Directional Pots

Jeremiah 1:13 has the charming visage of a boiling pot being poured out from the North.  May God be praised!  Not exactly the most straight-forward of passages, unless of course all you ever watch is the Food Network, and if that's the case, I doubt there's any danger that you're reading this...

The point is, God was telling Jeremiah precisely where the destruction of his nation was going to originate.  So!?  Well, his leaders didn't listen.  "Good" King Josiah ignored this counsel and decided to step in the way of Pharaoh Neco as he marched north (from Egypt...in the SOUTH) in an attempt to donkey slap the Assyrians.  Neco shot several arrow-shaped holes in Josiah because of this.

So!?!?  Don't go preparing for wars that God hasn't told you to fight; you won't like the outcome.  Most of us have this "axis complex" in which we believe we are the center of the earth's rotation (forgetting that God has existed before, during, and outside of time...and that it's all about Him!).  And so we have a tendency to believe that our area of life & influence is always what God is talking about.  "Well of course the end-times will include America and of course the Anti-Christ will be American..."  Really?  How come?  Where's THAT said in Scripture!?

Stretch The Kingdom.  America is great, but it's not the Millennial Kingdom, so don't start trying to defend it as such.  God will have His way!  Now, when the pot starts to pour from the north...