Vengeance Of The Servants

Lamentations 5: 1 – 22

Vengeance of the servants

1 Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach! 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, and our houses to foreigners. 3 We have become orphans and waifs; our mothers are like widows. 4 We pay for the water we drink, and our wood comes at a price. 5 They pursue at our heels; We labor and have no rest. 6 We have given our hand to the Egyptians and the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their iniquities. 8 Servants rule over us; There is none to deliver us from their hand. 9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. 10 Our skin is hot as an oven, because of the fever of famine. 11 They ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes were hung up by their hands, and elders were not respected. 13 Young men ground at the millstones; Boys staggered under loads of wood. 14 The elders have ceased gathering at the gate, and the young men from their music. 15 The joy of our heart has ceased; Our dance has turned into mourning. 16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! 17 Because of this our heart is faint; Because of these things our eyes grow dim; 18 Because of Mount Zion which is desolate, with foxes walking about on it. 19 You, O LORD, remain forever; Your throne from generation to generation. 20 Why do You forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time? 21 Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we will be restored; Renew our days as of old, 22 Unless You have utterly rejected us, and are very angry with us!

You hear of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ described as ‘Lord of Lords and King of Kings’, right? So, let me ask you then would the term ‘Servant of Servants’ also pay tribute to our Lord and Master Yeshua God?”

As I scan the bible I do not find this term as complementary. In fact it is listed as part of a curse. In the book of Genesis chapter 9 verse 25 the only time it is listed is when Noah curses out Ham pointing to his descendants, “Then he said: “Cursed be Canaan; ‘A servant of servants’ he shall be to his brethren.

So, why am I bringing up this point. Well, a scripture verse in today’s chapter verse 8 highlights a curse for not following and obeying our Holy God. It points out to us that one of the curses is that a servant will wind up being in charge as a political leader - “8 Servants rule over us; There is none to deliver us from their hand.”

So, why would it be so bad that a person who was at the lowest of society made his way to the pinnacle of success?

Historical records reveal an interesting statement ‘For a servant, when he reigns, Being unfit for it through his education, that is not having been trained up in and learned the arts of government and maxims of it; and through the disposition of his mind, which is mean, abject, and servile; and as he has been used himself when a servant, so he will use. and through his circumstances, being poor, he will take oppressive methods to become rich; and being raised from a low estate, he is the more imperious, proud, and; all which and more make his reign intolerable.

When his belly is filled with God’s "hid treasure" (Psalms 17:14) when he prospers and hath what he will. Prosperity is hard meat to fools; they cannot digest it.

When he reign; when he is advanced to great power and dignity; for such a one is ignorant and unfit for his place, and therefore commits many errors; he is poor, and therefore an insatiable oppressor, according to Proverbs 28:3; he is proud and imperious, and being maligned and hated by others, he is provoked to hate them, and to be injurious and cruel to them.

Marcus Antonius Felix. He was the Roman governor of Judea, when Paul was accused of creating a revolt among the Jews in the Temple. Emperor Claudius appointed Felix governor in about 52 AD. Felix governed Judea until about 59-60 AD when he was recalled to Rome to answer for disturbances in the province and irregularities in his rule. Felix’s home base was Caesarea Marittima (Caesarea by the sea), 39 miles north of Jerusalem.

Felix had little experience ruling. He was born a slave, became a freedman, then a high government official. Felix’s brother Pallans was Claudius’ favorite minister and probably obtained the governorship for Felix.