The Book Of Lamentations – Part 40 – The Whole Matter Of Submission – Judah Then, Us Now - Chapter 5 Lamentations 5:6 Series

THE BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS – PART 40 – THE WHOLE MATTER OF SUBMISSION – JUDAH THEN, US NOW - CHAPTER 5 Lamentations 5:6

The complaints (or conditions or laments) continue in this message and reveal the awful conditions for these survivors.

This will be a slightly shorter message because to add this one to the previous exposition, or to the next, will make them very large.

[6]. MOVES OF DESPERATION AND TO WHOM DO WE SUBMIT?

{{Lamentations 5:6 “We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.”}}

When Israel was strong it stood alone with the LORD and He provided everything for them. The more they forgot God the more they resorted to seeking aid from surrounding countries, but it was all to their harm. When a person dismisses what God has available, he is a fool.

I have a real problem with the delusion of climate change as it is called. If any read this and are of the opposite opinion, may I respectfully suggest you carefully examine the true science and what reputable scientists are saying. Here is one of the latest postings that is quite enlightening, coming from really qualified men. If you are of two minds about the climate idealogy or think the scaremongering is correct, please have a look –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LckkSXkr4Nk

It is the radicals in the United Nations pushing climate because there is an agenda behind it. I won’t say much more because it is off topic, but why do you think God gave our world coal, oil, gas and uranium in plentiful supplies? It was not for decoration, but for mankind to use for his needs. God is good and gave us what is needed but of course the anti-God United Nations would oppose that as it opposes Israel.

Our governments are fools in most nations. Socialists and communists rule and they have no time for God whatever. (Praise God that the USA is currently an exception). Therefore all their decisions are stupid – WOKE, and changing names to some indigenous names they never had anyway, and promoting homosexuality, destroying the two genders, and closing down fossil fuel that God gave for man’s benefit. There are more specific things for each nation.

This world has military alliances – NATO is probably the best known and there was one existing between New Zealand and Australia and the United States called ANZUS, born out of World War 2, but the current Australian Government hates the United States so I don’t know what will happen with that.

Judah would not have had to rely on Egypt and Assyria if the people followed God and did what Jeremiah pleaded with them to do. We have an account in 2 Kings that seems to indicate there was some alliance with Egypt and Assyria. I doubt very much that godly Hezekiah drew that up but let’s look at the relevant passage that happened some 200 years or so earlier than Lamentations when Assyria was besieging Judah –

{{2 Kings 18:19-24 Then Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to HEZEKIAH, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What is this confidence that you have? You say, ‘I have counsel and strength for the war,’ but they are only empty words. Now on whom do you rely that you have rebelled against me? Now behold, you rely on THE STAFF OF THIS CRUSHED REED, EVEN ON EGYPT, on which, if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him, but if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars HEZEKIAH has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’? Now therefore, come, make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you TWO THOUSAND HORSES, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. How then can you repulse one official of the least of my master’s servants, and rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?”}}

What a miserable exchange this would have been – 2 000 horses for surrendering the nation’s sovereignty to Assyria. Rabshakeh was correct about Egypt. They would not have come. Do not trust the word of man and man’s agreements. God was not going to let His honour be trashed by a godless Assyrian and slew 185 000 of them to deliver Judah FOR THE SAKE OF HEZEKIAH AND HIS PRAYER – See Isaiah 37.

Just before we move to our Lamentations verse I want to remind you again of a wonderful prophecy that will be fulfilled after the Second Coming of the Lord. This will occur in the Millennial reign of Messiah (probably right at the start) –