Bible blessings don’t come to the most observant, but the most obedient—but observing helps! 1 Chronicles covers roughly the same period as 1 and 2 Samuel; 2 Chronicles lines up with 1 and 2 Kings. But the books of Samuel and Kings record history in real time, going forward. The Chronicles are looking back from […]
Read More… from July 30, 2024 — Four Benefits Of Studying Chronicles
Dear Prodigal, how long and how far have you wandered from the Savior? Don’t you long for those days of happy fellowship with the Lord? Should you turn around this very moment, guess Who you’ll find has been walking with you in your wanderings? Be prepared to see the Father run! […]
Paul spoke of “endless genealogies.” Christ was their end point. Reject Him and they’re endless. Reading the Hebrew Bible, when you arrived at the Chronicles you would be at the end! The two books of Chronicles (originally one volume) were called Dibre Hayyamin, or “The Events of the Times.” They complete the third division of […]
Read More… from July 29, 2024 — Introduction To 1 Chronicles
Evangelist Billy Bray would break into singing in the middle of his sermons, and say, “He has made me glad and no one can make me sad.” […]
“’Tis grace has brought me safe thus far And grace will lead me home.” —John Newton Imagine the view from heaven as the Books of the Kings conclude. Jerusalem is a ruin. The holy vessels lie at Shinar, in the house of Nebuchadnezzar’s god. No sweet savor arises to Your nostrils from the Great Altar […]
Some battles we lose because the enemy is strong; some are lost because we simply run away. The siege of Jerusalem was over. The walls had been breached, and the royal family decimated. Now “in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month (which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of […]
The last ruling priest (Eli), the last judge (Samson), the last king—all blind. And the last church? (Rev 3:17). The Babylonian army built a siege wall around Jerusalem and then sat down to watch the city die. Due to Hezekiah’s forethought, the inhabitants had access to water which ran from the Gihon Spring through a […]
Events are happening quickly as the foundations crumble under Judah. It’s kingdoom time! Jehoiachin, Judah’s penultimate king, also called Jeconiah or Coniah, has been so evil, abetting the kingdom’s hopeless unravelling, that God solemnly declares, “Write this man down as childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for none of his descendants […]