The Point of Judgement is Correction
Reading Lamentations this am. The Lord said this was on his heart.
Jesus said there is a time of trouble coming worse than this:
Lamentations 2:19 “Arise, cry out in the night,
At the beginning of the watches;
Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
Lift your hands toward Him
For the life of your young children,
Who faint from hunger at the head of every street.”
20“See, O LORD, and consider!
To whom have You done this?
Should the women eat their offspring,
The children they have cuddled?
Should the priest and prophet be slain
In the sanctuary of the Lord?
21“Young and old lie
On the ground in the streets;
My virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the sword;
You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered and not pitied.
22“You have invited as to a feast day
The terrors that surround me.
In the day of the LORD’s anger
There was no refugee or survivor.
Those whom I have borne and brought up
My enemies have destroyed.”
Jeremiah then goes on to say that the Lord did this:
Lamentations 3:1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
2 He has led me and made me walk
And then, in the most amazing revelation of the truth of judgment, Jeremiah proclaims the hope found in this massive Tribulation:
Lamentations 3:16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel,
And covered me with ashes.
17 You have moved my soul far from peace;
I have forgotten prosperity.
18 And I said, “My strength and my hope
Have perished from the LORD.”
19 Remember my affliction and roaming,
The wormwood and the gall.
20 My soul still remembers
And sinks within me.
21 This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have hope.
22 Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
24 “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I hope in Him!”
25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him,
To the soul who seeks Him.
2 6It is good that one should hope and wait quietly
For the salvation of the LORD.
The point of judgment is correction so that man can live forever under the leadership of God. Judgment is the process of God giving us over to what we have wanted so we can see it's death and emptiness.
Jeremiah proclaims the mercy of God in the severity of judgment.
God could just destroy. In a snap, so to speak. But, He does not. He desires none should perish. His judgment is only as severe as our delusion requires. Unfortunately, there is deep delusion in the earth right now.
The judgment that is unfolding now and will crescendo, imo, over the next few years, will be the worst earth has ever seen:
Matthew 24:21“For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22“And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
The point of this judgment is to learn the same hope Jeremiah had as he wrote out Lamentations:
Romans 5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance;
4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope.
5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
I heard the Lord say this am " brace yourself in this truth." I took that to mean a great increase of trouble is coming....there is hope in that trouble. He could just annihilate...but He has hope.
Jesus said there is a time of trouble coming worse than this:
Lamentations 2:19 “Arise, cry out in the night,
At the beginning of the watches;
Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
Lift your hands toward Him
For the life of your young children,
Who faint from hunger at the head of every street.”
20“See, O LORD, and consider!
To whom have You done this?
Should the women eat their offspring,
The children they have cuddled?
Should the priest and prophet be slain
In the sanctuary of the Lord?
21“Young and old lie
On the ground in the streets;
My virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the sword;
You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered and not pitied.
22“You have invited as to a feast day
The terrors that surround me.
In the day of the LORD’s anger
There was no refugee or survivor.
Those whom I have borne and brought up
My enemies have destroyed.”
Jeremiah then goes on to say that the Lord did this:
Lamentations 3:1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
2 He has led me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.
3 Surely He has turned His hand against me
Time and time again throughout the day.
4 He has aged my flesh and my skin,
And broken my bones.
5 He has besieged me
And surrounded me with bitterness and woe.
6 He has set me in dark places
Like the dead of long ago.
7 He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out;
He has made my chain heavy.
8 Even when I cry and shout,
He shuts out my prayer.
9 He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;
He has made my paths crooked.
1 0He has been to me a bear lying in wait,
Like a lion in ambush.
3 Surely He has turned His hand against me
Time and time again throughout the day.
4 He has aged my flesh and my skin,
And broken my bones.
5 He has besieged me
And surrounded me with bitterness and woe.
6 He has set me in dark places
Like the dead of long ago.
7 He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out;
He has made my chain heavy.
8 Even when I cry and shout,
He shuts out my prayer.
9 He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;
He has made my paths crooked.
1 0He has been to me a bear lying in wait,
Like a lion in ambush.
And then, in the most amazing revelation of the truth of judgment, Jeremiah proclaims the hope found in this massive Tribulation:
Lamentations 3:16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel,
And covered me with ashes.
17 You have moved my soul far from peace;
I have forgotten prosperity.
18 And I said, “My strength and my hope
Have perished from the LORD.”
19 Remember my affliction and roaming,
The wormwood and the gall.
20 My soul still remembers
And sinks within me.
21 This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have hope.
22 Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
24 “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I hope in Him!”
25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him,
To the soul who seeks Him.
2 6It is good that one should hope and wait quietly
For the salvation of the LORD.
The point of judgment is correction so that man can live forever under the leadership of God. Judgment is the process of God giving us over to what we have wanted so we can see it's death and emptiness.
Jeremiah proclaims the mercy of God in the severity of judgment.
God could just destroy. In a snap, so to speak. But, He does not. He desires none should perish. His judgment is only as severe as our delusion requires. Unfortunately, there is deep delusion in the earth right now.
The judgment that is unfolding now and will crescendo, imo, over the next few years, will be the worst earth has ever seen:
Matthew 24:21“For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22“And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
The point of this judgment is to learn the same hope Jeremiah had as he wrote out Lamentations:
Romans 5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance;
4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope.
5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
I heard the Lord say this am " brace yourself in this truth." I took that to mean a great increase of trouble is coming....there is hope in that trouble. He could just annihilate...but He has hope.
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