When Spiritual Leadership, and the People Do Not Practice the Word

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. As they were increased, so they sinned against Me: therefore will I change their …

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A Gap to Stand In

Probably not the most profound title.  Maybe not even a catchy one, but it is a title - "A Gap to Stand In".  So let us stand in the gap. "Her priests have violated My law, and have profaned Mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they …

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Sins of the Prophets, and the Priests

"For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, they have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. They cried unto them, Depart ye; it …

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The Dangerous Truth of Preaching

"Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die." Jeremiah 26:8 (KJV) Jeremiah was not the only prophet of Judah or …

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112611 O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah

"Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, 'Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.  For thus Amos saith, 'Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out …

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102111 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely

"Behold, the days come,' saith the LORD, 'that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.  In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and He shall execute judgment and righteousness …

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101411 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD

"Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.  For among My people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.   As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they …

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052611 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD

"And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, 'They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.' And he said, 'Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.'  And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all …

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031211 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

"Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took Him.  And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest’s, and smote off his ear.  Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for …

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030811 Get thee behind me, Satan…

"From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto His disciples, how that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.  Then Peter took Him, and began to rebuke Him, saying, 'Be it far from thee, …

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020111 …The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar…

"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 'Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.  And the priest shall put on …

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012411 …Ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people…

"And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, 'Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel.  Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto Myself.  Now …

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