The word of Elohim through the Prophets....
Lamentations 1: 5 to 7 {The Message: numbered edition; By permission of Elohim, for copyright reasons}
5
The Master became the enemy. He had Israel for supper. He chewed up and spit out all the defences. He left Daughter judah moaning and groaning.
6
He plowed up his old trysting place, trashed his favourite rendezvous. G_d wiped out Zion's memories of feast days and Sabbaths, angrily sacked king and priest alike.
7
G_d abandoned his alter, walked away from his Holy Temple, and turned the fortifications over to the enemy. As they cheered in G_d's Temple, you'd have thought it was a feast day!
8
G_d drew up plans to tear down the walls of Daughter Zion. He assembled his crew, set to work and went at it. Total demolition! The stones wept!
Revelation 18: 1 to 7 {The Scriptures 1998+: The Scriptures Institute; By permission of Elohim, for copyright reasons}
Rev 18:1
And after this I saw another messenger coming down from the heaven, having great authority, and the earth was lightened from his esteem.
Rev 18:2
And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Babel the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, and a haunt for every unclean and hated bird,
Rev 18:3
because all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her whoring, and the sovereigns of the earth have committed whoring with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the power of her riotous living.”
Rev 18:4
And I heard another voice from the heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.
Rev 18:5
“Because her sins have piled up to reach the heaven, and Elohim has remembered her unrighteousnesses.
Rev 18:6
“Render to her as she indeed did render, and repay her double according to her works. In the cup which she has mixed, mix for her double.
Rev 18:7
“As much as she esteemed herself and lived riotously, so much torture and grief give to her, because in her heart she says, ‘I sit as sovereigness, and I am not a widow, and I do not see mourning at all.
