25:4-6
God had sent many servants, Jeremiah was just one. But the people ignored them all. The prophets told the people to turn from their evil ways and to repent. Then they could have stayed in the land forever. They were told not to follow other gods. But they ignored all these messengers, and all these warnings. If they had repented God would have forgiven them.
25:7
There are three charges against the people here: (i) they did not listen to God; (ii) they had aroused His anger with what their hands had made; (iii) they have brought harm upon themselves. First, if they had listened to God, had continued to worship Him, trust Him and obey Him, things would have gone well with them. Instead of doing this they had worshipped and trusted in things their hands had made, i.e they had trusted in idols. The result of this was to do themselves harm. In the second item we read that God was angry. Why was this? It was because instead of worshipping the living God who actually is able to save them, they had chosen to worship useless idols and to follow destructive ways. In the same way with western societies heading rapidly down LGBTQ routes we are rejecting God’s ways and choosing destructive paths instead.
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