“What has Straw to do with Grain?” (Jeremiah 23:25-32)

(Jeremiah 23:28) “Let the prophet who has a dream tell his dream, but let the one who has My Word speak it faithfully. For what has straw to do with grain” declares the LORD?

God always warns His spiritually backslidden unrepentant people before He sends judgement. This is consistent with both the Old and the New Testament.

Jeremiah was God’s prophet in the very last days of the Kingdom of Judah. As the Babylonians were on the move towards the Southern Kingdom of Judah the people of Judah and Jerusalem were listening to the many false prophets who were themselves ‘prophesying’ falsely and into dreams and visions big time!

The people of Jerusalem and Judah by and large were swallowing their ‘prophecies’ with exuberant anticipation, having ‘itching ears’ to hear what they wanted to hear, and not what they needed to hear.

The false prophets were like the expelling of wind with no substance and the Word of God was not in them, so their words carried no wait and would bring about their own downfall (Jeremiah 5:13).

Not only the prophets, but the priests who should have had spiritual oversight, were Lording it over the people with heavy shepherding and God’s people loved it this way. To the LORD this was a horrible and shocking thing to be happening to His people

However, when “the axe was being laid to the root” of the kingdom of Judah because of their unrepentant attitude concerning their sins, the end would be a disaster and the corrupt prophets and priests would not escape (Jeremiah 5:30-31).

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