THE BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS.

THE WEEPING PROHPET.

Come with me to visit from the sorrow of Jeremiah over to the New Testament and listen to the woeful cry of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

“O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, You that killed the prophets and stoned those whom I sent you, how often would I have gathered together your children? Even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you refused my offer. Now your house is left desolate!”

This tearful wail from our Lord, the man of sorrows over the rebel city that soon would crucify him as their Messiah-King:

But six hundred years before then, those words were anticipated and outlined by the brave but broken-hearted prophet Jeremiah in the poetic form of the book of Lamentations.

Jeremiah suffered inwardly. His sympathetic heart was torn between his love for God, and the love and grief for his fellow-countrymen which made him Suffer with them.

“In all their afflictions he was afflicted.”

He felt with the people and equally felt with God.

Imagine with me what tragedy his eyes saw. It was horrific, traumatic and indescribable, never to be forgotten genocide.

He confesses:

“My eyes are spent with weeping;

My Soul trembles;

My ❤️ heart pours out in grief because  of the destruction  of the daughter of my people.”

AUTHORSHIP.

It is indeed the work of Jeremiah. This proof of this is that Jeremiah’s name is attached to it in the Hebrew original. The historian Josephus confirms it. Later Jewish and Christian scholarship endorsed it. We therefore accept it.

The heart of the poem, both literally and Spiritually, is the middle passage of the middle chapter. Five times that word, “hope” occurs. Affliction does its humbling work, (verse 20)

The sufferer grasps its meaning, and cries out,

“I have HOPE” (Verse 21). The new hope is in God alone as the context shows. This is emphasised again as the poem closes-

“YOU! OH LORD REMAIN” (verse 19).

The final prayer of the poem yet will be fulfilled.-

“RENEW OUR DAYS OF OLD” and Zion will be the head of all nations.

As is happening today and this and age, Israel is suffering the fires of affliction  war and persecution, yet they will not be consumed. They will sing and dance in the streets the stanza of this song 🎵 of faith.

“IT IS OF THE LORDS MERCIES THAT WE ARE NOT CONSUMED BECAUSE HIS COMPASSIONS NEVER FAIL.THEY ARE NEW EVERY MORNING. GREAT IS YOUR FAITHFULNESS LORD UNTO ME.”

Neither will they ever be consumed!! All shall be preserved until Jesus, David’s greater son, shall return with His saints and take the Throne and reign gloriously in Jerusalem over all tribes and nations, all, peoples, all tongues…

“And every knee shall bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father.”

Philippians chapter 2:9-11.

Israel will see the ‘One’ whom they pierced and mourn because of what they inflicted upon Him. This is spiritually up-to-date for everyone who has trod this earth. God is ever the same in His dealings with you and me and every nation that has existed.

The only entrance into His Kingdom is to come as a born-again believer, born of the Spirit of God.

1. Admit you are a sinner.

2. Confess your sin.

3. Thank Jesus for being your Divine Sinbearer.

4. Now, receive Him as your Lord and Saviour.

5. Pray: “Lord Jesus, I am a sinner, I cannot  measure up to your standards of righteousness, for You are without fault. 

Wash me clean from all my failure and mistakes, rebellion lies and idolatry and witchcraft.

Come into my life and save my Soul. I surrender all that I am and have into your arms.

Holy Spirit baptise me and empower me to live my life as JESUS CHRIST lived in this world.”Amen.

6.Finally,

Obey the teaching of Paul in Ephesians 4:1.

“Therefore I Paul a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to live a life worthy of your calling.”

Amen.

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