Now
may be the time to again
take up wearing "Sackcloth"
A modern day "Sackcloth" to be worn and used as in ancient Biblical days. Showing humility before God to petition for restoration to our lives, for our families, our country and the world. Show your sincerity before God and man. To be worn to honor and to show your surrender unto God.
Dictionary description for Sackcloth: A very coarse, rough fabric woven from
camel’s hair, goat hair, hemp, cotton, or flax.
Garments made of this cloth are worn as a symbol of mourning or penitence.
In past times of stress when petitioners wanted to show humility, sorrow and repentance before God they put on Sackcloth. Today I am calling for a Restoration back to God through repentance. I am asking all who are called, to once again put on these garments and repent before God for ourselves and our nation. If we do repent and turn back to God, He is faithful to heal as He has promised as in His following words.
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV
Our Land needs Healing!
Sackcloth in the past
was made most often
out of coarse, black goat’s hair. As its name indicates, it was used
for sacks, but was also customarily worn by mourners or as a sign
of deep repentance and humility. Ashes were often included as a further symbol of personal abhorrence and chagrin. Also, sackcloth was, and will be (in some contemporary form), in the case of the two witnesses, worn by some Prophets as reported in Revelations.
Revelation 11:3 (NIV)
And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
Description for the above Sackcloth Shawl: Burlap: woven jute (the most common material used in constructing present day sacks) Color: black. Woven with fringes around 3 sides.
You can expect this to be a course and rough material.
Adult Size 6 Foot X 2 Foot.
You can Order Today through our Restoration Store.
Time to Resurrect this practice.
Or if you prefer you can easily make your own garment. Most fabric stores carry black burlap. In over 2,000 years ago it was a practice to show great remorse. With our present times of remorse this may be time to resurrect this practice to fall on our face before God and plead for Him to answer our prayers.
While wearing during your prayer time I also recommend wearing in public. Prepare yourself to give an account for why you are grieved about the lawlessness of these times.
Biblical Examples when Sackcloth
was used in Repentance.
Isaiah 22:12 (NIV)
The Lord, the LORD Almighty, called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.
Matthew 11:20-21 (NIV)
Woe on Unrepentant Towns
20 Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. 21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Jonah 3:5-10 (NIV)
(5) The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth. (6) When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust. (7) This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink. (8) But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. (9) Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.” 10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.
1 Kings 21:27 (NIV)
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted.
2 Kings 19:1 (NIV)
[ Jerusalem’s Deliverance Foretold ] When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the LORD.
1 Chronicles 21:16 (NIV)
David looked up and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell face down.
Jeremiah 4:8 (NIV)
8 So put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.
Examples when Sackcloth
was used in Mourning.
Genesis 37:34 (NIV)
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son (Joseph) many days.
Esther 4:1 (NIV)
[ Mordecai Persuades Esther to Help ] When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, wailing loudly and bitterly.
Esther 4:4
When Esther’s eunuchs and female attendants came and told her about Mordecai, she was in great distress. She sent clothes for him to put on instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.
Joel 1:8 (NIV)
Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the husband of her youth.
Joel 1:13 (NIV)
Put on sackcloth, O priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
Job 16:15 (NIV)
15 “I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.
Jeremiah 6:26 (NIV)
26 Put on sackcloth, my people, and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son.
2 Samuel 3:31 (NIV)
Then David said to Joab and all the people with him, “Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and walk in mourning in front of Abner.”
A Promise for a Time of Joy
Psalm 30:11 (NIV)
You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy.
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