2 Chronicles 36:11-21
September 30, 2023
More about Judah's Decline
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the Lord. He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel. All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the Lord that he had made holy in Jerusalem.
The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people until there was no remedy.
Jerusalem Captured and Burned
Therefore, he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand. And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon. And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels. He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
How long will God allow the United States of America, a land He has blessed with freedom, and riches, to reject Him? I awoke at about 4:00 this morning got a drink and did the bathroom thing, and came back to bed. Thoughts enter my mind of people in total panic, rumors of suitcase bombs, and people fleeing the cities. Total fear and confusion always lead to lawlessness. The dream would not stop so I got up and came into the living room to study and write, and I read the verses above. How I’m not a Jeremiah, nor a prophet, but I am a follower of Christ and do seek direction on living from the Scripture. The reason I share that is, with the open border and the rejection of our Lord by this nation and its people my dream could become a nightmare.
If you follow my writing this is way out for me, it is not meant to make anyone fear anything but God. God changes not, He is the same today as yesterday, so reread this Scripture, and ask if has God spoken to us as a people? “The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people until there was no remedy.”
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