Jeremiah 3, 2025, Runaway Children

Jeremiah 3, 2025 — Return, O Backsliding Children
Description
This piece is drawn from the words of Jeremiah 3, re-told in today’s voice.
The message is as urgent now as it was then.
In 1948, Judah returned to the land — but the other 11 tribes of Yisrael have not yet come home. They were scattered long ago, carried away into Assyria around 722 BC, and from there spread north into the nations of Eastern Europe and to the four corners of the earth. The regathering is not complete. Ezekiel 37 and Isaiah 11 promise a day when both Judah and Ephraim, the whole house of Yisrael, will be made one again under one Shepherd. That day is still ahead.
But Jeremiah’s cry is not about politics or religion. It is about direction.
We cannot return through systems, denominations, or human traditions. The call is personal: turn directly to Yahuah, your Maker and Husband.
Moses said it plainly in Deuteronomy 30: this is not too hard for you.
It is not far away in heaven or across the sea.
You don’t need anyone else to bring it down or explain it.
The Word is very near to you — in your mouth and in your heart — so that you can do it.
When we return to Yahuah with all our heart, obeying His voice, then He will gather us from wherever we have been scattered — even from the ends of the earth.
Jeremiah 3 still speaks today:
We’ve sold ourselves to greed, to idols dressed as pleasure, to systems built on bribery and lies. Yet the voice of Yahuah still says:
“Return, O backsliding children. For I am married to you.”
Yahusha repeated the same call: the prodigal son, who wasted everything, was still welcomed home (Luke 15). And He declared, “I am the good Shepherd… there will be one flock and one Shepherd” (John 10). The promise of Jeremiah is not broken. The invitation still stands.