The God of Jeremiah 18: Not the god of the Public Churches
- Feb 26
- 1 min read
Jeremiah 18 is a fascinating chapter that teaches things about God which oppose popular Reformed and Arminian theology.
The first thing one sees in this chapter is that God is in total, active control of His creation. This includes all thoughts and actions of human beings. God makes a nation into something evil and ruins it if He wants to. And idolatrous reprobates are fully responsible for all of their wicked thoughts and abominations, even though it is God Himself who controlled their every thought and action. Who is anyone to question God? God can create people to be lost Arminian and High Calvinistic religionists, have them commit idolatry for their entire lives, harden them in their sin and fatten them for the kill in Hell, and punish them eternally, thus glorifying His power and wrath, if He so chooses to. Unconditional reprobation belongs to God.
And how about when Jeremiah changed his mind about praying for the salvation of such people, and then began to pray imprecatory prayers, that they would suffer and die? Was Jeremiah saying something that was sinful? Absolutely not. And Jeremiah is not at all the only one in the Scripture to pray for the temporal and eternal destruction of his enemies. Jeremiah actually prayed that the sins of his enemies would not be atoned for! He was praying that they would not be loved by God, that their sins would not be forgiven by God, and that these idolatrous enemies would go to Hell!
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