America – Led Astray – By the Witless Counsel of Your Wise Men!

The Voice of Jeremiah’s rebuke and prophecy: America, what utter fools are your political leaders, officials, spiritual shepherds, and wise men! The counsel of the wisest counselors of your “king” has become witless—they give him and the people stupid advice! How do they dare tell you that they are the successors to the world’s past scholars and wise men? Their best counsel to the people of America is stupid and wrong. Yet in their arrogance they still boast of their wisdom! 

“King” of America, people of America, where are those clever advisers of yours? Let them tell you, if they are so wise, what the LORD Almighty plans, what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies is going to do to America. The leaders of America—those who are supposed to be the cornerstones of the nation—are  deluded, confused fools. They are supposed to lead the nation, but they have misled it—they have led the people astray.

 The LORD has mingled a spirit of perverseness, error, and confusion within America and made all your clever advisers give baffling advice. He has sent a spirit of foolishness on them, so all their suggestions are wrong. As a result, America, you do everything wrong and stagger like a drunk slipping on his own vomit.

This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The princes of America are complete fools; the advice of your “king’s” wisest advisers has become stupid. How can you men say to your “king,” “I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”? Well then, where are your wise men? Please let them tell you, and let them understand what the LORD of hosts has purposed against America. The princes of America have acted foolishly, the princes of America are deluded; those who are the cornerstone of her people have led America astray. The LORD has mixed within her a spirit of distortion; they have led America astray in all that it does, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.[1] 

The Voice of Jeremiah’s plea: America, you are an evil, unrepentant nation the judgment hand of Almighty God is coming down upon you! Repent before it is too late—from your “king,” to your “leaders,” to the least of you! Repent and turn back to God. Who knows, God may withdraw His burning anger and relent concerning the calamity which He is about to bring down upon you![2]

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[1] Cf. Isaiah 19:11-14; [2] Cf. Jonah 3:9-10