The Voice of Jeremiah’s rebuke: Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and multitudes of their imitators—America’s “wise” men and “truth detectors”—“espousers of truth”—spew on and on that “the truth will set you free”—but their truth and wisdom does not set you free! Their truth and wisdom does not release you from the bondage of your sin, and it does not open your spiritually blind eyes! Thus it does not bring light into your dark world!
So, America, what about these wise men that you have put your trust and faith in, these philosophers, these scholars, these brilliant debaters of this world’s great affairs? They lead you astray to your own destruction! They lead you to the U.S. Constitution rather than to the Bible! They lead you to Conservatism rather than to Christianity! They lead you to George Washington and Ronald Reagan rather than to God! America, soon, the LORD will make them all look foolish and show their wisdom to be useless nonsense”![1]
The Voice of Jeremiah’s plea: O America, you are lost in your search for truth and wise answers to your plight, because you search in all the wrong places! Limbaugh, Beck, O’Reilly, Hannity, Levin, and others like them—the philosophers, the debaters, and experts of this age—bring nothing to you but human wisdom! They are wise in their own estimation;[2] their truth is made up of nothing but the brilliant ideas of man! And God will destroy their brilliant ideas for they are nothing but foolishness to Him![3]
Thus says the LORD: For it is written, I will baffle and render useless and destroy the learning of the learned, and the philosophy of the philosophers, and the cleverness of the clever, and the discernment of the discerning. I will frustrate and nullify and discard the understanding of the experts and scholars, and bring them to nothing! I, the Sovereign Lord have spoken!”[4]
The Voice of Jeremiah’s rebuke: America, your “espousers of truth” spew on and on that you are a great nation, but you are not a great nation! You believe that you belong to God, but you have abandoned Him! You belong to the devil![5]
Thus says the LORD: “America, woe to you because you call evil good and good evil, because you put darkness for light and light for darkness, because you put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to you because you are wise in your own eyes and prudent and shrewd in your own sight! I, the Sovereign Lord have spoken![6]
The Voice of Jeremiah’s plea: O America, overwhelming chaos is coming to your nation! [7] No matter where I look, the LORD shows me ruin and devastation! Even the stable mountains will shake! Only God’s mercy can keep you from complete destruction! [8] But the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, specializes in hopeless cases. He breaks the power of sin and He sets the prisoner free from the bondage of his sin. [9] Repent, mourn your sin, turn back to God, and be saved before it is too late!
[1] 1 Cor. 1:20; [2] Rom. 12:16c; [3] 1 Cor. 1:19; [4] 1 Cor. 1:19; [5] 1 John 3:8; [6] Isa. 5:20-23; [7] Gen.1:2; [8] Jer. 4:27; see 5:10, 18; 30:11; 46:28; [9] John 8:34-36; cf. Ps. 102:20

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