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The Danger of Taking Back Repentance

The Prophet Jeremiah had many moments to speak to a people who had many, many issues ... to put it mildly.

One of these concerns a covenant that Zedekiah and the people had made concerning their Hebrew slaves that they’d been keeping and never letting them go in the proper season as they had been commanded to in Scripture.

But afterwards when they thought that they’d relief from the army of Babylon the leaders took back their former slaves, and took back their show of repentance, and so the Lord sent Jeremiah to them again, saying:

“This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. I said, ‘Every seventh year each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you six years, you must let them go free.’ Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me or pay attention to me. Recently you repented and did what is right in my sight: Each of you proclaimed freedom to your own people. You even made a covenant before me in the house that bears my Name. But now you have turned around and profaned my name; each of you has taken back the male and female slaves you had set free to go where they wished. You have forced them to become your slaves again.

“Therefore this is what the Lord says: You have not obeyed me; you have not proclaimed freedom to your own people. So I now proclaim ‘freedom’ for you, declares the Lord—‘freedom’ to fall by the sword, plague and famine. I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth. Those who have violated my covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two and then walked between its pieces. The leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests and all the people of the land who walked between the pieces of the calf, I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who want to kill them. Their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.

“I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials into the hands of their enemies who want to kill them, to the army of the king of Babylon, which has withdrawn from you. I am going to give the order, declares the Lord, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, take it and burn it down. And I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there.”

This is what came to pass.

Make no mistake about it, like Jonah the leaders of the people understood that the Lord is gracious, forgiving ... and their actions show that they understood this principal and also that they abused it.

So why am I bringing this up?

Because our nation too is now playing around with repentance even as the Left for which there is no far Left too extreme for them mobilizes to basically prevent said repentance: abortion.

Can a bloody nation not expect to receive blood in turn from the Lord if their leaders, or at least the evil minded among them who rush to defend the murder of innocents, will not repent but continue in their lust to kill every child they can proverbially lay their hand on, if those leaders prevail?

Jeremiah proclaimed the “freedom” the leaders of Jerusalem had purchased with their treacherous behavior. Not just them but the people that they led too, they suffered as well.

Can some pro-abortion Left Wing judge’s hand be all that separates us from the same?

Repenting must be carried through.

If we, having started, do not press on to end abortion then the Lord may end the U.S.

It is not people who never knew about the Lord or his Gospel who are in danger of being turned over to reprobate minds per Romans 1:18-32 ... and we are seemingly seeing just that — something I would have thought of as an historical rarity just a decade ago exploding around us in our so-called culture. With so many acting just like you would expect reprobate people to act I’ve found myself wondering if this isn’t Romans 1:18-32 going on then WHAT will it look like when it finally is?