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Post by gsmithb on Sept 1, 2014 2:11:39 GMT
In this chapter Jerusalem is portrayed as a woman. Because of the sins of Israel punishment is given by God. She is become as a widow, the King that should have taken care of her, and should have been as a husband, has been taken away. God has departed from her and her children taken away.
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Post by Lee on Sept 1, 2014 2:43:47 GMT
Well, if we cannot join in the demonstrative ardour of Jeremiah’s grief, we certainly mourn with him in a larger form of the same sorrow. We mourn for Jerusalem in a sense not known to those who consider the matter from a merely picturesque point of view. We lament the down-treading of divine law in the earth, because divine law is precious to us both for God’s sake and man’s sake. We mourn the ascendancy of a Gentile system of law and government in all countries, because such a system necessarily engenders poverty and godlessness and debasement among the people brought up under it. We dwell wearily in a dry and thirsty land where the waters are not flowing that can come from the fountain of the divine personal authority alone. We wait with strong desire, yet with the patience which Israel’s God calls for at our hands, the times of the restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. With the arrival of those times, Jeremiah, with all the prophets, will have their tears dried and their hearts gladdened with the feast of fat things which the Lord of Hosts will spread for all people in Mount Zion. We are here because we hope to share the gladness of the Lord’s redeemed when they shall come with singing unto Zion, with everlasting joy on their heads, sorrow and mourning having fled for ever away. We drink this wine now as the symbol of sorrow “until the kingdom of God shall come;” then, we hope to drink it new in the Father’s kingdom in token and fulfilment of the joy of God and man.
1884 Christadelphian p 452
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