Jeremiah 5

Jeremiah 5:30:
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this, but what will you do at the end of it?  

It was a day of lawlessness. The people had ignored God and His prophets as He graciously offered them peace and prosperity {everyone sitting beneath his vine and fig tree) for their love and obedience. But they knew better! Or so they thought. And things seemed to be going quite well—for the time.
They loved it like that: a society in which each one could set his own boundaries with no Word from God saying yes or no to them. It was a time much like ours—don’t you think?
But God will put up with rebellion for just so long. Then He will act. The devastation that would come is prophesied throughout the book of Jeremiah-it might be well for you to read it! And when it came over one million people were killed or exiled as the Babylonians descended upon them. For 70 years those who were exiled would not see their homeland, and in the meanwhile, they would be subject to a foreign nation, no longer free to do their own thing!  --Jay Adams
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