The Lord is separating the people and those that listen to him through Jeremiah go into captivity. How can this be for their good? But to those that go and trust him, he says in Jeremiah 29:7 ‘in its (Babylons)…
Tag: 2 Chronicles
You Will Go to Babylon
Jeremiah recognizes the exile is coming. There is no escaping and there is a prayer of intercession in Jeremiah 10:24 “Chastise me, O Yahweh, but in moderation, not in your anger, lest you eradicate me”. The Lord is driving out…
Pack Your Baggage for Exile
Judah is taken by Babylon and the seventy years of their exile begins. Egypt is also taken by Babylon and begins their own forty years of exile. This is the second great dispersion of the children of Israel and the…
Can You Not Learn a Lesson
The Lord has spoken directly to the leaders and the people through the prophet, but they don’t listen. So, the Lord brings the Rechabites into the temple and tests them before everyone, saying “Drink wine”. They had been forbidden by…
Act With Justice and Righteousness
The Lord makes what seems to be a simple request in Jeremiah 22:3 Thus says Yahweh, “Act with justice and righteousness …”. But the sons of Josiah are subject to tribute at the hands of Egypt. The peace the Lord…
The Wealth They Gained has Perished
As Judah and Jerusalem enjoy a period of thirty-one years of relative peace through the reign of Josiah, Jeremiah prophecies the destruction of Moab. As described in Jeremiah 48:11 “Moab has been at ease from his youth”. The Moabites have…
Consecrate Yourself and Prepare
Josiah restores not only the covenant with the Lord, but restores the Passover and feasts. But they had never celebrated Passover which is followed by the seven day feast of unleavened bread. There had been a priestly order, but they…
Because You Have a Responsive Heart
Josiah began to seek the Lord as “a boy” and grew to be a man that in 2 Chronicles 34:7 “broke down the altars … in all the land of Israel”. Then he commanded the high priest to 2 Kings…
Yahweh Your God is in Your Midst
The day of the judgement of the Lord, the day of his wrath, will change things forever. It will be devastating for those that have not accepted the Lord but only a moment in time for those who go on…
But They Would Not Listen
Nearing the end of Isaiah’s days as a prophet and at the end of Hezekiah’s life, we have parallel accounts in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles of the life of Manasseh, successor to and son of Hezekiah and then Manasseh’s…
Go Up To Jerusalem
Cyrus acknowledges Yahweh, the God of the heavens, the one who is the God of Israel, the one who is in Jerusalem. Cyrus issues a proclamation for all to return “whose spirit God has stirred” then returns all of the…
What Will Be The Outcome
Daniels final vision was of the final conflict, for a time far beyond his own natural life. He wondered at the outcome and the angel told him to rest and assured him he would have his inheritance. What Daniel witnessed…
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