate mansion >> with spacious rooms and fancy windows. >> I'll bring in rare and expensive woods >> and the latest in interior decor.' >> So, that makes you a king- >> living in a fancy palace? >> Your father got along just fine, didn't he? >> He did what was right and treated people fairly, >> And things went well with him. >> He stuck up for the down-and-out, >> And things went well for Judah. >> Isn't this what it means to know me?" >> God's Decree! >> "But you're blind and brainless. >> All you think about is yourself, >> Taking advantage of the weak, >> bulldozing your way, bullying victims." >> >> 18-19This is God's epitaph on Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: >> "Doom to this man! >> Nobody will shed tears over him, >> 'Poor, poor brother!' >> Nobody will shed tears over him, >> 'Poor, poor master!' >> They'll give him a donkey's funeral, >> drag him out of the city and dump him. >> >> You've Made a Total Mess of Your Life >> 20-23"People of Jerusalem, climb a Lebanon peak and weep, >> climb a Bashan mountain and wail, >> Climb the Abarim ridge and cry- >> you've made a total mess of your life. >> I spoke to you when everything was going your way. >> You said, 'I'm not interested.' >> You've been that way as long as I've known you, >> never listened to a thing I said. >> All your leaders will be blown away, >> all your friends end up in exile, >> And you'll find yourself in the gutter, >> disgraced by your evil life. >> You big-city people thought you were so important, >> thought you were 'king of the mountain'! >> You're soon going to be doubled up in pain, >> pain worse than the pangs of childbirth. >> 24-26"As sure as I am the living God"-God's Decree-"even if you, >> Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king >> of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, I'd pull you off and >> give >> you to those who are out >> to kill you, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the Chaldeans, and >> then >> throw you, both you and >> your mother, into a foreign country, far from your place of birth. There >> you'll both die. >> >> 27"You'll be homesick, desperately homesick, but you'll never get home >> again." >> >> 28-30Is Jehoiachin a leaky bucket, >> a rusted-out pail good for nothing? >> Why else would he be thrown away, he and his children, >> thrown away to a foreign place? >> O land, land, land, >> listen to God's Message! >> This is God's verdict: >> "Write this man off as if he were childless, >> a man who will never amount to anything. >> Nothing will ever come of his life. >> He's the end of the line, the last of the kings." >> >> Jeremiah 23 >> An Authentic David-Branch >> 1-4 "Doom to the shepherd-leaders who butcher and scatter my sheep!" >> God's >> Decree. "So here is what >> I, God, Israel's God, say to the shepherd-leaders who misled my people: >> 'You've scattered my sheep. >> You've driven them off. You haven't kept your eye on them. Well, let me >> tell you, I'm keeping my eye >> on you, keeping track of your criminal behavior. I'll take over and >> gather >> what's left of my sheep, >> gather them in from all the lands where I've driven them. I'll bring them >> back where they belong, >> and they'll recover and flourish. I'll set shepherd-leaders over them who >> will take good care of >> them. They won't live in fear or panic anymore. All the lost sheep >> rounded >> up!' God's Decree." >> 5-6"Time's coming"-God's Decree- >> "when I'll establish a truly righteous David-Branch, >> A ruler who knows how to rule justly. >> He'll make sure of justice and keep people united. >> In his time Judah will be secure again >> and Israel will live in safety. >> This is the name they'll give him: >> 'God-Who-Puts-Everything-Right.' >> >> 7-8"So watch for this. The time's coming"-God's Decree-"when no one will >> say, 'As sure as God >> lives, the God who brought the Israelites out of Egypt,' but, 'As sure as >> God lives, the God who >> brought the descendants of Israel back from the north country and from >> the >> other countries where >> he'd driven them, so that they can live on their own good earth.'" >> >> The "Everything Will Turn Out Fine" Sermon >> 9My head is reeling, >> my limbs are limp, >> I'm staggering like a drunk, >> seeing double from too much wine- >> And all because of God, >> because of his holy words. >> 10-12Now for what God says regarding the lying prophets: >> >> "Can you believe it? A country teeming with adulterers! >> faithless, promiscuous idolater-adulterers! >> They're a curse on the land. >> The land's a wasteland. >> Their unfaithfulness >> is turning the country into a cesspool, >> Prophets and priests devoted to desecration. >> They have nothing to do with me as their God. >> My very own Temple, mind you- >> mud-spattered with their crimes." God's Decree. >> "But they won't get by with it. >> They'll find themselves on a slippery slope, >> Careening into the darkness, >> somersaulting into the pitch-black dark. >> I'll make them pay for their crimes. >> It will be the Year of Doom." God's Decree. >> >> 13-14"Over in Samaria I saw prophets >> acting like silly fools-shocking! >> They preached using that no-god Baal for a text, >> messing with the minds of my people. >> And the Jerusalem prophets are even worse-horrible!- >> sex-driven, living a lie, >> Subsidizing a culture of wickedness, >> and never giving it a second thought. >> They're as bad as those wretches in old Sodom, >> the degenerates of old Gomorrah." >> >> 15So here's the Message to the prophets from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: >> >> "I'll cook them a supper of maggoty meat >> with after-dinner drinks of strychnine. >> The Jerusalem prophets are behind all this. >> They're the cause of the godlessness polluting this country." >> >> 16-17A Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: >> >> "Don't listen to the sermons of the prophets. >> It's all hot air. Lies, lies, and more lies. >> They make it all up. >> Not a word they speak comes from me. >> They preach their 'Everything Will Turn Out Fine' sermon >> to congregations with no taste for God, >> Their 'Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen to You' sermon >> to people who are set in their own ways. >> >> 18-20"Have any of these prophets bothered to meet with me, the true God? >> bothered to take in what I have to say? >> listened to and then lived out my Word? >> Look out! God's hurricane will be let loose- >> my hurricane blast, >> Spinning the heads of the wicked like tops! >> God's raging anger won't let up >> Until I've made a clean sweep, >> completing the job I began. >> When the job's done, >> you'll see that it's been well done. >> >> Quit the "God Told Me This" Kind of Talk >> 21-22"I never sent these prophets, >> but they ran anyway. >> I never spoke to them, >> but they preached away. >> If they'd have bothered to sit down and meet with me, >> they'd have preached my Message to my people. >> They'd have gotten them back on the right track, >> gotten them out of their evil ruts. >> 23-24"Am I not a God near at hand"-God's Decree- >> "and not a God far off? >> Can anyone hide out in a corner >> where I can't see him?" >> God's Decree. >> "Am I not present everywhere, >> whether seen or unseen?" >> God's Decree. >> >> 25-27"I know what they're saying, all these prophets who preach lies >> using >> me as their text, saying >> 'I had this dream! I had this dream!' How long do I have to put up with >> this? Do these prophets give >> two cents about me as they preach their lies and spew out their grandiose >> delusions? They swap >> dreams with one another, feed on each other's delusive dreams, trying to >> distract my people from me >> just as their ancestors were distracted by the no-god Baal. >> >> 28-29"You prophets who do nothing but dream- >> go ahead and tell your silly dreams. >> But you prophets who have a message from me- >> tell it truly and faithfully. >> What does straw have in common with wheat? >> Nothing else is like God's Decree. >> Isn't my Message like fire?" God's Decree. >> "Isn't it like a sledgehammer busting a rock? >> >> 30-31"I've had it with the 'prophets' who get all their sermons >> secondhand >> from each other. Yes, >> I've had it with them. They make up stuff and then pretend it's a real >> sermon. >> >> 32"Oh yes, I've had it with the prophets who preach the lies they dream >> up, spreading them all over >> the country, ruining the lives of my people with their cheap and reckless >> lies. >> >> "I never sent these prophets, never authorized a single one of them. >> They do nothing for this >> people-nothing!" God's Decree. >> >> 33"And anyone, including prophets and priests, who asks, 'What's God got >> to say about all this, >> what's troubling him?' tell him, 'You, you're the trouble, and I'm >> getting >> rid of you.'" God's >> Decree. >> >> 34"And if anyone, including prophets and priests, goes around saying >> glibly 'God's Message! God's >> Message!' I'll punish him and his family. >> >> 35-36"Instead of claiming to know what God says, ask questions of one >> another, such as 'How do we >> understand God in this?' But don't go around pretending to know it all, >> saying 'God told me >> this...God told me that....' I don't want to hear it anymore. Only the >> person I authorize speaks for >> me. Otherwise, my Message gets twisted, the Message of the living >> God-of-the-Angel-Armies. >> >> 37-38"You can ask the prophets, 'How did God answer you? What did he tell >> you?' But don't pretend >> that you know all the answers yourselves and talk like you know it all. >> I'm telling you: Quit the >> 'God told me this...God told me that...' kind of talk. >> >> 39-40"Are you paying attention? You'd better, because I'm about to take >> you in hand and throw you >> to the ground, you and this entire city that I gave to your ancestors. >> I've had it with the lot of >> you. You're never going to live this down. You're going down in history >> as >> a disgrace." >> >> Jeremiah 24 >> Two Baskets of Figs >> 1-2 God showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the Temple of >> God. This was after >> Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king >> of Judah from Jerusalem >> into exile in Babylon, along with the leaders of Judah, the craftsmen, >> and >> the skilled laborers. In >> one basket the figs were of the finest quality, ripe and ready to eat. In >> the other basket the figs >> were rotten, so rotten they couldn't be eaten. >> 3God said to me, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" >> >> "Figs," I said. "Excellent figs of the finest quality, and also rotten >> figs, so rotten they can't >> be eaten." >> >> 4-6Then God told me, "This is the Message from the God of Israel: The >> exiles from here that I've >> sent off to the land of the Babylonians are like the good figs, and I'll >> make sure they get good >> treatment. I'll keep my eye on them so that their lives are good, and >> I'll >> bring them back to this >> land. I'll build them up, not tear them down; I'll plant them, not uproot >> them. >> >> 7"And I'll give them a heart to know me, God. They'll be my people and >> I'll be their God, for >> they'll have returned to me with all their hearts. >> >> 8-10"But like the rotten figs, so rotten they can't be eaten, is Zedekiah >> king of Judah. Rotten >> figs-that's how I'll treat him and his leaders, along with the survivors >> here and those down in >> Egypt. I'll make them something that the whole world will look on as >> disgusting-repugnant outcasts, >> their names used as curse words wherever in the world I drive them. And >> I'll make sure they die like >> flies-from war, starvation, disease, whatever-until the land I once gave >> to them and their ancestors >> is completely rid of them." >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 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. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dbilg?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
