Christ in Lamentations

~ Jesus Christ, the Man of Sorrows, Is Seen in the Weeping Prophet ~

The Bible is about Jesus Christ  ~  “Jesus said to them, ‘How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter His glory?’ And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself” (Luke 24:25-27).

The book of Lamentations is largely a deep concern for Israel.  “I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.  He has led me and made me walk in darkness and not in light” (Lamentations 3:1-2).  The crying out is from a man who has taken the identity of Jerusalem personally—the problems Jerusalem must face are taken on as his own. 

Later in both Matthew’s and Luke’s account of the Messiah’s time on earth we find our Savior concerned about Jerusalem.

Jesus lamented, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her!  How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!  See!  Your house is left to you desolate; and assuredly, I say to you, you shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’” (Luke 13:34-35, parallel passage Matthew 23:37-39). 

Jesus Christ, Israel’s Messiah, went to the Cross of Calvary for the sin of the world. 

The Apostle Paul told us the Scriptures present many shadows of things to come but the reality is found in Jesus Christ (Colossians 2:17). 

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