September 13

<p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/2577S0913.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a></p> <!-- END 1105 Download Link --> <p>Lamentations 5 - Ezekiel 3 We are in the Prophetic Stream starting the final book for the stream this year. We are reading from the God's Word Translation. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Streams | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></p> <!--more--> <p>Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote> <div>Lord Jesus, let us be quick to confess, slow to blame, and attentive to you as Ezekiel was. You do call us to speak for you, to be a testament to your good plans for us.  Amen.</div> </blockquote> <p><strong>Lam</strong>.5 - If Charles Dickens had written Lamentations, it would open, "it was the worst of times, it was the worst of times - indeed, it was the worst of times." Jerusalem is unrecognizable. It's a slave camp gone into complete dismay. The fires of the city and the siege have died, yes, but the ash is still everywhere. It was a horror that had simply changed chapters. The occupying enemies have now taken charge and are working them to a stupor; to exhaustion. Meals are not enjoyed. They are struggled for, scraping together meager bits to barely subsist. Food in Judah was like water in the desert: more scorching heat than worth but still fought for just to live.  Luxuries, amenities, simple comforts and pleasures are of not these days.  The Babylonians were raping at will. Hebrews were being tortured. Let's just say, "the music had died." Life was nothing but a dirge. Yet as the book nearly closes, Jeremiah acknowledges that God is God and nothing is going to change that. He also is keenly aware that life in Jerusalem and Judea was wretched these days. The odd matter is that the Judeans do not seem confessional. They are not penitent at this stage of the game. God did not have an anger problem. They have had a disobedience problem and they were reaping what th