The Lion's Consuming Roar

The shepherd-turned-prophet delivers a harrowing message of God's judgment: a lion's roar goes forth before He seizes His kill—and the message is that this "consuming roar" shall not be turned back. Eight nations will be consumed. One by one, the consuming Lion picks off His prey. His hunger never seems to be satisfied and they are left to watch in horror as He circles closer and closer. First go the enemies of Israel, then the blood-relatives, then Judah, and finally that nation Israel—the one whom the deafening roar was meant for all along.