CONSTANT STRIFE BRINGS WOES

 CONSTANT STRIFE BRINGS WOES
My Dear Precious Child,
    The nation of Judah through their king Manassah had initiated so many wars against nations and he had sinned against his own country by sowing strife seeds within the nation, and so woes came upon the country in the form of death, famine, periods of being captives by their enemies, and scourges from their battles existed for years.  There were so many deaths that the dogs carried the bodies outside the gates to be eaten not only by the dogs but also  the birds.  (Jeremiah 15:1-4)  Their king had turned away from Me and My guidance or he would never have led his country into so many wars.
   As a result of the king's many sins, mainly the many wars and strife, I spoke through Jeremiah and asked the people of the city of Jerusalem who would pity it and who would console it, who would stop and ask about its welfare? (II Kings 21:19-22) It was in such bad shape that no one would help them.  I told them that the reason for all of the devastation was because the king and the people had disowned Me and turned their back upon me.  Because they had abandoned Me, I was unable to help them because they had formed a union with the devil and his demons, which resulted in curses, called woes as they were referred to by Jeremiah.  (Jeremiah 15:5-7)  
   I reached out My hand to the king and the people but they did not return to Me from their evil ways.  As a result, the widows in the nation were more numerous than the sands of the sea because so many men had been killed in battle.  A widow of seven sons despaired and felt disgraced so she swooned and gasped for her old life. The survivors inherited the sword, too.
    In the midst of the devastation from wars, Jeremiah became angry with Me because of the curses that came upon the king and the people of Jerusalem and he even professed that woes had come upon the nation because of the sins of the king.  The king had sown strife and contention in all of the land as well as caused wars. (Jeremiah 15:10)  Jeremiah was accurate in the reason for the woes that came upon the nation, but he was inaccurate in blaming Me for the devastation. The king and the people had chosen other gods who had no power to help them.
   When I finally got Jeremiah's attention and he repented I gave him some strict instructions to help him and other people to avoid the curses and stay healthy without inheriting the devil's woes. (Jeremiah 15:19-21) I told him not to marry anyone in Jerusalem, for the people to avoid the bodies from war so as to avoid disease, for them not to go into a house where people mourned, not to go into a house where people were celebrating with eating and drinking when danger of disease was real, not to eat with the bereaved to offer sympathy, all of those because of the danger of catching a disease, which was part of their woes for having left Me for other gods and their inheriting the woes from hell.(Jeremiah 16:1-9)  
    I told Jeremiah that when the people asked why he gave them such strict instructions, asking what crime they had committed, that he was to answer them that it was because their fathers had forsaken Me, submitting themselves to other gods which they served and worshiped. (Jeremiah 16:10-12)  They were walking in a hard and evil heart instead of their listening to Me.  However, I told Jeremiah that I would seek them from the lands to which they were to be banished, that I would bring them back to their land and give them a chance again to keep their covenant through Moses with Me.  
     Again you see that the sins of the kings and the people always result in woes coming into the lives of the people.  No matter whom they profess to serve, heads of countries, kings, presidents, legislators, scribes, anyone who has the duty of being the leader of a country, if he or she in any way engages in strife, wars, sows contention among the people, if he oppresses the poor, robs from the widows and orphans, etc., it gives the devil permission to flood his own inheritance for them into their countries which is devastation   His inheritance for them is that they will receive destruction in the form of blights, scourges, floods, fires, hurricanes, wars, diseases, tornadoes, etc., whatever is appropriate to their climate.
    I spoke to people through prophets during My old covenant with Moses. Jeremiah was a prophet during the time of many kings.  I alerted the people to every kind of the devil's destruction that would come into their lives as a result of their turning away from Me and worshiping other gods because those other gods are earthly forms of the devil.  Their repenting clears the barrier between heaven and earth and allows Me to enter into their lives and minister to them again, saving them and restoring them.
    That was the history between Me and the nation of Israel through whom Jesus Christ came.  I told them through Jesus that I had longed to take them under my wings like a hen does her children, but they would not remain with Me permanently. (Luke 13:31-35)  They kept making false gods which turned them over to the devil's woes.   
   The history of My relationship with Israel and Judah was finished with those words through Jesus Christ.  Any Jew who turns to Me through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ will be empowered with My Holy Spirit to become My true children.  Jesus said that the house of Israel was left desolate and not until they individually turned to Me would the people become saved and redeemed, the same as with the Gentile pagans.  (Galatians 3:26-29)  
   My covenant with Abraham was with his future descendant Jesus Christ, not with an entire nation. (Galatians 3:15-18) When My new and last covenant was made between My Holy Spirit and you, it was between the two of us, you and Me, that I would live in you and be your God, according to Jeremiah, Isaiah and My Holy Spirit. It is always between Me and a person. In My new covenant the person provides a body in the earth through whom I can do My works of saving the world, just like I did through Jesus Christ. (Isaiah 59:21; Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 8:7-13)  In Christ the old covenant passed away and everything became new.  (II Corinthians 5:17)
   Learn from the woes that were prophesied even under the old covenant.  They are good teachings on how the devil causes you to have woes in your life on earth.  Jesus Christ redeemed you from those curses, but if you leave Me and make idols of money, a political party, if you are blindly patriotic to your earthly country instead of to My kingdom of God, then you are in the devil's territory and you will inherit his woes in your life.  Discern the spirits operating in the heads of your country.  If they are the same ones operating in the Jews of the old covenant and you have bound yourself to them, then you have bound yourself to false prophets and you will inherit the woes of  the Pharisees and scribes that Jesus chided for being clean on the outside but on the inside were ravening wolves. (Matthew 7:15) Under that setting you are going to experience some devastation in your life on earth instead of your having the heaven on earth that I promised.
    Truth is truth.  It never changes.
    Your Father of Truth and Warnings