Category: Thoughts from Lamentations
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11/9/24 “Appealing to God’s Nature” (Lam. 3-5)
Reading Time: 2 minutesLamentations is truly filled with the vivid horrors of Judah’s destruction. It’s much easier to talk about it when we weren’t there, we don’t see the effects of Babylon’s siege. Yet, in clear terms the suffering of the people is explained in Lamentations. It’s described as worse than the destruction of Sodom…
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11/8/24 “The Ugly Consequences of Sin (Jer. 52-Lam. 2)
Reading Time: 2 minutesJeremiah’s book closes with a recounting of the final destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. and the capture and punishment of King Zedekiah of Judah by the Babylonians. This transitions right into the book of Lamentations, which many believe was also written by Jeremiah although we can’t be 100 percent sure. Lamentations…