For June 5, 2026
Sounding the Alarm by Greg Holmes, D.MIN – Director of Missions serving 17 churches
THE WORD ‘JEREMIAD’ comes from the assignment God gave Jeremiah as a prophet crying out to his nation regarding impending disaster. It means to make a long, loud, and passionate lament against the actions, in fact the heart that promotes the actions, that are bringing about destruction. He warns early in his prophetic calling, and he warns late. “Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them. The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they will not help them at all when disaster strikes.’” (Jer. 11:11-12) It is a warning of woes to come to Judah, the southern kingdom of Israel; these woes will arrive in their time, right on time, specifically because everyone, from king to servant, has descended to false worship and therefore failure to trust Yahweh in national affairs.