Questions Adonai asked – Idols

August 8, 2020

1 Kings 19:13 “13 When Eliyahu heard it, he covered his face with his cloak, stepped out and stood at the entrance to the cave. Then a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Eliyahu?” CJB

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Jeremiah 1:11 “11 The word of Adonai came to me, asking, “Yirmeyahu, what do you see?” CJB

Answer: Jeremiah 1:14 “14 Then Adonai said to me, “From the north calamity will boil over onto everyone living in the land, 15 because I will summon all the families in the kingdoms of the north,” says Adonai, “and they will come and sit, each one, on his throne at the entrance to the gates of Yerushalayim, opposite its walls, all the way around, and opposite all the cities of Y’hudah. 16 I will pronounce my judgments against them for all their wickedness in abandoning me, offering incense to other gods and worshipping what their own hands made.” CJB

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Question: Jeremiah 2:5-6 “..What did your ancestors find wrong with me to make them go so far away from me, to make them go after nothings and become themselves nothings?” CJB

Answer: They didn’t ask, ‘Where is Adonai, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the desert, through a land of wastes and ravines, through a land of drought and death-dark shadows, through a land where no one travels and where no one ever lived?’” CJB

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Question: Jeremiah 2:11 “has a nation ever exchanged its gods (and theirs are not gods at all!)?” CJB

Answer: Jeremiah 2:11 “Yet my people have exchanged their Glory for something without value.” 13 ““For my people have committed two evils: they have abandoned me, the fountain of living water, and dug themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water!” CJB

Question: Jeremiah 2:28 “Where are your gods that you made for yourselves?” CJB

Answer: 28: Let them rouse themselves, if they can save you when trouble comes.” CJB

What questions is Yeshua is asking you today?