Jeremiah Chapter 50 KJV verses thirty - thirty two

"Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord. Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud saith the Lord God of Hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. And the most proud shall stumble and fall and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him".
Again we see this truth - "Pride goeth before desctruction and a haughty spirit before a fall"Pro:16:18. This time they will be destroyed with fire, not a flood 2 Pet:3:6-8. The proud will always stumble and fall, whether they are Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Buddhist or Muslim, they are all blinded by their pride and they will all fall into a pit (where is the lake of fire) and there none can raise them up. All who walk in pride will be brought low, just like the twin towers, I gurantee it. If God is against you and he says you will fall and none will raise you up, you are finished. The "fire" he kindles to "devour" will burn forever (Rev:20:14). Once you are in Hell, and consequently in the lake of fire, none can raise you up, no one can rescue you, ever.
Do not be as the rest of this generation, of which God says "they do always err in their hearts; and have not known my ways"(Heb:3:10). Do not let there be found in you "an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God"(Heb:3:12), not fleeing to him. While it is "Today, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts (Heb:3:15), "But with whom was he grieved forty years?" (Heb:3:17). Was it not WITH HIS OWN PEOPLE, the very ones he had delivered from Egypt, now carcasses fallen in the wilderness? In fact, most of those delivered from Egyptian bondage never made it to the promised land. Don't let pride blind you to the fact that though you've been mightily delivered from Egypt, you must continue on with him all the way to the New Jerusalem. It isn't those who start the race who get the reward, it's only those who finish the race. What good is it to get free of Egypt only to be taken captive to Babylon later on? What good is it to be set free from a lifestyle of sin only to submit to Satan's will in the form of the religous spirit later on?
Remember, the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it" (Heb:4:2). If you, dear reader, do not receive the word preached to you in this blog, if you do not receive it by faith, it will not profit you and you will remain in bondage, perhaps forever. Whatever state we enter Eternity in is the state we will be in forever. If we are apart from him, we will always be so. If we are one with him, we will always be so. Why do we as "christians" so nonchalantly read about God's severe response to all who walk in pride in the scriptures and somehow think we can get away with it ourselves? We are deceived. We are "wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked and KNOW IT NOT" (Rev:3:17). Are we really so arrogant that we think we can judge the Jews for their sins, all the while committing them ourselves? Do we really think we are exempt from the consequences they suffered? It's in fact much worse for us because his judgments on the jews were all in the natural, temporal realm, while for us it is in the spiritual, eternal realm. Read Romans 11 again, this time with a humble heart - "Be not high-minded but fear, for if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell ,severity; but toward thee, goodness. IF THOU CONTINUE IN HIS GOODNESS (not our own religious idea of what is good or evil but in HIS goodness); otherwise THOU ALSO SHALL BE CUT OFF".
All religion stems from pride. The only religion acceptable to God is "to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world" (James 1:27). Can you, O man of God, visit the spiritual orphans and widows in the body? Can you give them a home? Can you give them the Father's heart? If not, you are a hireling and not a true shepherd. For many are there who have no one with the Father's heart to care for them, to gather them in and disciple them to the place of maturity and purity God's destined them to walk in BUT A CHILD CANNOT MATURE PROPERLY WITHOUT PARENTS. God is longing for a mature and a pure Bride, without spot (not too young) or blemish (not too old). Can you lay your life down by keeping yourself unspotted from the world, from the ways of Babylon? Can you lay your life down for others, once you are free and healed, allowing God to use you to free and heal others along the road to eternity?