Jeremiah Chapter 50 KJV verse six and seven

For far too long "My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place". How succintly does this describe the Body of Christ today, or at least all those who claim to be a part of the Body. "To the Jew first, then also to the Greek" (Rom:1:16). Just as the Jews had (have) false shepherds who led them astray; so it is today with God's Second covenant people, the Church. The word "Church" means "called out ones". Called out of what? Babylon! The world, the world system and Babylon are one and the same. They are wandering from mountain to hill having forgotten their first love, their eternal resting place - Jesus. "Come to me all you that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest"Mt:11:28. Religion is a heavy yoke indeed, a burden none of us were meant to carry. God's "yoke is easy and my burden is light"Mt:11:30. But how can we remove the yoke of Religious christianity and put on the yoke of Jesus if we cannot discern between the two? Many cannot recognize Jesus today, the greatest lover their souls will ever know, for he would appear to them as a Jew, he would appear to them as an apostle or prophet, but they will not receive him as such. Their pastors have led them far astray, to the point where most people attend church so they can avoid God. If God's presence ever really shows up, they flee or tell God to. I have personally experienced this on a number of occasions. People don't want an encounter with God, they want to appear as if they do. False shepherds hate the presence of the Lord and would much rather carry on as if he is present when he is not. People want their guilty consciousness to feel better by attending a church and by letting every one see "look at me, I am a good person, I am Holy because I am here faithfully every sunday" when the night before they were beating their wife or drinking or who knows what else. Not that people that do those things shouldn't come to church if they are TRULY ENCOUNTERING GOD THERE but they aren't. If they were, they would be truly repenting and becoming like him, Holy and pure.
The sad result of being scattered, led astray and turned away from the path of Life God set them on is verse seven - "All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, we offend not because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice, even the Lord, the Hope of their fathers". Religion, which is Babylon disguised as Jerusalem, will always separate people and provide excuses for them to hate one another. This is the rotten fruit (Jer:24) that comes from being under Satan's dominion. Jesus alludes to this in Mathew 24 when he says them many will betray and hate each other. It's happening today. For example, many Irish, in the name of their God, their Church, have devoured each other, saying in their hearts "we offend not (God) because THEY HAVE SINNED against the Lord". This is the exact same voice the Muslims are hearing when they kill and hate in the name of their god, Allah. Men will always try to justify their hardened, religious hearts toward one another and the best justification they'll ever have is when Satan, posing as God, tells them he is pleased when they kill each other in the Name of Jesus. That's what makes the anti-christ's strategy more effective when he tells them to make peace with each other, people will really believe he is of God because that's God's line, isn't it? Make no mistake, religion kills, for religion is fulfilling Satan's mission on earth to steal, kill and destroy. While God will divide and separate us from all that is of Satan, from all that is impure and unholy, Religion will separate us from God, from all that is pure and Holy, while leading us to believe just the opposite. Jesus will always lead us to love and join with each other, that is, join with all who truly are a part of the Body. Just as Jesus first came to the lost sheep of Israel (to the Jew first), he is now come (in the form of the Holy Spirit) for the lost sheep of the Church. Many of the ones that have found them and devoured them are the "wolves in sheep's clothing" Paul wrote about. Sheep are so easily led astray and devoured - false shepherds and cults are full of them.