Summery of Lamentations Jan. 4, 2025

Before we begin to get into the chapter 3 of Lamentations, (tomorrows post) for today I want to give you a bit of summary of it.

This is new territory for me. A book I have never studied. So I think knowing something about it, is important. And so the following is what I have found out so far.

Please read on:

Author: The Book of Lamentations does not explicitly identify its author. The tradition is that the Prophet Jeremiah wrote Lamentations. This view is highly likely considering the author was a witness of the Babylonians destroying Jerusalem. Jeremiah fits this qualification (2 Chronicles 35:25; 36:21-22). Who wrote the book of Lamentations? Who was the author of Lamentations?

Date of Writing: The Book of Lamentations was likely written between 586 and 575 B.C., during or soon after Jerusalem’s fall.

Purpose of Writing: As a result of Judah’s continued and unrepentant idolatry, God allowed the Babylonians to besiege, plunder, burn, and destroy the city of Jerusalem. Solomon’s Temple, which had stood for approximately 400 years, was burned to the ground. The Prophet Jeremiah, an eyewitness to these events, wrote the Book of Lamentations as a lament for what occurred to Judah and Jerusalem.

(For more of this, go to questions.org)

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My thoughts:

If you read the first part of the 3rd chapter, which we will do tomorrow, it shows us that God's people had been very disobedient. 

We wonder why God allowed them to disobey Him time after time. And yet, isn't that what has happened throughout all history. 

And even us today.

We sin. He forgives.

We mess up. He forgives.

What must He do to get our attention?

Whatever it takes. But, He is always there to forgive us

because of His great love for us. 

Thanks for coming by, Friends. Have a blessed day. 

(side note) Well, Praise God that Mike Johnson was voted in to continue Speaker of the House.

Now I know that a lot of people don't like him because of his back tracking. I don't like him for that reason either.

However, without him, there would be problems for President Trump and his team to get sworn in and get started on the agenda for us, the American People right away.

Friends, we cannot afford the Biden Administra to go one more day than they are entitled to.

There is too much at stake.

I pray that President Trump will hold Johnson's feet to the fire. I hope you will continue to pray with me.

And also, for the protection of the people coming into this administration as well as people like you and me that are being targeted, like what happened just the other day on Bourbon Street and in other areas. It is not right. And I pray that the people involved that are still alive, will be found and made to pay for their crimes.

God bless!!!