If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your forefathers forever and ever. But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. (Jer.7:5-8)
Finally, on three separate occasions, God told Jeremiah to stop praying for them because He wasn’t going to listen anymore. (Jer. 7:16, 11:14, 14:11) They had gone too far. Only a few years after a national revival they had quickly slid back into their idolatry and for God, it was the last straw.
Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people. Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague.”
But I said, “Ah, Sovereign LORD, the prophets keep telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine. Indeed, I will give you lasting peace in this place.’ “
Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries (worthless divination), and the delusions of their own minds. (Jer. 14:11-14)
This seems to be where we are as a nation Today.
Amen to your prayer, Lord you have allowed some of us to see what is hidden and the world calls it a lie because wicked people rule the nations. Lord we pray for Godly leadership at the helm of our country and that those who would sabotage to be removed. In Jesus Name Amen.