MEANING OF SACKCLOTH AND ASHES.
Sackcloth and ashes originates from biblical texts and is used to symbolize:
MOURNING,(*Deep sorrow and grief)
REPENTANCE, (*Desire to change)
AND HUMILITY.(*Humbled to Father in shame)
Wearing sackcloth, is uncomfortable and course fabric. Usually made from goats hair. Sitting in ashes were traditional practices during times of great spiritual and physical distress or showing their penance for sins.
In the Bible, figures such as Job and the people of Israel used sackcloth and ashes to express their sorrow and seek forgiveness from Father. This showed a deep sense of remorse and the desire to turn away from their iniquity.
These biblical stories of mourning, repentance, and humility show someone who is experiencing regret for transgressions by taking responsibility for their actions, and bowing down to the heavenly Father. Demonstrating the act of being nothing but dirty ashes. Burnt up and consumed with the trials and tribulation of this life.
REPENTANCE OF NINEVEH
(Jonah 3:5-6)
When Jonah prophesies the destruction of Nineveh, the king and the people respond by donning sackcloth and sitting in ashes as a sign of repentance.
THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH BELIEVE
Jonah 3:5-10 KJV
1 SO THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH
Believed God,
And proclaimed a fast,
And put on SACKCLOTH,
From the greatest of them
Even to the least of them.
6 FOR WORD CAME
UNTO THE KING OF NINEVEH,
And he arose from his throne,
And he laid his robe from him,
And covered him with SACKCLOTH,
And sat in ASHES.
7 AND HE CAUSED IT TO BE PROCLAIMED
And published through Nineveh
By the decree of the king and his nobles,
Saying, Let neither man nor beast,
Herd nor flock, taste any thing:
Let them not feed, nor drink water:
8 BUT LET MAN AND BEAST
Be covered with SACKCLOTH,
And cry mightily unto God:
Yea, let them turn every one
From his evil way, and from the violence
That is in their hands.
9 WHO CAN TELL IF GOD WILL TURN
AND REPENT,
And turn away from his fierce anger,
That we perish not?
10 AND GOD SAW THEIR WORKS,
That they turned from their evil way;
And God repented of the evil,
That he had said
That he would Do unto them;
And he did it not.
KING DAVID MOURNS
(2 Samuel 12:16-17)
After the death of his child, with Besthsheba, David fasts and mourns, emphasizing humility and sorrow. The child was born through adultery and murder. God did not let it live.
THE DEATH OF DAVIDâS SON
2 Samuel 12:15-23 KJV
15 AND NATHAN DEPARTED
Unto his house.
And the Lord struck the child
That Uriah's wife bare unto David,
And it was very sick.
16 DAVID THEREFORE BESOUGHT GOD
For the child;
And David fasted,
And went in,
And lay all night upon the earth.
17 AND THE ELDERS
OF HIS HOUSE AROSE,
And went to him,
To raise him up from the earth:
But he would not,
Neither did he eat bread with them.
18 AND IT CAME TO PASS
On the seventh day,
That the child died.
And the servants of David
Feared to tell him that the child was dead:
For they said, Behold,
While the child was yet alive,
We spake unto him,
And he would not hearken unto our voice:
How will he then vex himself,
If we tell him that the child is dead?
19 BUT WHEN DAVID SAW
That his servants whispered,
David perceived that the child was dead:
Therefore David said unto his servants,
Is the child dead?
And they said, He is dead.
20 THEN DAVID AROSE FROM THE EARTH,
And washed, and anointed himself,
And changed his apparel,
And came into the house of the Lord,
And worshipped:
Then he came to his own house;
And when he required,
They set bread before him,
And he did eat.
21 THEN SAID HIS SERVANTS UNTO HIM,
What thing is this that thou hast done?
Thou didst fast and weep for the child,
While it was alive;
But when the child was dead,
Thou didst rise and eat bread.
22 AND HE SAID,
While the child was yet alive,
I fasted and wept:
For I said,
Who can tell whether God
Will be gracious to
me, that the child may live?
23 BUT NOW HE IS DEAD,
Wherefore should I fast?
Can I bring him back again?
I shall go to him,
But he shall not return to me.
QUEEN ESTHER'S PLEA
(Esther 4)
Esther asks the Jews to fast and wear sackcloth as they seek deliverance from impending doom.
ESTHER AGREES TO HELP THE JEWS
Esther 4 KJV
1 WHEN MORDECAI PERCEIVED
All that was done,
Mordecai rent his clothes,
And put on sackcloth with ashes,
And went out into the midst of the city,
And cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
2 AND CAME EVEN
BEFORE THE KING'S GATE:
For none might enter into the king's gate
Clothed with sackcloth.
3 AND IN EVERY PROVINCE,
Whithersoever the king's commandment
And his decree came,
There was great mourning
Among the Jews,
And fasting,
And weeping,
And wailing;
And many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4 SO ESTHER'S MAIDS
And her chamberlains
Came and told it her.
Then was the queen exceedingly grieved;
And she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai,
And to take away his sackcloth from him:
But he received it not.
5 THEN CALLED ESTHER FOR HATACH,
One of the king's chamberlains,
Whom he had appointed
To attend upon her,
And gave him a commandment
To Mordecai,
To know what it was,
And why it was.
6 SO HATACH WENT FORTH
TO MORDECAI
Unto the street of the city,
Which was before the king's gate.
7 AND MORDECAI TOLD HIM OF ALL
That had happened unto him,
And of the sum of the money
That Haman had promised
To pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews,
To destroy them.
8 ALSO HE GAVE HIM THE COPY
Of the writing of the decree
That was given at Shushan
To destroy them,
To shew it unto Esther,
And to declare it unto her,
And to charge her that she should go
In unto the king,
To make supplication unto him,
And to make request before him
For her people.
9 AND HATACH CAME
And told Esther the words of Mordecai.
10 AGAINST ESTHER
SPAKE UNTO HATACH,
And gave him commandment
Unto Mordecai;
11 ALL THE KING'S SERVANTS,
And the people of the king's provinces,
Do know, that whosoever,
Whether man or women,
Shall come unto the king
Into the inner court,
Who is not called,
There is one law of his to put him to death,
Except such to whom the king
Shall hold out the golden sceptre,
That he may live:
But I have not been called to come in
Unto the king these thirty days.
12 AND THEY TOLD TO MORDECAI
Esther's words.
13 THEN MORDECAI COMMANDED
To answer Esther,
Think not with thyself
That thou shalt escape
In the king's house,
More than all the Jews.
14 FOR IF THOU ALTOGETHER
Holdest thy peace at this time,
Then shall there enlargement
And deliverance
Arise to the Jews from another place;
But thou and thy father's house
Shall be destroyed:
And who knoweth whether thou art come
To the kingdom for such a time as this?
15 THEN ESTHER BADE THEM
Return Mordecai this answer,
16 GO, GATHER TOGETHER ALL THE JEWS
That are present in Shushan,
And fast ye for me,
And neither eat nor drink three days,
Night or day:
I also and my maidens will fast likewise;
And so will I go in unto the king,
Which is not according to the law:
And if I perish, I perish.
17 SO MORDECAI WENT HIS WAY,
And did according to all
That Esther had commanded him.
PROPHET JEREMIAH
(Jeremiah 6:26)
Jeremiah calls for mourning in Israel, invoking sackcloth as a sign of sorrow for sin.
IMPENDING DESTRUCTION FROM THE NORTH
Jeremiah 6:16-30 KJV
16 THUS SAITH THE LORD,
Stand ye in the ways, and see,
And ask for the old paths,
Where is the good way, and walk therein,
And ye shall find rest for your souls.
But they said,
We will not walk therein.
17 ALSO I SET WATCHMEN OVER YOU,
Saying,
Hearken to the sound of the trumpet.
But they said,
We will not hearken.
18 THEREFORE HEAR,
Ye nations, and know,
O congregation,
What is among them.
19 HEARKEN, O EARTH:
BEHOLD,
I will bring evil upon this people,
Even the fruit of their thoughts,
Because they have not hearkened
Unto my words, nor to my law,
But rejected it.
20 TO WHAT PURPOSE COMETH THERE
To me incense from Sheba,
And the sweet cane from a far country?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable,
Nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
21 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD,
BEHOLD,
I will lay stumblingblocks
Before this people,
And the fathers and the sons together
Shall fall upon them;
The neighbour and his friend shall perish.
22 THUS SAITH THE LORD,
BEHOLD,
A people cometh from the north country,
And a great nation shall be raised
From the sides of the earth.
23 THEY SHALL LAY HOLD
ON BOW AND SPEAR;
They are cruel, and have no mercy;
Their voice roareth like the sea;
And they ride upon horses,
Set in array as men for war against thee,
O daughter of Zion.
24 WE HAVE HEARD THE FAME THEREOF:
Our hands wax feeble:
Anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain,
As of a woman in travail.
25 GO NOT FORTH INTO THE FIELD,
Nor walk by the way;
For the sword of the enemy
And fear is on every side.
26 O DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE,
Gird thee with sackcloth,
And wallow thyself in ashes:
Make thee mourning, as for an only son,
Most bitter lamentation:
For the spoiler shall suddenly
Come upon us.
27 I HAVE SET THEE FOR A TOWER
And a fortress among my people,
That thou mayest know and try their way.
28 THEY ARE ALL GRIEVOUS REVOLTERS,
Walking with slanders:
They are brass and iron;
They are all corrupters.
29 THE BELLOWS ARE BURNED,
The lead is consumed of the fire;
The founder melteth in vain:
For the wicked are not plucked away.
30 REPROBATE SILVER
Shall men call them,
Because the Lord hath rejected them.
THE ISRAELITES
(Isaiah 15:3, Micah 1:10)
Throughout the books of the prophets, sackcloth is often mentioned as part of national mourning or individual repentance.
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL AND JUDAH
Micah 1 KJV
1 THE WORD OF THE LORD
That came to Micah
The Morasthite in the days of Jotham,
Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah,
Which he saw concerning Samaria
And Jerusalem.
2 HEAR, ALL YE PEOPLE;
Hearken, O earth,
And all that therein is:
And let the Lord God
Be witness against you,
The Lord from his holy temple.
3 FOR, BEHOLD
The Lord cometh forth
Out of His place,
And will come down,
And tread upon
The high places of the earth.
4 AND THE MOUNTAINS
Shall be molten
Under him,
And the valleys shall be cleft,
As wax before the fire,
And as the waters that are poured down
A steep place.
5 FOR THE TRANSGRESSION
Of Jacob is all this,
And for the sins of the house of Israel.
What is the transgression of Jacob?
Is it not Samaria?
And what are the high places of Judah?
Are they not Jerusalem?
6 THEREFORE I WILL MAKE SAMARIA
As an heap of the field,
And as plantings of a vineyard:
And I will pour down
The stones thereof into the valley,
And I will discover the foundations thereof.
7 AND ALL THE GRAVEN IMAGES
THEREOF
Shall be beaten to pieces,
And all the hires thereof
Shall be burned with the fire,
And all the idols thereof will I lay desolate:
For she gathered it of the hire of an harlot,
And they shall return to
THE HIRE OF AN HARLOT.
8 THEREFORE I WILL WAIL AND HOWL,
I will go stripped and naked:
I will make a wailing like the dragons,
And mourning as the owls.
9 FOR HER WOUND IS INCURABLE;
For it is come unto Judah;
He is come unto the gate of my people,
Even to Jerusalem.
10 DECLARE YE IT NOT AT GATH,
Weep ye not at all:
In the house of Aphrah
Roll thyself in the dust.
11 PASS YE AWAY,
Thou inhabitant of Saphir,
Having thy shame naked:
The inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth
In the mourning of Bethezel;
He shall receive of you his standing.
12 FOR THE INHABITANT OF MAROTH
Waited carefully for good:
But evil came down from the Lord
Unto the gate of Jerusalem.
13 O THOU INHABITANT OF LACHISH,
Vind the chariot to the swift beast:
She is the beginning of the sin
To the daughter of Zion:
For the transgressions of Israel
Were found in thee.
14 THEREFORE SHALT THOU GIVE
Presents to Moreshethgath:
The houses of Achzib
Shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
15 YET WILL I BRING AN HEIR UNTO THEE,
O inhabitant of Mareshah:
He shall come unto Adullam
THE GLORY OF ISRAEL.
16 MAKE THEE BALD,
And poll thee for thy delicate children;
Enlarge thy baldness as the eagle;
For they are gone into captivity from thee.
The significance of sackcloth and ashes in the Bible, demonstrates moments of deep emotional strive and the desire to reconcile with The Father.
The 2 witnesses come teaching
sackcloth and ashes.They are described as prophetic figures who proclaim God's message during the end times.
The Two Witnesses (Revelation 11:3-6)
As having the power to prophesy for 1,260 days while clothed in sackcloth.(*shortened by Christ in Matthew 24:22-24/ Revelation 9 to 150 days. The 7 years given to Satan was deduced to those 5 months/140 days.
The 2 Witnesses time was given in days and when shortened to days they are given about a week longer to prepare and warn the house of Isreal.)
THE TWO WITNESSES
Revelation 11 KJV
1 AND THERE WAS GIVEN ME A REED
Like unto a rod: and the angel stood,
Saying, Rise, and measure
The temple of God,
And the altar,
And them that worship therein.
2 BUT THE COURT
Which is without the temple leave out,
And measure it not;
For it is given unto the Gentiles:
And the holy city shall they tread
Under foot forty and two months.
(*Shortened by Christ, Matthew24, to 5 months of Revelation 9, for the elections sake, so they could stand.)
3 AND I WILL GIVE POWER
Unto my TWO witnesses,
And they shall prophesy
A thousand two hundred
And threescore days,
Clothed in sackcloth.(*Repentance)
4 THESE ARE THE TWO OLIVE TREES,
And the two candlesticks
Standing before the God of the earth.
5 AND IF ANY MAN WILL HURT THEM,
Fire proceedeth out of their mouth,
And devoureth their enemies:
And if any man will hurt them,
He must in this manner be killed.
6 THESE HAVE POWER TO SHUT HEAVEN,
That it rain not
In the days of their prophecy:
And have power over waters
To turn them to blood,
And to smite the earth with all plagues,
As often as they will.
THE WITNESSES KILLED
7 AND WHEN THEY SHALL HAVE FINISHED
Their testimony,
The beast that ascendeth out
Of the bottomless pit(*Abbadon, Appolyon)
Shall make war against them,
And shall overcome them,
And kill them.
8 AND THEIR DEAD BODIES
Shall lie in the street of the great city,
Which spiritually is called
Sodom and Egypt,
Where also our Lord was crucified.
9 AND THEY OF THE PEOPLE
And kindreds
And tongues
And nations shall see their dead bodies
Three days and an half,
And shall not suffer their dead bodies
To be put in graves.
10 AND THEY THAT DWELL
UPON THE EARTH
Shall rejoice over them,
And make merry,
And shall send gifts one to another;
Because these TWO prophets
Tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
THE WITNESSES RESURRECTED
11 AND AFTER THREE DAYS AND AN HALF
The spirit of life from God
Entered into them,
And they stood upon their feet;
And great fear fell upon them
Which saw them.
12 AND THEY HEARD A GREAT VOICE
From heaven saying unto them,
Come up hither.
And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud;
And their enemies beheld them.
13 AND THE SAME HOUR WAS THERE
A great earthquake,
And the tenth part of the city fell,
And in the earthquake
Were slain of men SEVEN THOUSAND:
And the remnant
Were affrighted,
And gave glory to the God of heaven.
(*The 7000 fallen angels that take over the government's of the world with their new world order will die forever.)
14 THE SECOND WOE IS PAST;
And, behold,
The third woe cometh quickly.
Sackcloth is a symbol of humility and sorrow, indicating their role as prophets of repentance in a time of great tribulation of the apostasy of God's people. The sackcloth worn by the Two Witnesses provokes their somber mission, calling for the repentance of the nations and pointing out their eminent demise.
The 2 serve as messengers of God's judgment, calling people to repentance. They are granted the power to perform miraculous signs, such as shutting the sky to prevent rain and turning waters into blood, emphasizing their authority as God's representatives.
After their testimony, they are killed, signifying the rejection of their message. Like that of Jesus message they will lay in the street 3 days and half. They are later resurrected and taken up to heaven, symbolizing the ultimate vindication of God's
MEANING OF SACKCLOTH AND ASHES.
Sackcloth and ashes originates from biblical texts and is used to symbolize:
MOURNING,(*Deep sorrow and grief)
REPENTANCE, (*Desire to change)
AND HUMILITY.(*Humbled to Father in shame)
Wearing sackcloth, is uncomfortable and course fabric. Usually made from goats hair. Sitting in ashes were traditional practices during times of great spiritual and physical distress or showing their penance for sins.
In the Bible, figures such as Job and the people of Israel used sackcloth and ashes to express their sorrow and seek forgiveness from Father. This showed a deep sense of remorse and the desire to turn away from their iniquity.
These biblical stories of mourning, repentance, and humility show someone who is experiencing regret for transgressions by taking responsibility for their actions, and bowing down to the heavenly Father. Demonstrating the act of being nothing but dirty ashes. Burnt up and consumed with the trials and tribulation of this life.
đREPENTANCE OF NINEVEH
(Jonah 3:5-6)
When Jonah prophesies the destruction of Nineveh, the king and the people respond by donning sackcloth and sitting in ashes as a sign of repentance.
đTHE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH BELIEVE
Jonah 3:5-10 KJV
1 SO THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH
Believed God,
And proclaimed a fast,
And put on SACKCLOTH,
From the greatest of them
Even to the least of them.
6 FOR WORD CAME
UNTO THE KING OF NINEVEH,
And he arose from his throne,
And he laid his robe from him,
And covered him with SACKCLOTH,
And sat in ASHES.
7 AND HE CAUSED IT TO BE PROCLAIMED
And published through Nineveh
By the decree of the king and his nobles,
Saying, Let neither man nor beast,
Herd nor flock, taste any thing:
Let them not feed, nor drink water:
8 BUT LET MAN AND BEAST
Be covered with SACKCLOTH,
And cry mightily unto God:
Yea, let them turn every one
From his evil way, and from the violence
That is in their hands.
9 WHO CAN TELL IF GOD WILL TURN
AND REPENT,
And turn away from his fierce anger,
That we perish not?
10 AND GOD SAW THEIR WORKS,
That they turned from their evil way;
And God repented of the evil,
That he had said
That he would Do unto them;
And he did it not.
đKING DAVID MOURNS
(2 Samuel 12:16-17)
After the death of his child, with Besthsheba, David fasts and mourns, emphasizing humility and sorrow. The child was born through adultery and murder. God did not let it live.
THE DEATH OF DAVIDâS SON
2 Samuel 12:15-23 KJV
15 AND NATHAN DEPARTED
Unto his house.
And the Lord struck the child
That Uriah's wife bare unto David,
And it was very sick.
16 DAVID THEREFORE BESOUGHT GOD
For the child;
And David fasted,
And went in,
And lay all night upon the earth.
17 AND THE ELDERS
OF HIS HOUSE AROSE,
And went to him,
To raise him up from the earth:
But he would not,
Neither did he eat bread with them.
18 AND IT CAME TO PASS
On the seventh day,
That the child died.
And the servants of David
Feared to tell him that the child was dead:
For they said, Behold,
While the child was yet alive,
We spake unto him,
And he would not hearken unto our voice:
How will he then vex himself,
If we tell him that the child is dead?
19 BUT WHEN DAVID SAW
That his servants whispered,
David perceived that the child was dead:
Therefore David said unto his servants,
Is the child dead?
And they said, He is dead.
20 THEN DAVID AROSE FROM THE EARTH,
And washed, and anointed himself,
And changed his apparel,
And came into the house of the Lord,
And worshipped:
Then he came to his own house;
And when he required,
They set bread before him,
And he did eat.
21 THEN SAID HIS SERVANTS UNTO HIM,
What thing is this that thou hast done?
Thou didst fast and weep for the child,
While it was alive;
But when the child was dead,
Thou didst rise and eat bread.
22 AND HE SAID,
While the child was yet alive,
I fasted and wept:
For I said,
Who can tell whether God
Will be gracious to
me, that the child may live?
23 BUT NOW HE IS DEAD,
Wherefore should I fast?
Can I bring him back again?
I shall go to him,
But he shall not return to me.
đQUEEN ESTHER'S PLEA
(Esther 4)
Esther asks the Jews to fast and wear sackcloth as they seek deliverance from impending doom.
ESTHER AGREES TO HELP THE JEWS
Esther 4 KJV
1 WHEN MORDECAI PERCEIVED
All that was done,
Mordecai rent his clothes,
And put on sackcloth with ashes,
And went out into the midst of the city,
And cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
2 AND CAME EVEN
BEFORE THE KING'S GATE:
For none might enter into the king's gate
Clothed with sackcloth.
3 AND IN EVERY PROVINCE,
Whithersoever the king's commandment
And his decree came,
There was great mourning
Among the Jews,
And fasting,
And weeping,
And wailing;
And many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4 SO ESTHER'S MAIDS
And her chamberlains
Came and told it her.
Then was the queen exceedingly grieved;
And she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai,
And to take away his sackcloth from him:
But he received it not.
5 THEN CALLED ESTHER FOR HATACH,
One of the king's chamberlains,
Whom he had appointed
To attend upon her,
And gave him a commandment
To Mordecai,
To know what it was,
And why it was.
6 SO HATACH WENT FORTH
TO MORDECAI
Unto the street of the city,
Which was before the king's gate.
7 AND MORDECAI TOLD HIM OF ALL
That had happened unto him,
And of the sum of the money
That Haman had promised
To pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews,
To destroy them.
8 ALSO HE GAVE HIM THE COPY
Of the writing of the decree
That was given at Shushan
To destroy them,
To shew it unto Esther,
And to declare it unto her,
And to charge her that she should go
In unto the king,
To make supplication unto him,
And to make request before him
For her people.đ¤ĽâĄď¸
9 AND HATACH CAME
And told Esther the words of Mordecai.
10 AGAINST ESTHER
SPAKE UNTO HATACH,
And gave him commandment
Unto Mordecai;
11 ALL THE KING'S SERVANTS,
And the people of the king's provinces,
Do know, that whosoever,
Whether man or women,
Shall come unto the king
Into the inner court,
Who is not called,
There is one law of his to put him to death,
Except such to whom the king
Shall hold out the golden sceptre,
That he may live:
But I have not been called to come in
Unto the king these thirty days.
12 AND THEY TOLD TO MORDECAI
Esther's words.
13 THEN MORDECAI COMMANDED
To answer Esther,
Think not with thyself
That thou shalt escape
In the king's house,
More than all the Jews.
14 FOR IF THOU ALTOGETHER
Holdest thy peace at this time,
Then shall there enlargement
And deliverance
Arise to the Jews from another place;
But thou and thy father's house
Shall be destroyed:
And who knoweth whether thou art come
To the kingdom for such a time as this?
15 THEN ESTHER BADE THEM
Return Mordecai this answer,
16 GO, GATHER TOGETHER ALL THE JEWS
That are present in Shushan,
And fast ye for me,
And neither eat nor drink three days,
Night or day:
I also and my maidens will fast likewise;
And so will I go in unto the king,
Which is not according to the law:
And if I perish, I perish.
17 SO MORDECAI WENT HIS WAY,
And did according to all
That Esther had commanded him.
đPROPHET JEREMIAH
(Jeremiah 6:26)
Jeremiah calls for mourning in Israel, invoking sackcloth as a sign of sorrow for sin.
IMPENDING DESTRUCTION FROM THE NORTH
Jeremiah 6:16-30 KJV
16 THUS SAITH THE LORD,
Stand ye in the ways, and see,
And ask for the old paths,
Where is the good way, and walk therein,
And ye shall find rest for your souls.
But they said,
We will not walk therein.
17 ALSO I SET WATCHMEN OVER YOU,
Saying,
Hearken to the sound of the trumpet.
But they said,
We will not hearken.
18 THEREFORE HEAR,
Ye nations, and know,
O congregation,
What is among them.
19 HEARKEN, O EARTH:
BEHOLD,
I will bring evil upon this people,
Even the fruit of their thoughts,
Because they have not hearkened
Unto my words, nor to my law,
But rejected it.
20 TO WHAT PURPOSE COMETH THERE
To me incense from Sheba,
And the sweet cane from a far country?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable,
Nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
21 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD,
BEHOLD,
I will lay stumblingblocks
Before this people,
And the fathers and the sons together
Shall fall upon them;
The neighbour and his friend shall perish.
22 THUS SAITH THE LORD,
BEHOLD,
A people cometh from the north country,
And a great nation shall be raised
From the sides of the earth.
23 THEY SHALL LAY HOLD
ON BOW AND SPEAR;
They are cruel, and have no mercy;
Their voice roareth like the sea;
And they ride upon horses,
Set in array as men for war against thee,
O daughter of Zion.
24 WE HAVE HEARD THE FAME THEREOF:
Our hands wax feeble:
Anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain,
As of a woman in travail.
25 GO NOT FORTH INTO THE FIELD,
Nor walk by the way;
For the sword of the enemy
And fear is on every side.
26 O DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE,
Gird thee with sackcloth,
And wallow thyself in ashes:
Make thee mourning, as for an only son,
Most bitter lamentation:
For the spoiler shall suddenly
Come upon us.
27 I HAVE SET THEE FOR A TOWER
And a fortress among my people,
That thou mayest know and try their way.
28 THEY ARE ALL GRIEVOUS REVOLTERS,
Walking with slanders:
They are brass and iron;
They are all corrupters.
29 THE BELLOWS ARE BURNED,
The lead is consumed of the fire;
The founder melteth in vain:
For the wicked are not plucked away.
30 REPROBATE SILVER
Shall men call them,
Because the Lord hath rejected them.
đTHE ISRAELITES
(Isaiah 15:3, Micah 1:10)
Throughout the books of the prophets, sackcloth is often mentioned as part of national mourning or individual repentance.
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL AND JUDAH
Micah 1 KJV
1 THE WORD OF THE LORD
That came to Micah
The Morasthite in the days of Jotham,
Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah,
Which he saw concerning Samaria
And Jerusalem.
2 HEAR, ALL YE PEOPLE;
Hearken, O earth,
And all that therein is:
And let the Lord God
Be witness against you,
The Lord from his holy temple.
3 FOR, BEHOLD
The Lord cometh forth
Out of His place,
And will come down,
And tread upon
The high places of the earth.
4 AND THE MOUNTAINS
Shall be molten
Under him,
And the valleys shall be cleft,
As wax before the fire,
And as the waters that are poured down
A steep place.
5 FOR THE TRANSGRESSION
Of Jacob is all this,
And for the sins of the house of Israel.
What is the transgression of Jacob?
Is it not Samaria?
And what are the high places of Judah?
Are they not Jerusalem?
6 THEREFORE I WILL MAKE SAMARIA
As an heap of the field,
And as plantings of a vineyard:
And I will pour down
The stones thereof into the valley,
And I will discover the foundations thereof.
7 AND ALL THE GRAVEN IMAGES
THEREOF
Shall be beaten to pieces,
And all the hires thereof
Shall be burned with the fire,
And all the idols thereof will I lay desolate:
For she gathered it of the hire of an harlot,
And they shall return to
THE HIRE OF AN HARLOT.
8 THEREFORE I WILL WAIL AND HOWL,
I will go stripped and naked:
I will make a wailing like the dragons,
And mourning as the owls.
9 FOR HER WOUND IS INCURABLE;
For it is come unto Judah;
He is come unto the gate of my people,
Even to Jerusalem.
10 DECLARE YE IT NOT AT GATH,
Weep ye not at all:
In the house of Aphrah
Roll thyself in the dust.
11 PASS YE AWAY,
Thou inhabitant of Saphir,
Having thy shame naked:
The inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth
In the mourning of Bethezel;
He shall receive of you his standing.
12 FOR THE INHABITANT OF MAROTH
Waited carefully for good:
But evil came down from the Lord
Unto the gate of Jerusalem.
13 O THOU INHABITANT OF LACHISH,
Vind the chariot to the swift beast:
She is the beginning of the sin
To the daughter of Zion:
For the transgressions of Israel
Were found in thee.
14 THEREFORE SHALT THOU GIVE
Presents to Moreshethgath:
The houses of Achzib
Shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
15 YET WILL I BRING AN HEIR UNTO THEE,
O inhabitant of Mareshah:
He shall come unto Adullam
THE GLORY OF ISRAEL.
16 MAKE THEE BALD,
And poll thee for thy delicate children;
Enlarge thy baldness as the eagle;
For they are gone into captivity from thee.
đĽThe significance of sackcloth and ashes in the Bible, demonstrates moments of deep emotional strive and the desire to reconcile with The Father.
đThe 2 witnesses come teaching
sackcloth and ashes.They are described as prophetic figures who proclaim God's message during the end times.
The Two Witnesses (Revelation 11:3-6)
As having the power to prophesy for 1,260 days while clothed in sackcloth.(*shortened by Christ in Matthew 24:22-24/ Revelation 9 to 150 days. The 7 years given to Satan was deduced to those 5 months/140 days.
The 2 Witnesses time was given in days and when shortened to days they are given about a week longer to prepare and warn the house of Isreal.)
THE TWO WITNESSES
Revelation 11 KJV
1 AND THERE WAS GIVEN ME A REED
Like unto a rod: and the angel stood,
Saying, Rise, and measure
The temple of God,
And the altar,
And them that worship therein.
2 BUT THE COURT
Which is without the temple leave out,
And measure it not;
For it is given unto the Gentiles:
And the holy city shall they tread
Under foot forty and two months.
(*Shortened by Christ, Matthew24, to 5 months of Revelation 9, for the elections sake, so they could stand.)
3 AND I WILL GIVE POWER
Unto my TWO witnesses,
And they shall prophesy
A thousand two hundred
And threescore days,
Clothed in sackcloth.(*Repentance)
4 THESE ARE THE TWO OLIVE TREES,
And the two candlesticks
Standing before the God of the earth.
5 AND IF ANY MAN WILL HURT THEM,
Fire proceedeth out of their mouth,
And devoureth their enemies:
And if any man will hurt them,
He must in this manner be killed.
6 THESE HAVE POWER TO SHUT HEAVEN,
That it rain not
In the days of their prophecy:
And have power over waters
To turn them to blood,
And to smite the earth with all plagues,
As often as they will.
THE WITNESSES KILLED
7 AND WHEN THEY SHALL HAVE FINISHED
Their testimony,
The beast that ascendeth out
Of the bottomless pit(*Abbadon, Appolyon)
Shall make war against them,
And shall overcome them,
And kill them.
8 AND THEIR DEAD BODIES
Shall lie in the street of the great city,
Which spiritually is called
Sodom and Egypt,
Where also our Lord was crucified.
9 AND THEY OF THE PEOPLE
And kindreds
And tongues
And nations shall see their dead bodies
Three days and an half,
And shall not suffer their dead bodies
To be put in graves.
10 AND THEY THAT DWELL
UPON THE EARTH
Shall rejoice over them,
And make merry,
And shall send gifts one to another;
Because these TWO prophets
Tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
THE WITNESSES RESURRECTED
11 AND AFTER THREE DAYS AND AN HALF
The spirit of life from God
Entered into them,
And they stood upon their feet;
And great fear fell upon them
Which saw them.
12 AND THEY HEARD A GREAT VOICE
From heaven saying unto them,
Come up hither.
And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud;
And their enemies beheld them.
13 AND THE SAME HOUR WAS THERE
A great earthquake,
And the tenth part of the city fell,
And in the earthquake
Were slain of men SEVEN THOUSAND:
And the remnant
Were affrighted,
And gave glory to the God of heaven.
(*The 7000 fallen angels that take over the government's of the world with their new world order will die forever.)
14 THE SECOND WOE IS PAST;
And, behold,
The third woe cometh quickly.
đSackcloth is a symbol of humility and sorrow, indicating their role as prophets of repentance in a time of great tribulation of the apostasy of God's people. The sackcloth worn by the Two Witnesses provokes their somber mission, calling for the repentance of the nations and pointing out their eminent demise.
The 2 serve as messengers of God's judgment, calling people to repentance. They are granted the power to perform miraculous signs, such as shutting the sky to prevent rain and turning waters into blood, emphasizing their authority as God's representatives.
After their testimony, they are killed, signifying the rejection of their message. Like that of Jesus message they will lay in the street 3 days and half. They are later resurrected and taken up to heaven, symbolizing the ultimate vindication of God's
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