The Book Of Lamentations – Part 27 – Persecution And Oppression Against God’s People – Wicked Schemes - Chapter 3:58-60 Series

THE BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS – PART 27 – PERSECUTION AND OPPRESSION AGAINST GOD’S PEOPLE – WICKED SCHEMES - CHAPTER 3:58-60

Jeremiah pleads his case with the Lord and that we saw last time. He was delivered from the lowest pit and similar experiences met David, Jonah and the Lord. We looked at them. Also we could include in a lesser way, Joseph in Potiphar’s prison. This present study looks at the prophet’s prayer to God and his acknowledgements of God’s help. The next 4 verses are addressing God by Jeremiah for Jeremiah.

PART [53]. THE PROPHET IN GOD’S REDEMPTION

{{Lamentations 3:58 “O Lord, You pleaded my soul’s cause. YOU HAVE REDEEMED MY LIFE.”}}

Through his ministry this was a continuing service God rendered. The prophet was in His hands and He rescued and preserved him many times. When I read Jeremiah, at times I think he was a bit like the Apostle Paul in regard to difficulties; maybe not the same exactly, but the overall conflicts. Consider these –

{{2 Corinthians 1:8-10 “for we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of OUR AFFLICTION which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, WE HAD THE SENTENCE OF DEATH WITHIN OURSELVES in order that we should NOT TRUST IN OURSELVES, BUT IN GOD who raises the dead, WHO DELIVERED US from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us - He on whom we have set our hope, and He will yet deliver us – “}}

{{2 Corinthians 7:5-6 “For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were AFFLICTED ON EVERY SIDE - CONFLICTS WITHOUT, FEARS WITHIN, but God who comforts the depressed, comforted us by the coming of Titus,”}}

{{2 Corinthians 11:26 “I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, DANGERS FROM MY COUNTRYMEN, dangers from the Gentiles, DANGERS IN THE CITY, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, DANGERS AMONG FALSE BRETHREN.”}} Jeremiah had a lot of danger among false prophets. They had the support of the king and it was always a battle. He lived in very troubling times but the LORD delivered him.

Redemption means to buy back again through the payment of a price. God redeemed Jeremiah by renewing him, preserving him, “paying off” the enemies (bad payment for them – perished in the disaster that overtook the city).

The LORD redeemed Jeremiah from the pit. He was rescued. Look at what happened to Job – {{Job 33:28 “HE HAS REDEEMED MY SOUL FROM GOING TO THE PIT, and my life shall see the light.”}}. I think what Job is saying is that the LORD redeemed him so that he did not die. It is a picture about being in a pit shut up, not a literal one, and when released he will see the light of day.

Our salvation is like that. We are rescued from Satan’s prison pit and we come out to see the light. We see the light of the Light of the World and understand what great things the Lord has done for us. We then walk in spiritual freedom.

PART [54]. IN OPPRESSION JUDGE MY CASE

{{Lamentations 3:59 O LORD, “YOU HAVE SEEN MY OPPRESSION. Judge my case.”}}

This is the prophet speaking but what is said could also be uttered by the surviving remnant of Judah. Not very often do we think of the hard lives the prophets had because they were always persecuted and judged. In the end Isaiah was sawn in two when alive. Such is the hate of Satan against God’s own people, and not just the prophets. Today it happens all over the world with horrible atrocities coming especially from satanic Islam. We see it especially so in Africa.

The western media is corrupt. It makes up stories about the alleged atrocities of Israel against the people of Gaza but will not touch the enormous suffering of Africans under the satanic hand of Islam. All will be accountable for this evil, but we live at the end of the Church age when Satan’s power in the world is exploding because it is the last days. African Christians, be courageous, because the Lord is still on the throne and He remembers His own.

Islam passes itself off as a peaceful religion, one of history’s greatest lies, but we know decisively that it has always been warlike and conquers by terror, fear and subjugation. The western nations have allowed themselves to come under the yoke of Islam through immigration and continuing denial that Islam only wants total domination. Already we are seeing the trouble in nearly every western nation. Things are especially bad in the United Kingdom and France and increasing in Australia, but the United States is not seeing that trouble because they have not been importing Islam like others.