Summary of Bible references on the Rapture
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The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may live by every word from God
Jeremiah 11:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Listen to the terms of this covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem. 3 Tell them that this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Cursed is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant— 4 the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.’ I said, ‘Obey me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God. 5 Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’—the land you possess today.”
I answered, “Amen, Lord.”
So let's look again at this covenant in Deuteronomy 29. The previous chapter talked about a pagan practice of bringing an evergreen tree into the house and decking it with silver and gold for the winter solstice to celebrate the birth of some Babylonian God on December 25th. Following this we are told that Israel broke this covenant in Deuteronomy 29.
Deuteronomy 29:1 These are the words of the covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
This covenant is not the one made in Horeb.
2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 3 the great trials which thine eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders: 4 but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed old upon thy foot. 6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God. 7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: 8 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites. 9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
If you make a covenant with someone you want to know that they can fulfill their end of the bargain. Today we call this a "credit check". So the "credit check" in this covenant is all the things we saw the Lord do to Pharaoh, and his army. For us this would be the gospels, the crucifixion and resurrection, and everything we saw during the age of the apostles. Also, all the various trials we saw in the wilderness, again for us that is the church age, and all of church history. Even after 2,000 years the glory of being clothed with Christ has not waxed old. We were sanctified, separated from the world so that we might not be befuddled by the wine of their fornication. We have defeated some giants, America was set up as a light on a hill, the New Jerusalem, defeating the superpower of the day. We have defeated both Britain at the time of our independence and Germany during WWI and WWII.
10 Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, 11 your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner that is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water; 12 that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day; 13 that he may establish thee this day unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he spake unto thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Here we are, this day, in the vestibule of the millennial kingdom. We are about to enter and God is giving us a new covenant.
14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, 15 but with him that standeth here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day
This covenant is not simply with those at the time of Moses but applies today to us as well.
16 (for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which ye passed; 17 and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them); 18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; 19 and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry. 20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And Jehovah will set him apart unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
For the last two thousand years we have seen the world and all their idols whether we are talking about money, or some sport team or rock star, or movie star. We have seen that there those whose heart has turned away from the Lord as church attendance has dwindled. The attitude towards the Bible and Jesus has turned to gall and wormwood among the Hollywood elite. We have seen the stubbornness of men's hearts when we discuss idolatry. They embrace all their idols, the movies, the TV shows, their sports teams, and they have substituted the gospel for the "prosperity gospel". A "gospel" that says you can proclaim that you are blessed by God based on all the earthly possessions you have. It is a materialistic world that they have turned from God to, a world that worships the created things rather than the creator. A world that is cursed, it is unsustainable, it is on a train track that leads to destruction.
22 And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath made it sick; 23 and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
Egypt used to be the great empire, then it was Babylon (Iraq), then Medo Persia (think Afghanistan and Iran) and then Greece. Look at these places now, they are brimstone, salt and burning. This is what the elites do when they rule a nation, they turn it into a wasteland. How many times do you have to see it to learn this lesson. This is what they will do to the US.
25 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, 26 and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given unto them: 27 therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book; 28 and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day. 29 The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Can anyone deny that the US was set up to be a city on a hill, the New Jerusalem based on the Mayflower compact? Yet today the US has forsaken that covenant that our fathers made, they serve other gods, they worship them, and these are gods that we did not know from the Bible and were not given to us in the NT. This is simply a fact. A Christmas tree is simply the ribbon that wraps up this nation of idol worship with a pretty little bow. We did not learn this from the Bible, it wasn't given to us by God, rather we have turned to the ways of the nations, it is a pagan practice, it has its roots in pagan worship and the universality of it demonstrates how widespread the idolatry has become in this nation.
Jeremiah 11:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Listen to the terms of this covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem. 3 Tell them that this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Cursed is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant— 4 the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.’ I said, ‘Obey me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God. 5 Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’—the land you possess today.”
I answered, “Amen, Lord.”
So let's look again at this covenant in Deuteronomy 29. The previous chapter talked about a pagan practice of bringing an evergreen tree into the house and decking it with silver and gold for the winter solstice to celebrate the birth of some Babylonian God on December 25th. Following this we are told that Israel broke this covenant in Deuteronomy 29.
Deuteronomy 29:1 These are the words of the covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
This covenant is not the one made in Horeb.
2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 3 the great trials which thine eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders: 4 but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed old upon thy foot. 6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God. 7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: 8 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites. 9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
If you make a covenant with someone you want to know that they can fulfill their end of the bargain. Today we call this a "credit check". So the "credit check" in this covenant is all the things we saw the Lord do to Pharaoh, and his army. For us this would be the gospels, the crucifixion and resurrection, and everything we saw during the age of the apostles. Also, all the various trials we saw in the wilderness, again for us that is the church age, and all of church history. Even after 2,000 years the glory of being clothed with Christ has not waxed old. We were sanctified, separated from the world so that we might not be befuddled by the wine of their fornication. We have defeated some giants, America was set up as a light on a hill, the New Jerusalem, defeating the superpower of the day. We have defeated both Britain at the time of our independence and Germany during WWI and WWII.
10 Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, 11 your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner that is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water; 12 that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day; 13 that he may establish thee this day unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he spake unto thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Here we are, this day, in the vestibule of the millennial kingdom. We are about to enter and God is giving us a new covenant.
14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, 15 but with him that standeth here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day
This covenant is not simply with those at the time of Moses but applies today to us as well.
16 (for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which ye passed; 17 and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them); 18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; 19 and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry. 20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And Jehovah will set him apart unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
For the last two thousand years we have seen the world and all their idols whether we are talking about money, or some sport team or rock star, or movie star. We have seen that there those whose heart has turned away from the Lord as church attendance has dwindled. The attitude towards the Bible and Jesus has turned to gall and wormwood among the Hollywood elite. We have seen the stubbornness of men's hearts when we discuss idolatry. They embrace all their idols, the movies, the TV shows, their sports teams, and they have substituted the gospel for the "prosperity gospel". A "gospel" that says you can proclaim that you are blessed by God based on all the earthly possessions you have. It is a materialistic world that they have turned from God to, a world that worships the created things rather than the creator. A world that is cursed, it is unsustainable, it is on a train track that leads to destruction.
22 And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath made it sick; 23 and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
Egypt used to be the great empire, then it was Babylon (Iraq), then Medo Persia (think Afghanistan and Iran) and then Greece. Look at these places now, they are brimstone, salt and burning. This is what the elites do when they rule a nation, they turn it into a wasteland. How many times do you have to see it to learn this lesson. This is what they will do to the US.
25 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, 26 and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given unto them: 27 therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book; 28 and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day. 29 The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Can anyone deny that the US was set up to be a city on a hill, the New Jerusalem based on the Mayflower compact? Yet today the US has forsaken that covenant that our fathers made, they serve other gods, they worship them, and these are gods that we did not know from the Bible and were not given to us in the NT. This is simply a fact. A Christmas tree is simply the ribbon that wraps up this nation of idol worship with a pretty little bow. We did not learn this from the Bible, it wasn't given to us by God, rather we have turned to the ways of the nations, it is a pagan practice, it has its roots in pagan worship and the universality of it demonstrates how widespread the idolatry has become in this nation.
Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, Behold I will punish them
Jeremiah 11:6 And Jehovah said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them. 7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. 8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.
Yes we covered this in post 3163. The US has forsaken the covenant with God and rejected it.
9 And Jehovah said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
We need to see this. To survive in this world in any field you will find that you must either worship the Lord and walk by faith or else you will fall to worshipping the gods of the nations. There is no way around it. Do you want to be a successful, high priced lawyer? They will make you work 80 hours a week before you can become a partner. You will have no other life. It is actually worse than this because you will fly around the country, stay in hotels, and basically be on call 24 hours a day. How about a doctor? Same thing. What about a researcher in a lab? Well then you will be beholden to those who give grants for research like Fauci. The evil overlords will pull the strings. The NFL will fund studies to hide the fact that CTE is killing the players. Cigarette companies will fund studies to throw doubt on the harm of cigarettes. One by one people will "make a pact with the devil" that in exchange for their nice house and big salary they will do what they are told. Many will say "O I would never do that, i would draw the line at murder or stealing or lying". Really, the Lord said that he that is faithful in the least is faithful in much. If you consider a Christmas tree to be "the least" look at the offense it raises to point out that this comes from idol worship.
11 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry unto me, but I will not hearken unto them. 12 Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry unto the gods unto which they offer incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble. 13 For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.
Think of that, the number of gods equals the number of cities. They worship their teams. Buying season tickets is to "burn incense to them". Going to a "sports bar" or restaurant filled with the paraphernalia is an altar to the shameful thing. On every street what do you see? Altars set up to this Christmas tree, Santa, some Sports team or some other idol that people are worshipping.
14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me because of their trouble.
I am tired of people telling others to pray for this or that. We pray "thy will be done". Are you asking others to pray according to God's will or according to your own opinion?
15 What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest. 16 Jehovah called thy name, A green olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. 17 For Jehovah of hosts, who planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense unto Baal.
Paul was very clear, we cannot partake of the tables of idols and the Lord's table. It is abundantly obvious that Christianity today does exactly that, they offer incense unto Baal. Whether it is with the "prosperity gospel", or with the compromise with so many other things of the world.
18 And Jehovah gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then thou showedst me their doings. 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
This is very reminiscent of the story of Jesus' birth. He was a lamb that was wrapped in swaddling clothes, indicating He was being prepared for the slaughter. At the time of His birth they did devise evil against Him and sent and killed 2,000 little kids.
20 But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause. 21 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Thou shalt not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that thou die not by our hand; 22 therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine; 23 and there shall be no remnant unto them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
Jeremiah 11:6 And Jehovah said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them. 7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. 8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.
Yes we covered this in post 3163. The US has forsaken the covenant with God and rejected it.
9 And Jehovah said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
We need to see this. To survive in this world in any field you will find that you must either worship the Lord and walk by faith or else you will fall to worshipping the gods of the nations. There is no way around it. Do you want to be a successful, high priced lawyer? They will make you work 80 hours a week before you can become a partner. You will have no other life. It is actually worse than this because you will fly around the country, stay in hotels, and basically be on call 24 hours a day. How about a doctor? Same thing. What about a researcher in a lab? Well then you will be beholden to those who give grants for research like Fauci. The evil overlords will pull the strings. The NFL will fund studies to hide the fact that CTE is killing the players. Cigarette companies will fund studies to throw doubt on the harm of cigarettes. One by one people will "make a pact with the devil" that in exchange for their nice house and big salary they will do what they are told. Many will say "O I would never do that, i would draw the line at murder or stealing or lying". Really, the Lord said that he that is faithful in the least is faithful in much. If you consider a Christmas tree to be "the least" look at the offense it raises to point out that this comes from idol worship.
11 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry unto me, but I will not hearken unto them. 12 Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry unto the gods unto which they offer incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble. 13 For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.
Think of that, the number of gods equals the number of cities. They worship their teams. Buying season tickets is to "burn incense to them". Going to a "sports bar" or restaurant filled with the paraphernalia is an altar to the shameful thing. On every street what do you see? Altars set up to this Christmas tree, Santa, some Sports team or some other idol that people are worshipping.
14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me because of their trouble.
I am tired of people telling others to pray for this or that. We pray "thy will be done". Are you asking others to pray according to God's will or according to your own opinion?
15 What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest. 16 Jehovah called thy name, A green olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. 17 For Jehovah of hosts, who planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense unto Baal.
Paul was very clear, we cannot partake of the tables of idols and the Lord's table. It is abundantly obvious that Christianity today does exactly that, they offer incense unto Baal. Whether it is with the "prosperity gospel", or with the compromise with so many other things of the world.
18 And Jehovah gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then thou showedst me their doings. 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
This is very reminiscent of the story of Jesus' birth. He was a lamb that was wrapped in swaddling clothes, indicating He was being prepared for the slaughter. At the time of His birth they did devise evil against Him and sent and killed 2,000 little kids.
20 But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause. 21 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Thou shalt not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that thou die not by our hand; 22 therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine; 23 and there shall be no remnant unto them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
Isaiah talks of the rapture in the context of the birth of a savior
Isaiah 26:16 Lord, they came to you in their distress;
when you disciplined them,
they could barely whisper a prayer.
17 As a pregnant woman about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pain,
so were we in your presence, Lord.
18 We were with child, we writhed in labor,
but we gave birth to wind.
We have not brought salvation to the earth,
and the people of the world have not come to life.
Consider the contrast here between man trying to save himself by his own works with the birth of the savior. The last days are compared to a woman in labor having birth pains and bringing forth a man child who is to rule all nations. Meanwhile the nations are also struggling to give birth to the antichrist, a pseudo Christ, a false Christ, like giving birth to the wind. Psaki claims Joe Biden "saved Christmas", they did not bring salvation, the country is in a worse mess now than a month ago or a year ago. You have the birth of a savior juxtaposed with the birth of the antiChrist. You have a woman in labor struggling to give birth and we celebrate this at Christmas. This is our situation today. Everyone is struggling to give birth, some are struggling for righteousness, others are struggling to impose their rule over the world.
19 But your dead will live, Lord;
their bodies will rise—
let those who dwell in the dust
wake up and shout for joy—
your dew is like the dew of the morning;
the earth will give birth to her dead.
The dead in Christ rise first. This is a direct reference to the rapture at the end of the age in the context of Christmas and the birth of a savior and the birth of the antichrist.
20 Go, my people, enter your rooms
and shut the doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
until his wrath has passed by.
This is a direct reference to the rapture prior to the Lord's wrath.
21 See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling
to punish the people of the earth for their sins.
The earth will disclose the blood shed on it;
the earth will conceal its slain no longer.
This is the beginning of the tribulation. The purpose is to punish the people of the earth for their sins. They have concealed their sins like concealing the blood shed and the dead. This will now be fully uncovered.
Isaiah 26:16 Lord, they came to you in their distress;
when you disciplined them,
they could barely whisper a prayer.
17 As a pregnant woman about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pain,
so were we in your presence, Lord.
18 We were with child, we writhed in labor,
but we gave birth to wind.
We have not brought salvation to the earth,
and the people of the world have not come to life.
Consider the contrast here between man trying to save himself by his own works with the birth of the savior. The last days are compared to a woman in labor having birth pains and bringing forth a man child who is to rule all nations. Meanwhile the nations are also struggling to give birth to the antichrist, a pseudo Christ, a false Christ, like giving birth to the wind. Psaki claims Joe Biden "saved Christmas", they did not bring salvation, the country is in a worse mess now than a month ago or a year ago. You have the birth of a savior juxtaposed with the birth of the antiChrist. You have a woman in labor struggling to give birth and we celebrate this at Christmas. This is our situation today. Everyone is struggling to give birth, some are struggling for righteousness, others are struggling to impose their rule over the world.
19 But your dead will live, Lord;
their bodies will rise—
let those who dwell in the dust
wake up and shout for joy—
your dew is like the dew of the morning;
the earth will give birth to her dead.
The dead in Christ rise first. This is a direct reference to the rapture at the end of the age in the context of Christmas and the birth of a savior and the birth of the antichrist.
20 Go, my people, enter your rooms
and shut the doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
until his wrath has passed by.
This is a direct reference to the rapture prior to the Lord's wrath.
21 See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling
to punish the people of the earth for their sins.
The earth will disclose the blood shed on it;
the earth will conceal its slain no longer.
This is the beginning of the tribulation. The purpose is to punish the people of the earth for their sins. They have concealed their sins like concealing the blood shed and the dead. This will now be fully uncovered.
Thief -- The Pre-Tribulation Rapture (4)
1Thessalonians 5:2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
The 70th week begins when the AntiChrist confirms a covenant with the many concerning Jerusalem. This is like a major fire alarm going off worldwide for all Christians to understand. Likewise the AntiChrist and the False prophet will push the mark of the beast. If you don't get it you will be beheaded. Everyone will know that this is the tribulation, so how could they be surprised? Yet the rapture comes like a thief in the night.
1Thessalonians 5:4 But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief.
Clearly a lot of people will be surprised. How could you be surprised by a mid tribulation rapture? This must refer to a pre tribulation rapture.
Revelation 3:3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.
Sardis is told very clearly to wake up and repent and if they don't the day will come upon them like a thief in the night and they won't know at what time the Lord will come. Once the Antichrist is in power and chopping off heads everyone will be awake. This has to be referring to a rapture prior to that.
1Thessalonians 5:2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
The 70th week begins when the AntiChrist confirms a covenant with the many concerning Jerusalem. This is like a major fire alarm going off worldwide for all Christians to understand. Likewise the AntiChrist and the False prophet will push the mark of the beast. If you don't get it you will be beheaded. Everyone will know that this is the tribulation, so how could they be surprised? Yet the rapture comes like a thief in the night.
1Thessalonians 5:4 But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief.
Clearly a lot of people will be surprised. How could you be surprised by a mid tribulation rapture? This must refer to a pre tribulation rapture.
Revelation 3:3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.
Sardis is told very clearly to wake up and repent and if they don't the day will come upon them like a thief in the night and they won't know at what time the Lord will come. Once the Antichrist is in power and chopping off heads everyone will be awake. This has to be referring to a rapture prior to that.
The Pre-Tribulation rapture must take place before the Man of lawlessness is revealed (5)
2Thessalonians 2;6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.
We now know the Holy Spirit who is restraining the evil one so that this lawless one may be revealed at the proper time. You have people motivated by the Spirit to be whistleblowers in order to restrain the lawlessness even though the threats and price to them is extreme. These believers will continue to be one with the Spirit until they are "taken out of the way" (i.e. raptured) and then the lawless one will be revealed.
Right now the world views the "Jesus freaks" and "Evangelical Christians" as the problem. They are the ones who are restraining evil. Once they are raptured then Satan will be loosed to be fully revealed.
However, the man of lawlessness will be fully revealed at the start of the 70th week, the tribulation. Therefore the rapture must take place before that time, before the tribulation.
This also responds to the chief argument that we are to take up our cross and follow the lord, not avoid tribulation. These whistleblowers did that. Those who are one with the Spirit to stand against the evil one regardless of the cost did that. Many other Christians think that "we should go along to get along". They were not one with the Spirit in restraining evil. Therefore they must go through the tribulation.
2Thessalonians 2;6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.
We now know the Holy Spirit who is restraining the evil one so that this lawless one may be revealed at the proper time. You have people motivated by the Spirit to be whistleblowers in order to restrain the lawlessness even though the threats and price to them is extreme. These believers will continue to be one with the Spirit until they are "taken out of the way" (i.e. raptured) and then the lawless one will be revealed.
Right now the world views the "Jesus freaks" and "Evangelical Christians" as the problem. They are the ones who are restraining evil. Once they are raptured then Satan will be loosed to be fully revealed.
However, the man of lawlessness will be fully revealed at the start of the 70th week, the tribulation. Therefore the rapture must take place before that time, before the tribulation.
This also responds to the chief argument that we are to take up our cross and follow the lord, not avoid tribulation. These whistleblowers did that. Those who are one with the Spirit to stand against the evil one regardless of the cost did that. Many other Christians think that "we should go along to get along". They were not one with the Spirit in restraining evil. Therefore they must go through the tribulation.
Lamentations 1:1-6 -- How did this happen from A to Z
Everyone has an opinion and to everyone their opinion is right. Doesn’t matter if we are talking about Abortion, or Climate change, or Election fraud, or whatever. It is like someone playing chess and they think they are making a good move, best possible move, without realizing what will happen four or five moves later. So let’s look at what is about to happen to the US and ask ourselves not “how did this happen” as what we are seeing here hasn’t quite happened yet, but rather “how does this path that we are on lead to what happens here”?
1 How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.
Look at the changes! I grew up in the same town that Norman Rockwell grew up in. When I look at his paintings it is remarkably similar to what life was like where I grew up. As a young boy, say 8 or 9 I would walk to the beach from home, perhaps a thirty minute walk, stay there all morning, walk home for lunch, go back in the afternoon and stay all afternoon. There was no concern for safety, no concern about needing my Mom to drive me. In High School I spent a year in England, visited Italy, in college I visited Mexico, after graduate school I lived in Taiwan for about 8 years. The US was great among the nations. I saw it. We were “queen” among the provinces. But the US is quickly going from being great and a queen to being a slave and that is what we need to look at, how does the path we are on lead to this?
2 Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
Look at the friends and lovers of the US. We have made a big mistake. Initially it was God that we put our trust in, God was our friend, God was our lover, and we listened and obeyed Him. But just like the church in Ephesus we have left our first love. The US used to be considered a Christian nation, but somehow they decided we needed to be more “ecumenical” and embrace everyone. Our lovers now include the LGBTQ, and pro abortionists. Abortion is the human sacrifice to the God’s Baal (career) and Molech (fornication).
3 After affliction and harsh labor, Judah has gone into exile. She dwells among the nations; she finds no resting place. All who pursue her have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
We had feast days like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and July 4th but these have all been corrupted. These days were days to worship the Lord, get together with your family and the church, to worship the Lord and to have rest. Instead we have exchanged them for affliction, harsh labor and exile. This is because we dwell among the nations. They despise Thanksgiving and July 4th, Christmas has become Xmas and Easter is all about painted eggs and chocolate rabbits rather than the Lord’s birth and resurrection.
4 The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.
Why is this? Why did people stop going to church? To me this is when the “leaving your first love” became more than a warning but a reality. The Lord said that this road will lead to the taking away of your lampstand. Lamentations is a description of that lampstand being taken away. It begins with taking away the appointed festivals. They replace the story of Jesus birth with the story of a “red nosed reindeer”, they mock the Bible’s description of a rapture with a jolly fat man in a red suit whose name, Santa, is simply a modified form of Satan. The holiday is no longer about a savior being given to us but rather of how it is all about buying trinkets and toys. Believing in Jesus is replaced with believing in Santa. You have been deceived, you have been robbed, and the priests were defeated by the likes of profane cartoons and Christmas lights, football games, and all the other “friends and lovers” we exchanged for Jesus.
5 Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. The Lord has brought her grief because of her many sins. Her children have gone into exile, captive before the foe.
Yes, our children have gone into exile because of this. God wanted each of us to be an owner of a business and then to teach our children. So in the same way that Rockefeller taught his son to take over the business, or Trump was taught to take over the business, we would teach our kids. Instead we have all become employees, a word that is synonymous with the Biblical definition for slave. Our kids are taken from us and taught by the state for 16, 17, 21 years. It seems they keep adding and extending the indoctrination. First you have compulsory school through 6th grade, then through HS, then they want preschool, then they also want to add four years of college. Not only so but then they addict your kids to the internet. So at what point are parents teaching their kids anything? If you aren’t teaching them anything what exactly is the basis for them to honor their parents? I can understand Rockefeller’s kid learning for thirty or forty years how to run the business from his dad and so he honors his dad, but really, if you don’t teach your kids anything what is the basis for them to honor you? And what exactly is the point of the indoctrination from the nations, to teach your kids to go into exile in a submissive, obedient way.
6 All the splendor has departed from Daughter Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; in weakness they have fled before the pursuer.
How weak they look. No wonder the kids do not honor the parents. The pasture is being devoured, everytime you turn around something else has disappeared, you are weak, you are fleeing, and you are not a predator, you are the prey. Jesus is the lion of the tribe of Judah, you traded Him away. Jesus is our strength, He is the one who will lead us to pasture. You forsook the great shepherd of the sheep.
Everyone has an opinion and to everyone their opinion is right. Doesn’t matter if we are talking about Abortion, or Climate change, or Election fraud, or whatever. It is like someone playing chess and they think they are making a good move, best possible move, without realizing what will happen four or five moves later. So let’s look at what is about to happen to the US and ask ourselves not “how did this happen” as what we are seeing here hasn’t quite happened yet, but rather “how does this path that we are on lead to what happens here”?
1 How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.
Look at the changes! I grew up in the same town that Norman Rockwell grew up in. When I look at his paintings it is remarkably similar to what life was like where I grew up. As a young boy, say 8 or 9 I would walk to the beach from home, perhaps a thirty minute walk, stay there all morning, walk home for lunch, go back in the afternoon and stay all afternoon. There was no concern for safety, no concern about needing my Mom to drive me. In High School I spent a year in England, visited Italy, in college I visited Mexico, after graduate school I lived in Taiwan for about 8 years. The US was great among the nations. I saw it. We were “queen” among the provinces. But the US is quickly going from being great and a queen to being a slave and that is what we need to look at, how does the path we are on lead to this?
2 Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
Look at the friends and lovers of the US. We have made a big mistake. Initially it was God that we put our trust in, God was our friend, God was our lover, and we listened and obeyed Him. But just like the church in Ephesus we have left our first love. The US used to be considered a Christian nation, but somehow they decided we needed to be more “ecumenical” and embrace everyone. Our lovers now include the LGBTQ, and pro abortionists. Abortion is the human sacrifice to the God’s Baal (career) and Molech (fornication).
3 After affliction and harsh labor, Judah has gone into exile. She dwells among the nations; she finds no resting place. All who pursue her have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
We had feast days like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and July 4th but these have all been corrupted. These days were days to worship the Lord, get together with your family and the church, to worship the Lord and to have rest. Instead we have exchanged them for affliction, harsh labor and exile. This is because we dwell among the nations. They despise Thanksgiving and July 4th, Christmas has become Xmas and Easter is all about painted eggs and chocolate rabbits rather than the Lord’s birth and resurrection.
4 The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.
Why is this? Why did people stop going to church? To me this is when the “leaving your first love” became more than a warning but a reality. The Lord said that this road will lead to the taking away of your lampstand. Lamentations is a description of that lampstand being taken away. It begins with taking away the appointed festivals. They replace the story of Jesus birth with the story of a “red nosed reindeer”, they mock the Bible’s description of a rapture with a jolly fat man in a red suit whose name, Santa, is simply a modified form of Satan. The holiday is no longer about a savior being given to us but rather of how it is all about buying trinkets and toys. Believing in Jesus is replaced with believing in Santa. You have been deceived, you have been robbed, and the priests were defeated by the likes of profane cartoons and Christmas lights, football games, and all the other “friends and lovers” we exchanged for Jesus.
5 Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. The Lord has brought her grief because of her many sins. Her children have gone into exile, captive before the foe.
Yes, our children have gone into exile because of this. God wanted each of us to be an owner of a business and then to teach our children. So in the same way that Rockefeller taught his son to take over the business, or Trump was taught to take over the business, we would teach our kids. Instead we have all become employees, a word that is synonymous with the Biblical definition for slave. Our kids are taken from us and taught by the state for 16, 17, 21 years. It seems they keep adding and extending the indoctrination. First you have compulsory school through 6th grade, then through HS, then they want preschool, then they also want to add four years of college. Not only so but then they addict your kids to the internet. So at what point are parents teaching their kids anything? If you aren’t teaching them anything what exactly is the basis for them to honor their parents? I can understand Rockefeller’s kid learning for thirty or forty years how to run the business from his dad and so he honors his dad, but really, if you don’t teach your kids anything what is the basis for them to honor you? And what exactly is the point of the indoctrination from the nations, to teach your kids to go into exile in a submissive, obedient way.
6 All the splendor has departed from Daughter Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; in weakness they have fled before the pursuer.
How weak they look. No wonder the kids do not honor the parents. The pasture is being devoured, everytime you turn around something else has disappeared, you are weak, you are fleeing, and you are not a predator, you are the prey. Jesus is the lion of the tribe of Judah, you traded Him away. Jesus is our strength, He is the one who will lead us to pasture. You forsook the great shepherd of the sheep.
Lamentations 1:7-12 -- How did this happen from A to Z
7 In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction.
There is a great picture here, “no one to help her”. We were commanded to take one day a week as a day of rest to come and worship before the Lord. If we had done that we would have had a strong community. Everyone would know everyone, when trouble comes we would not be alone but rather there would be the church as one new man that could stand together against the stratagems of the evil one. But you traded that away for a job that paid more. However, when you got that job that paid more you needed to get the nicer house in the nicer neighborhood with the nicer school and higher taxes and all that goes with it. So you were still on the hamster wheel chasing that carrot just in front of your face. Meanwhile you were building the treasure cities for Egypt, which is what makes this so funny.
8 Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have all seen her naked; she herself groans and turns away.
That is right, all who honored her despise her. It is one thing to be despised, pretty much everyone listed in Hebrews 11 was despised, but to go from being honored to being despised that is a very big fall. Think about Moses, he chose to be despised rather than to have some temporary honor with the Egyptians. I have seen many believers take a different path, they don’t want to be associated with the “despised Christians”, the “deplorables”, no they want to still attend the country club, so they attend a church that gets rid of all that “Jesus freak” stuff. They go to a church that will not offend the nations. They sinned greatly in despising their brothers and sisters and they have become unclean. Many of these churches openly reject the fellowship of the Apostles and even the Lord’s words. We call that the “apostasy”, the “falling away”. Repentance means you remember from whence you have fallen and you return.
9 Her filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was none to comfort her. “Look, Lord, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed.”
Christians who are “pro abortion”? Some of these churches became involved in human trafficking and pedophile rings. The fall is truly astounding. The Pope’s Snake room is just one example of how astounding this fall is. The enemy has triumphed -- you have to see this was not some error by a few, it was the stratagem of the evil one. There are Satanists who have infiltrated churches. They use them for a cover. In the same way that Satan disguises himself as an angel of light they disguised themselves as pastors of megachurches and priests and bishops. In that role they took part in pedophilia, child trafficking, and Satan worship. One of the key aspects of Satan worship is to defile the bread and wine of the Lord's table and to do that they want an ordained priest to first bless it. Satanists want to enter the church but the door is closed. So they object to certain teachings, they push for failing denominations to stop listening to the Bible, they teach that the Bible is allegorical and not meant to be taken literally. Well you can be sure they are taking their triumph literally. They despise the Christians because they believe in God more than these apostate believers do.
10 The enemy laid hands on all her treasures; she saw pagan nations enter her sanctuary— those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.
OK, when I said that this has not happened yet but is a glimpse of what is about to happen, well sure, this has happened, we see this in many countries, even in Canada. The Catholic church is another example of a place about to be pillaged of all her treasures. The Lord told us to keep our treasure in the heavens where thieves and rust cannot break through. You ignored that. There are churches with billion dollar trust funds. From what I understand that is trivial compared to the money stored up by the Catholic church. This is a shadow, the real treasure is the word of God.
11 All her people groan as they search for bread; they barter their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. “Look, Lord, and consider, for I am despised.”
You despised the Lord, of course you are despised. The Lord was a man of sorrows, we esteemed him to be among the transgressors, so you are reaping what you sowed. This is what repentance is all about, look at your mistake and repent. Lift up the Lord, worship Him. Consider the word of God to be your bread that you live by.
12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see. Is any suffering like my suffering that was inflicted on me, that the Lord brought on me in the day of his fierce anger?
No, but that is because no one else was so blessed, so rich, so great, a queen living in peace and security, and yet despised the Lord who had caused all this.
7 In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction.
There is a great picture here, “no one to help her”. We were commanded to take one day a week as a day of rest to come and worship before the Lord. If we had done that we would have had a strong community. Everyone would know everyone, when trouble comes we would not be alone but rather there would be the church as one new man that could stand together against the stratagems of the evil one. But you traded that away for a job that paid more. However, when you got that job that paid more you needed to get the nicer house in the nicer neighborhood with the nicer school and higher taxes and all that goes with it. So you were still on the hamster wheel chasing that carrot just in front of your face. Meanwhile you were building the treasure cities for Egypt, which is what makes this so funny.
8 Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have all seen her naked; she herself groans and turns away.
That is right, all who honored her despise her. It is one thing to be despised, pretty much everyone listed in Hebrews 11 was despised, but to go from being honored to being despised that is a very big fall. Think about Moses, he chose to be despised rather than to have some temporary honor with the Egyptians. I have seen many believers take a different path, they don’t want to be associated with the “despised Christians”, the “deplorables”, no they want to still attend the country club, so they attend a church that gets rid of all that “Jesus freak” stuff. They go to a church that will not offend the nations. They sinned greatly in despising their brothers and sisters and they have become unclean. Many of these churches openly reject the fellowship of the Apostles and even the Lord’s words. We call that the “apostasy”, the “falling away”. Repentance means you remember from whence you have fallen and you return.
9 Her filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was none to comfort her. “Look, Lord, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed.”
Christians who are “pro abortion”? Some of these churches became involved in human trafficking and pedophile rings. The fall is truly astounding. The Pope’s Snake room is just one example of how astounding this fall is. The enemy has triumphed -- you have to see this was not some error by a few, it was the stratagem of the evil one. There are Satanists who have infiltrated churches. They use them for a cover. In the same way that Satan disguises himself as an angel of light they disguised themselves as pastors of megachurches and priests and bishops. In that role they took part in pedophilia, child trafficking, and Satan worship. One of the key aspects of Satan worship is to defile the bread and wine of the Lord's table and to do that they want an ordained priest to first bless it. Satanists want to enter the church but the door is closed. So they object to certain teachings, they push for failing denominations to stop listening to the Bible, they teach that the Bible is allegorical and not meant to be taken literally. Well you can be sure they are taking their triumph literally. They despise the Christians because they believe in God more than these apostate believers do.
10 The enemy laid hands on all her treasures; she saw pagan nations enter her sanctuary— those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.
OK, when I said that this has not happened yet but is a glimpse of what is about to happen, well sure, this has happened, we see this in many countries, even in Canada. The Catholic church is another example of a place about to be pillaged of all her treasures. The Lord told us to keep our treasure in the heavens where thieves and rust cannot break through. You ignored that. There are churches with billion dollar trust funds. From what I understand that is trivial compared to the money stored up by the Catholic church. This is a shadow, the real treasure is the word of God.
11 All her people groan as they search for bread; they barter their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. “Look, Lord, and consider, for I am despised.”
You despised the Lord, of course you are despised. The Lord was a man of sorrows, we esteemed him to be among the transgressors, so you are reaping what you sowed. This is what repentance is all about, look at your mistake and repent. Lift up the Lord, worship Him. Consider the word of God to be your bread that you live by.
12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see. Is any suffering like my suffering that was inflicted on me, that the Lord brought on me in the day of his fierce anger?
No, but that is because no one else was so blessed, so rich, so great, a queen living in peace and security, and yet despised the Lord who had caused all this.
Lamentations 1:13-18 -- How did this happen from A to Z
13 “From on high he sent fire, sent it down into my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
We used to think it was a conspiracy theory to say the Military had weapons to influence the weather, but now we know it is true. One thing in particular is a ray gun that can start forest fires. Wouldn’t it be amazing if the floods in China and the fires in America were “sent from on high”? Meanwhile the US is a place where a net is spread for your feet all day long. Cancel culture and a litigious society looking to sue someone has spread a net. Salesmen are liars, they are cheats. Trying to protect yourself from scam artists is now a full time job every day.
14 “My sins have been bound into a yoke; by his hands they were woven together. They have been hung on my neck, and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.
What a great picture. For example let’s say you voted for Biden. You knew he was pro abortion, but you didn’t care. You knew the last four years were years of peace with no wars, but you didn’t care. You knew the last four years were years of a great economy, but you didn’t care. Now suppose that decision is a mistake, the economy crashes, inflation takes off, we are in a war, the border is flooded with millions of immigrants, some who take your job, others who work for cartels and turn the cities into a hellscape. Now when you try to support your family that yoke is horrible and you have all those sins hanging on your neck like a yoke. Because you know this is what you chose.
15 “The Lord has rejected all the warriors in my midst; he has summoned an army against me to crush my young men. In his winepress the Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah.
The first thing they did was to allow transgenders to trample the virgin daughter of Judah. They will trample them in the bathroom, in the locker room, in the spa, and on the fields for sports. Meanwhile your army that was so respected is now focused on “equity” rather than merit. Afghanistan is evidence that the Lord has rejected all the warriors in my midst. Where are the soldiers for Christ? All these great big denominations are a complete compromise. They have sat by silent or even supportive while the country rejects God and His laws.
16 “This is why I weep and my eyes overflow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.”
What were your eyes watching while the enemy was causing your children to become destitute? I suspect the reason you weep is because you realize you were listening to Balaam teach the children of Israel to commit fornication by using Hollywood. You weep because you chose Jezebel to rule over you even though you knew how evil she was. There were Christians who were warning you but you rejected that warning. You know that you are the one responsible for what has happened. You knew about Germany and thought that they were horrible people for allowing Hitler to take power and yet you yourself have done the very same thing.
17 Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The Lord has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.
In the day of calamity there is no one to comfort her. No one is near. Her army has failed her. Her friends and lovers betrayed her. Now can you understand why the church is so important and why we keep the Lord’s day as a day to worship Him? All those believers you despised, those “Jesus Freaks” that embarrassed you in front of your boss and the Country club set, the deplorables, they were an army that wouldn’t have failed you.
18 “The Lord is righteous, yet I rebelled against his command. Listen, all you peoples; look on my suffering. My young men and young women have gone into exile.
How did you get here? You rebelled against the word of God. You refused to obey the word of the apostles. You rejected Jesus as your Lord and savior and looked elsewhere.
13 “From on high he sent fire, sent it down into my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
We used to think it was a conspiracy theory to say the Military had weapons to influence the weather, but now we know it is true. One thing in particular is a ray gun that can start forest fires. Wouldn’t it be amazing if the floods in China and the fires in America were “sent from on high”? Meanwhile the US is a place where a net is spread for your feet all day long. Cancel culture and a litigious society looking to sue someone has spread a net. Salesmen are liars, they are cheats. Trying to protect yourself from scam artists is now a full time job every day.
14 “My sins have been bound into a yoke; by his hands they were woven together. They have been hung on my neck, and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.
What a great picture. For example let’s say you voted for Biden. You knew he was pro abortion, but you didn’t care. You knew the last four years were years of peace with no wars, but you didn’t care. You knew the last four years were years of a great economy, but you didn’t care. Now suppose that decision is a mistake, the economy crashes, inflation takes off, we are in a war, the border is flooded with millions of immigrants, some who take your job, others who work for cartels and turn the cities into a hellscape. Now when you try to support your family that yoke is horrible and you have all those sins hanging on your neck like a yoke. Because you know this is what you chose.
15 “The Lord has rejected all the warriors in my midst; he has summoned an army against me to crush my young men. In his winepress the Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah.
The first thing they did was to allow transgenders to trample the virgin daughter of Judah. They will trample them in the bathroom, in the locker room, in the spa, and on the fields for sports. Meanwhile your army that was so respected is now focused on “equity” rather than merit. Afghanistan is evidence that the Lord has rejected all the warriors in my midst. Where are the soldiers for Christ? All these great big denominations are a complete compromise. They have sat by silent or even supportive while the country rejects God and His laws.
16 “This is why I weep and my eyes overflow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.”
What were your eyes watching while the enemy was causing your children to become destitute? I suspect the reason you weep is because you realize you were listening to Balaam teach the children of Israel to commit fornication by using Hollywood. You weep because you chose Jezebel to rule over you even though you knew how evil she was. There were Christians who were warning you but you rejected that warning. You know that you are the one responsible for what has happened. You knew about Germany and thought that they were horrible people for allowing Hitler to take power and yet you yourself have done the very same thing.
17 Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The Lord has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.
In the day of calamity there is no one to comfort her. No one is near. Her army has failed her. Her friends and lovers betrayed her. Now can you understand why the church is so important and why we keep the Lord’s day as a day to worship Him? All those believers you despised, those “Jesus Freaks” that embarrassed you in front of your boss and the Country club set, the deplorables, they were an army that wouldn’t have failed you.
18 “The Lord is righteous, yet I rebelled against his command. Listen, all you peoples; look on my suffering. My young men and young women have gone into exile.
How did you get here? You rebelled against the word of God. You refused to obey the word of the apostles. You rejected Jesus as your Lord and savior and looked elsewhere.
Lamentations 1:19-22 -- How did this happen from A to Z
19 “I called to my allies but they betrayed me. My priests and my elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
Your priests and elders exchanged the word of God for the world. They did things to increase the flock but in order to do that they diluted the word of God and erased the most offensive portions. Eventually their flock was nothing but a large flock of chickens. We understand that the word of God is our bread and that we live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. We also know that physically if we eat junk food our health will suffer. Hollywood, TV and mainstream media is junk food with no nutritional value.
20 “See, Lord, how distressed I am! I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death.
OK, it is bad, but remember, you chose this path because being a witness for the Lord Jesus would also cause torment (ridicule). Sure the sword bereaves now and inside there is only death, but you chose this path because you didn’t want to lose your friends in the world or offend the people of the world. This is like the story of the good Samaritan where there was a certain man who "went down to Jericho". This book is a story of how the Church left the Jerusalem which is above and went down to Jericho.
21 “People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my distress; they rejoice at what you have done. May you bring the day you have announced so they may become like me.
The day is coming, it is closer now than at any time in the last two thousand years. It is highly likely that this is the summer the Lord warned us about when He said when you see the fig tree bud you know summer is near. But why is no one to comfort you? All those who love the Lord’s appearing would comfort you unless of course you were asleep, you were eating and drinking with the drunken and the Lord came like a thief in the night. All those ones you despised, didn’t realize how much you would need them and miss them but they were stolen from you when you needed them most. Again, in the story the Lord told there was a priest and a levite that saw this man and instead of comforting him they passed by on the other side. When the Lord said the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night, this man was beat up in the street by thieves in the night. Open your eyes, the streets filled with "thieves in the night" is a sign.
22 “Let all their wickedness come before you; deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my sins. My groans are many and my heart is faint.”
It is so easy to point the finger at others and be completely blind to our own faults. We think we are rich and are clueless that we are blind and wretched and naked. But consider this, it is very difficult to do anything about what others do, and yet very easy to do something about what you do. I would suggest that you repent, confess your sins, consider where you have fallen from and return to the Lord. Embrace being a deplorable, embrace the crucified Christ, go outside the city to be one with Him.
19 “I called to my allies but they betrayed me. My priests and my elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
Your priests and elders exchanged the word of God for the world. They did things to increase the flock but in order to do that they diluted the word of God and erased the most offensive portions. Eventually their flock was nothing but a large flock of chickens. We understand that the word of God is our bread and that we live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. We also know that physically if we eat junk food our health will suffer. Hollywood, TV and mainstream media is junk food with no nutritional value.
20 “See, Lord, how distressed I am! I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death.
OK, it is bad, but remember, you chose this path because being a witness for the Lord Jesus would also cause torment (ridicule). Sure the sword bereaves now and inside there is only death, but you chose this path because you didn’t want to lose your friends in the world or offend the people of the world. This is like the story of the good Samaritan where there was a certain man who "went down to Jericho". This book is a story of how the Church left the Jerusalem which is above and went down to Jericho.
21 “People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my distress; they rejoice at what you have done. May you bring the day you have announced so they may become like me.
The day is coming, it is closer now than at any time in the last two thousand years. It is highly likely that this is the summer the Lord warned us about when He said when you see the fig tree bud you know summer is near. But why is no one to comfort you? All those who love the Lord’s appearing would comfort you unless of course you were asleep, you were eating and drinking with the drunken and the Lord came like a thief in the night. All those ones you despised, didn’t realize how much you would need them and miss them but they were stolen from you when you needed them most. Again, in the story the Lord told there was a priest and a levite that saw this man and instead of comforting him they passed by on the other side. When the Lord said the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night, this man was beat up in the street by thieves in the night. Open your eyes, the streets filled with "thieves in the night" is a sign.
22 “Let all their wickedness come before you; deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my sins. My groans are many and my heart is faint.”
It is so easy to point the finger at others and be completely blind to our own faults. We think we are rich and are clueless that we are blind and wretched and naked. But consider this, it is very difficult to do anything about what others do, and yet very easy to do something about what you do. I would suggest that you repent, confess your sins, consider where you have fallen from and return to the Lord. Embrace being a deplorable, embrace the crucified Christ, go outside the city to be one with Him.
Lamentations 2:2 Your kingdom is brought down to the ground in dishonor
2 Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has torn down the strongholds of Daughter Judah. He has brought her kingdom and its princes down to the ground in dishonor.
So what is God going to do? We have seen what Biden, and NY Times, and Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Google have done, now, what do you think God will do? He will swallow up all the dwellings of Jacob. You thought you were so big, so powerful, just like Satan, well judgement has been declared. Facebook will be swallowed up. CNN and MSNBC will be swallowed up. Google, Youtube, and Twitter will be swallowed up. In God’s wrath He will tear down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. She should have known that Judah is the lawgiver and yet Biden is doing many things that are contrary to the law, contrary to the constitution. Not only so but He will bring her kingdom and its princes down to the ground in dishonor. Joe Biden will be brought down in dishonor. Everyday we hear about Hunter Biden’s laptop revealing the sin and corruption of Joe Biden and His lies. Everyday we learn more and more about how the election was stolen. A few months ago the message they pushed was no election fraud, freest and fairest election ever. Since then election fraud has been found in Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania to just name a few. So then the claim became there is not enough election fraud to make a difference. How do you know? You have never checked? You lied to me a few months ago but now I am supposed to listen to you? Biden will be brought down in dishonor. All of these tech giants will be brought down in dishonor. Fauci will be brought down in dishonor. There is a very long list of people that will be brought down in dishonor. How do I know this, how can I predict, maybe people will just get tired of this and move onto something else. You see they accused these people of being liars, nut jobs, tin foil hat conspiracy theorists, deplorables, insurrectionists, and now that they have enough evidence to know they are not only right but can prove it, now you think they will stop? It is one thing to be arrogant and proud, but to touch the apple of the Lord’s eye, that is something you need to get on your knees and pray to the Lord for forgiveness. And yes, with God their is forgiveness that He might be feared. Think about that if you are Biden or Harris or Zuckerberg. There are people as we speak cutting deals to avoid spending the rest of their life in prison or even for getting the death penalty for treason. They are ratting you out. That is how I know your kingdom will be brought down to the ground in dishonor.
2 Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has torn down the strongholds of Daughter Judah. He has brought her kingdom and its princes down to the ground in dishonor.
So what is God going to do? We have seen what Biden, and NY Times, and Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Google have done, now, what do you think God will do? He will swallow up all the dwellings of Jacob. You thought you were so big, so powerful, just like Satan, well judgement has been declared. Facebook will be swallowed up. CNN and MSNBC will be swallowed up. Google, Youtube, and Twitter will be swallowed up. In God’s wrath He will tear down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. She should have known that Judah is the lawgiver and yet Biden is doing many things that are contrary to the law, contrary to the constitution. Not only so but He will bring her kingdom and its princes down to the ground in dishonor. Joe Biden will be brought down in dishonor. Everyday we hear about Hunter Biden’s laptop revealing the sin and corruption of Joe Biden and His lies. Everyday we learn more and more about how the election was stolen. A few months ago the message they pushed was no election fraud, freest and fairest election ever. Since then election fraud has been found in Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania to just name a few. So then the claim became there is not enough election fraud to make a difference. How do you know? You have never checked? You lied to me a few months ago but now I am supposed to listen to you? Biden will be brought down in dishonor. All of these tech giants will be brought down in dishonor. Fauci will be brought down in dishonor. There is a very long list of people that will be brought down in dishonor. How do I know this, how can I predict, maybe people will just get tired of this and move onto something else. You see they accused these people of being liars, nut jobs, tin foil hat conspiracy theorists, deplorables, insurrectionists, and now that they have enough evidence to know they are not only right but can prove it, now you think they will stop? It is one thing to be arrogant and proud, but to touch the apple of the Lord’s eye, that is something you need to get on your knees and pray to the Lord for forgiveness. And yes, with God their is forgiveness that He might be feared. Think about that if you are Biden or Harris or Zuckerberg. There are people as we speak cutting deals to avoid spending the rest of their life in prison or even for getting the death penalty for treason. They are ratting you out. That is how I know your kingdom will be brought down to the ground in dishonor.
Lamentations 2:3-11 God is love, and yes there are things He hates.
There is a tradition that during this siege of Jerusalem Jeremiah was living on Golgotha, the place of the skull, in one of the "eye sockets" that make this hill look like a skull. In other words he is abiding in the cross of Christ and looking at the destruction that takes place on all those who refused to take the way of the cross.
3 In fierce anger he has cut off every horn of Israel. He has withdrawn his right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.
The judgement will come like the wildfires in California. They have several levels to indicate the fire risk. Extreme, critical, and “Run!” "Every horn of Israel" refers to our defense. A cow uses its horns to defend itself. Cut off the horns and they are defenseless. The key to the spiritual warfare is the cross of Christ. That is where Jesus defeated Satan and put him to an open shame.
4 Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.
The crimes are all being dripped out little by little so that all those who are awake can know the truth. What you don’t see is God stringing his bow like an enemy. An enemy doesn’t put it on the front page that they have strung the bow to attack. They don’t warn you and God is picking them off one by one. But then when the attack comes it will be the pouring out of his wrath like fire. This is what we have seen. Already 23 congressmen and Senators have announced they will not be running for reelection in a year. Typically you might get 3 announce this. They are being picked off behind the scenes. The Ghislaine Maxwell trial is being diplomatic, yet everyone knows this touches the very heart of the elites. Some people think Epstein is not really dead. But what is happening, evidence of Election fraud is being dripped out so that now the majority of Americans think the 2020 election was stolen. Evidence of these pedophile rings going all the way to the Clintons is being leaked out. Corruption with the deep state involving FISA warrants that involve Obama is being leaked out. We now know that the same guy who helped create the virus in the Wuhan lab that is behind the pandemic is the same guy who published that using HCQ and Ivermectin is the cure. The elites knew about and have been using the cure for the last two years while outlawing everyone else from using it, censoring anyone who talks about it and slandering and firing doctors who ignore them. But this guy is also the guy who invented Remdesivir, the only allowable treatment by Fauci. This does nothing to cure Covid and only destroys your kidneys. This information has also been made public. Not only so but Hunter Biden's laptop and Ashli Biden's diary are both getting into the public. The Lord is stringing His bow and when He strikes He will be pouring out His wrath like fire.
5 The Lord is like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for Daughter Judah.
Hey, don’t worry about this. True, the Lord of all is like an enemy who will swallow you up, but this is the same Lord you have been mocking and ridiculing for years. So hey, no big deal. Don't you remember, this is "allegorical" not literal. These are "myths", you got nothing to worry about. So don't worry as you see people fleeing your sinking ship like rats.
6 He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting. The Lord has made Zion forget her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.
Like a garden? My dad used to have a really nice garden and as soon as the winter was over I had to go out and turn the soil. To lay waste like a garden is to completely turn over the soil and when you do that you get all the roots and rake them out. In the near future you will have only the distant memory of Thanksgiving or Christmas (you can get a photo of Norman Rockwell photos to help you remember what life used to be like).
7 The Lord has rejected his altar and abandoned his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hands of the enemy; they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord as on the day of an appointed festival.
We are seeing a hint of this now. But it is only a hint because you still have the firstfruits, you still have the church in Philadelphia. Once they are raptured you will see God reject His altar, abandon His sanctuary, and give the walls of her palaces into the hands of the enemy. I just heard a video of a woman who is on the PTSA for some state saying that parents who are against CRT are “anti children” and that they need to die. She may sound like a lunatic right now, but shortly that will be the shout you hear in the house of the Lord. In Canada some minister said “Burn it all down” at the sight of people burning down churches in Canada.
8 The Lord determined to tear down the wall around Daughter Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withhold his hand from destroying. He made ramparts and walls lament; together they wasted away.
And why not. In one church they found a graveyard of hundreds of kids. The Catholic church has been involved in an incredibly extensive pedophile ring of priests. Many religious leaders have been implicated in child trafficking. The crimes are horrendous and God is going to tear it all down. As one person once said “if it take a village to raise a child it also takes a village to allow the children to be abused”. Meanwhile we are hearing Sheriffs, police chiefs and border security all lament that they are wasting away.
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; their bars he has broken and destroyed. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and her prophets no longer find visions from the Lord.
When your gate sinks into the ground you can’t open it. Right now our gates are opened wide and they estimate over 2 million immigrants will stream into the country this year. But the day is coming when no one will want to come into the country. First no one wanted to come into these denominational churches, then that led to the apostasy to keep the church from dying, that in turn led to the law being no more and the prophets no longer find vision, and you can see the result, no one wants to live in this country. That will be the finishing touch. God leaves the church, the blessing leaves the country, and soon everyone on earth will know it.
10 The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have sprinkled dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
Where did we go wrong? You forsook the counsel of God, the whole counsel of God. You failed to obey His speaking. You compromised with sin. Who are the "elders" of the daughter of Zion. I suppose that would mean someone like Joe Biden. Yesterday while on a phone call concerning Santa Claus one person he talked to closed with wishing him a merry Christmas and "Let's go Brandon". This expression "Let's go Brandon" is code for "F*** Joe Biden". It has become a number 1 single, it is chanted across the country in huge stadiums, everyone by now knows what this means and yet Joe Biden said "yes I agree, Let's go, Brandon". How could this person be an elder? They told us "inflation is good" and "Afghanistan was a victory". Everything they say is turning out to be a lie and the biggest one is about the vaccine being a cure. The day will come when all will see it was the real virus and then these elders who should have known better and warned us will bow their heads to the ground.
11 My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
That’s right, you have some people who could care less about God’s people and about the children and infants. But there are some who actually do care, they were simply deceived. They confused being meek with “not making waves” and being godly with being a smiling buffoon. They realized that God is love and ignored that there were things that He hated.
Jeremiah did warn them but they refused to follow him to Golgotha.
There is a tradition that during this siege of Jerusalem Jeremiah was living on Golgotha, the place of the skull, in one of the "eye sockets" that make this hill look like a skull. In other words he is abiding in the cross of Christ and looking at the destruction that takes place on all those who refused to take the way of the cross.
3 In fierce anger he has cut off every horn of Israel. He has withdrawn his right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.
The judgement will come like the wildfires in California. They have several levels to indicate the fire risk. Extreme, critical, and “Run!” "Every horn of Israel" refers to our defense. A cow uses its horns to defend itself. Cut off the horns and they are defenseless. The key to the spiritual warfare is the cross of Christ. That is where Jesus defeated Satan and put him to an open shame.
4 Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.
The crimes are all being dripped out little by little so that all those who are awake can know the truth. What you don’t see is God stringing his bow like an enemy. An enemy doesn’t put it on the front page that they have strung the bow to attack. They don’t warn you and God is picking them off one by one. But then when the attack comes it will be the pouring out of his wrath like fire. This is what we have seen. Already 23 congressmen and Senators have announced they will not be running for reelection in a year. Typically you might get 3 announce this. They are being picked off behind the scenes. The Ghislaine Maxwell trial is being diplomatic, yet everyone knows this touches the very heart of the elites. Some people think Epstein is not really dead. But what is happening, evidence of Election fraud is being dripped out so that now the majority of Americans think the 2020 election was stolen. Evidence of these pedophile rings going all the way to the Clintons is being leaked out. Corruption with the deep state involving FISA warrants that involve Obama is being leaked out. We now know that the same guy who helped create the virus in the Wuhan lab that is behind the pandemic is the same guy who published that using HCQ and Ivermectin is the cure. The elites knew about and have been using the cure for the last two years while outlawing everyone else from using it, censoring anyone who talks about it and slandering and firing doctors who ignore them. But this guy is also the guy who invented Remdesivir, the only allowable treatment by Fauci. This does nothing to cure Covid and only destroys your kidneys. This information has also been made public. Not only so but Hunter Biden's laptop and Ashli Biden's diary are both getting into the public. The Lord is stringing His bow and when He strikes He will be pouring out His wrath like fire.
5 The Lord is like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for Daughter Judah.
Hey, don’t worry about this. True, the Lord of all is like an enemy who will swallow you up, but this is the same Lord you have been mocking and ridiculing for years. So hey, no big deal. Don't you remember, this is "allegorical" not literal. These are "myths", you got nothing to worry about. So don't worry as you see people fleeing your sinking ship like rats.
6 He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting. The Lord has made Zion forget her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.
Like a garden? My dad used to have a really nice garden and as soon as the winter was over I had to go out and turn the soil. To lay waste like a garden is to completely turn over the soil and when you do that you get all the roots and rake them out. In the near future you will have only the distant memory of Thanksgiving or Christmas (you can get a photo of Norman Rockwell photos to help you remember what life used to be like).
7 The Lord has rejected his altar and abandoned his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hands of the enemy; they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord as on the day of an appointed festival.
We are seeing a hint of this now. But it is only a hint because you still have the firstfruits, you still have the church in Philadelphia. Once they are raptured you will see God reject His altar, abandon His sanctuary, and give the walls of her palaces into the hands of the enemy. I just heard a video of a woman who is on the PTSA for some state saying that parents who are against CRT are “anti children” and that they need to die. She may sound like a lunatic right now, but shortly that will be the shout you hear in the house of the Lord. In Canada some minister said “Burn it all down” at the sight of people burning down churches in Canada.
8 The Lord determined to tear down the wall around Daughter Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withhold his hand from destroying. He made ramparts and walls lament; together they wasted away.
And why not. In one church they found a graveyard of hundreds of kids. The Catholic church has been involved in an incredibly extensive pedophile ring of priests. Many religious leaders have been implicated in child trafficking. The crimes are horrendous and God is going to tear it all down. As one person once said “if it take a village to raise a child it also takes a village to allow the children to be abused”. Meanwhile we are hearing Sheriffs, police chiefs and border security all lament that they are wasting away.
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; their bars he has broken and destroyed. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and her prophets no longer find visions from the Lord.
When your gate sinks into the ground you can’t open it. Right now our gates are opened wide and they estimate over 2 million immigrants will stream into the country this year. But the day is coming when no one will want to come into the country. First no one wanted to come into these denominational churches, then that led to the apostasy to keep the church from dying, that in turn led to the law being no more and the prophets no longer find vision, and you can see the result, no one wants to live in this country. That will be the finishing touch. God leaves the church, the blessing leaves the country, and soon everyone on earth will know it.
10 The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have sprinkled dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
Where did we go wrong? You forsook the counsel of God, the whole counsel of God. You failed to obey His speaking. You compromised with sin. Who are the "elders" of the daughter of Zion. I suppose that would mean someone like Joe Biden. Yesterday while on a phone call concerning Santa Claus one person he talked to closed with wishing him a merry Christmas and "Let's go Brandon". This expression "Let's go Brandon" is code for "F*** Joe Biden". It has become a number 1 single, it is chanted across the country in huge stadiums, everyone by now knows what this means and yet Joe Biden said "yes I agree, Let's go, Brandon". How could this person be an elder? They told us "inflation is good" and "Afghanistan was a victory". Everything they say is turning out to be a lie and the biggest one is about the vaccine being a cure. The day will come when all will see it was the real virus and then these elders who should have known better and warned us will bow their heads to the ground.
11 My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
That’s right, you have some people who could care less about God’s people and about the children and infants. But there are some who actually do care, they were simply deceived. They confused being meek with “not making waves” and being godly with being a smiling buffoon. They realized that God is love and ignored that there were things that He hated.
Jeremiah did warn them but they refused to follow him to Golgotha.
Lamentations 2:1 Thy will be done
"Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed by they name, they kingdom come, thy will be done". Observant Jews read Jeremiah on the 9th of Av the day the temple was destroyed the first time, and the second time. When you are faced with a really tough choice and the cross is in front of you everyone, even the Lord will pray that it be taken away. However, you have to realize "not my will but thine be done". If you reject God's will then this is the result of choosing the broad way that leads to destruction.
1 How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion with the cloud of his anger! He has hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
What do we see today, they are not praying for God’s will to be done they are praying for their will to be done. They begin with mainstream media and the major newspapers, only publishing the information that is lined up with bringing in their kingdom and imposing their will. The Pandemic was from Wuhan bio weapons lab, censor that until after the election, HCQ can be used to treat the virus, censor that and anyone who says this, Hunter Biden’s laptop is filled with scandal, censor that. Anything that does not hallow their name, or bring in their kingdom or impose their will, censor it. So what happened? Right wing media popped up and dominated the airwaves. So then they extended this to online platforms which were being used to share and distribute the media they didn’t like. Facebook censored posts with their “fact checkers”, Youtube shadow banned, demonetized and deplatformed people, Twitter did the same, and Google had their algorithms set to strongly manipulate what you could and could not see. So what happened? Alternative sites like Rumble, Gab, Getter and FrankSpeech popped up while the ratings of all these “woke” corporations plummeted. So what happened? They then said they would monitor your phone to prevent you from sending text messages they disagreed with and no doubt soon your phone calls themselves. Obviously, if they are censoring the text messages they are surely listening to your phone. So what will happen? People will begin to speak in figurative language as code. We saw this in the inner city, when they were persecuted they simply created a new language so they could communicate without issue. In other words this is a repeat of the tower of Babel, they try to build a tower that reaches to the heavens and the curse will be that God will confuse their language. We see expressions like "Let's go Brandon" pop up. What happened then? The splendor of Babylon was cast down and Babel became synonymous with confusion.
Then what happens, “He has not remembered his footstool”. How often when you get really angry do you remember your footstool? It is absurd, who would even think of the footstool? But the earth is God’s footstool, not Biden, not Facebook, not Apple. Think about that, they aren’t the footstool, they aren’t even one of many nations making up the footstool, they are simply a few individuals in one of many nations and 7.5 billion people that make up that footstool. How tiny and insignificant they are and yet they had the gall to impose their will, to seek to build their kingdom and to try and hallow their name. Pride comes before a fall and their pride is astounding. Once again the message is clear, it begins with repenting of your pride, realizing that you are nothing, and praying “Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
What is the remedy? Simple, not my will but thine be done.
"Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed by they name, they kingdom come, thy will be done". Observant Jews read Jeremiah on the 9th of Av the day the temple was destroyed the first time, and the second time. When you are faced with a really tough choice and the cross is in front of you everyone, even the Lord will pray that it be taken away. However, you have to realize "not my will but thine be done". If you reject God's will then this is the result of choosing the broad way that leads to destruction.
1 How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion with the cloud of his anger! He has hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
What do we see today, they are not praying for God’s will to be done they are praying for their will to be done. They begin with mainstream media and the major newspapers, only publishing the information that is lined up with bringing in their kingdom and imposing their will. The Pandemic was from Wuhan bio weapons lab, censor that until after the election, HCQ can be used to treat the virus, censor that and anyone who says this, Hunter Biden’s laptop is filled with scandal, censor that. Anything that does not hallow their name, or bring in their kingdom or impose their will, censor it. So what happened? Right wing media popped up and dominated the airwaves. So then they extended this to online platforms which were being used to share and distribute the media they didn’t like. Facebook censored posts with their “fact checkers”, Youtube shadow banned, demonetized and deplatformed people, Twitter did the same, and Google had their algorithms set to strongly manipulate what you could and could not see. So what happened? Alternative sites like Rumble, Gab, Getter and FrankSpeech popped up while the ratings of all these “woke” corporations plummeted. So what happened? They then said they would monitor your phone to prevent you from sending text messages they disagreed with and no doubt soon your phone calls themselves. Obviously, if they are censoring the text messages they are surely listening to your phone. So what will happen? People will begin to speak in figurative language as code. We saw this in the inner city, when they were persecuted they simply created a new language so they could communicate without issue. In other words this is a repeat of the tower of Babel, they try to build a tower that reaches to the heavens and the curse will be that God will confuse their language. We see expressions like "Let's go Brandon" pop up. What happened then? The splendor of Babylon was cast down and Babel became synonymous with confusion.
Then what happens, “He has not remembered his footstool”. How often when you get really angry do you remember your footstool? It is absurd, who would even think of the footstool? But the earth is God’s footstool, not Biden, not Facebook, not Apple. Think about that, they aren’t the footstool, they aren’t even one of many nations making up the footstool, they are simply a few individuals in one of many nations and 7.5 billion people that make up that footstool. How tiny and insignificant they are and yet they had the gall to impose their will, to seek to build their kingdom and to try and hallow their name. Pride comes before a fall and their pride is astounding. Once again the message is clear, it begins with repenting of your pride, realizing that you are nothing, and praying “Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
What is the remedy? Simple, not my will but thine be done.
Gevte is the pro when it comes to putting together summaries of all the prophecies. This is an example, if you go to his site he provides links to over 20 videos explaining individual points.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: 
There is a Convergence of several Rapture Timelines (that has never occurred in human history); 
MAKING December 29th, 2021 to January 9th, 2022--THE HIGHEST WATCH EVER! Jesus was always telling His believers to keep watching for His return! According to Jesus (In Heaven), He told the Apostle John: If you are watching for His return, you will know the day and even the hour! On the other hand, IF YOU ARE NOT WATCHING - He will come like a thief in the night and you will not be prepared! Revelation 3:3 KJV Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. 
️ In Matthew 24 Jesus said: "This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." When Israel was once again set up as a nation; they were given a Maximum of 80 Years (The fig tree generation) before “One shall be taken and the other left” (The Rapture and the starting of the tribulation). Israel was founded May 14, 1948! May 14, 1948 is the Jewish month: 5 Iyar 5708 (The 5th day of the 2nd Jewish Month). Psalm 90 - 10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. - Bible Offline ️ A biblical generation is 70 years, too not greater than 80 years. In other words, everything must happen (The rapture, Armageddon, Jesus' return to set up His Kingdom) before Israel reaches 81 years. Scholars agree that Jesus will return on TRUE Yom Kippur: "The Day of Atonement": October 29th, 2028. Jesus returns after Israel calls on Him to save them from destruction (Matthew 23:39). This is a time of complete destruction of all the Lord's enemies, who are trying to destroy Israel. However, the tribulation ends in the Spring of 2029 (on or around Passover) when Jesus is crowned King of Kings and Lord of Lords. October 29th, 2028 (see how this date is calculated in the Google document): This is Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) the 10th day of the 7th month on God’s calendar. In addition, because 2028 is a Jubilee Year (See below), this date is also the Feast of Trumpets and the true fulfillment of that Feast by Jesus Christ. This is the last Yom Kippur before Israel would turn 81 years old, satisfying the fig tree prophecy (Matthew 24:32-34, Psalm 90:10), the fulfillment of all the fall feasts, as well as the fulfillment of the Jubilee Year (Leviticus 25:8-10). The Lord uses exact day counts to determine prophecy time periods. SEE: https://youtu.be/KoU4UKCMbkM (This video shows the exact prophesied day that Israel once again became a nation). If we calculate the years, what we come up with is a drop-dead Rapture time frame of the following: A key verification that 2021 is the Year of the Rapture and 2028 is a Jubilee Year: Jesus died and Rose from the grave in AD 28. SEE: https://youtu.be/Yi7DD6NCGrI AD 28 + 2,000 years (40 Jubilees) = 2028 (A Jubilee Year). Then 2028 - (7-Year Tribulation) = 2021! May 14, 1948 + 81 Years = Israel turns 81 years the ending of the Fig Tree generation on the 5th of Iyar 2029 which is May 19th, 2029 (Jewish Calendar is off 1 month again so it is 5th day of the 3rd month= May 19th, 2029): May 19th, 2029 is the end of the tribulation and Jesus is ruling the world! May 19th, 2029 - 7 Year Tribulation is 2,595 days (1,260 + 1,335) = April 11th, 2022 
Therefore, The Rapture and the start of the Tribulation limit cannot go past: April 11th, 2022 in order for the Fig Tree Generation Prophecy to be in effect. In addition, there was a blood moon on November 19th and it was the longest blood moon in 600 years. Plus on December 4th, there was a total solar eclipse. On December 6, 2017 President Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and stated that the American embassy would be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. According to Luke 13:6-9 the Lord always gives a 4-year notice before He destroys a nation. The ending of our four-year notice before destruction is in the month of: January, 2022 December 7th, 2021 marks the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan. The Lord uses 80 years as a Time Marker for a nation (The length of a generation). Will the USA be destroyed in January 2022? In addition, in Revelation 18 the Bible states that the USA (Babylon) will be destroyed at a time when hundreds of Merchant (Container) Ships are parked offshore of the United States. There has never been a nation or a time in history when hundreds of merchant ships are stuck offshore waiting to unload their cargo. (Revelation 18:10-19) In addition, the following is a comment that confirms this Rapture timeline: The Omicron Variant of COVID-19 Virus is spreading at an increasing rate and lockdowns have already begun. A sister had a dream that we will leave (Rapture/event) when the 2nd lockdown starts happening. We believe that The Jewish Year 2021 (Which ends Nisan 1: April 3, 2022 - On the Jewish calendar) is the year of the RAPTURE. There was a video of a sister that had had a very detailed vision of the rapture/event and she said that it will happen before 2022 (YouTube deleted it), she says that the RAPTURE/event will be a bright white light lasting a few minutes and we will be transformed into our heavenly glorified bodies and brought up to heaven. We will not experience any pain during the RAPTURE/event. We give full glory to God/Jesus for this comment, because we have been praying everyday for God/Jesus to reveal this information to us so that we can share it with everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxSbcQVD8VfGIO4LWI5N37z9YU_O165D2L
IMPORTANT UPDATE: There is a Convergence of several Rapture Timelines (that has never occurred in human history); MAKING December 29th, 2021 to January 9th, 2022--THE HIGHEST WATCH EVER! Jesus was always telling His believers to keep watching for His return! According to Jesus (In Heaven), He told the Apostle John: If you are watching for His return, you will know the day and even the hour! On the other hand, IF YOU ARE NOT WATCHING - He will come like a thief in the night and you will not be prepared! Revelation 3:3 KJV Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. ️ In Matthew 24 Jesus said: "This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." When Israel was once again set up as a nation; they were given a Maximum of 80 Years (The fig tree generation) before “One shall be taken and the other left” (The Rapture and the starting of the tribulation). Israel was founded May 14, 1948! May 14, 1948 is the Jewish month: 5 Iyar 5708 (The 5th day of the 2nd Jewish Month). Psalm 90 - 10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. - Bible Offline ️ A biblical generation is 70 years, too not greater than 80 years. In other words, everything must happen (The rapture, Armageddon, Jesus' return to set up His Kingdom) before Israel reaches 81 years. Scholars agree that Jesus will return on TRUE Yom Kippur: "The Day of Atonement": October 29th, 2028. Jesus returns after Israel calls on Him to save them from destruction (Matthew 23:39). This is a time of complete destruction of all the Lord's enemies, who are trying to destroy Israel. However, the tribulation ends in the Spring of 2029 (on or around Passover) when Jesus is crowned King of Kings and Lord of Lords. October 29th, 2028 (see how this date is calculated in the Google document): This is Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) the 10th day of the 7th month on God’s calendar. In addition, because 2028 is a Jubilee Year (See below), this date is also the Feast of Trumpets and the true fulfillment of that Feast by Jesus Christ. This is the last Yom Kippur before Israel would turn 81 years old, satisfying the fig tree prophecy (Matthew 24:32-34, Psalm 90:10), the fulfillment of all the fall feasts, as well as the fulfillment of the Jubilee Year (Leviticus 25:8-10). The Lord uses exact day counts to determine prophecy time periods. SEE: https://youtu.be/KoU4UKCMbkM (This video shows the exact prophesied day that Israel once again became a nation). If we calculate the years, what we come up with is a drop-dead Rapture time frame of the following: A key verification that 2021 is the Year of the Rapture and 2028 is a Jubilee Year: Jesus died and Rose from the grave in AD 28. SEE: https://youtu.be/Yi7DD6NCGrI AD 28 + 2,000 years (40 Jubilees) = 2028 (A Jubilee Year). Then 2028 - (7-Year Tribulation) = 2021! May 14, 1948 + 81 Years = Israel turns 81 years the ending of the Fig Tree generation on the 5th of Iyar 2029 which is May 19th, 2029 (Jewish Calendar is off 1 month again so it is 5th day of the 3rd month= May 19th, 2029): May 19th, 2029 is the end of the tribulation and Jesus is ruling the world! May 19th, 2029 - 7 Year Tribulation is 2,595 days (1,260 + 1,335) = April 11th, 2022 Therefore, The Rapture and the start of the Tribulation limit cannot go past: April 11th, 2022 in order for the Fig Tree Generation Prophecy to be in effect. In addition, there was a blood moon on November 19th and it was the longest blood moon in 600 years. Plus on December 4th, there was a total solar eclipse. On December 6, 2017 President Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and stated that the American embassy would be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. According to Luke 13:6-9 the Lord always gives a 4-year notice before He destroys a nation. The ending of our four-year notice before destruction is in the month of: January, 2022 December 7th, 2021 marks the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan. The Lord uses 80 years as a Time Marker for a nation (The length of a generation). Will the USA be destroyed in January 2022? In addition, in Revelation 18 the Bible states that the USA (Babylon) will be destroyed at a time when hundreds of Merchant (Container) Ships are parked offshore of the United States. There has never been a nation or a time in history when hundreds of merchant ships are stuck offshore waiting to unload their cargo. (Revelation 18:10-19) In addition, the following is a comment that confirms this Rapture timeline: The Omicron Variant of COVID-19 Virus is spreading at an increasing rate and lockdowns have already begun. A sister had a dream that we will leave (Rapture/event) when the 2nd lockdown starts happening. We believe that The Jewish Year 2021 (Which ends Nisan 1: April 3, 2022 - On the Jewish calendar) is the year of the RAPTURE. There was a video of a sister that had had a very detailed vision of the rapture/event and she said that it will happen before 2022 (YouTube deleted it), she says that the RAPTURE/event will be a bright white light lasting a few minutes and we will be transformed into our heavenly glorified bodies and brought up to heaven. We will not experience any pain during the RAPTURE/event. We give full glory to God/Jesus for this comment, because we have been praying everyday for God/Jesus to reveal this information to us so that we can share it with everyone.https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxSbcQVD8VfGIO4LWI5N37z9YU_O165D2L
Lamentations 2:12-17 All your enemies say "this is the day we have waited for"
12 They say to their mothers, “Where is bread and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives ebb away in their mothers’ arms.
Honor your father and mother that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth. There is a promised blessing if you honor your father and mother, but no longer. Why is that? Because the fathers and mothers did not honor their father and mother. Does BLM honor the Civil rights movement? No. Do these journalists at the NY Times, CNN and MSNBC honor the journalists that came before them? No. What is the significance of tearing down statues of Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, and getting rid of the name Washington from your school? It is a blatant statement that they are not honoring their father and mother. You reap what you sow. The response is simple, confess your sin, repent, and begin once again to honor your father and mother. What did George Washington do when he saw the lives of his soldiers ebbing away at Valley Forge?
13 What can I say for you? With what can I compare you, Daughter Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you, Virgin Daughter Zion? Your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?
Not the greatest bed side manner. Can you imagine a doctor saying this? “Tell me Doctor, is it serious?” Your wound is as deep as the sea, who can heal you? But if you do hear this the answer is simple, when no one can possibly heal you then you need to pray to God.
14 The visions of your prophets were false and worthless; they did not expose your sin to ward off your captivity. The prophecies they gave you were false and misleading.
Don’t you love this? The prophets are supposed to be exposing sin to ward off captivity. If you commit sin you become a slave to sin. So let’s consider that. Swalwell has sex with a CCP spy named Fang Fang. That sin has made him a slave to sin, now the CCP has “leverage” on him which they use to get him to sin more, which in turn gives them even more leverage. At some point for him to come clean would be scary, he knows his wound is as deep as the sea. However, if a prophet exposes the sin then there is no longer any threat of having his sins exposed, this breaks those chains of slavery and can ward off captivity.
15 All who pass your way clap their hands at you; they scoff and shake their heads at Daughter Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?”
At one time Detroit was a beautiful city and NY was the envy of the entire world. That was a while ago, seems like a very long time ago. Think how far a city like San Francisco has fallen.
16 All your enemies open their mouths wide against you; they scoff and gnash their teeth and say, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day we have waited for; we have lived to see it.”
We have an expression for this, it is called “who won the divorce”. For example almost all the NFL fans have waited for the day that the New England Patriots would be humiliated. They forced Tom Brady to leave the team and the very first year he goes and wins the Superbowl with Tampa Bay while New England doesn’t make the playoffs. So many rejoiced saying “this is the day we have waited for, we have lived to see it”.
17 The Lord has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his word, which he decreed long ago. He has overthrown you without pity, he has let the enemy gloat over you, he has exalted the horn of your foes.
Read the word, God said He would do this if you forsook His word. Deuteronomy gives you the promised blessings and the promised curses. Blessings for those who keep the word, curses for those who forsake the word.
12 They say to their mothers, “Where is bread and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives ebb away in their mothers’ arms.
Honor your father and mother that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth. There is a promised blessing if you honor your father and mother, but no longer. Why is that? Because the fathers and mothers did not honor their father and mother. Does BLM honor the Civil rights movement? No. Do these journalists at the NY Times, CNN and MSNBC honor the journalists that came before them? No. What is the significance of tearing down statues of Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, and getting rid of the name Washington from your school? It is a blatant statement that they are not honoring their father and mother. You reap what you sow. The response is simple, confess your sin, repent, and begin once again to honor your father and mother. What did George Washington do when he saw the lives of his soldiers ebbing away at Valley Forge?
13 What can I say for you? With what can I compare you, Daughter Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you, Virgin Daughter Zion? Your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?
Not the greatest bed side manner. Can you imagine a doctor saying this? “Tell me Doctor, is it serious?” Your wound is as deep as the sea, who can heal you? But if you do hear this the answer is simple, when no one can possibly heal you then you need to pray to God.
14 The visions of your prophets were false and worthless; they did not expose your sin to ward off your captivity. The prophecies they gave you were false and misleading.
Don’t you love this? The prophets are supposed to be exposing sin to ward off captivity. If you commit sin you become a slave to sin. So let’s consider that. Swalwell has sex with a CCP spy named Fang Fang. That sin has made him a slave to sin, now the CCP has “leverage” on him which they use to get him to sin more, which in turn gives them even more leverage. At some point for him to come clean would be scary, he knows his wound is as deep as the sea. However, if a prophet exposes the sin then there is no longer any threat of having his sins exposed, this breaks those chains of slavery and can ward off captivity.
15 All who pass your way clap their hands at you; they scoff and shake their heads at Daughter Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?”
At one time Detroit was a beautiful city and NY was the envy of the entire world. That was a while ago, seems like a very long time ago. Think how far a city like San Francisco has fallen.
16 All your enemies open their mouths wide against you; they scoff and gnash their teeth and say, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day we have waited for; we have lived to see it.”
We have an expression for this, it is called “who won the divorce”. For example almost all the NFL fans have waited for the day that the New England Patriots would be humiliated. They forced Tom Brady to leave the team and the very first year he goes and wins the Superbowl with Tampa Bay while New England doesn’t make the playoffs. So many rejoiced saying “this is the day we have waited for, we have lived to see it”.
17 The Lord has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his word, which he decreed long ago. He has overthrown you without pity, he has let the enemy gloat over you, he has exalted the horn of your foes.
Read the word, God said He would do this if you forsook His word. Deuteronomy gives you the promised blessings and the promised curses. Blessings for those who keep the word, curses for those who forsake the word.