By: Leon

Leon — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:52:21 +0000

THE JEREMIAH PROPHECY OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH.
In Jeremiah 18, it is prophesied that northern Israel is as wet clay that will be destroyed and remolded by God’s hands into the shape that He desires. Northern Israel was deported by Assyria in 640 BC and later migrated into western and northern Europe through the Caucasus mountains. The prophecy concerning Judah was partially fulfilled by Babylon commencing 597 BC, then finally by the Roman army in 70 AD.
Let us now study the actual prophecy concerning Judah.
The southern kingdom of Judah is compared to a dry finished earthen jar that will be broken into pieces in Gehenna (which was literally performed by Jeremiah) and will never be repaired, fixed, or rebuilt.
Jeremiah is told to get an earthen bottle from the potter, a finished work of hard dried clay. Then he is to take the older citizens and the older priests of the city of Jerusalem and go to the valley of the son of Hinnom or Gehenna. Upon arriving he is to give a discourse on the nation’s collective sins of idolatry, murders, and heathenism to the listeners. The end of the discourse states that the valley of Hinnom will one day be called the valley of slaughter.
Jeremiah 19:1-6 KJV Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; (2) And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee, (3) And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. (4) Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents; (5) They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind: (6) Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
Verses 7-11 contain a list of curses and severe tribulations. The phrase, “to fall by the sword” takes place during both the Babylonian and Roman invasions. The flesh eating curse also occurred during these same two invasions when the bodies of the dead were dumped in Gehenna.
Jeremiah 19:7-11 KJV And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. (8) And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. (9) And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them. (10) Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, (11) And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet (an Old Testament town very near Gehenna), till there be no place to bury.
In verse 10, Jeremiah is told to break the finished clay bottle. Later, in verse 11, God states that He will break the people of Jerusalem as the bottle was broken by Jeremiah, to the condition that it could never be repaired or made whole again. Verse 8 is the final fulfillment of the prophecy.

By: Leon

Leon — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:51:35 +0000

THE CONDEMNATION OF GEHENNA
"Therefore YOU (the chief priests and the Pharisees) are witnesses against yourselves that YOU are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of YOUR father's guilt. Serpents, brood of vipers! How can YOU escape the condemnation of Gehenna*? Therefore, indeed, I send YOU prophets, wise men, and scribes:some of them YOU will kill and crucify, and some of them YOU will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, that on YOU may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom YOU murdered between the temple and the altar.
Assuredly, I say to YOU, ALL THESE THINGS will come upon THIS GENERATION.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather YOUR children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but YOU wee not willing! See! YOUR HOUSE is being left to YOU desolate". (Matt. 23:31-38)
* Gehenna, from the Hebrew Gehinnom, a deep, narrow valley just outside and to the south of ancient Jerusalem, known in the Hebrew Bible as the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, where idolatry was practised and propitiatory sacrifices of children were made to Moloch and where later offal and refuse were slowly burned (II Kings 23:10; Jeremiah 19:6)

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