The Cry For Israel

I do not believe in coincidences. The night before I began studying the book of
Lamentations for this post, I was watching Johnathan Cahn’s Book of Mysteries on
TBN. Two of the mysteries highlighted while I was watching, we’re the only two in
the entire book that have scripture references from Lamentations. And they were two
that made me sit up and take notice as I watched the mysteries come to light. This is a
book that every believer should read. It will open your walk with God in ways you
ever imagined, and strengthen your faith exponentially.

Lamentations is a poem of heartbreak. Jeremiah witnessed the destruction of his

beloved city Jerusalem, and his people taken into captivity. All that God had told him
would happen did. In chapter 1 verse 13, he states that From on high, he sent down
fire deep into my bones. The Word of the Lord was ablaze within him, yet his
warnings were rejected by the priests. He was so broken when the destruction came to
pass that he went on to say in verse 16 Because of these things, I weep; my eyes, my
eyes stream with tears; for anyone who could comfort me and revive my courage is
far away. In his brokenness, he poured out his cry for Israel. To lament means to
mourn aloud, or to wail. It is intense sorrow and mourning.

The Word tells us in Psalm 30:5 Weeping may endureth for a night, but joy cometh in
the morning, and while in the midst of one of their darkest hours, the Lord still gave
forth a word of blessing in the darkness. 21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I
hope. 22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his
compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24
The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore I will hope in him. 25 The Lord is
good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a
man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. Lamentations
3:21-26

In the Book of Mysteries, Johnathan Cahn explains the word MERCIES translates to
rachamim. This is a word that we need to imprint on our hearts and hold tight to it. He
says that because this word is plural, and not singular, the mercies of God are always
greater than our sin, and you can never exhaust God's mercies. Not only will He have
more mercies than you have sin, He has enough compassion left over to love you
forever. This is HUGE, because even in their darkest days, when God brought down
judgement upon His chosen people, Israel, He was still crying out for them. He was
letting them know that He still had more mercy for them than they had rebellion for
Him. He had more love for them than they had apostasy. He had more compassion
than they had for their love of idolatry. HIS MERCIES ENDURE FOREVER! Psalm
147: 2-3 says: ADONAI is rebuilding Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), gathering the
dispersed of Isra'el (Israel). He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.
He told them before it's destruction that He was going to rebuild the city and gather
them home, because His mercies endure FOREVER.

Even to this day, God is the cry for Israel. Throughout His word He calls to His
chosen nation (a nation that you are grafted into if you are born again), and repeatedly
says He will rebuild them. Jeremiah 31:3-4 reads: The Lord hath appeared of old unto
me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with a
lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O
virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with they tabrets (tambourines), and
shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. Romans 11: 23-27 Continues
His cry for Israel saying: 23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be
grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if thou wert cut out of the
olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good
olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into
their own olive tree? 25 For I would not, brethren that ye should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is
happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. 26 And so all Israel
shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer
(Redeemer), and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27 For this is my covenant
unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

We, as the children of God, should be joining Him in the cry for Israel. We should be
praying for and standing with them. God declared in the very beginning to Abram,
before He ever changed his name to Abraham, a very powerful promise. And I will
make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou
shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth
thee: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Genesis 12:2-3 When
we bless His chosen nation, He will bless us. We are part of His chosen nation, Israel.
We are adopted in by the precious blood of Jesus. Let us join with our Father and be
in agreement with Him in the cry for Israel, and speak blessings and life over His
chosen people.