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2 Kings 25:27-30 • An Instant Change

Saturday, November 21st, 2009
“Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison; and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon. Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes and had his meals in the king’s presence regularly all the days of his life; and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, a portion for each day, all the days of his life.”
    —2 Kings 25:27-30 (NASB)

Everything about the fall of Judah and their captivity into Babylon came true. Consider how hard it must have been to come face-to-face with the reality of God’s Word in their living out the destruction of their homeland along with their new status as slaves, relocated far away from the land of their birth. However, accompanying God’s Word of judgment was also His Word of restoration. You might think that the proof of their captivity would be enough to prove that God would come through with His promise of restoration, but He gave them an additional sign — He gave them Jehoiachin.
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2 Kings 23:21-23 • Always a Return to the Blood

Friday, November 20th, 2009
“Then the king commanded all the people saying, ‘Celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God as it is written in this book of the covenant.’ Surely such a Passover had not been celebrated from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel and of the kings of Judah. But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was observed to the Lord in Jerusalem.”
    —2 Kings 23:21-23 (NASB)

Jewish Believers bring an amazing depth to the meaning of the Lord’s Supper and Jesus’ last week on earth as it all happened against the backdrop of Passover and the connections between the two. But whether a spiritual revival occurred in the Old Testament or the New and going forward, one of the common denominators is a return to the saving blood of the Lamb. Although revival always begins with God’s people, their return to His Word, and their sincere repentance, at the very center of it all is the work of the cross.
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2 Kings 23:3 • Committing to the Known

Thursday, November 19th, 2009
“The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.”
    —2 Kings 23:3 (NASB)

On the night that I personally gave my life to Christ, the sentence that has stuck with me every day since is, “Jesus gave His life for you on the cross; what are you going to do for Him?” It wasn’t a call to salvation through works, but rather a succinct way of stating that salvation is not about having one’s sins forgiven and then continuing on your merry way. It’s a transformation from living the old life according to your own ways to a new life dedicated to doing everything according to a new set of rules, the standards set forth in by His Word. We don’t do works to get saved, we do them because we are saved.
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2 Kings 22:10-11 • Where Revival Begins

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
“Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king saying, ‘Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.’ And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king. When the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.”
    —2 Kings 22:10-11 (NASB)

There are many organizations, personalities, and even so-called movements which purport to being the way through which spiritual revival will come. Most of them have been around for longer than I’ve been living and, so far, have failed to produce that revival. This is because you cannot use anything else to substitute for the basic absolutes that have accompanied EVERY spiritual revival throughout history: it has to begin with God’s people, it has to be accompanied by a return to God’s Word, and it has to be accompanied by sincere, personal repentance.
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2 Kings 17:13-15 • Today as It was Then

Sunday, September 13th, 2009
“Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and every seer, saying, ‘Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets.’ However, they did not listen, but stiffened their neck like their fathers, who did not believe in the Lord their God. They rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them not to do like them.”
    —2 Kings 17:13-15 (NASB)

Hosea can be thought of as God’s commentary on the history provided in these chapters in 2 Kings concerning the northern kingdom of Israel. They were first carried away pieces at a time as a warning (to which they failed to respond), and even their final defeat and destruction at the hands of Assyria didn’t come all at once, comprised of four seperate events over many years, again designed by God as a warning and opportunity to yet repent. Their history as a nation came to an end less than 250 years after its inception, a legacy of never having had a leader or inclination to return to God’s ways.
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2 Kings 14:24-25 • From One To The Next

Sunday, August 30th, 2009
“He [Amaziah, king of Israel] did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin. He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which He spoke through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher.”
    —2 Kings 14:24-25 (NASB)

As the Walk with the Word reading schedule takes us to Jonah this week, it’s important to note a couple of things about the context of Jonah. In the New Tesatment when the Pharisees say, “No prophet arises out of Galilee“, :”(John 7:52)”: always remeber that Jonah is from Gath-hepher which is located in Galilee. When Jesus said He would give them no sign except the sign of Jonah :”(Luke 11:28)”: it wasn’t just a parallel to Jonah’s three days in the fist as a picture of the resurrection, but also that like Jonah He would come from a place disregarded and even disrespected by religious authorities. Very powerful prophets do, indeed, come from unexpected places like Galilee.
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2 Kings 13:4-6a • Delivered But Not Changed

Monday, August 24th, 2009
“Then Jehoahaz entreated the favor of the Lord, and the Lord listened to him; for He saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Aram oppressed them. The Lord gave Israel a deliverer, so that they escaped from under the hand of the Arameans; and the sons of Israel lived in their tents as formerly. Nevertheless they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam…”
    —2 Kings 13:4-6a (NASB)

I find it fascinating that there are several places in Scripture speaking of a specific person called by God to effect His will or speak His Word, yet these individuals are not named. It reassures my faith that it is enough to be known by God and that earthly recognition is not required. Nonetheless, the king calls upon God, God supplies a deliverer, yet the people do not live a changed life going forward. They go right back to their old ways.
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