So Blessed

So Blessed For What We See And Hear Today Many Christians say they have never experienced God speaking to them like how God spoke to Abraham, Moses, many prophets and God's chosen people in both Old and New Testament. If they had experienced this, their faith would be increased and they would not have doubts in God. Do you know that we are so blessed, for we can see a full picture of God's love and His salvation plan from the Old Testament to New Testament, from Jesus' birth to Jesus' Resurrection, from the history of Jews to lives transformed today in Christians, from the exile of the Jews to when Israel was reformed in 1948, from when the Holy Spirit came upon prophets to the Holy Spirit living in us today. Considering all this, who needs to exercise more faith in God? Prayer: Father Lord, we repent for the time we had little faith in you and asked for miracles to see. Thank you for all that you have done, and more than 300 prophecies in the bible were fulfilled. I pray that the Holy Spirit helps us to obey your word in love and in our actions. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.

Day 19

DARKNESS

[Scheduled Reading: 2 Kings 15-25; 1 Chronicles 1-5]

Darkness is still the big theme. One of Judah’s kings (Ahaz) burns his own son as an offering (2 Kings 16). UNTHINKABLE!

How does humanity sink so low? And we’re talking about descendants of King David!

This brings us to the exile of both Israel (northern kingdom falls, Chapter 17) and Judah (southern kingdom falls, Chapter 25).

What’s so amazing to me is the erratic see-sawing of good kings and bad kings. After the horrible child-sacrificing Ahaz, Judah has a very good king, Hezekiah.

(Think about it, Hezekiah’s brother was sacrificed by their father Ahaz).

Following Hezekiah is a horrible King Manasseh (who also burned his son as an offering). After one more wicked son-king (Amon), Judah has one of its legendary God-fearing kings (Josiah).

Josiah discovers the book of the law and restores the laws, the feasts and sacrifices.

And as the see-saw pattern continues to play out, the next kings are wicked again… and finally Jerusalem is captured by Babylon (Chapter 25).

It’s a dark chapter for the fate of The Seed. But God keeps a remnant alive and the rest of the story is ahead of us.