“THE ANGER OF THE LORD!”

Jeremiah 23:16-20                                     (ESV)

“16 Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.

17 They say continually to those who despise the word of the LORD, 'IT SHALL BE WELL WITH YOU'; and to everyone who stubbornly FOLLOWS HIS OWN HEART, they say, 'No disaster shall come upon you.'"

18 For who among them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and to hear HIS WORD, or WHO HAS PAID ATTENTION TO HIS WORD and listened? 

19 Behold, the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked. 

20 THE ANGER OF THE LORD will not turn back until HE has executed and accomplished the intents of HIS heart. In the latter days you will understand it clearly.”

There are numerous GODLY leaders who espouse Scriptural rebuke of false prophets.  This is not intended for condemnation of those prophets, but to magnify “THE ANGER OF THE LORD” which has been promised by GOD ALMIGHTY to NOT be turned back against those who prophesy “visions of their own minds”!  When you hear very little about discernment and Judgement, chances are you listening to preach “IT SHALL BE WELL WITH YOU'”, or ‘IT SHALL BE WELL WITH YOU'?  

Now my life is not CLEAN enough to condemn others for their missing the mark.  But GOD’s WORD is doing the condemning here,and HE declares “THE ANGER OF THE LORD” will not turn back until HE has executed and accomplished the intents of HIS heart”!  We haven’t, and don’t, pay attention to what GOD’s WORD says about PAYING ATTENTION TO HIS WORD, or our lives would be tremendously CLEANER.  To have the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSES turn “THE ANGER OF THE LORD” unleashed upon someone is quite unimaginable for me.  HE has done that before, and it has never been a pretty sight!  

In Matthew 27:45, Mark 15:33, and Luke 23:44–45 Scripture records great earthquakes “And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the WHOLE LAND until the ninth hour.”  So basically the Sun refused to shine (an eclipse has been ruled out) and great tremors in the earth’s crust were noted.  Experiencing “THE ANGER OF THE LORD” should literally cause us all to tremble, not from fear for ourselves, but because people don’t understand what is coming.  

Don’t think that those who fall into the categories of false prophets are “know what they do”?  JESUS requested that HIS FATHER forgive them, for they knew NOT what they did (Luke 23:34).  We should LOVINGLY attempt to educate them on their ignorance, but only GOD can OPEN THEIR EYES to TRUTH!  And ON THAT DAY, “THE ANGER OF THE LORD” will not turn back until HE has executed and accomplished the intents of HIS heart!  That is HIS PROMISE!!!