The Book Of Lamentations – Part 35 – False Priests And Prophets In Judgment And We Have Them Today Also - Chapter 4:14-16 Series

THE BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS – PART 35 – FALSE PRIESTS AND PROPHETS IN JUDGMENT AND WE HAVE THEM TODAY ALSO - CHAPTER 4:14-16

Last time we began with Jeremiah’s observations of the conditions that evoked such distress from him in all the previous verses. He dealt also with the wickedness in the religious classes – prophets and priests. This would include the elders for the whole nation had corrupted its way. Every strata of society was affected.

I can see the same thing in out nations, now run by greed and paganism as it is in mine. How things have changed so rapidly in the last 40 years. We will continue with those descriptions and they begin with the downfall of these priests.

PART [14]. GUILTY, CORRUPTERS OF THEIR OFFICE

{{Lamentations 4:14 “They WANDERED, BLIND, in the streets. They were DEFILED WITH BLOOD so that no one could touch their garments.”}}

What a description! It is like they have on them the mark of Cain. They wander aimlessly in their guilt. These priests and prophets were murderers of the righteous, and so evil that their corruption had blinded them to the reality of the situation. They were as if their garments ran with blood because they were so defiled with the blood of the innocent. No one would touch them.

This is a horrible world, almost beyond belief at the immense atrocities it contains, all through its 6 000 year history of mankind’s pollution. Too often the evil is covered up or quickly forgotten. The religious order has blood on its hands. He know the satanic operation of the Islamic clerics, ones with garments caked with blood, and added to daily, but so too the Roman Catholic Church (clergy and Popes) with the millions of deaths of born again Christians on its account through the Middle Ages almost to the present in third world countries. People call you names for raising such issues but this is historic fact and true, and we must not compromise for God is going to hold all to account. I think people need to read some very good books on Church History.

There is a short program on YouTube that shows our earth from space, beginning with photos from the Space Station, then from the moon, from Saturn and it ends with the “small blue dot” image, 13 pixels in size taken from Voyager way beyond Pluto’s orbit. Earth looks a beautiful planet hanging in space but it hides a dark secret. It is a murderous, sinful, evil place because men have departed from God and turned to their own ways of murder and corruption, with religious and secular leadership taking the lead in that wickedness.

The word for “wandered” in this Lamentations verse is literally, “reeled” and these are reeling in the streets with their blood-guiltiness. They are as if blind. Their sins have affected them and all they can do is wait the judgement that surely must come upon them. That is terrible, isn’t it? Why do men stay in their sin, heading for hell, and compound the wickedness? Why do they do it? God wants them to repent but in spite of their personal suffering repentance and turning to God are the last things sinful men want to do.

The answer is simple enough when we look into it. Imagine a stream that has become engorged and cuts its new path through the plain. You try to divert it but to no avail. It is on a determined course and nothing will stop it. Sin is very much like that. It becomes its own master, charges along in its own course, and the reality is that evil people can not be diverted unless it is through the miraculous power of Jesus; the power of the Holy Spirit.

Matthew Poole adds another thought - [[“They, that is, the prophets and the priests, wandered up and down the streets like blind men, being spiritually blind, polluting themselves with blood, either the blood of the children which they slew, or the just men mentioned in Lamentations 4:13, the slaughter of whom they either encouraged, or at least did not discourage; so as one could not touch a prophet or a priest, but he must be legally polluted, and there were so many of them, that men could not walk in the streets but that he must touch some of them.”]]

It is about time we looked at the bible alone for our faith and not the myths of man. The religious leadership too often leads people to hell. I will not take up the evil of the prosperity teaching this time but will mention an event that has just happened as I put these thoughts down. The pope died, Pope Francis. He promoted so many evils – the acceptance of homosexuality into the church as a good thing that God accepts; his frequent claim that all religions lead to God in salvation, even Islam and atheism; pan-salvation meaning everyone is loved by God and goes to heaven; his outrageous claims about the environment. There are a lot more but Pope, hear the word of God! Here it is!