Nathan Lewis – Class 4: Lamentations – The Precious Sons of Zion

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Brother Nathan sauce that we
move straight to his comments

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rather than by way of
introduction through a reading.

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So our subtitle for today, for
study for the meaning of

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suffering and our topic is the
precious sons of Zion brother,

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Nate.
Well, thanks, brother Brendan

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and good morning again, brothers
and sisters and our Lord Jesus

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Christ.
We now come to the last class,

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really proper on the book of
Lamentations that we’re going to

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spend together this week because
tomorrow we’re going to really

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look at the subject of
fellowshiping our Lord.

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Jesus Christ’s sufferings.
So this morning we want to

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consider Lamentations chapters 4
and 5 but you will remember from

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Our last class that we looked at
the Survivor of chapter 3, the

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man that had seen Affliction and
we saw that despite experiencing

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all of the pain and suffering
that the nation had experienced

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in Lamentations 1 and 2.
He was able to see past the

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destruction, past the horror,
and the grief, and the loss.

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To what is described in chapter
three, Verse 26, the salvation

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of yah-yah-yah is salvation
yahushua.

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And we saw that this man had
perspective, hope Trust yahweh’s

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compassion’s and new every
morning.

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He told us that if amidst the
darkness of Affliction, we lose

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hope.
It is because we have forgotten

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the character of God himself.
He told us that our tribulations

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are the pressure that God brings
to conform us to the image of

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his son and that amazingly we
can be grateful for his hand.

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We can be satisfied with the
travail of our soul.

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That remarkably the trials of
this life, are his Mercies in

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Disguise that.
Our sufferings might be our

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biggest blessings.
And this man’s example, in verse

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30 of chapter 3 was to willingly
submit to whatever his father

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thought was the best way to
develop his love, whatever his

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father thought was the best way
to develop his trust, whatever

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his father thought was the best
way to develop his faith.

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And if chapter 2 and verse 13
posed, the question, our bruise

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is great like the see who can
heal us.

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Then this suffering man, stepped
forward to provide the answer

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the suffering servant of Isaiah
53 of whom it is said with his

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bruised, we are healed and you
might remember that.

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We spent some time looking at
the progression of thought in

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chapter 3, but just to
summarize, Guys, what we looked

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at yesterday?
This is really the thought flow

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of chapter 3.
The man of Affliction, he never

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blames God, but he’s highly
aware of his miserable State

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versus 1217.
Then in verses 18 to 21,

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choosing wisdom, he remembers
the experiences of the past, he

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reminds himself in verses 22 to
23 of God’s glorious, merciful

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character.
In verses 24 to 32.

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He concludes that suffering.
Has purpose and ultimately good

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objectives which means verse 33
to 36.

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God will never afflict without
excellent reason.

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And if we question or complain
about our sufferings, we are

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doubting God’s character and his
promises.

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It was a slow but inevitable
change towards a new way of

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thinking, an amazing perspective
to see.

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So clearly God’s objectives and
goodness amidst the chaos and

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misery.
This is God’s perspective, it is

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his Divine work, we can’t
understand it, sometimes we

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can’t even see it.
Happening in our lives.

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But in the trials of life, When
we look back.

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We are becoming more patient.
We are becoming more humble.

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We are becoming more trusting
more reliant on him.

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And the suffering that we that
we we don’t want to ensure that

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we despised that we want to cast
off is actually changing our

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minds and characters.
Now, you’ve probably never heard

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of a Woman by the name of
Elizabeth.

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Kubler-Ross she is a Swiss
psychiatrist.

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She wrote a book in 1969,
entitled on death and dying in

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which she outlined the five
stages of grief.

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She received 20 honorary degrees
from different universities

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around the world and apparently
she taught 125 thousand

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students.
Her theory on Griff and here it

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is.
There’s five stages to grief.

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It starts out with denial, is
this really happening to me?

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Then it moves to anger.
Why is this happening to me?

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Emotional disturbance, then we
move to bargaining.

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We attempt to negotiate as this
really feel true.

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How can we how can we make the
situation better?

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Is this a trade-off.
Maybe we can do something to to

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convert the situation.
But slowly we realize No, we

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have suffered loss.
We enter into depression

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Preparatory, grieving.
And finally The grand stage of

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acceptance where we are able to
achieve some objectivity.

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This is the greatest
psychiatrist that the world has

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seen with the best cycle of
grief yet discovered.

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But what a lousy ending?
What a lousy ending brothers and

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sisters to the cycle that we get
to the end.

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We’ve experienced all of this
trauma and pain.

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And the end of the cycle is
just, yes, it has happened to

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me.
I accept it.

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What is missing from this human
model of coping with Affliction.

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And the answer is this last step
that we see purpose that we find

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meaning behind are suffering.
This only comes by a

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relationship with God without
God.

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This last step is impossible, it
needs his character, his

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compassion, his purpose, and
what a wonderful Journey.

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Looking back through
Lamentations, we can see that

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the nation and the prophet were
taken on by their loving

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Heavenly Father.
Because when we look at these

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stages of grief with our sixth
stage tacked on the end, we can

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see that in actual fact, both
the nation and the prophet are

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taken through these five or six
stages of grief, wonderfully by

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our loving heavenly father.
Let me just illustrate it very

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quickly and you can look at it
in your own time.

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Looking under the nation.
When it says denial chapter 1

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verses 11 and 12 all her people
sigh, they seek bread, they have

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given their Pleasant things for
me to relieve, the soul CE, o,

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Yahweh and consider for I am
become vial.

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Is it?
Nothing to you all ye that pass

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by behold and see if there be
any sorrow like unto my sorrow?

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Is this really happening to me?
Is that really?

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This bad?
The nation is saying to the

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passers-by.
Have you ever seen anything like

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this?
Tell me.

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It’s all a dream.
What about the third section

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bargaining?
Negotiating with God?

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Look at chapter 2 and verse 20,
behold o, Yahweh, and consider

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to whom thou Hast done this
reconsider.

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Is there any chance we can?
We can have a talk about about

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changing things.
Show the women, eat their fruit

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and children of a spend long
show.

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The priests in the prophet be
slain in the century of Yahweh.

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Is this really where you want to
leave us.

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God The nation starts
bargaining.

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But finally they come to the
point of seeing the purpose

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behind their suffering.
Suffering was to make them turn

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and in chapter 5 and verse 21,
we finally get there and we will

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this morning turn their us unto
thee o Yahweh and we shall be

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turned as a brother.
James showed us straight words,

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straight out of Jeremiah So
lemon tations has everything

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that the top clinical
psychiatrist in the world have

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come up with and more.
This is a masterpiece brothers

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and sisters in dealing with
grief.

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And this morning, we want to
focus on chapters 4 and 5.

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And see just how the nation
which was engulfed in Hopeless.

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Blackness back in chapters one
and two respond.

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Now to the man of chapter 3
We’re now going to go from The

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Afflicted Daughter of Zion to
the precious sons of Zion and

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the answer to that question.
How has the man of chapter three

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affected them is?
Not much at all.

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By the time we start chapter 4,
chapter 4 is really a return to

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the Blackness of chapters 1 and
2 to the pitiful, horrific state

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of the nation.
And it starts again with this

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National lament, how is the gold
become dim?

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It’s a return to self-pity and
disbelief return to the story of

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how everything was upside.
I’d down and in actual fact, the

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first 12 verses of chapter 4 are
going to be a series of six

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couplets where the profit is
going to describe how completely

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God has turned everything upside
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We read in verses 1 and 2.
These words, how is the gold

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become dim?
How is the most fine?

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Gold changed the Stones of the
sanctuary are poured out in the

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top of every street, the
precious sons of Zion comparable

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to find gold, how are they
esteemed as Earthen pictures the

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work of the hands of the Potter?
The most fine.

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Gold was changed.
Their faith was gone.

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Now it was lusterless dim
contaminated unreflective.

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You remember Ezekiel had said in
Ezekiel 21 and verse 26 of

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zedekiah, remove the diadem take
off the crown, the shall not be

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the same and it wasn’t the same,
it wasn’t the same, the most

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precious possession of Any
Nation.

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Its people had gone from
Feingold to something like

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element IAM a base metal that
gone from holy Stones as the

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revised Standard Version.
Puts it in in verse 12

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shattered, Pottery, it was a
remarkable Fall From Grace,

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God’s peculiar treasure verse 7
says more ready than rubies like

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sapphires for brightness, his
gemstones.

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Now lay scattered abandoned
discarded in the street The

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Feingold.
The faith of the nation was

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gone.
It had changed.

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It’s a bit like Solomon’s
Shields of of gold Feingold.

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And first of Kings teen and
verse 17.

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You remember that got replaced
with kind of cheap imitations by

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riobamba and first of Kings, 14
verses 26 to 27.

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In the brass Shields, really
weren’t the same as the

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Feingold.
The Feingold has Has changed and

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here Jeremiah bewails.
Again the said and sorry state

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of the nation their faith had
gone in verses 3 and 4.

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It’s going to describe the
departure of the feelings of the

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people.
He says, even the sea monsters

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draw out the breast and give
suck to their young ones.

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The daughter of my people has
become cruel like the ostriches

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in the wilderness.
The tongue of the sucking child

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cleave Earth, to the roof of his
mouth for thirst.

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The young children, ask bread
and no man break Earth it unto

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them.
Do you know the Hebrew word for

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sea monsters?
As probably bitter rendered

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jackals.
That’s how the RSV puts it in.

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Actual fact, it’s used six times
in the book of Jeremiah and it’s

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always translated jackals rather
rooms has wild dogs keil and

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delitzsch has she-wolves.
So, it’s talking about wild

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dogs.
He’s saying even the wild dogs

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give suck to their ones.
This this nation was worse than

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Scavenging, dogs.
Scavenging, dogs might eat their

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own vomit.
But not usually their own

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children.
But verse 10 tells us that’s

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exactly what the nation of Judah
were doing.

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They were worse than Scavenging
dogs.

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There were eating their own
children.

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Now, this is not the first time
that the prophets have compared

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Israel to animals and found them
wanting you might like to take a

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quick note of these Isaiah 1 and
verse 3.

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The ox knoweth his owner, the S
his master’s crib but Israel

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does not know.
My people does not consider Or

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Jeremiah 8 and verse 7, ye the
stalk and the heaven knoweth her

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appointed time, the turtle and
the crane and the swallow

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observed, the time of their
coming, but my people know not

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the Judgment of Yahweh in
exactly the same way here.

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The nation is worse than the
animals.

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Even the animals do what God has
asked of them.

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Here, the nation has no natural
affection, that become like

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ostriches and verse 3, which job
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Say, they leave the eggs and the
Earth.

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They forget that their foot may
crush them.

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She’s hardened against two young
ones as though they were not

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hers.
All natural feelings are gone.

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She’s indifferent to the needs
of her own children.

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All her feelings have gone.
In verses 5 and 6, we’re going

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to find that.
Their wealth was gone.

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The wealthy have become
desolate.

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They that did feed delicately
are desolate in the streets.

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They that were brought up in
scarlet and Brace dung Hills for

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the punishment of the iniquity
of the daughter of my people is

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greater than the punishment of
the sin of Sodom, that was

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overthrown, as in a moment, and
no hands stayed on her.

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The revised standard version. 4
verse 5, says these that feasted

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on dainties and now begging for
scraps.

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Everything is upside down if you
want a description of the high

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society Dandy’s of Judah, just
go back and read in your own

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time.
Isaiah 3 verses 16 to 26, The

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daughters of Zion are haughty
with stretched forth Knicks and

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wanton eyes minsang.
As they go, they have tinkling

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ornaments bracelets Mufflers.
Bonnets headbands, tablets

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earrings, Rings knows Jewels
mentals whimpers.

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Crisping pins mean it puts the
fashion models of today to

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shame.
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those who were the fox, who
dined, sumptuously, who,

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cultivated good taste, who
worried about fashion, and the

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Arts.
Rather in the says, they who

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used to be carried on Crimson.
Now, embracing dung Hills

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rubbish heaps, scratching
through the the bins, at the

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back of the restaurants
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It’s a graphic description of
God, turning High Society upside

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down their wealth and their
status was gone.

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Incidentally, verse 5 seems to
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Perhaps the basis for Christ.
Parable of the rich, man and

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Lazarus.
In Luke chapter, 16, the rich

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man is clothed in purple, he
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But then the dogs come and lick
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He is, he is punished for his
sins and maybe Christ alludes to

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Lamentations.
What about verses 7 and 8?

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The nazarites, the leaders are
unrecognizable, they’re not

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known in the streets, her
nazirites were pure than snow,

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they were whiter the milk.
They were more ready and body

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than rubies are polishing was of
sapphire.

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But now the envisage is blacker
than a coal.

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They are not known in the
streets, this skin Cleaver to

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their bones of his withered, his
become like a stick.

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The lead is separated to
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And now withered and dirty.
Look at how verses 7 and 8 are a

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contrast of each other.
The nazarites used to be pure

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than snow.
But now blacker than coal verse

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8, they used to be whiter than
milk now.

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Unrecognizably, dirty.
They used to be more ready than

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rubies now, this skin cleave
Earth to their bones are used to

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be more beautiful than
sapphires.

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Now, that just like a worthless
ugly withered stick The

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Holiness, they cleanness, their
health, their beauty had all

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been taken away.
They have gone from whiter than

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snow verse. 72 as the margin
says in verse 8.

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Darker than Blackness, there
couldn’t be a greater Fall From

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Grace.
For the rulers, the leaders, the

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Elders of the nation.
Complete reversal of Fortunes

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once highly esteemed.
Now forsaken, their leaders were

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gone, the cream of the nation.
And what about, what about

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verses 9 and 10?
The compassionate mother’s boil

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their own children, their
conscience was gone.

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The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
in verse six were destroyed in a

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moment.
But look what it says in verses

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9 and 10, they that be slain
with the sword are better than

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they that be slain with Hunger
for these pine away stricken

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through for want of the fruits
of the field, the hands of the

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pitiful woman have sodden their
own children, they were there.

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Meat in the destruction of the
daughter of my people and of

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Sodom and Gomorrah verse.
Six were destroyed in a moment

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that turned out.
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That it just took a second and
they were did Jerusalem and its

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people have tortured themselves
to death over months and months

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and months of pain.
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Imagine imagine Wanting to be
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destruction, in the swiftness of
that judgment was more

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compassionate to boil your own
son, then to watch his life.

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Either way from Hunger or
maternal Instinct.

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All conscience is gone what a
horrific time.

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Jeremiah had predicted hadn’t.
He that they would eat their own

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sons and daughters and friends
in The Siege and in the

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straightness, Jeremiah 19 and
verse 9.

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And it had all come true.
Everything was upside down and

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you couldn’t get more upside
down then, mothers eating their

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own children.
But it had happened and lastly,

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the last couplet verses 11 and
12 the destruction of the city.

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Where am I?
I’m lost are here before we move

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on to the last.
Couplet I have inserted another

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slide and it’s this.
This is a great lesson.

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By the way, the children, Have
been eaten.

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This is a sub theme throughout
Lamentations and it’s the fate

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of the children.
Look at this lemon.

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Tations. 1 verse 5, the children
have gone into captivity.

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The children are crushed in
desolate.

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The infant’s Swoon in the
streets, their soul is poured

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into their mother’s bosom.
It’s the small ones that faint

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for hunger.
In the streets children are span

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longer eating his food, the Yong
Li did on the ground.

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Those are swaddled are consumed.
The little ones, the children

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are dying of thirst and hunger
and 4:4 The Boiled, and eaten

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his food.
The children fell under the

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wood, what’s Lamentations
telling us, brothers and

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sisters.
It’s telling us.

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That when we fail in our faith,
our children disproportionately

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suffer at children,
disproportionately suffer, and

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we might have failed in our
faith, but look what happens to

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them.
What a lesson in our own lives

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to take heed to These Warnings.
And so lastly, we come to the

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last couplet verses 11 and 12
the kings of the Earth.

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Nobody would have believed that
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Their city was gone.
Yahweh has a couple of stirs

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Fury.
Verse 11.

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He hath poured out his Fierce
anger and has kindled a fire in

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Zion.
He has destroyed the

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foundation’s their of the kings
of the Earth, all the

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inhabitants of the world would
never have believed that the

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adversary and the enemy should
have entered into the Gates of

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Jerusalem.
There was a real sense of wonder

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incredibleness about the Uh seen
God’s impregnable City in the

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temple that you think God would
never allow to be destroyed.

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Now, lay in ruins, it was the
ultimate proof that he dwells

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not in temples made with hands
but it was all gone their faith.

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Their feelings, their wealth,
their leaders, their conscience.

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This city.
Everything was gone.

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Wow.
How had this happened?

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It’s like a return to the
darkness of chapters 1 & 2.

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But you see chapters four and
five are distinct from chapters

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one.
And two, it is not all doom and

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disaster because chapters four
and five have a sincere

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self-examination, a sincere
repentance a turning back to

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God.
And we see the start of this in

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verse 17 to 20 because verse 17
to 20 of chapter 4 is a section

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that describes the broken.
Flexions of the common people on

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how foolish they had been in
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That been deceived by their
leaders.

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LED astray by false prophets,
they were guilty of trusting and

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man, rather than God having
itching ears that only wanted to

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hear what Isaiah calls and
Isaiah 30, and verse 10, smooth

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things.
And we know that verses 17 to 20

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is a distinct section where
Jerusalem is talking.

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The common people are talking
because, well, look at the

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explosion of different pronouns.
In the text.

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And for those of you who have
done the coloring in this will

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jump off the page for you, and
you’ll immediately see why

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coloring in the pronouns is so
helpful.

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When you come to verses 17 to
20, it’s all about.

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We it’s our eyes.
Our vain help.

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We have watched for a nation
that could not save us.

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These are the broken reflections
of the common people on how

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foolish they had been.
Now, we looked Very briefly in

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our introduction session at the
characters of the drama, but

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just to just to illustrate why
this is so important.

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It really gives us another layer
of understanding Lamentations

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that we haven’t really looked
at.

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It’s a bit like the Song of
Solomon.

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These different people speaking
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we did look at this very briefly
when we were in chapter one, but

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you may be able to see from
here.

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Here.
This is 1:9 and look how halfway

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through verse 9.
It just changes from one speaker

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to the other and you can tell
because of this little change of

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pronoun.
All right.

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So it’s helpful to establish
who’s speaking in the text and

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we see these are the characters
of the drama and a few.

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If you haven’t got a note of
that, you can get a note later

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or color it in in the coloring
in So, here in chapter 4 in

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verses 17 to 20, you can see
that we are back to Jerusalem

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reflecting on what might have
been on, what they did wrong,

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how they put their trust in man
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This is the reflections and the
regrets of the nation of Israel.

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Look what they say, our eyes as
yet failed verse 17.

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Just like zedekiah, their failed
King, who turned out to be

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wrong.
And what happened to his eyes?

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His eyes got put out by the king
of Babylon.

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Our eyes have yet failed.
It’s an acknowledgement where

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are exactly the same as king.
Zedekiah.

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Verse 17 says, we have watched
for a nation that could not save

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us.
And they acknowledge that Egypt

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was not the friend that they
thought in.

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Jeremiah was, right, because
Jeremiah had said in Jeremiah

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30:7 and verse 7, Pharaoh king
of Egypt will not help you.

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He will return to his own land.
It was words as clear as that,

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and they had not listened and
now they acknowledge.

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Jeremiah you were, right?
In verse 18, they said at the

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end is come.
Now we saw that phrase come out

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in our readings.
This morning with brother James

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from Jeremiah chapter 4 but look
where else it comes from Ezekiel

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chapter 2 over and over and over
and over again.

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Your end your end has come.
The end is come, the end has

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come in Ezekiel, they say now,
zekiel, you were right.

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Our end is come, they say our
persecutors are swifter than

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Eagles.
Where does that come from?

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That comes from Jeremiah chapter
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We just read that this morning.
The Babylonians had come and

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they were swifter than Eagles,
and Jeremiah you were, right?

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In verse 20, the anointed of
Yahweh was taken.

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It was an acknowledgement that
they had relied on Josiah too

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heavily and they never developed
a personal faith.

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He was taken away from them and
they hadn’t listened to his

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wisdom.
The profits were right,

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everybody, that warned us was
right.

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And we were wrong.
The broken reflections of a

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broken people. and so now we
come to chapter 5 and the

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closing prayer of the nation.
God has slowly brought them to a

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point of reflection
acknowledgement of their

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failures and now comes the
response that God has been

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waiting for chapter 5 in verse
1.

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Remember o Yahweh what has come
upon us consider and behold our

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approach.
Remember this is the word that

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came from the lips of the man of
chapter 3.

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And now in chapter 5, the people
are slowly being changed by his

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perspective.
This is the change.

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This is the nation’s response.
If Lamentations 1 and 2, are the

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thief on this side who just
wallows and self-pity and misery

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without meaning.
The now we come to the nation,

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the thief, on this side, who is
beginning to turn, who can look

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to the man in the middle Christ
on the cross.

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And see an example of how to
deal with suffering in faith and

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in trust.
And now, this nation recognizes

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the innocent sea of the man in
the middle.

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And he starts to turn.
He starts to repent, he starts

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to change.
And what did that Thief say?

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Remember me when that comes
first in thy kingdom, this is

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the nation’s response to the man
of chapter 3 and look what the

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nation does.
They remember.

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00:32:49,800 –> 00:32:56,200
They recall to mind that’s
Lamentations 3, 19 to 21, they

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acknowledge, we have sinned, we
have transgressed, that’s

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Lamentations 3 and verse 42.
They talk about God’s steadfast

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00:33:06,200 –> 00:33:10,700
love and mercy, as which are
forever in verse 19.

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00:33:11,400 –> 00:33:15,200
They say, Yahweh will not cast
off forever.

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00:33:15,400 –> 00:33:20,100
In verse 20, that comes from
Lamentations 3 in verse, One

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00:33:20,800 –> 00:33:25,100
they say, yeah, we will not
utterly reject us or crush us in

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00:33:25,100 –> 00:33:28,600
verse 22, which we’ll come to in
a few moments that comes from

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00:33:28,600 –> 00:33:32,000
verses 33 to 34 of Lamentations
3.

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And finally, in verse 21, they
say turned our us unto thee o

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Yahweh and we shall be turned
that comes straight out of

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00:33:43,200 –> 00:33:51,800
Lamentations 3 and verse 40, let
us search and try our ways and

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00:33:51,800 –> 00:33:58,000
turn again unto Yahweh.
So, Lamentations 3 and the man

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00:33:58,000 –> 00:34:03,700
of Affliction has greatly
influenced now, the nation and

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00:34:03,700 –> 00:34:07,100
their response in Lamentations
five.

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They complained about their
Brews and who could heal them

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00:34:10,900 –> 00:34:15,600
but now the man who was bruised
for their iniquities, was able

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00:34:15,600 –> 00:34:18,000
to give them that.
Perspective.

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And they were responding.
You know, it’s a pretty hard

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00:34:23,400 –> 00:34:26,300
confession to make.
Isn’t it in verse 16?

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When the Nations says, we have
sinned And you know that’s the

462
00:34:35,199 –> 00:34:38,600
point of suffering.
That’s the point that God wants

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00:34:38,600 –> 00:34:42,300
to bring all of us to finally
the nation gets there in chapter

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00:34:42,300 –> 00:34:46,900
5 and verse 16, they acknowledge
their sin but look brothers and

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00:34:46,900 –> 00:34:49,699
sisters how it is dragged out of
them.

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00:34:50,600 –> 00:34:57,200
Look at chapter 4 in verse 7.
Well, we’re prepared to admit

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00:34:57,200 –> 00:35:05,200
that maybe we’re not quite as
pure as the driven snow. 4:13,

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00:35:05,400 –> 00:35:10,300
well, maybe the prophets and the
priests might have sinned.

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00:35:12,000 –> 00:35:16,500
Chapter 4 verse 17 to 20.
Well we could have been more

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00:35:16,500 –> 00:35:24,200
faithful, Preps. 5:7 well, our
fathers certainly sinned and we

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00:35:24,200 –> 00:35:27,800
are suffering because of them
until finally.

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00:35:28,500 –> 00:35:37,500
It is rung out of them and 5:16
Woe unto us that we have sinned

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00:35:37,500 –> 00:35:41,700
at last there is total
Acceptance in ownership of their

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sin.
And even verse 7 was just a

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00:35:44,000 –> 00:35:46,500
partial acceptance of
responsibility.

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It took God’s judgments.
It took his punishments, it took

477
00:35:52,200 –> 00:35:56,200
knocking the crown clean off the
heat of the princess verse 16

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00:35:56,200 –> 00:35:59,900
for her to realize.
I have sinned I am guilty.

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God only is righteous and in the
last A few verses of, the final

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00:36:05,900 –> 00:36:10,600
prayer of the book and only
their does God get the nation to

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00:36:10,600 –> 00:36:16,700
where he needs them to be.
We can see the progress that

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they have made.
Look at Verse 18, but read with

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00:36:21,500 –> 00:36:27,000
me from verse 17, For this, our
heart is faint.

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00:36:27,500 –> 00:36:34,800
For these things, our eyes are
dim because Of the Mountain of

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00:36:34,800 –> 00:36:41,200
Zion, which is desolate.
The foxes walk upon it.

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00:36:42,300 –> 00:36:45,600
Do you know that the word
desolate is a keyword in

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00:36:45,600 –> 00:36:51,900
Lamentations but look at the
progress of this nation They

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00:36:51,900 –> 00:36:58,500
start out in chapter 1 and verse
for all her gates are desolate.

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00:36:58,800 –> 00:37:03,000
The city is desolate.
By the time we come to chapter 1

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00:37:03,000 –> 00:37:06,800
verse 13.
He has made me desolate.

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00:37:06,900 –> 00:37:10,500
I am desolate.
By the time we come to chapter 1

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00:37:10,500 –> 00:37:18,000
verse 16.
My children are desolate. 4:5.

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The people are desolate.
They that did feed delicately

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00:37:23,000 –> 00:37:27,300
are desolate until finally.
In chapter 5, we find that the

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mountain of Zion is desolate.
God, and His Mountain are

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00:37:33,200 –> 00:37:35,700
desolate.
And the people start to think

497
00:37:35,700 –> 00:37:38,700
about something other than their
own misery.

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00:37:38,700 –> 00:37:44,200
How does God feel With his
inheritance turned over to

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00:37:44,200 –> 00:37:48,900
strangers verse 2.
How does God feel with his own

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00:37:48,900 –> 00:37:51,800
children did or abandoned verse
3?

501
00:37:52,500 –> 00:37:55,800
How does God feel when his
people are paying money for the

502
00:37:55,800 –> 00:37:59,400
Water of Life?
Verse 4, that he had given them

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00:37:59,400 –> 00:38:03,900
without price.
I mean Jeremiah had said to the

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00:38:03,900 –> 00:38:09,400
people and 2:13 and chapter 17
and verse 8 that God himself was

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00:38:09,400 –> 00:38:12,300
the Fountain of Living Waters
and now they’re paying for

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00:38:12,300 –> 00:38:15,200
water.
How does that make God feel?

507
00:38:16,200 –> 00:38:20,700
How does God feel in verse 18
that the foxes unclean

508
00:38:20,700 –> 00:38:26,400
scavengers are prowling over his
Holy Hill in the attention of

509
00:38:26,400 –> 00:38:30,100
the people suddenly turns, to
God.

510
00:38:31,900 –> 00:38:34,500
How does God feel about all this
desolation?

511
00:38:35,300 –> 00:38:40,800
I mean, up until now it’s just
been about me but now How does

512
00:38:40,800 –> 00:38:43,900
God feel about his temple in
Ruins?

513
00:38:44,300 –> 00:38:47,800
How does God feel about his
people carted off into

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00:38:47,800 –> 00:38:54,000
captivity?
Look at verse 19, thou o, Yahweh

515
00:38:54,200 –> 00:38:58,200
remain us forever.
Thy Throne from generation to

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00:38:58,200 –> 00:39:00,400
generation.
This is another sign of

517
00:39:00,400 –> 00:39:04,200
progress.
If we saw that the word desolate

518
00:39:04,200 –> 00:39:08,200
was able to take us through a
progression of thought, from

519
00:39:08,200 –> 00:39:13,200
just being totally self-consumed
to finally realizing that Yahweh

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00:39:13,200 –> 00:39:17,000
was desolated by what Babylon
had done.

521
00:39:17,300 –> 00:39:20,400
Then what about this idea of his
sanctuary.

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00:39:22,100 –> 00:39:26,000
In chapter 1 and verse 10.
The Heathen have entered into

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00:39:26,000 –> 00:39:29,000
her Sanctuary.
There was disbelief at the

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00:39:29,000 –> 00:39:35,700
desecration Then in Chapter 2,
there’s a realization that he

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00:39:35,700 –> 00:39:38,900
has abhorred.
His Century there was confusion

526
00:39:39,100 –> 00:39:43,000
that God could allow this.
How did how could God do this to

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00:39:43,000 –> 00:39:47,400
his Sanctuary?
Then in chapter 3, there’s an

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00:39:47,400 –> 00:39:52,000
acknowledgement that we ought to
lift up our hands to God, who

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00:39:52,000 –> 00:39:56,900
dwells in the heavens?
A realization that God dwells

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00:39:56,900 –> 00:40:00,700
not in buildings made with hands
in chapter 4.

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00:40:00,700 –> 00:40:05,600
In verse 1, the stones of the
century are poured out the

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00:40:05,600 –> 00:40:10,000
destruction, they realize, it
must have been God’s will.

533
00:40:11,200 –> 00:40:17,600
But now in chapter 5 and verse
19, they realize that actually

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00:40:17,600 –> 00:40:20,300
God’s Sanctuary could never be
destroyed.

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00:40:21,300 –> 00:40:23,900
Even though Jerusalem lay in
smoldering ruins.

536
00:40:24,600 –> 00:40:29,300
There was now a realization, a
recognition that Yahweh still

537
00:40:29,300 –> 00:40:33,000
set in throned in his real
sanctuary in the heavens just as

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00:40:33,000 –> 00:40:37,400
he did before.
Roll the rooms, has their own

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00:40:37,400 –> 00:40:42,300
Yahweh and two times age,
abiding dust remain.

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00:40:42,400 –> 00:40:46,100
And it was suddenly brought home
to them, how finite their minds

541
00:40:46,100 –> 00:40:55,700
were They were devastated about
their homes, this city, this

542
00:40:55,700 –> 00:41:00,200
short lives.
They’re man-made Temple, but

543
00:41:00,200 –> 00:41:04,500
Yahweh rained, and throned in
the heavens unfettered by time,

544
00:41:04,800 –> 00:41:08,100
or place.
And it lasts in the final words

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00:41:08,100 –> 00:41:12,500
of the book.
God sees his children, turn the

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00:41:12,500 –> 00:41:18,000
whole purpose of our Affliction
is to make us turn 3:40 and now

547
00:41:18,400 –> 00:41:20,600
they do.
Verse 21.

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00:41:21,800 –> 00:41:26,500
Turned out us unto thee, o
Yahweh, and we shall be turned

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00:41:26,800 –> 00:41:32,700
renew our days as of old, but
thou Hast utterly rejected us,

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00:41:33,200 –> 00:41:38,900
Thou Art very rough against us.
Now, you may know that verse 22

551
00:41:38,900 –> 00:41:41,500
should really be rendered as a
question.

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00:41:42,000 –> 00:41:46,700
It is not a statement that God
had utterly rejected them, but

553
00:41:46,700 –> 00:41:50,600
it should be like the margins
says for wilt.

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00:41:50,600 –> 00:41:55,400
Thou Actually reject us, aren’t
there?

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00:41:56,000 –> 00:42:02,700
Still very rough against us?
The ESV has unless you have

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00:42:02,700 –> 00:42:06,300
utterly rejected us and you
remain exceedingly angry with

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00:42:06,300 –> 00:42:09,300
us.
It’s a rhetorical question and

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00:42:09,300 –> 00:42:12,500
we already know the answer to
that.

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00:42:12,500 –> 00:42:15,200
Question.
From Lamentations chapter 3 and

560
00:42:15,200 –> 00:42:19,300
verse 31.
He will not cast off forever.

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00:42:20,500 –> 00:42:24,700
His character abundant and
goodness and compassion.

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00:42:25,000 –> 00:42:27,800
And faithfulness means that he
could never do that.

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00:42:27,900 –> 00:42:29,800
Not to people who turn back to
him.

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00:42:30,600 –> 00:42:36,000
And now, God has the response
that he’s been waiting for, from

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00:42:36,000 –> 00:42:39,300
the nation in the same response
that he waits for each of us,

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00:42:40,100 –> 00:42:47,400
weights from from each of us in
verse 21. turn their us unto

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00:42:47,400 –> 00:42:53,700
thee, o Yahweh and we shall be
turned Rotherham is has bring us

568
00:42:53,700 –> 00:42:56,600
back.
Oh Yahweh unto thyself and we

569
00:42:56,600 –> 00:42:59,900
will come back at last.
There is true.

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00:42:59,900 –> 00:43:02,100
Repentance.
True.

571
00:43:02,100 –> 00:43:06,100
Humility.
A recognition that if the

572
00:43:06,100 –> 00:43:11,500
punishment all came from God,
then forgiveness and healing and

573
00:43:11,500 –> 00:43:14,300
restoration must come from him
as well.

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00:43:15,600 –> 00:43:16,800
And, you know, brothers and
sisters.

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00:43:16,800 –> 00:43:23,200
The most amazing thing is that
the people in verse 21 actually

576
00:43:23,200 –> 00:43:31,500
quote, do you know who Jeremiah
himself because Jeremiah are

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00:43:31,500 –> 00:43:38,800
verse 21 is a quotation of
Jeremiah 31 in verses 18 to 19.

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00:43:38,900 –> 00:43:43,100
It’s almost as if they salute
the prophet who had brought them

579
00:43:43,300 –> 00:43:46,100
slowly.
But inevitably to this

580
00:43:46,200 –> 00:43:50,500
understanding it’s a mark of
respect for the prophet who had

581
00:43:50,500 –> 00:43:56,100
willingly suffered everything
they had but he’d been right all

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00:43:56,100 –> 00:43:57,900
along.
Just come back.

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00:43:57,900 –> 00:44:01,300
If you will to the Jeremiah 31
because it’s just read those

584
00:44:01,300 –> 00:44:04,700
verses together and see how
wonderfully the nation pays.

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00:44:04,700 –> 00:44:11,900
Homage to Jeremiah Jeremiah 31.
And verse 18.

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00:44:17,700 –> 00:44:21,200
These are God’s words out of the
mouth of Jeremiah the prophet.

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00:44:22,200 –> 00:44:26,800
I have surely heard a frame
bemoaning himself, thus thou

588
00:44:26,800 –> 00:44:30,300
Hast chastise me and I was
chastised as a bullock

589
00:44:30,400 –> 00:44:36,300
unaccustomed to the yolk.
Turn thou me and I shall be

590
00:44:36,300 –> 00:44:42,600
turned for thou art, Yahweh, my
God shortly after that I was

591
00:44:42,600 –> 00:44:45,500
turned I repented.
And after that, I was

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00:44:45,500 –> 00:44:47,600
instructed, I smote upon my
thigh.

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00:44:47,900 –> 00:44:50,800
I was ashamed.
Yeah, even confounded because I

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00:44:50,808 –> 00:44:54,700
did Bear the Roach of my youth
is Ephraim.

595
00:44:54,700 –> 00:44:59,200
My dear son.
Is he a pleasant child for since

596
00:44:59,200 –> 00:45:01,600
I speak against him?
I do earnestly.

597
00:45:01,600 –> 00:45:05,800
Remember him still there for my
bowels are troubled for him and

598
00:45:05,800 –> 00:45:08,500
will surely have mercy upon Him
saith.

599
00:45:08,600 –> 00:45:16,800
Yahweh, Set the up waymarks.
Make the high heaps sit by heart

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00:45:16,800 –> 00:45:20,900
toward the highway, even the way
which thou wentest turn again.

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00:45:20,900 –> 00:45:27,000
Oh, Virgin of Israel turn again
to these dice cities.

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00:45:28,300 –> 00:45:33,000
And now the nation is going to
directly quote from Jeremiah’s

603
00:45:33,000 –> 00:45:37,700
words because Jeremiah had
prophesied of Destruction and

604
00:45:37,700 –> 00:45:42,800
misery into ruins.
But he also promised the

605
00:45:42,800 –> 00:45:45,500
feelings of God for his own
children.

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00:45:46,200 –> 00:45:50,400
He promised healing and life and
blessings.

607
00:45:50,500 –> 00:45:53,800
God was not only the cause of
their punishment, but the

608
00:45:53,800 –> 00:45:59,700
solution to all of their woes,
The purification and purging

609
00:45:59,700 –> 00:46:05,600
process of Affliction has a
purpose to restore to show Mercy

610
00:46:06,000 –> 00:46:11,700
to build again.
It’s vain to lament the past if

611
00:46:11,700 –> 00:46:15,600
our grief and soul-searching
does not make the future better

612
00:46:15,800 –> 00:46:20,500
and God had promised a reversal
of all of the destruction and

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00:46:20,500 –> 00:46:25,000
misery a reversal of all of the
pain and horror of Lamentations

614
00:46:25,200 –> 00:46:29,600
in Jeremiah chapter 31 is going
to outline God’s solution for

615
00:46:29,600 –> 00:46:32,700
his people.
If they turn just come back over

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00:46:32,700 –> 00:46:37,300
the page and read with me what
God had already promised.

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00:46:38,000 –> 00:46:43,000
And see if you can hear Echoes
of Lamentations verse 10.

618
00:46:43,700 –> 00:46:48,200
Hear the word of Yahweh.
Oh ye nations declare it in the

619
00:46:48,200 –> 00:46:53,900
aisles, afar off and say he that
scattered him.

620
00:46:54,500 –> 00:46:58,100
Israel will gather him and keep
him as a Shepherd.

621
00:46:58,100 –> 00:47:01,000
Duff is flock for Yahweh.
Hath redeemed.

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00:47:01,000 –> 00:47:04,000
Jacob, rent some time from the
hand of him that was stronger

623
00:47:04,000 –> 00:47:06,800
than he.
Therefore they shall come and

624
00:47:06,800 –> 00:47:11,700
sing in the height of Zion shall
flow together to the goodness of

625
00:47:11,700 –> 00:47:15,900
Yahweh for wheat and for wine,
and for oil for the young of the

626
00:47:15,900 –> 00:47:19,500
flock and of the herd, their
soul shall be as a watered

627
00:47:19,500 –> 00:47:22,100
Garden.
They shall not so anymore at

628
00:47:22,100 –> 00:47:24,900
all.
Then, shall the Virgin rejoice

629
00:47:24,900 –> 00:47:27,700
in the dance?
Both young men and old together

630
00:47:27,800 –> 00:47:32,700
for I will turn their mourning
into joy and Will Comfort them,

631
00:47:32,800 –> 00:47:35,100
and make them Rejoice from their
sorrow.

632
00:47:35,300 –> 00:47:37,700
I will satiate the soul of the
priests with fatness.

633
00:47:37,800 –> 00:47:42,400
It’s my people shall be
satisfied with my goodness.

634
00:47:42,700 –> 00:47:43,800
Saith.
Yahweh.

635
00:47:44,800 –> 00:47:49,100
Thus says, Yahweh a voice was
heard in Ramah lamentation,

636
00:47:50,300 –> 00:47:55,400
bitter weeping Rachel weeping
for her children refused to be

637
00:47:55,400 –> 00:47:57,800
comforted for her children
because they were not thus

638
00:47:57,800 –> 00:48:00,500
saith.
Yahweh refrain thy voice from

639
00:48:00,500 –> 00:48:03,000
weeping.
Don’t eyes from tears.

640
00:48:03,400 –> 00:48:07,200
For they work shall be rewarded,
saith, Yahweh, and they shall

641
00:48:07,200 –> 00:48:14,300
come again from the land of the
enemy, and there is hope in

642
00:48:14,300 –> 00:48:17,100
those.
Line in saith, Yahweh and thy

643
00:48:17,100 –> 00:48:21,800
children shall come again to
their own border.

644
00:48:21,900 –> 00:48:27,600
That’s the immediate context.
Of the nation’s quotation of

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00:48:27,600 –> 00:48:31,000
I’ve Jeremiah’s words in verse
18.

646
00:48:31,200 –> 00:48:36,200
God already had the solution to
all their pain to all their hurt

647
00:48:36,600 –> 00:48:41,800
to all their suffering.
There is hope in the end, he’s

648
00:48:41,800 –> 00:48:45,300
outlined the solution before
they even encountered the

649
00:48:45,300 –> 00:48:49,800
problem.
Because you see brothers and

650
00:48:49,800 –> 00:48:57,900
sisters Lamentations is not just
limited to 586 BC and the

651
00:48:57,900 –> 00:49:02,100
sufferings of one generation.
It’s not a story that’s just

652
00:49:02,100 –> 00:49:05,600
limited to Jeremiah’s time.
This is a story that will be

653
00:49:05,600 –> 00:49:10,300
repeated by the nation time and
time again as they make the same

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00:49:10,300 –> 00:49:15,000
mistakes and learn the same
lessons over and over again.

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That’s why it’s recorded for us
because we make the same

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mistakes. and we are able to
learn the same lessons, you

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00:49:25,800 –> 00:49:32,600
know, back in Lamentations, in
chapter 4, in verse 13.

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We read these words.
For the sins of her prophets and

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the iniquities of her priests.
They have shed the blood of the

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just in the midst of her.
And whilst that was true of all

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of the profits and it was almost
true of Jeremiah, he almost had

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his blood shed in the middle of
Jerusalem.

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The blood of the just in the
ultimate sinks was our Lord

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Jesus Christ.
In Christ reaches back through

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the centuries to allude to the
book of Lamentations again and

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again and again in his final
days as he could see the nation

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on the brink of 80 70 and the
destruction of another

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generation and another Temple.
This time just by different

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enemies but all for the same
reasons and our Lord Jesus

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Christ is going to allude to
Lamentations in his lament over

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00:50:41,800 –> 00:50:45,800
the city.
O Jerusalem Jerusalem, you have

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00:50:45,800 –> 00:50:50,200
shed the blood of the just your
house will be left unto you

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desolate.
The stones will be poured out,

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00:50:53,900 –> 00:50:58,900
taken down one by one.
The enemy is going to stand

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where they ought not.
People are going to Marvel that

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00:51:02,200 –> 00:51:06,100
the Romans even got into God’s
holy place.

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00:51:07,000 –> 00:51:10,800
He wept over Jerusalem, your
children will be lying on the

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ground.
Woe unto them, that give suck.

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They’ll be distressed and wrath
upon the people.

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He gives an exhortation to the
daughters of Jerusalem.

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00:51:20,300 –> 00:51:23,700
A phrase taken straight out of
Lamentations chapter 2.

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00:51:24,100 –> 00:51:28,000
Their punishment would be
greater than Sodom and if

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Lamentations 2 and verse 12
asked, where is corn and wine?

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00:51:34,600 –> 00:51:38,400
We don’t need to wonder do we
for the reason why our Lord

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00:51:38,400 –> 00:51:43,200
Jesus Christ took bread.
And took the cup.

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00:51:44,800 –> 00:51:49,800
These were symbols from the
beginning of time to demonstrate

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the presence of God amongst his
people.

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00:51:54,600 –> 00:51:58,200
And before he left, he wanted to
leave them with those tokens

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00:51:58,900 –> 00:52:01,500
before.
The horrific destruction of the

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Roman swept down upon the
people.

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00:52:03,300 –> 00:52:07,500
And the same thing happened to
the nation again, he knew it was

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00:52:07,500 –> 00:52:11,500
happening all over again.
You see the book of Lamentations

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is for all times?
It speaks of the universal

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00:52:16,300 –> 00:52:21,200
experience of Affliction and
it’s universal meaning.

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00:52:23,000 –> 00:52:28,600
And while at the Dreadful events
of Jeremiah’s time Babylon, was

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00:52:28,600 –> 00:52:33,400
in the ascendancy.
And Israel was subjugated on the

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00:52:33,400 –> 00:52:38,500
decline.
God’s plans for the future are

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00:52:38,500 –> 00:52:43,200
entirely the opposite, he can
reverse their Fortunes in a

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00:52:43,207 –> 00:52:47,700
moment of time and he will do
just that for Babylon because

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00:52:47,700 –> 00:52:53,800
just as Israel didn’t turn to
him in Christ stay and they

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00:52:53,800 –> 00:52:58,300
suffered the same fate as
Jeremiah’s people because

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00:52:58,300 –> 00:53:03,600
Babylon has not recognize God.
It will be their turn to drink

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00:53:03,800 –> 00:53:08,500
from yahweh’s cup.
Look how the the Dreadful terms

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00:53:08,500 –> 00:53:12,600
of Lamentations are going to
occur and pop up in Revelation

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00:53:12,600 –> 00:53:16,700
as God’s.
Judgments are poured out upon

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00:53:17,200 –> 00:53:21,200
the very power, that desecrated
the temple.

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00:53:21,200 –> 00:53:28,600
In Jeremiah’s time, we have a
woman, an adulterer one clothed

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00:53:28,600 –> 00:53:33,200
in fine Scarlet.
She was drunk with Innocent

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00:53:33,200 –> 00:53:37,100
blood as we just read the blood
of the, of the just as poured

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00:53:37,100 –> 00:53:41,400
out in her streets.
She was once a great City, but

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00:53:41,400 –> 00:53:44,500
now, has she Fallen?
She’s become a dwelling place

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00:53:44,500 –> 00:53:50,300
for beasts once a proud Queen.
Once known for Delicacies.

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00:53:50,700 –> 00:53:56,200
Now, desolate sitting on the
ground in sackcloth and Ashes.

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00:53:56,200 –> 00:54:01,600
Lemon tation made for it in.
Jeremiah 51 is going to say, how

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is she shek taken?
How is Babylon become in

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00:54:05,900 –> 00:54:11,000
astonishment among the Nations
and Babylon will receive the

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00:54:11,000 –> 00:54:15,100
same fate as Judah.
If Judah was no better than

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00:54:15,100 –> 00:54:19,700
Babylon, then Babylon was no
worse than Judah.

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And the lesson of This Book of
Lamentations is about Universal

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00:54:25,100 –> 00:54:32,200
suffering, Universal sin,
Universal repentance and seeking

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00:54:32,200 –> 00:54:35,500
for meaning, turning to God.
If we don’t learn the lessons of

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00:54:35,500 –> 00:54:38,900
this book, these people, the
lessons of the past.

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We will be doomed to repeat
their mistakes.

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00:54:43,300 –> 00:54:47,600
So where do we stand brothers
and sisters, is we look at the

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00:54:47,600 –> 00:54:50,200
parable of the book of
Lamentations.

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Where are we?
In this story we did we find

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00:54:55,000 –> 00:55:02,000
ourselves in 2021.
But we have the example in the

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00:55:02,000 –> 00:55:06,400
middle of the book.
The man of Lamentations 3, the

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00:55:06,400 –> 00:55:10,800
man who has seen Affliction
despite his innocence.

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00:55:11,400 –> 00:55:15,800
But who offers meaning and hope
in the choice for all of us is

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which way will we go?
Will we be part of an

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00:55:21,700 –> 00:55:27,500
unrepentant Community Afflicted
because of sinfulness engulfed

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00:55:27,500 –> 00:55:30,900
by grief without meaning
chapters one and two?

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00:55:32,300 –> 00:55:36,300
Or will we respond to this man
in the middle?

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00:55:37,100 –> 00:55:43,600
This man who was able to inspire
a faithful Community to rely on.

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00:55:43,600 –> 00:55:48,600
God and to wait, patiently for
him, we’re going to be The

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00:55:48,600 –> 00:55:52,700
Afflicted Daughter of Zion.
Or are we going to be the

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00:55:52,700 –> 00:55:59,300
precious sons of Zion?
We stand on the edge of Israel

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00:55:59,300 –> 00:56:02,800
in the ascendancy and Babylon on
Climb.

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00:56:03,900 –> 00:56:10,200
We are all waiting for yahushua.
Yahweh is salvation and we’re

741
00:56:10,200 –> 00:56:16,200
doing what Lamentations 3 us us
to do both hope in quietly.

742
00:56:16,200 –> 00:56:19,600
Wait for him.
Todd sometimes, isn’t it

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00:56:19,600 –> 00:56:28,800
brothers and sisters to wait.
Quietly for him let’s try to see

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00:56:28,800 –> 00:56:34,300
meaning in our minor miseries to
see hope Beyond life’s troubles

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00:56:34,600 –> 00:56:37,800
to realize that nothing happens
by accident in God’s

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00:56:37,800 –> 00:56:41,700
arrangements and that whatever
happens to us, it’s his love,

747
00:56:42,600 –> 00:56:46,700
it’s his care.
It’s his patients without an

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00:56:46,700 –> 00:56:50,800
ability to learn.
It’s his steadfast Relentless

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00:56:50,800 –> 00:56:54,900
love to conform us.
Us to the image of his son.

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00:56:55,000 –> 00:56:56,900
However, hard.
That might feel.

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00:56:58,600 –> 00:57:05,100
That when his son comes to raise
Zions smoldering walls to

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00:57:05,100 –> 00:57:09,100
restore, Israel’s Kings and
Priests to make Jerusalem, a

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00:57:09,100 –> 00:57:13,400
praise again in the earth that
we can welcome him with open

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00:57:13,400 –> 00:57:17,100
arms, brother and sisters.
That we know that man.

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00:57:18,200 –> 00:57:21,100
That we love him for what he has
done for us.

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00:57:21,700 –> 00:57:27,500
He intimately new affliction.
But now he doesn’t come as the

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00:57:27,500 –> 00:57:32,200
man who knew Affliction, he’s
going to come as the king of the

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00:57:32,200 –> 00:57:36,700
world.
The inspiration of all those who

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00:57:36,700 –> 00:57:41,500
aspire to be, Zions precious
Sons and Daughters.

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00:57:41,800 –> 00:57:45,100
Let us brothers and sisters in
young people try to take

761
00:57:45,200 –> 00:57:50,900
Lamentations into our own hearts
and Minds to turn to turn back

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00:57:50,900 –> 00:57:54,200
to him to be changed by his
perspective.

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00:57:55,300 –> 00:57:58,700
To know that the sufferings of,
this present time are not worthy

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00:57:59,500 –> 00:58:05,500
to be compared with the glories
that one day will be revealed in

765
00:58:05,500 –> 00:57:56,700
US.
To know that the sufferings of,

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00:57:56,700 –> 00:58:01,600
this present time are not worthy
to be compared with the glories

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00:58:02,300 –> 00:58:06,000
that one day will be revealed in
US.