I do not believe in coincidences. The night before I began studying the book of Lamentations for this post, I was watching Johnathan Cahn’s Book of Mysteries on TBN. Two of the mysteries highlighted while I was watching, we’re the only two in the entire book that have scripture references from Lamentations. And they were two that made me sit up and take notice as I watched the mysteries come to light. This is a book that every believer should read. It will open your walk with God in ways you ever imagined, and strengthen your faith exponentially.
Lamentations is a poem of heartbreak. Jeremiah witnessed the destruction of his beloved city Jerusalem, and his people taken into captivity. All that God had told him would happen did. In chapter 1 verse 13, he states that From on high, he sent down fire deep into my bones. The Word of the Lord was ablaze within him, yet his warnings were rejected by the priests. He was so broken when the destruction came to pass that he went on to say in verse 16 Because of these things, I weep; my eyes, my eyes stream with tears; for anyone who could comfort me and revive my courage is far away. In his brokenness, he poured out his cry for Israel. To lament means to mourn aloud, or to wail. It is intense sorrow and mourning.
The Word tells us in Psalm 30:5 Weeping may endureth for a night, but joy cometh in the morning, and while in the midst of one of their darkest hours, the Lord still gave forth a word of blessing in the darkness. 21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. 22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore I will hope in him. 25 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. Lamentations 3:21-26
In the Book of Mysteries, Johnathan Cahn explains the word MERCIES translates to rachamim. This is a word that we need to imprint on our hearts and hold tight to it. He says that because this word is plural, and not singular, the mercies of God are always greater than our sin, and you can never exhaust God's mercies. Not only will He have more mercies than you have sin, He has enough compassion left over to love you forever. This is HUGE, because even in their darkest days, when God brought down judgement upon His chosen people, Israel, He was still crying out for them. He was letting them know that He still had more mercy for them than they had rebellion for Him. He had more love for them than they had apostasy. He had more compassion than they had for their love of idolatry. HIS MERCIES ENDURE FOREVER! Psalm 147: 2-3 says: ADONAI is rebuilding Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), gathering the dispersed of Isra'el (Israel). He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds. He told them before it's destruction that He was going to rebuild the city and gather them home, because His mercies endure FOREVER.
Even to this day, God is the cry for Israel. Throughout His word He calls to His chosen nation (a nation that you are grafted into if you are born again), and repeatedly says He will rebuild them. Jeremiah 31:3-4 reads: The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with a lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with they tabrets (tambourines), and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. Romans 11: 23-27 Continues His cry for Israel saying: 23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? 25 For I would not, brethren that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. 26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer (Redeemer), and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
We, as the children of God, should be joining Him in the cry for Israel. We should be praying for and standing with them. God declared in the very beginning to Abram, before He ever changed his name to Abraham, a very powerful promise. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Genesis 12:2-3 When we bless His chosen nation, He will bless us. We are part of His chosen nation, Israel. We are adopted in by the precious blood of Jesus. Let us join with our Father and be in agreement with Him in the cry for Israel, and speak blessings and life over His chosen people.
Scriptures taken from the Complete Jewish Study Bible and the KJV
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