The Jeremiah Prophets & the Fate of America
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In “The Jeremiah Prophets & the Fate of America,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about Bible prophecy, prayer, divine judgment. Drawing especially from Isaiah 60, Malachi 4, Daniel 1, Jeremiah 23, the teaching emphasizes that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him.
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Odle focuses on prayer while working through Isaiah 60, Malachi 4, Daniel 1. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Jeremiah 23. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that revival begins with repentance, renewed hunger for God, and practical obedience among His people. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Romans 1, Jeremiah 26. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Jeremiah 26, Jeremiah 32, Jeremiah 32:2. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that repentance involves turning from known sin and bringing conduct into agreement with God’s word. The practical emphasis is to respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Jeremiah 32, 2 Kings 9:17, Peter 3:3-4. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Revelation 13. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that a durable Christian life must be built on Christ, sound doctrine, and obedient response to Scripture. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on the beast system while working through Revelation 13, Revelation 17, Revelation 6. The message argues that Revelation’s beast imagery is connected with coercion, worship, and end-time deception. It connects this with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on divine judgment while working through Psalm 91, Isaiah 26:9, 1 Peter 4. The message argues that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
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Lord, that's what we pray this uh Lord, that's what we pray this morning that your glory would fall God in churches across America that are seeking you, that are hungry for you, that are willing to stand up for the truth of your word and discern the times and the seasons that we're living in and preach the true gospel. Lord, I pray today for every church, big and small. Lord, if they're going to stand up for the truth, they're going to preach the gospel of Jesus. They're going to preach repentance and faith and obedience. They're going to preach that Jesus is coming soon and we're headed into dark days and they're going to preach the truth of what's in the word of God. Lord, I ask you for your anointing and your glory and your power and your fire to fall upon those pastors and those brothers and sisters. Lord, just anoint them God, to be a light and that their light would get brighter and brighter as it gets darker and darker. Father, we pray that today in Jesus' name. Well, I can tell you this this morning. Just Just remain standing for a second. I can tell you this. The presence of the Lord is here. He's speaking to your heart this morning already through worship time. And I think that was a good song there for this morning because I don't want anyone to think that I'm not believing that God is going to move powerfully in these last days. Because he's going to move. Um Just bow your head a minute. Let's pray. Let's worship him for a minute. Lord, we worship you, Father. We praise your name. Truly, you are the great king. The true God. True and righteous are your judgments, Lord. Your word is true, Lord, from Genesis to Revelation. You're Your wrath that's coming is justified. The Lord, you promised in Isaiah 60 that as it got darker and darker, as the gross darkness came upon the world that your light and your glory would arise upon your people. Father, we believe that. Help us to break free from loving the world and anything that's in it. The lust, the pride the lust of the eyes, the pride of life. Lord, help us break free from all that. And truly become people who hunger and thirst for righteousness, that hunger and thirst for your presence, that hunger and thirst for your word, for truth. Even if it's if it's even even if your
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truth, Lord, is unsettling to our emotions. We must hunger for the truth. Father, we worship you. We exalt you. We magnify you. We know we're living in as Paul said, perilous times. The Lord, we just pray that today that you will give us strength to be a light to be strong in the midst of it all. And that as Isaiah 60 said, many people will come to our light to the brightness of our rising. We believe that, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. You may be seated this morning. Uh hallelujah. Somebody say glory to God. I have had a crazy week. Did you? Well, I just want to share with the you don't mind. Yeah, go ahead. Uh I was I was just praying and fasting yesterday to see where we are in time and the Lord gave me Malachi 4. He spoke to me about the 4. I don't really I don't really know the Old Testament that well. Mhm. But I looked at it and it was the the day of the Lord that was at hand. Yeah. And it was like he just spoke like Malachi 4, you know. I didn't know what it was I don't know really the Old Testament that well. Mhm. But it was it spoke to my heart that word and that time is short. And I'm not trying to scare people, but No. it's what it's what he gave me after praying and fasting yesterday. That and Daniel 1, too. So. I'll say Daniel 1. See, that's interesting. Uh for those of you listening, we welcome those listening by BlogTalkRadio this morning. Uh our brother Andy here was praying and fasting yesterday and said the Lord just spoke to him real strongly and gave him Malachi chapter 4. And Malachi chapter 4 is about the day of the Lord is at hand. The day of the Lord's wrath, the day the Lord judges the proud and brings down the proud. Um and yeah, it's a powerful chapter. And I'm glad you shared that beforehand because of course Andy has no idea what I was going to be preaching on today and I had no idea what I was going to be preaching on today until right before I left the house today. Um but uh the day of the Lord and the day of the Lord's wrath, the day of the Lord's judgment, the day of the Lord's uh chastisement of America is about to begin. And uh it's going to be rather shocking. Um and uh one of the ways I know this is it just keeps being stirred in me. And you know, as Andy said, I'm not
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trying to scare anybody, but it's just what the word of the Lord is what the what the Lord said. Well, that's that's just the way it is, folks. And this is something that we've got to get down inside of us is that um you know, as I've said many times, there's a bad fear and there's a good fear. A good fear drives you away from evil, away from sin, away from worldliness, and drives you to Jesus and drives you to seek after God and to become more holy and more righteous and more obedient and more diligent in your in your walk with God. A bad fear will cause you to not do things God wants you to do or to live in torment and all those other things, but the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It's that simple. There is Think about that. There is no wisdom in you if you don't fear God. As a matter of fact, the Bible says that over and over that that he he said, you know, I know that the transgressors are just foolish because they don't There's no fear of God in their heart. There's no fear of God in their eyes. Um because God's word is is it's always Everything he said it's always come to pass and it always will. Um my message today, I was just going to call it very simply the Jeremiah prophets and the fate of America. Um all week long and even before I've just constantly I've had this stirring that um the day is drawing closer and closer. Now, the reason I bring this up about the prophets, the Jeremiah prophets, is because Jeremiah is a book that's always been very close to my heart because it is the book that God used when he called me to the ministry. When his initial calling to the ministry, I had Jeremiah chapter 1 open. I was young man, I was 19 years old. And I'm reading Jeremiah chapter 1. And all I can tell you is that the presence of Jesus came in the room so strong that I could hardly move. The glory of God was so strong, I could hardly move. I didn't see him that time in vision form. This was in December of 1987. I had seen him in a vision in October of 1987, and he spoke to me about the last days and that we he didn't have much time left to spare. Think about that. In an open vision, I saw Jesus standing at the right hand of the glory of God. I saw heaven open, the light of God shining down. I won't say everything he said, but one of the things he said to me that day was was uh "Waste no time. There's little time left to spare."
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And that was in October of 1987. 2 months later, I'm praying and fasting, seeking God for his will for my life. And I'm reading Jeremiah chapter 1 and the presence of God comes in the room so strong, beyond words. And I'm reading that and he says to Jeremiah, you know, "I made you a prophet to the nations." And Jeremiah's going, "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute. I'm just a young I'm just a young person. I can't do this." And the Lord said, "No." He said, "I ordained you. I sanctified you to be a prophet when you were before you even in your mother's womb." And he told me, he said, "You'll go, you'll prophesy to the nations of the world." He said, "They will fight against you." He said, "But I'll be your defense." Amen. And God made that passage just it was alive to me. It's always been alive to me. And then the Lord spoke to me later as I began to read Jeremiah and study Jeremiah and the I began to God began to tell me, he's like, "You're going to you're going to see that your ministry and the call on your life is going to be very similar and it's going to be kind of patterned like the prophet Jeremiah." Now, many of you don't know, but the prophet Jeremiah was called as a young man, obviously, I just shared that. But the word of the Lord was that Babylon would come from the north, Nebuchadnezzar, and that God would judge his people, the nation of Israel and Jerusalem, that he would judge the nation severely with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence through the king of Babylon. And that they would be scattered to the nations and they would be taken captive. And that 70 years would be accomplished in their bondage in Babylon. The temple would be destroyed, all the artifacts of the temple would be taken by Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon. Many would be killed. But there would be a remnant in Babylon that would survive. And there would be a remnant even left in Jerusalem, even left in the land of Israel that would survive. Now, this is a word a prophecy to a young man named Jeremiah who didn't want to give this word. But, the Lord began to speak to him as he grew up and began to speak to him and say, "Go stand in the temple and say these words. Amend your ways. Do away with your adultery, your idolatry.
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