Jer 3:1-5 They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you play the harlot with many lovers; yet come back to Me, says Jehovah! (2) Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see. Where have you not been lain with? By the highways you have sat for them, like the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have defiled the land with your fornications and with your wickedness. (3) Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot’s forehead, you refused to be ashamed. (4) Will you not from this time cry to Me, My Father, You are the guide of my youth? (5) Will He keep His anger forever? Will He keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done all the evil things you could do.
John 16:8-11 8 And when He (the Holy Spirit) is come , He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me (Yeshua/Jesus); 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; of judgment, because the ruler of this world (Satan) is judged.
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Shalom to all who stand in the gap for the sake of the gospel and the name of the Lord — Yeshua the Messiah/Jesus Christ!
As the prayers for rain are called for and go upward, I’ve been wondering what will we do when the two witnesses are here and given authority and power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy. (Rev 11:6) All of us want needed rain, not only for ourselves, but also for plants and animals, and for seedtime and harvest. Yet there come times when God withholds His mercies and blessings in order to work repentance in His own people first of all — believers in Yeshua first of all, and also His chosen first-born nation, Israel.