Lamentations 2
March 12, 2024 2:05 PM
Solitary Man
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Lam 2:1 How hath the Lord (Adonai) covered (oob – darkened) the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger (af – as smoke from his nostril), and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger (af)!
After a short pause of a couple of verses where Jerusalem herself in the bitterness of her soul asks God to cast down her enemy, we now switch back to the prophet Jerermiah picking up where he left off. He continues his doleful lament over what has just occurred in his beloved city. He will continue to bare his soul for all to see, finishing up with a heartfelt prayer from verse 18 to 22.
As explained in the last chapter, the one being judged speaks of God as Adonai, not Jehovah, as if unworthy to use that sacred name due to their sin. The word oob is only found here. As God covered Jerusalem with judgments like a severe storm cloud, so God has also covered us in much darkness. I see a hint here of our spiritual darkness. The church’s understanding in these last days of the crucial truths of Christianity is woefully deficient. We have gorged ourselves on spiritual junk food. We now are in dire straits and wonder why God is not doing anything to stop the madness.
The idea here is that heaven has been closed to us. He has taken the glory of the church and cast it down to be irrelevant, a laughing stock, and something to be despised. Think of all the videos out there showing off the antics of the word of faith and prosperity preachers of America. We laugh at some of them, being so ridiculous to behold. Yet we should of shook and trembled in abject shame and fear. How the great name of Jesus was desecrated and trampled upon by these ministers of unrighteousness! How we did absolutely nothing to try and stop these lunatics! Yes, there were some who denounced, but often, with such a legalistic, Pharisaical spirit, filled with the false doctrines of Calvinism and kingdom now, dominionist theology themselves, that they had no authority to speak.
Where are those true servants of God, steeped in holiness and humility? Beacons of righteousness, fearless in the face of evil, fasting and praying day and night, with a heart broken for the sins of the body? Why were so many of us carried away for so many years by these charlatans and hucksters, peddling the word of God for personal gain? Why were there so few who could truly discern them as to what they really were? Now here we are, almost at the same point that Jeremiah is. What can we do except try to turn around as best we can, in the little time we have left, and see if God has any mercy left for our sin sick lands.
Since we’re at the start of another chapter, I want to touch on another topic that the Lord brought to my attention in my prayer time. I think one of the chief reasons that judgment preachers have not been taken as seriously as they should, is that they always seem to try to shoehorn whatever current event they are preaching on, into end time prophecies of the word. I am not saying that one cannot do that. I have certainly been guilty of this. Yet when things don’t pan out like the preacher predicts, people lost faith in them and tune them out. Thus, whenever we try and refer to works such as Jeremiah or Ezekiel, people subconsciously disregard them as having no relevance to our time, as we are not going to get sucked in again by a hyperbolic minister!
The error I think we are making is perhaps we should make a distinction of the signs of total judgment of a nation, versus trying to prove that this is absolutely the end times. Yes, it may very well be the end time. I personally believe it is. I think some of the horsemen have been unleashed, as a preamble to the final appointed time known as Jacob’s trouble. But what if I’m wrong? What if we’re all wrong? We conclude that it must be the end of days, because America is falling apart. Since most of us think that America is almost as special in God’s eyes as Israel, we conclude that if America is falling, then this is the end of all things, as we can’t imagine a world continuing without an America as the center of it.
I will let you in on a secret. Do you know which scriptural truth underpins my staunch belief that this is indeed the end times? The truth that states that a day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and vice verse (Ps 90:4, 2 Pet 3:8). Since God created the physical world in 6 days and rested on the seventh, then human history will run for 6000 years, and the next 1000 years is the Millenium Sabbath rest. We then subtract out the 33 years of Jesus life as a sort of suspension of the creation clock in order to place the start of the Millenium around 2030, approximately 6000 years after creation.
What if we throw that idea out? Nowhere in the bible can you definitively prove that man’s lease as ruler of this planet will expire after 6000 years. Those two verses may just be a figure of speech, stating that the way God sees time is completely different than the way we see it.
If we decide to disregard this theory, then what are you left with? You are left with trying to see if end time prophecies are being fulfilled. And haven’t sincere, devoted believers been trying to prove this for many, many years? And so far, none have really been proven correct.
Now I am not trying to destroy the faith of anyone here. I am simply trying to make the point that we cannot say with 100% certainty that the destruction of America means that we are heading into the tribulation. What if there are many years left before Jesus returns? What then? Will your faith be shattered if you happen to survive America’s (and Canada’s) destruction, and you find that Jesus has still not returned? That you are now going to be living for the foreseeable future in a total technocratic dictatorship? Or will that reality be too much for you?
The point I am making is that it does not necessarily matter whether or not we are living in the end times, or in the last generation. When I state that I believe the bible clearly teaches that the pattern of total judgment found in Jeremiah and Lamentations is the pattern that most closely matches our current day reality in the west, that is not dependant on whether or not this is the end times. Rather, the spiritual state of the west is just like the spiritual state found in Judah in 586 BC, end time or no end time. Therefore, we can expect a similar consequence that they experienced, since we have chosen to go down the same deh-rek (road).
The extreme relevance of the books of Jeremiah and Lamentations are not dependant upon whether or not we are the last generation before Christ returns. The truths that are found therein still apply. Therefore it does not matter what you believe about where we are in the biblical eschatological timeline. Even if you’re an amillenialist, that does not mean there is nothing of value in these teachings. Judgment is judgment. There are clear signs when judgment is imminent. And there is a clear biblical response to judgment. This book not only speaks about the clear cause and consequence of serious sin, but shows us what we can expect to feel as it unfolds, so we can brace ourselves and prepare for the calamities to come.
Lam 2:2 The Lord (Adonai) hath swallowed up all the habitations (homes, pastures, pleasant places) of Jacob, and hath not pitied (had compassion): he hath thrown down in his wrath (rage) the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted (profaned) the kingdom (dominion) and the princes (chiefs) thereof.
This is clear language. You cannot get any clearer. God himself has swallowed up our homes and all the pleasant places we used to entertain ourselves in. Not the dew weapons, or the wielders thereof. Not the illegal aliens. Not the cabal. God. God’s wrath is not defined as displeasure or chastisement or correction. No, the meaning is rage. His own people’s sins have caused him to become extremely emotional. We think wrath and rage is reserved for the heathen only. There will be plenty of time for that later. The bible does speak of God’s wrath on the heathen in things such as the flood, and Sodom and Gomorrah. Yes far more space is devoted to his wrath being poured out on Israel. Until we throw out the false teaching that God’s wrath was satisfied at the cross, we will never understand what is going on.
Great songs speak of God’s wrath being satisfied at the cross. That is true in one aspect. Every possible sin committed has been paid for, in potential. But only those sins which are repented of make that payment come into force. If this was not true, then universalism is true and all are saved. If you refuse to repent, whether through ignorance or malice, that shed blood on the cross is of no effect. Those sins will be punished eternally by the sinner in hell. That is simple Christianity 101. Nothing complicated or controversial there. So why do we stumble over God judging the church? Why is it taboo to talk about God pouring out his wrath on unrepented sin, just because those sins happen to be committed by his own people? Don’t you think we’re even more accountable than those who know nothing of God? Don’t you think the father becomes more angry at his own children, who are supposed to know the rules, and intentionally ignore or flout them, compared to someone who never even knew there was a rule to be broken in the first place?
I don’t believe this is an idea that is too hard or controversial to grasp. We are living it right now. Can anyone honestly say that God is not angry with his church in the west at this moment?
Lam 2:3 He hath cut off (hewn down) in his fierce (khor-ee – burning, intense) anger (af – as smoke coming our of his nostrils) all the horn (keh-ren – flash, ray of light, peak) of Israel: he hath drawn (shoob) back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned (consumed by fire) against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about (consumes on every side).
Jeremiah continues to use very clear and definitive language about the quality of God’s anger. It is not the mildly displeased type. It is described as burning, intense, like smoke coming out of his nostrils, like a fire that consumes everything in its path. Note how God has chosen to shoob away from Israel’s enemies, instead choosing to burn up Jacob with such thoroughness that on every side you look, nothing is left.
These verses are meant to scare the hell out of you. Literally. The real fear of God is engineered to do just that. It should literally frighten you right out of hell and into the saving arms of the son. There is only one place of refuge in all of creation, and that is the cross of Christ. God is a terrifying being. It is far past time that we stop this childish delusion of who God really is. No, he has not changed since the Old Testament was written. It is impossible for God to change, as he is the only unchangeable one in existence. Let the terrible truths of verses such as these penetrate your soul. They are here for a reason. A proper understanding of the terror of the Lord will save us in these last days (2 Cor 5:11). The reason I say this is that if we always keep in mind what a fearful thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God (Heb 10:31), then when the truly terrible times are upon us, it will be easier to make the correct choice and endure all things, as the alternative will be too awful to contemplate. We will choose to suffer for a little while today, so we will be spared the awful torment of eternity tomorrow.
Lam 2:4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew (slaughtered) all that were pleasant (delightful, objects of affection) to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury (khay-maw – heat, anger, poison, rage, wrath, hot displeasure) like fire.
Has anyone truly tried to teach the body of Christ a verse like this in its fullness? Maybe someone like Jonathan Edwards and the likes of them once did. Are we even open to consider the implications of what is being said here? The plain meaning is that God became Judah’s enemy. Those that were once his objects of affection, he slaughtered. And he did it in the place where his real presence was located. If any place should of been safe, it would be in his temple. Yet that is exactly where his emotions were of said to be expressed in their fullest. Heat, anger, poison, rage, wrath, fury, hot displeasure. This is what God felt, and out of those emotions did he act towards his very own people. Did you know God’s people could make him feel this way? Do you think the western church had made him feel like this?
Protestants love to talk about the whore of Babylon, which for centuries they defined (and still do) the Roman Catholic church. Because of the writings of a few reformers in the 16th century, those labels stuck. One of the devastating consequences of this is that the modern protestant church tends to minimize their own abominations before the Lord, as they know they are nowhere near as vile as those apostate Catholics! We humans always look at the speck in other’s eyes, and cannot see the log in our own.
What do you think God really thought of the prosperity gospel, as the worst of the worst excesses that were practised in the 20th century western church? Do you think we provoked the Lord into a similar emotional reaction? I am completely convinced that we have.
While some would accuse Jeremiah of overstating the anger of the Lord due to his grief, nevertheless, this is how the Spirit of God led him to describe what had just taken place.
Lam 2:5 The Lord was as an enemy (o-yabe – to hate, adversary, foe): he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation (heaviness and sorrow).
You do not want God as your enemy. As we seem to have no defense against the dew weapons deployed against us, so too do we have no defence against the wrath of God, save for the cross and the blood of Jesus. Just be sure that the blood truly covers you, or you will be at risk of being swallowed up. Just as God can increase our peace and joy, so to the sinner he increases heaviness and sorrow.
Lam 2:6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly (mo-aw-daw – the appointment, a fixed time or season): the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts (mo-aw-daw) and sabbaths to be forgotten (to be wiped from memory) in Zion, and hath despised (abhorred, scorned) in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Are we not his kings and priests today? Has he scorned us, because we have scorned him? God tore down the place of his presence, as easily as a man might disassemble his garden. We had fixed times of assembly. This could mean our regular church meetings, destroyed by the plandemic. This could mean the loss of regular times of meeting him in the secret place, as we rejected prayer for pleasure. The feasts of the Lord were forgotten. Why is it that the Christian holidays were specifically targeted, and not any of the other religion’s special days, or any other holiday whosoever? That was the hand of God. Not because he thinks Christmas and Easter are so pagan, but as proportional punishment. We had forgotten him, so he was going to cause the public celebration of him to be forgotten. As in the book of Malachi, where he was sick of looking at the corrupt priests offering their worthless offerings in the temple, so God has gotten sick of looking at what passes for church services in our lands. This was especially fulfilled in Canada, more so than in any other country in the world. He has let dozens of churches burn down. Not one person has ever been charged with a crime. Because there was nothing of worth to see or preserve in these dead houses of hypocrisy, God cast them out of his sight.
Lam 2:7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred (made void) his sanctuary (mik-dawsh – a consecrated place, asylum), he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
Continuing the theme of total abandonment by God, he has given over the house of worship to the enemy. They revel and riot in God’s house in triumph, rivalling the noise Israel made when they sang joyous songs during their feast days.
As mentioned before, Canada’s churches have literally fulfilled these verses. Yet, there is a deeper spiritual fulfillment that has been going on for some time. Our churches have been given over to the enemy for quite some time. When false teaching is allowed and embraced, that church has become a stronghold of satan. And the worst ones are not the obvious ones that hang up a rainbow flag. The worse ones were the ones who turned the sacred word into the gospel of narcissism. Self love, self seeking, the chasing and pursuit of personal blessing, these were the things that have been emphasized.
Looking back, can you recall all the sermons that were centered around how to get something from God by using his word? Each and every one of those sermons was from the pit of hell. We often justify them as saying that new believers need to know who they are in Christ, the authority they have in him, and how to walk in your inheritance. What utter rubbish! That laid the foundation of building an idol of Yahweh in our hearts that bore no resemblance to the Yahweh of the scripture.
Because we did these things, God has done these things to us. He had cast off his altar. That means he will not accept our sacrifices of prayer and praise. He has made void his sanctuary. In other words, he has taken away his presence. The hedges round about us he has removed. We made foolish noises of naming and claiming absurd things, so now the enemy rants and raves in our churches, having completely taken over so many of these establishments.
Lam 2:8 The LORD hath purposed (plotted) to destroy the wall (of protection) of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line (measuring line), he hath not withdrawn (shoob) his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart (army) and the wall (of protection) to lament (bewail, mourn); they languished (waxed feeble) together.
As the stones of the wall of Zion, that were there to protect, now wail and lament their fate, so too the people of God are left with nothing but wailing and weeping after judgment has fallen. God destroyed our hedge of protection. As in the spiritual, so now in the natural we have no borders. What we see at the border is exactly what is happening in the spirit. Every kind of spirit now finds it has free access in these formerly Christian strongholds. I am sure these wicked beings cannot believe their eyes. They have been waiting for this moment for such a long time.
Yet we are reminded again and again that it was not Babylon that should be given the credit for destroying Judah. It is God. He took the measure of Judah and found it wanting. He refuses to shoob away from destroying his prized possession. He has caused us to lose out spiritual strength. Where are our answered prayers? Where are the giants of the faith, whom we have read about in the past? People such as George Mueller, who seemed to pray in a miracle every day.
No, that is not the season we are in. We are not in the season of building up, but in the season of tearing down (Eccl 3:3). Once God decides to take away our spiritual wall of protection, the events of 2020 onward is the result.
Lam 2:9 Her gates (openings, doors) are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law (torah) is no more; her prophets also find no vision (revelation) from the LORD (Yehovah).
In total judgment, there are no defences left. Who would of thought in 2019 that we would see what we see at America’s southern border? No gates? No bars? Just a full flung invasion, and not one soul doing a single thing about it? Who could do this unless God allowed it? Our leaders are considered to be a part of the goy – those outside the covenant. We have lost godly leadership. They are not of us anymore, they are cabal, and of the antichrist.
The law is no more. This verse is fulfilled in your ears today. In the west, there is no more law. Canada has just experienced its final nail this week, as new legislation is introduced that will make total censorship the law of the land, unless the Lord intervenes. This is most likely the last year of any sort of free speech in this once beautiful land. The law is no more.
Isn’t it strange that there seems to be almost no one worth listening to on the internet these days? I am speaking about sermons. Yes, you can get your usual messages that we have been getting for the last 50 years. Basic, unanointed, uninspiring sermons on this and that that carry no conviction or instruction as to how to survive in these last days. Even in 2024, 4 years into the satanic global madness, almost no one is preaching judgment and the true fear of the Lord. I continually am seeking out the true men of God that have the word of the Lord for today. As of today, I can honestly say that as far as I have found, only one man is preaching sermons that have the conviction of the Lord upon them. For many years, the Lord has led me from one teacher to another, building up my understanding of him line by line, precept upon precept. As of today, it seems there is a lull, a gap, in finding someone to study under.
Perhaps it is because I have recently felt in my spirit that the Lord has said that now comes the time where his children must learn to receive manna directly from him. You must learn to receive the word of the Lord in your secret place. There is coming a day when that will be your only communication with the body. As the wicked one seeks to disconnect us in the natural, so we need to turn to God to show us how to connect in the spirit. We need to be fed directly from him, and look not to men, as men may be harder to find than we think. Total judgment tends to shut the word of God off. This makes sense, as if God has turned his face away form us, what makes us think that he will start talking to everyone when his back is turned?
Lam 2:10 The elders (ancient) of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
If these last four years have not knocked the pride out of our heads, then nothing will. As we wait for the inevitable kinetic war to begin as the invasion accelerates daily before our eyes, what is there left to say? Will you still quote from your 12 verse bible? Will you continue to ignore real life? If you’ve learned anything about anything over the last few years, you will meekly sit in your prayer closet and wait upon the Lord with a contrite and broken heart. How can your heart not be broken when everyone has seen the dead pile up around them? Have we forgotten that only 3 years ago, ‘died suddenly’ was a phenomenon that had never existed before?
Lam 2:11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels (may-aw – stomach, heart) are troubled (in ferment, boiled), my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children (o-lawl – infant) and the sucklings (yaw-nak – suckling child) swoon (faint) in the streets of the city.
Sometimes you just have to take your hat off to those who have gone before. Matthew Poole’s commentary aptly sums up the tone and tenor of this passage:
This whole verse is but expressive of the prophet’s great affliction for the miseries come upon the Jews: he wept himself almost blind, his passion had disturbed his bodily humours, that his bowels were troubled; his gall lying under his liver, upon this disturbance was vomited up: they are all no more than expressions of very great affliction and sorrow.
When the little children started to perish, why did that not cause the mass of the people to rise up en masse and finally declare enough is enough? I remember that famous British embalmer that was sure that when the children started dying, that the people would revolt as a whole. He was greatly disillusioned when it didn’t happen.
And why is that? Why, when they are intentionally poisoning our little 6 month old children, still so many line up and eagerly inject their little ones? First, blindness. God has given us over to our sins. Second, and perhaps even more important, is that this just proves how self centered we are. Most young mothers are much more concerned with whether or not their social media ‘friends’ approve of their actions, rather than thinking for themselves and actually investigating if its a good idea to give these novel, untested, injections to their vulnerable offspring. Risking your child’s health is not as important as ensuring that all your facebook friends still like you.
Absolutely horrifying, but it’s the truth. We actually are that wicked.
Jerusalem again seems to be personified here, as weeping over the daughter of her people. Why is that phrase used? My guess is that daughters were seen as those who could not fend for themselves. Until they had a husband, they needed the protection of their father’s house. Nothing would pain a father more than to see his daughter defiled and destroyed by an invading army. It was the father’s job to protect her, and when he cannot, it would be hard to bear.
Jeremiah says that he can’t stop weeping. His insides are in such a turmoil, that it’s hard to put into words. He has just witnessed suffering and torment on such a massive scale, that it is almost impossible to accurately portray what he has saw, and what he has lived through. The enormity of it has exploded upon his consciousness. His emotions are overwhelmed. His body is at its limit of capability in being able to process such horrible things.
Do we not yet understand that we are at the very brink of the very same events that has caused Jeremiah to react in such an extremely traumatic way? Can we yet grasp what is in store for us? What is just around the corner?
I pray that all of you who are reading this will ask God to really open your eyes as to what is about to come. Not so that you go curl up in a ball in the corner and die, but so that you truly prepare yourself so that you will be able to function when everyone around you is falling apart. If we can picture the worst and come to terms with it, then that gives us the best chance of surviving it. I really believe that for many of us, the tribulation we experience in our inner man will be worse than what we experience on the outside.
Lam 2:12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into (expended) their mothers’ bosom.
The picture is one of absolute heart wrenching despair. The children are starving to death. They keep asking their mothers for food, and the mothers have none to give. They keep asking until their souls expire in their mother’s arms.
With the systematic takedown of our food supply, is this scenario that far off?
Lam 2:13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
As Jeremiah wondered what calamity could compare to what he was experiencing, so today we know that the calamity that we are immersed in has no parallel in history. Even as Jerusalem had never suffered near this magnitude, so we too now are suffering like no generation of our ancestors have ever had. Some may say the civil war was worse. Is it? Well, 600,000 died then. How many have already died from the jab? Far more than that. How many more to go? Far, far more than that.
Lam 2:14 Thy prophets have seen vain (evil, useless) and foolish (frivolous, slimy) things for thee: and they have not discovered (revealed, published, uncovered) thine iniquity, to turn away (shoob) thy captivity; but have seen (had a vision of) for thee false (useless) burdens (utterances) and causes of banishment (seductions).
Oh boy, I feel my spirit being greatly stirred once again. My favorite sermon topic. The false prophets of today.
We can never hear enough admonition and warning over this topic. Where does all wrong decision making in the church come from? Besides wicked hearts, it comes from wrong information that is used to base decisions on. And where does wrong information come from? Sometimes from ignorance and honest mistakes. But far too many times it comes from from false teachers. False prophets. And why do we give them ear? Because we are wicked creatures. Uncrucified saints. Unsanctified disciples. Unlearned students of the word.
It is one thing to expect blindness in the dead churches that don’t even preach the born again message. It is even somewhat understandable that the non spirit filled churches have a distinct disadvantage in certain areas of revelation and discernment, having consciously refused the spiritual gifts and the workings on the Holy Spirit. However the worst of all is the so called spirit filled portion of the church. Having access to not only the word of God, but the potential of hearing the voice of God for ourselves, we have taken this precious privilege and defiled it to such a degree, that it makes the ears tingle. Looking back at some of the amazingly absurd things that we would give our attention to, it is no wonder that we are about to be destroyed. Prophets that could talk about nothing but all the angels they were seeing every day, all the day. Speaking about dead saints that were running around in front of them, laying hands on people in the audience. Pulling a feather off our coat and thinking it was from heaven (as it that served any divine purpose). Laughing uncontrollably for hours. Spending several thousands of dollars to attend some conference where you were told the secret keys on how to get more stuff for yourself, whether money, jobs, healing, or prominence. Psychics masquerading as prophets. And on and on.
And what was the common denominator that all of these children of satan had in common? They all saw useless, foolish, trivial, slimy things. Things of no value. Things that were neither here nor there. They did not expose the sins that you were living in that was causing God’s fierce wrath to barrel toward you like a runaway freight train. You were already in captivity, and you didn’t even know it. Only if you were given a revelation of the sins that were so common in your life that you couldn’t even recognize them as sins anymore, could you be set free to truly serve the Lord. Instead these ‘prophets’ kept giving you words about how great you were, and how God was going to use you mightily, and how that breakthrough was just around the corner, if you would only declare and confess the word a few thousand more times, like some Hindu mystic, babbling himself into a trance, opening himself up to some demonic portal.
Do you think God has nothing better to do than to use some of this most critical weapons (true prophets) to give you a word about how God is about to give you a new car or that promotion at work? That God thinks that all of you in the church are just as perfect as can be, and need no correction? No matter that none of you have won a soul in several years, all that matters is that you get your healing and your bills paid. Yet all around us, the enemy kept infiltrating. He worked behind the scenes, quietly taking over all our institutions. Slowly but surely, our once great Christian nations were being undermined and sabotaged from within. Soon, all would be ready. In the meantime, satan knew not to touch any of these churches. Let them prosper. Let them grow. Let them think that attendance equated to approval by God. Let them think that the size of their bank accounts was the one sure sign of God’s pleasure in their way of life.
So, the false prophets, pastors, and teachers kept giving us exactly what we wanted to hear. We were too busy pursuing the American Dream to actually pay the price in our own prayer closet and ask the Lord what he thought about everything that we were being told. We simply went by the physical signs of prosperity all around us. Strangely, that is exactly what all the heathen do. They judge how well their gods love them by the physical blessings they receive. We were exactly like the heathen. Safe and sound in our insane delusions, completely oblivious that the western body of Christ had contracted a terminal disease. Spiritual turbo cancer, as it were. 2020 has turned out to be a mercy, for those with eyes to see. It unveiled the true state of our church. And it was on life support. Just as Judah’s was in their day.
Lam 2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Our enemies are now entering into their finest hour. They mockingly throw Psalm 48:2 and 50:2 in our faces. Those that have willingly embraced the new world order will receive a reward. They will get to feel a measure of absolute power over humanity (or at least a potion of it), for a season. Like our credit based economy, for them it is buy now, pay later. This is the hour that the elite have been waiting for. What they have sold their souls for. God is going to allow them their moment in the sun, as it is written that this must be. Here is the patience and the perseverance of the saints.
Lam 2:16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
The theme of the gloating of the wicked continues in this verse. You can sense that the elite know that total victory is within their grasp. They are so close. Only one more American election to sabotage, and they feel that the world will be theirs. This verse speaks of a plan long in the making. A longing by the evil one to finally take charge. The wicked are now not even hiding their plans anymore. They have so thoroughly captured all media that they could care less that a few alternative media outlets publish their outrageously evil plans. They say to us: ‘And what do you think you can do about it’?
Lam 2:17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised (planned, purposed); he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied (had compassion, spared): and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
The truth then, and the truth today, is that what we are living through is God keeping his promises. Don’t we love the fact that God always keeps his promises? Isn’t that what 99% of all preaching is basically all about? How Jesus died on the cross for us, and whosoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved? That with God all things are possible? That whatsoever we ask according to his will, we have the petitions that we asked? That he will never leave us nor forsake us?
Yet how about that same God making promises such as if you disobey my commandments, cursed shall you be in the city. Cursed shall you be in the country. Cursed shall be your children. Cursed shall be your cattle. Cursed, cursed, cursed. If you persist in rebellion, I will vomit you out of the land.
Well guess what? Our God is faithful. He is keeping his word today. You can quote the fact that God said you are the head and not the tail all you want. God doesn’t care what you quote. The fact of the matter is that God has many, many more promises of evil in his word than that of good. If you fulfill the requirements of the curse, the curse you shall have, even as if you fulfilled the requirements of the blessing, the blessing would be yours. We have more than kept our side of the curse bargain. God is simply keeping his side now.
Now do you see just how depressingly far we have strayed from preaching the whole counsel of God? Was it really that important to preach that 1001st sermon on faith and healing, ignoring any talk of all the warnings of the curse for those who refused to obey? About the only time we heard of the curses was when they quoted the one verse that said Jesus became a curse for us. The pastors then lied to us by inferring that we would never be in danger of falling under any curse ever again, since Jesus became a curse for us. Just like once saved, always saved, so once cursed, no more curse. Same idea. Same root of heresy. Same road to damnation.
Notice God had commanded this judgment of old. When it came down to it, he had no room for pity. Instead he actually enabled and empowered our enemy to be able to destroy us completely. He set up his horn of power. He allowed them to gloat and even rejoice over your annihilation. Children and all, that did not move God. Watching our young athletes die suddenly, watching our babies die in the womb in unprecedented numbers, the pity of God is not here at this moment. This is where many are tripped up. Most say you cannot preach like this. It’s just not true. Well then how had God stood aside and let millions upon millions of innocent children die over the last 6000 years? His idea of compassion and our idea are two different things. It is far past time to stop acting like children when it comes to the harder truths of the word. We need men in these final days, not wimpy spineless babies who refuse to get off their soothers. If you are not willing to let go of your soother, then you have certainly stumbled into the wrong place!
Lam 2:18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple (bath – daughter) of thine eye cease.
A beginning of a prayer is found here. Whether you want to see this as a prayer uttered by Jeremiah, or by the passers by who have witnessed such utter devastation, or of Jerusalem herself, it matters not. The point is are our hearts moved as deeply as these people’s hearts were moved in the time of their singular calamity?
Always Jerusalem or Zion is referred to as a daughter of. Her people are her vulnerable children. The same word is translated apple when referring to the eye. We would say pupil, but the Hebrews called it the daughter of your eye, and the KJV translators used the word apple, as that would be the common way to say pupil in their time.
The intercessor urges no rest from weeping before the Lord. Exactly how deep do we feel the pain of the people all around us?
Lam 2:19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
What a plaintive cry for intercessors to rise up and take their places! Judeans had three watches in the night. Every watch should have those that are whole heartedly weeping for the land. Not only for the land, but especially for the children. While they were starving to death during the siege, this prayer would be made for the aftermath. Once the siege is over and you survived, your troubles were not over. After the enemy stripped your land bare, how would you survive? These are things many of us may face in the days and years ahead.
Lam 2:20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
As Deut 28:53 threatened, so it came to pass. Persistent rebellion would lead to ever increasing curses. Curses that got so bad that mothers would eat their own children. And so it came to pass in Jeremiah’s day. They want us to eat bugs. Is that all they will end up feeding us?
Right in the presence of God, will God’s chosen ministers be murdered? This is nothing new in many lands over the centuries. Canada is leading the way in arresting and persecuting pastors. Soon some will be called upon to pay the ultimate price, even as countless others are paying IT all over the world today.
Lam 2:21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
The intercessor acknowledges that it is God who has killed one and all. No mercy, no compassion was found. The prophet is not blaming God, or accusing him of some sort of moral failure (like Hollywood movies always do), he is simply stating a fact. Old and young, the innocent (virgins) and the strong (young men) have been hewn down.
In the day of total judgment, grace and mercy are in very short supply. Seek him now, while he still may be found. Do not put off getting totally right with God any longer. If you think it’s hard to find the presence of God today, just wait until the bullets start to fly and all the food disappears.
Lam 2:22 Thou hast called as in a solemn (mo-aw-daw – an appointed time) day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled (nursed) and brought up hath mine enemy consumed (ended, taken away).
There is a lot of mention of the appointed times of the Lord in this book. Just as we have been taught about the seven feasts of the Lord, which are called his appointed times, so we now learn that there are fixed times of judgment.
Whether that means that they must fall on a certain day, or are simply inevitable for all nations, is hard to say. What we can say is that they are somehow fixed by God according to his perfect mishpat – his decrees, verdicts, and judicial decisions. So like God calls us to the yearly feasts, so he calls the rebellious to partake of the day of terror. As all were expected to partake of a feast such as Passover, so all will partake of the day of the Lord’s anger. Even all our children will be taken. None shall escape.
While individuals will experience greater or lesser turmoil as these certain judgments progress, all will have to experience that day. Sorry folks, no pre-trib rapture to whisk you away in the nick of time, like you’ve been told in the movies, or in your pulpits.
Solitary Man
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