"For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are aginst the Lord, to provoke the eyes of His glory."
In these next several verses is the pronouncement of the Lord against His own people. And as He is speaking against Judah for their departure from His ways; so He speaks against His church the same way. These words are a mirror reflection of His pronouncement against us. For those that would say it was to Judah and it stays to Judah; I would simply reply, Does Revelation 2-3 to the 7 churches not say the same thing? Yes it does.
Let us glean from these verses the truth to apply to our own conditions and ways. Let us learn the lessons of history and let us seek Him rightly. "Who knows if He will turn again and leave a blessing behind Him"?
For Jerusalem is ruined and Judah is fallen - the consumation of their wickedness and sin is found in these two words - ruin and fallen; God is the only One Who can restore the ruins. God is the only One Who can raise up the fallen. There is help in no others. But when God ruins and causes a people to fall there is no hope to be found for them. Who can undo what God has done? None. The only way is if one throws himself upon the Lord's mercies and grace.
Jerusalem and Judah had continued their perpetual sinning and now reaped what they had sown. Rebelion always reaps falling and ruin. OUr same plight is found for us today.
