Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I wouldn’t help them. Away with them! Get them out of my sight! (Jeremiah 15:1))God loved his people Israel. He did everything he could do to help them, to bless them, to give them beauty in their lives of service to him. But they kept on turning from him.
It started almost immediately when they left the land of Egypt. They were hardly out of danger from the Egyptians when they started complaining. And no matter how great the miracles were that God performed in their behalf, they still complained the entire time. There wasn’t enough to drink, there wasn’t enough to eat, they were hot, they didn’t like the direction Moses was taking them. They even rebelled a couple of times and tried to take over. They began to try to do things their own way.
God put up with it and put up with it. He would punish them for their rebellion and then restore them to prominence among the nations around them. He did it again and again until he finally got tired of them.
The northern ten tribes, called Israel, were the first to go. They had degenerated until God was sick of them and he sent the Assyrians to conquer them and take them off to captivity.
The southern two tribes, called Judah, he put up with for a few more years, but sooner or later a king came along that engaged in infant and human sacrifice and God said enough. He sent the Babylonian Empire to conquer them. The nation as a nation was gone.
When they finally limped back into their former homeland, they were a shadow of their former self: an occupied nation, governed by a ruler a thousand miles away and they never got their former glory back. In fact, God finally got so tired of them that he sent the Romans to finally remove all vestiges of the temple from Jerusalem. The nation of Israel today is not a nation of God, but rather an ethnic gathering. They are a secular nation.
He loved Israel and probably still does. But like a man with a wife who sleeps with everybody in town but him, he finally got sick of them. And what he told Jeremiah above tore Jeremiah up. He said, it doesn’t matter if two of the greatest people I have ever known intercede, I am done with them. I am through.
Yes, he gave them one more chance after this so that he could bring the Messiah through them, Jesus, but they turned again on him and refused to follow him. Where before they worshipped idols, now they worshipped the law. They could never make it to worshiping God himself, loving God himself. They were like the wife who took the love letters her husband had written her while he was in the army to bed every night while he slept on the couch.
You finally get fed up with something and you are through it.
I hope and pray that God is not through with America.
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