Have you noticed? People are awakening. They are finally arising and pushing back. The tyrannical plans and actions of the globalist elites have become too much. The common man is protesting in the streets. Doctors and nurses are saying no to the inhumane treatment of those coming to hospitals for care and receiving death. Parents are standing up for their children as they come against the Marxist propaganda foisted on schools by corrupt school boards heavily influenced by teachers unions. Voters are realizing that blue means rules, regulations, lockdowns, and destruction, whereas red means liberty and a means toward reclaiming prosperity. In short, after years of accepting creeping oppression in the name of progressivism, this nation and the world are pushing back. Hope is growing that life as we once knew it can be restored. Those who have proclaimed that this movement to recoup what was lost will win in the end are seemingly being proven right. Surely, as they point out, the Great Awakening is beginning. It appears that the few of us with the downer message that the Bible doesn’t depict such a victory are on the outer fringes and incorrect in what we’re saying.
When the Chaldeans, i.e. the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar, were besieging Jerusalem, Jeremiah brought a disturbing message. He kept saying that Yahweh had declared an end to the city. The only way out was surrender. If the people did that then God would be merciful upon them. What the prophet said in Jeremiah 38:2 didn’t go over well:
“Thus says the Lord: He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out to the Chaldeans shall live. He shall have his life as a prize of war, and live.”
Jeremiah repeated this news to King Zedekiah and to the various authorities in the city. Now, Zedekiah was a very weak individual. He continually wanted to hear what the prophet said, and perhaps do good, but he simply couldn’t bring himself to stand on the Word of God. It resulted in harsh treatment at various times for Jeremiah as the messenger bringing the bad news. At one point Jeremiah 38:4 reports the response of the men in the king’s court:
Then the officials said to the king, “Let this man be put to death, for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm.”
Their argument was that Jeremiah’s proclamations tended to demoralize everyone. It didn’t matter that he was speaking the Word of the Lord. They didn’t want to hear it because it didn’t agree with what they wanted. In the natural, that’s easy to understand. Who in his right mind would simply capitulate to the enemy without putting up a fight? To be told that they had to surrender and go into captivity for seventy years surely wasn’t an attractive proposition. As such, to keep up the hopes of the people, they had to shut Jeremiah down. The king in his weakness told the officials that they could do whatever they wanted with the prophet. Jeremiah 38:6 tells us their next actions:
So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
This was a terrible time for Jeremiah. Lamentations 3:55-57 gives us his response:
“I called on your name, O Lord,
from the depths of the pit;
you heard my plea, ‘Do not close
your ear to my cry for help!’
You came near when I called on you;
you said, ‘Do not fear!’
Sure enough, an Ethiopian eunuch rescued him. (What is encouraging in this account is how God rewarded this man as noted in Jeremiah 39:15-18.)
Once more Zedekiah summoned Jeremiah, who again warned and counseled him. If he would only listen to God and surrender the city, the Lord would keep him safe. However, Jeremiah 38:15 shows that the prophet had no confidence in the king when he said: “… if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.” Indeed he didn’t, as seen in Zedekiah’s response in Jeremiah 38:19: … “I am afraid…” The king feared men more than God.
And so, the city fell and all that Jeremiah had proclaimed came to pass against Zedekiah, the officials, and the people who resisted the Word of the Lord.
Jeremiah’s message of doom went against the narrative of the day that people wanted to see happen. Despite the officials of Jerusalem and their resistance to the Babylonian army being the right thing to do in their eyes, their attitude and actions were opposed to God’s will.
Anyone who has read some of my Bible commentaries knows I’ve been saying that because of the times we’re in, i.e. the very latter days before the return of Jesus, Scripture declares there will be no Great Awakening. It’s hard to reconcile, because in the flesh we want to achieve victory over the wicked elites of the Deep State pushing their agenda, which can only result in their complete control over the populace of the world. We look at how so many people are growing backbones and standing against the evil of mandates, lockdowns, and vaccine passports. Such resistance is contagious. Perhaps the Bible is wrong and the little man will succeed. There is strength and power in numbers. There are more of us than there are of them.
When I, and the few others of like mind to my position, speak of what God has declared will occur, no one wants to believe it. Of course, we want to put an end to these awful things happening around us. Of course, with this arising and awakening, it’s almost impossible to realize that Bible prophecy will be fulfilled exactly as stated in God’s Word. I imagine that in earlier times, some of us with this contrarian position would be thrown into pits of miry clay, just like Jeremiah so that our message wouldn’t discourage others.
Regardless, I have to say it again. We all want to see the best for this nation. However, I believe it’s too late. We’ve gone past the tipping point. Perhaps God is allowing some small victories as a means to somehow continue shaking things up so that people will turn to Him. I have no idea, but I can guess that in the wake of current victories as we rage against the machine, that the gears will grind and the elites will clamp down with even greater hardships and/or more deadly afflictions
God’s Word will prevail, as difficult as it is to stomach at times. My advice is as it’s always been: We need to do all we can to seek God’s face and draw nearer to Him. We never give up what we’re doing, but we remain alert and watchful because someday soon Jesus will appear in the clouds to take us home.