Lamentations 1
How, says Jeremiah,
has it come to this..
Lamentations, a
lament or wailing, the occasion was the destruction of Jerusalem in 588BC, the
dissolution of the Jewish state, both civil and ecclesiastical. The judgment and chastisement of the old
testament church. Jeremiah warned of the destruction that was coming for 40
years. The predictions of ruin were mocked by false prophets and not believed
and scorned by God's people. Everyone
mocked Jeremiah's message.
Church historians say
that the fires that destroyed Jerusalem burned for 3 days.
To properly
understand the message of Lamentations we must sit in the smoking ruins of the
old covenant church. We must smell the
stench of the thousands upon thousands of rotting corpses. And then we may say,
How has it come to this. Even though Jeremiah knew the answer even before he
commenced his ministry because God told him that the old covenant church would
not listen to him. When the judgment
comes, Jeremiah still weeps for the church because he cares for the church, one
of the very few people that does care.
