31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
35 Thus says the Lord,
who gives the sun for light by day
and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
the Lord of hosts is his name:
36 “If this fixed order departs
from before me, declares the Lord,
then shall the offspring of Israel cease
from being a nation before me forever.”
37 Thus says the Lord:
“If the heavens above can be measured,
and the foundations of the earth below can be explored,
then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel
for all that they have done,
declares the Lord.”
38 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when the city shall be rebuilt for the Lord from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 39 And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah. 40 The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be sacred to the Lord. It shall not be plucked up or overthrown anymore forever.”
Jeremiah is not telling us not to learn and expand our understanding of God's creation. This is not about stopping exploration. This is about remembering who knows it all already. On does not need to ask their neighbor who God is, one needs to ask God who he declares himself to be. Likewise, one does not need to ask the creation where it comes from, we can inquire of the creator himself.
Some may think this to be silly, you can't ask God! But you can and just has he gave the answer to Jeremiah concerning the return of the people of Israel to the land of Israel. Jeremiah expresses that they will rebuild and dwell in the promised land again. Likewise, he talks about how God remembers the covenant he made, while the people deny the promises they have made.
Humanity no longer recognizes itself to be the bride of God. It does not even know what gender it wants to be. Humanity seems to spend all its time searching for problems with the answers we already know. God even tells us there are tons of things out there I have not given you the answer to, how about you explore some of those things.
Yeah I can tell you the answer to all our immorality, sin, death, disease, and environmental disasters. I can tell you Christ has died for the forgiveness of sins, he has risen to bring an end to death and as the first fruits of a new creation. But how about you still work on ways of helping creation which is suffering until Christ returns.
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