Today, God has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest (Lam:2:6). So many today claim they are among His royal priesthood but can't tell they are displeasing to Him. They say "I am rich and increased with goods", they are fixated on worldly wealth and possessions, on money, they proudly call all this "prosperity". They say they "have need of nothing" while all the while they "know not they are wretched and miserable and POOR and blind and naked"(Rev:3:17). Jesus goes on to describe true riches, which have nothing to do with what man values in this world. Oh my people, let us see with God's eyes! "The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary. What shall I say to witness for thee? What thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem?" "daughter of Jerusalem" refers to the Church. "Thy breach is great, like the sea, who can heal thee?"."Thy prophets (here I say, also pastors and teachers) have seen (and taught) vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity"(2:14). How true this is today! So many are declaring peace, peace (with God) when there is no peace. So many are seeing and teaching vain and foolish things that profit not, telling us all is well when sudden destruction is eminent! Know you not that 911 was a prophetic warning to America? God was saying to us, through the twin towers, I can take that which is high and mighty, those who are lifted up high in pride and I can abase them in a moment, in a blink of an eye. Christianity, as we know it today, has made a mockery of God. "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?"(2:15). The world inherently knows something the dead, religious churches can't see - they no more represent the true, living, all powerful, all knowing God of Love in the earth than does a flea. They honor Him in name only, with their lips but their hearts are far from Him.
"Let us search and try our ways and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens". Let us say to God now - "We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned". (Lam:3:40-42). Precious saint, He may have pardoned your individual sin but stop seeing only yourself and start seeing yourself as a part of a whole "tho we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another"(Rom:12:5). Think globally, think of all who name the name of Christ (Jesus) and weep for "the destruction of the daughter of my people" (Lam:3:48). The "daughter of my people" is us, the Church, for we sprang from the loins of Israel "Salvation is of the Jews". Their casting away was the reconciling of the world! We are Ruth and Israel is our mother-in-law! We've been made a part of Israel for ever by marriage! In the wonderful story of Ruth, Boaz represents Jesus. "How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed!" (4:1). The gold that is our faith, the gold that God will try with fire to remove the dross, the unbelief and doubt, our precious faith, how dim it's become! When Jesus returns, will he find true faith on the earth? (not the false kind most churches teach, wherein you can deny God's presence and power in your life, sit in a pew your whole life and never accomplish a single iota of God's will, and be told you've kept the faith). How have we become dim! The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers (4:2). We are meant by God to shine as a city on a hill, to destroy the works of the devil, to do mighty exploits, to raise the dead, heal the sick, prophecy and purge this earth of every last bit of Satan's influence on it yet look at them impact the sons of God have in any given city. Virtually nil, because they are following the spirit of religion, not God's Spirit!Every ungodly and wicked thing in our foundation will be plucked up and destroyed "The Lord has kindled a fire in Zion and it has devoured the foundations thereof"(Lam:4:11).
Here is yet another reference to fire! The foundation of religious "Christianity", that so many are standing on today, is being destroyed by the Lord, thank God. Open our eyes to see, Lord, it's often you who are resisting us and not the enemy. As long as people obey Satan he is for them, not against them. This is one of his tactics, he offers peace to those who surrender to him.
"Let us search and try our ways and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens". Let us say to God now - "We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned". (Lam:3:40-42). Precious saint, He may have pardoned your individual sin but stop seeing only yourself and start seeing yourself as a part of a whole "tho we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another"(Rom:12:5). Think globally, think of all who name the name of Christ (Jesus) and weep for "the destruction of the daughter of my people" (Lam:3:48). The "daughter of my people" is us, the Church, for we sprang from the loins of Israel "Salvation is of the Jews". Their casting away was the reconciling of the world! We are Ruth and Israel is our mother-in-law! We've been made a part of Israel for ever by marriage! In the wonderful story of Ruth, Boaz represents Jesus. "How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed!" (4:1). The gold that is our faith, the gold that God will try with fire to remove the dross, the unbelief and doubt, our precious faith, how dim it's become! When Jesus returns, will he find true faith on the earth? (not the false kind most churches teach, wherein you can deny God's presence and power in your life, sit in a pew your whole life and never accomplish a single iota of God's will, and be told you've kept the faith). How have we become dim! The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers (4:2). We are meant by God to shine as a city on a hill, to destroy the works of the devil, to do mighty exploits, to raise the dead, heal the sick, prophecy and purge this earth of every last bit of Satan's influence on it yet look at them impact the sons of God have in any given city. Virtually nil, because they are following the spirit of religion, not God's Spirit!Every ungodly and wicked thing in our foundation will be plucked up and destroyed "The Lord has kindled a fire in Zion and it has devoured the foundations thereof"(Lam:4:11).
Here is yet another reference to fire! The foundation of religious "Christianity", that so many are standing on today, is being destroyed by the Lord, thank God. Open our eyes to see, Lord, it's often you who are resisting us and not the enemy. As long as people obey Satan he is for them, not against them. This is one of his tactics, he offers peace to those who surrender to him.
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