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Days 208-214
7 days since my last posting - 7 = completeness, spiritual, perfection.
Someone needs to crack the whip on me...I am not being as diligent to post...how is everyone doing on their reading? Are you sharing with someone else? Have someone else to keep you accountable? Being transformed as you ponder the beauty of our Father's Word?
Amon (2 years - VERY BAD) - uggghhh - an evil life - 2 Kings 21:19-22, 2 Chronicles 33:21-23
Slain by servants - 2 Kings 21:25-26; 2 Chronicles 33:24
Josiah (31 Years - VERY GOOD) - 2 Kings 21:24; 2 Chronicles 33:25 - the people who conspired against Amon (a BAD king) received their punishment by being slain. This reminds me of how David dealt with those who 'thought' they were doing 'right' by either saying they had slain someone (Saul) or had actually done the deed. His high standard of righteousness demanded justice and he had no problem performing it. How high is our standard for ensuring that our Father's Word is rightly divided and that we are being diligent students of the Word?
Began reign at age 8 - 2 Chronicles 34:1-2; 2 Kings 22:1-2; 2 Kings 23:25
Judgments on Nineveh predicted - God's righteous displeasure - Nahum 1:1-15; 2:1-13 (lest we be proud in our arrogance and deceit as a nation (USA), it would behoove us to remember that Father judges nations this side of glory. How evil and wicked has our nation become? How close to judgment stand we?
Nineveh's terrible destruction - Nahum 3:1-19
Birth of Jehoiakim - 2 Kings 23:36 - King at 25
Josiah's early reformations - 2 Chronicles 34:3-7
Birth of Jehoahaz (2 Kings 23:31) - King at 23
Birth of Daniel - 628 B.C. - WHOO HOO! Daniel the companion book to the Revelation!
Jeremiah's ministry begins - his call and early vision - Jeremiah 1:1-19
His first message to backsliding Judah - Jeremiah 2:1-37; 3:1-5
Assyria weakened by Scythian invasion, begins decline - 626 B.C.
Judah's fall to Babylon imminent - 635-586 B.C.
Babylon declares independence from Assyria - 625 B.C. as Nabopolassar reigns - 625-605 B.C.
Zephaniah's prophecies to Judah and Israel - coming judgment to Judah - Zephaniah 1:1-18; 2:1-3
Judgment against the nations - Zephaniah 2:4-15; 3:1-13
Restoration of Israel and Jerusalem - Zephaniah 3:14-20
Josiah repairs temple - 2 Kings 22:3-7; 2 Chronicles 34:8-13 - I find it interesting that they went to Huldah, a prophetess {H2468, from 2467 a weasel; from 2465 - From an unused root apparently meaning to glide swiftly; life (as a fleeting portion of time); hence the world (as transient)} and once Josiah heard the words and understood he RENT his clothes. How fervent are we when Father reveals a TRUTH of HIS Word to us? Oh, Lord, forgive us for our lack of fervency to Your Word, to take it in, to meditate upon it and worse, that we proclaim it not before the peoples. Lord, help us to have a fervency of spirit, soul and body to read, understand and proclaim Your truth to those who are perishing.
Finds the BOOK of the LAW - 2 Kings 22:8-20; 2 Chronicles 34:14-28
Reads the LAW - 2 Kings 23:1-3; 2 Chronicles 34:29-32
Jeremiah's second message - devastation from the North - Jeremiah 3:6-25; 4:1-31; 5:1-31; 6:1-30 - I find the NORTH interesting here, as there was a recent passage that spoke of the Lord and specifically mentioned all compass directions (East, South, West) - but NOT north (Psalm 75:6) - hmmm that is one which needs more meditation.
The Passover kept - NOTE not easter (the name of a pagan fertility goddess) - 2 Kings 23:21-27; 2 Chronicles 35:1-19
Josiah's further reformations - 2 Kings 23:4-24; 2 Chronicles 34:33
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