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00:34 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS, AND WELCOME ONCE AGAIN TO SABBATH 00:37 SCHOOL STUDY HOUR COMING TO YOU FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY 00:40 ADVENTIST CHURCH IN THE AREA OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. 00:43 A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR MEMBERS AND OUR VISITORS 00:46 WHO ARE JOINING US HERE SABBATH MORNING TO STUDY 00:49 THE LESSON TOGETHER. AND THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE 00:51 WATCHING ONLINE, IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR STUDY 00:55 TOGETHER AND FOLLOW ALONG WITH THE NOTES, YOU CAN GO TO THE 00:57 AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - AMAZINGFACTS.ORG - YOU CAN 01:01 DOWNLOAD THAT SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR NOTES. 01:03 WE'RE STUDYING THROUGH THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH WHICH IS 01:06 THE THEME FOR THIS WHOLE QUARTER. 01:08 TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON LESSON #3 ENTITLED 01:11 THE LAST KINGS OF JUDAH . 01:13 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER WE'D LIKE TO LET OUR FRIENDS 01:15 KNOW ABOUT - THOSE WATCHING ACROSS NORTH AMERICA. 01:17 NOW THE BOOK THAT WE'RE SENDING OUT TODAY IS 01:20 CALLED ALONE IN THE CROWD AND IN ORDER TO RECEIVE 01:22 THIS, JUST CALL US - 866-788-3966 - AND YOU 01:28 CAN ASK FOR OFFER #714. 01:31 THAT PHONE NUMBER AGAIN IS 866-788-3966 - ASK FOR THE 01:36 BOOK ALONE IN THE CROWD AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND 01:38 THIS TO THOSE IN NORTH AMERICA. 01:40 YOU CAN ALSO READ IT FOR FREE ONLINE AT THE AMAZING 01:43 FACTS WEBSITE. AGAIN, THAT'S JUST 01:45 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . WELL, AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE 01:48 TO INVITE THE GRANITE BAY SINGERS TO COME AND JOIN 01:51 ME ONSTAGE AND WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN OUR TIME BY FIRST 01:54 PRAISING GOD FOR HIS GOODNESS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. 01:56 >>LET'S SING THIS MORNING TOGETHER ALL HAIL THE 02:01 POWER OF JESUS' NAME! - WHICH IS THE WHOLE 02:03 REASON WE WORSHIP TOGETHER ANYWAY. WE'LL SING THE FIRST AND 02:07 LAST VERSES - OR THE FIRST, SECOND AND THE LAST VERSES OF 02:10 ALL HAIL THE POWER OF JESUS' NAME! - HYMN #229. 02:15 (MUSIC) 02:26 >>ALL HAIL THE POWER OF JESUS' NAME! 02:30 LET ANGELS PROSTRATE FALL; BRING FORTH THE ROYAL 02:36 DIADEM, AND CROWN HIM LORD OF ALL! 02:44 BRING FORTH THE ROYAL DIADEM, AND CROWN HIM 02:51 LORD OF ALL. YE SEED OF ISRAEL'S CHOSEN 02:58 RACE, YE RANSOMED OF THE FALL, HAIL HIM WHO SAVES YOU 03:06 BY HIS GRACE, AND CROWN HIM LORD OF ALL! 03:14 HAIL HIM WHO SAVES YOU BY HIS GRACE, AND CROWN HIM 03:20 LORD OF ALL. OH, THAT WITH YONDER SACRED THRONG WE AT HIS 03:31 FEET MAY FALL, JOIN IN THE EVERLASTING SONG, AND 03:39 CROWN HIM LORD OF ALL! JOIN IN THE EVERLASTING 03:48 SONG, AND CROWN HIM LORD OF ALL. >>AMEN. I INVITE YOU TO BOW YOUR 04:00 HEADS AS WE BEGIN WITH A WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, 04:03 WE THANK YOU, ONCE AGAIN, THAT WE ARE ABLE TO GATHER IN YOUR 04:05 HOUSE TO STUDY YOUR WORD TOGETHER. 04:07 AND, ONCE AGAIN, WE ASK FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO 04:09 COME AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS. 04:11 MAY WE LEARN THE LESSONS THAT YOU REVEAL TO US 04:14 THROUGH THIS ANCIENT BOOK - THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH - 04:16 AND THE PROPHETIC MESSAGE YOU GAVE HIM THAT'S 04:18 APPLICABLE FOR US TODAY. 04:20 SO MAY WE BE HERE WITH OPEN HEARTS AND EARS TO 04:23 HEAR YOUR WORD. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 04:26 OUR LESSON THIS MORNING WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY 04:29 PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 04:32 >>MORNING EVERYONE. >>MORNING. HAPPY SABBATH. 04:35 >>YEAH, I'D LIKE TO WISH EVERYBODY GREETINGS - 04:39 THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING VIA THE INTERNET OR - SOME ARE 04:43 WATCHING IT LIVE ON THE INTERNET, SOME ARE 04:45 WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD - VARIOUS PARTS OF THE 04:47 PLANET - IN JUST A FEW WEEKS, KAREN AND I ARE 04:51 GOING TO BE HEADING TO NEW ZEALAND AND FIJI AND WE'VE 04:54 ALREADY HEARD FROM OUR FRIENDS THERE, 'OH YEAH, 04:56 WE WATCH SABBATH SCHOOL.' AND SO IT'S FUN TO BE ABLE 04:58 TO GO AND VISIT SOME OF THE MEMBERS IN ALL 05:01 DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE PLANET. 05:03 WE ARE CONTINUING OUR STUDY THIS MORNING IN THE 05:06 BOOK OF JEREMIAH AND TODAY'S LESSON, IN 05:09 PARTICULAR, IS DEALING WITH LESSON #3 - 05:12 IT'S THE LAST FIVE KINGS OF JUDAH. 05:14 AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND THE MEMORY VERSE IS 05:20 JEREMIAH 22:16, "HE JUDGED THE CAUSE OF THE POOR AND 05:27 NEEDY; THEN IT WAS WELL. 'WAS NOT THIS KNOWING ME?' 05:32 SAYS THE LORD." THIS TELLS US ABOUT JUST 05:35 THE PROMISE OF GOD WATCHING OVER HIS PEOPLE. 05:38 NOW THIS LESSON TODAY - I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO 05:42 THINK, 'PASTOR DOUG, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THE 05:44 BOOK OF JEREMIAH.' BUT SO MUCH OF WHAT WE'RE GOING 05:46 TO READ TODAY IS GOING TO BE IN KINGS AND CHRONICLES 05:49 AND ISAIAH WITH JUST A LITTLE BIT IN JEREMIAH. 05:52 THE REASON IS, TODAY'S LESSON, DEALING WITH THE 05:55 LAST FIVE KINGS OF JUDAH, REALLY SETS THE BACKDROP. 05:59 WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT FOR SEVERAL LESSONS NOW 06:01 BECAUSE AS YOU GO INTO THE VARIOUS PROPHECIES OF 06:04 JEREMIAH, THEY'RE GOING TO SEEM OBSCURE IF YOU DON'T 06:07 UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE NATION - 06:09 WHY IS HE ISSUING THESE PROPHECIES? 06:12 AND SO THE - THE LAST FIVE KINGS OF JUDAH IS OUR SUBJECT. 06:17 NOW I'M GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT THEY ARE. 06:19 AND, BY THE WAY, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT SAY, 'I'D 06:21 LIKE TO GET THESE NOTES.' IF YOU GO TO AMAZING 06:25 FACTS' WEBSITE, WHERE IT SAYS 'SABBATH SCHOOL' 06:28 YOU'LL SEE THAT IN THE NOTES I'VE GOT A LIST OF 06:33 ALL THE KINGS OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL AND IT ALSO 06:37 SAYS WHETHER THEY WERE GOOD KINGS OR THEY WERE BAD 06:39 KINGS AND IT TELLS WHEN THEY REIGNED. 06:42 DO ANY OF YOU GET CONFUSED SOMETIMES WHEN YOU HEAR 06:44 ABOUT THE DIFFERENT KINGS? 06:46 SOME OF THEIR NAMES SOUND THE SAME. 06:47 I'M GOING TO QUICKLY READ THROUGH SOME OF THE NAMES 06:50 OF THE KINGS FOR YOU. FIRST I'LL DO THE KINGS OF JUDAH. 06:52 NOW ALL OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH ARE LITERAL 06:56 DESCENDENTS OF DAVID, WHEREAS THE KINGS OF 06:59 ISRAEL, THEY WENT - THERE WERE SEVERAL OVERTHROWS 07:05 AND THEY ENDED UP BEING KINGS OF DIFFERENT 07:07 DYNASTIES AND DIFFERENT TRIBES. 07:11 THERE WERE THREE TIMES THE KINGS OF ISRAEL WERE 07:14 UNITED, UNDER THE RULE OF THREE KINGS. 07:17 YOU KNOW WHICH ONES THEY WERE? FIRST - KING SAUL. 07:20 THE PEOPLE SAID TO SAMUEL, 'GIVE US A KING.' KING 07:23 SAUL - HE REIGNED 40 YEARS AND THEN DAVID BECAME KING 07:26 AND DAVID REIGNED SEVEN YEARS IN HEBRON AND THEN HE 07:30 REIGNED THE REMAINING 33 YEARS IN JERUSALEM - A 07:34 TOTAL OF 40 YEARS. ISN'T THAT INTERESTING, 40 - 40? 07:37 AND THE THIRD ONE WAS SOLOMON WHO ALSO REIGNED 40 YEARS. 07:40 THEN AFTER SOLOMON, THE SERVANT OF KING SOLOMON, 07:45 WHO HAD REBELLED AGAINST KING SOLOMON, NAMED 07:48 JEROBOAM, HE LED A REVOLT AND TEN OF THE TRIBES 07:51 SPLIT OFF - SORT OF A CIVIL WAR THAT NEVER TOTALLY HEALED. 07:55 TEN OF THE TRIBES IN THE NORTH SPLIT OFF AND, 07:57 INSTEAD OF BEING RULED BY THE SONS OF DAVID, THEY 08:01 WERE RULED BY A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT KINGS WHO COULD 08:04 MANAGE TO TAKE POWER. AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF 08:07 FIGHTING AND QUARRELING AMONG THEM. BUT THEY - RIGHT AFTER 08:10 THE KINGDOM SPLIT IN THE NORTH, THOSE TEN TRIBES, 08:13 THEY GAVE THEMSELVES OVER TO IDOLATRY. 08:15 NOW IN THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM THEY HAD THEIR GOOD KINGS AND 08:18 THEIR BAD KINGS AND REVIVALS AND DOWN - BACKSLIDING - BUT THE 08:23 KINGS IN THE NORTH, THEY NEVER REALLY GOT AWAY FROM IDOLATRY. 08:27 SO HERE THE KINGS IN THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM - THE 08:30 SONS OF DAVID - AND THIS IS TALKING ABOUT AFTER SOLOMON - 08:33 YOU'VE GOT REHOBOAM, WHO WAS A MIXTURE OF GOOD AND BAD. 08:37 HE REIGNED FROM ABOUT 933 - 916 BC. 08:41 ABIJAH - MOSTLY BAD - DID NOT WALK IN THE WAYS OF 08:44 HIS FATHER DAVID. ASA - MOSTLY GOOD. 08:48 JEHOSHAPHAT - GOOD EXCEPT HE MADE FRIENDS WITH AHAB. 08:53 JEHORAM - BAD. AHAZIAH - BAD. 08:57 ATHALIAH WAS A QUEEN THAT BASICALLY - SHE 09:00 WASN'T A SON OF DAVID, SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF JEZEBEL THAT 09:03 KIND OF INTERRUPTED THE KINGDOM FOR SIX YEARS. 09:07 SHE TOOK THINGS OVER. JOASH - GOOD - MOSTLY - HE'S THE 09:14 ONE WHO BEGAN TO REIGN WHEN HE WAS JUST A LITTLE BOY OF SEVEN. 09:17 AMAZIAH - A GOOD KING. UZZIAH - MOSTLY A GOOD KING. 09:23 JOTHAM - GOOD KING. AHAZ - WICKED. HEZEKIAH - GOOD. 09:27 NOW SOMETHING YOU'RE GOING TO NOTICE - BECAUSE YOU'VE 09:29 GOT A GOOD FATHER, DOES THAT MEAN YOU'RE GOING TO 09:31 HAVE A SON THAT WILL BE A GOOD SON? 09:34 AND JUST BECAUSE YOU HAD A TERRIBLE FATHER DOESN'T 09:37 MEAN YOU'VE GOT AN EXCUSE FOR NOT BEING A GOOD SON. 09:40 HEZEKIAH WAS ONE OF THE BEST KINGS AND HIS FATHER 09:45 WAS AHAZ, A WICKED KING, AND HEZEKIAH GAVE BIRTH TO 09:50 MANASSEH, A TERRIBLE KING. 09:52 AND SO YOU JUST SEE IT GOING - IT'S LIKE THE 09:55 RICHTER SCALE - GOOD - BAD - GOOD - BAD - IT'S JUST 09:58 AMAZING WHAT HAPPENS HERE. 10:01 AND THEN YOU HAVE AMMON - AND NOW WE GO TO THE LAST 10:07 FIVE KINGS WE'RE STUDYING TODAY: JOSIAH, JEHOAHAZ, 10:11 JEHOIAKIM, JEHOIACHIN, AND ZEDEKIAH. 10:15 AND, OH, BY THE WAY, JOSIAH - THE BEST. 10:18 JEHOAHAZ - BAD. JEHOIAKIM - WICKED. 10:21 JEHOIACHIN - BAD. ZEDEKIAH - BAD. 10:25 THE REASON IT SAYS 'BAD' IS THEY STILL WORSHIPED 10:27 JEHOVAH, BUT THEY WEREN'T VERY GOOD SPIRITUAL LEADERS. 10:30 YOU WANT ME TO VERY QUICKLY GO THROUGH THE 10:32 KINGS OF ISRAEL FOR YOU? 10:34 I'M HEARING NO BIG OBJECTION. 10:36 OF COURSE, THAT WOULD SOUND BAD, 'NO, PLEASE.' 10:39 AND I'LL DO IT QUICKLY, YEAH, JEROBOAM, NADAB, 10:45 BAASHA, ELAH, ZIMRI (WHO DIDN'T REIGN BUT LIKE 10:49 THREE MONTHS), TIBNI, OMRI (WHO OVERTHREW ZIMRI) AND 10:55 HIS SON WAS AHAB, AHAZIAH, JORAM, JEHU, JEHOAHAZ, 11:00 JOASH, JEROBOAM, ZACHARIAH, SHALLUM, MENAHEM, 11:06 PEKAHIAH, PEKAH, AND HOSHEA. 11:10 NOW HOSHEA WAS THE LAST KING OF ISRAEL. 11:12 DURING THE TIME OF HEZEKIAH, THEY WERE 11:15 CARRIED OFF BY THE ASSYRIANS TO THE NORTH. 11:18 SO THESE LAST FIVE KINGS OF JUDAH, WHEN THEY COME 11:22 INTO POWER, THERE REALLY ARE NO KINGS OF ISRAEL TO 11:25 THE NORTH - THE ASSYRIANS HAD SORT OF TAKEN OVER THE 11:27 COUNTRY - BUT THERE WERE STILL SOME ISRAELITES THAT 11:30 WERE LEFT, OF THE POOR OF THE PEOPLE. 11:32 YOU'LL SEE WHY THAT PLAYS INTO OUR STUDY TODAY IN 11:34 JUST A FEW MOMENTS. OKAY, LET'S GET INTO THE 11:37 FIRST KING UNDER THE RULE OF JOSIAH . 11:42 JOSIAH WAS A GOOD KING. 11:43 NOW SOMEONE IN THE FRONT HERE IS GOING TO HELP ME 11:45 IN A MINUTE AND YOU'RE GOING TO READ - WHAT IS IT 11:49 - 1 KINGS 13:1 AND 2 - WHO HAS THAT? 11:51 ALRIGHT, YOU'LL BE UP IN JUST A SECOND. 11:52 JOSIAH WAS THE SIXTEENTH KING TO RULE IN THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM. 11:56 THE DATE OF HIS RULE WAS FROM ABOUT 640 TO 609 BC. 12:01 HE BECAME KING AT THE AGE OF EIGHT. 12:03 HIS NAME MEANS 'YAHWEH HEALS'. 12:07 HE FOLLOWS FIFTY YEARS OF THE REIGN OF TWO OF THE 12:13 WORST KINGS OF ISRAEL - MANASSEH AND AMMON - AND 12:18 HIS REIGN LASTED THIRTY-ONE YEARS. 12:20 HE DIED COMPARATIVELY YOUNG. 12:22 I THINK HE WAS 38 YEARS OLD AND HE WAS KILLED BY 12:25 PHARAOH NECHO IN A BATTLE. 12:26 YOU CAN READ IN 2 KINGS 22 - THIS IS THE RECORD THAT 12:30 YOU FIND REGARDING JOSIAH - 2 KINGS CHAPTER 22, 12:33 VERSE 1, "JOSIAH WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN HE BECAME 12:35 KING, AND HE REIGNED THIRTY-ONE YEARS IN JERUSALEM. 12:38 HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS JEDIDAH THE DAUGHTER OF 12:41 ADAIAH OF BOZKATH. AND HE DID WHAT WAS RIGHT IN 12:44 THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND WALKED IN ALL THE WAYS 12:47 OF HIS FATHER DAVID;" - YOU NOTICE IT JUMPS. 12:49 IT DOESN'T SAY 'HIS FATHER HEZEKIAH' OR 'HIS FATHER 12:52 ASA' OR ANY OF THE OTHER GOOD KINGS. 12:55 IT JUMPS ALL THE WAY BACK TO DAVID. 12:57 DAVID WAS THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN PROMISED THAT HIS 13:00 SEED WOULD CONTINUE. 13:02 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US 1 KINGS 13:1 AND 2. 13:06 >>"AND BEHOLD, A MAN OF GOD WENT FROM JUDAH TO 13:09 BETHEL BY THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND JEROBOAM STOOD 13:13 BY THE ALTAR TO BURN INCENSE. 13:15 THEN HE CRIED OUT AGAINST THE ALTAR BY THE WORD OF 13:18 THE LORD, AND SAID, 'O ALTAR, ALTAR! 13:22 THUS SAYS THE LORD: 'BEHOLD, A CHILD, JOSIAH 13:26 BY NAME, SHALL BE BORN TO THE HOUSE OF DAVID; AND ON 13:29 YOU HE SHALL SACRIFICE THE PRIESTS OF THE HIGH PLACES 13:33 WHO BURN INCENSE ON YOU, AND MEN'S BONES SHALL BE 13:37 BURNED ON YOU.''" >>ALRIGHT, YOU NOTICE THIS 13:39 IS A PROPHECY ABOUT JOSIAH THAT IS WRITTEN IN 1 KINGS 13:44 13 - THREE HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE HE WAS BORN. 13:48 THERE ARE A COUPLE OF INDIVIDUALS IN THE BIBLE 13:51 THAT ARE NAMED - THEY'RE - BEFORE THEY'RE EVEN BORN, 13:55 THEY'RE NAMED. DO YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE? 13:57 >>CYRUS. >>CYRUS. JOSIAH. JOHN. JESUS. 14:06 'CALL HIS NAME JESUS FOR HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE.' 14:09 BUT NOT TOO MANY - THIS IS THE LONGEST ONE WHO'S 14:13 NAMED BEFORE HE WAS BORN. 14:15 THREE HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE HE'S BORN. 14:17 NOW IT GIVES SOME SPECIFIC PROPHECIES. 14:18 IT SAYS THIS PROPHET FROM JUDAH - THE PROPHET'S 14:21 NEVER NAMED. HE COMES AND HE TELLS 14:23 JEROBOAM, WHEN THE KINGDOM IN THE NORTH BEGAN TO WORSHIP 14:26 AT BETHEL AND THEY WERE - THEY HAD A GOLDEN 14:29 CALF AND HE SAYS, 'ALTAR, ALTAR!' 14:32 HE PROPHESIED TO THE ALTAR AND HE SAYS, 'KING - 14:36 JOSIAH BY NAME - WILL BURN THE BONES OF THE PRIESTS 14:39 ON YOU.' AND THE KING WANTED TO HAVE HIM 14:43 ARRESTED BUT WHEN HE POINTED AND SAID, 'ARREST HIM!' 14:45 HIS ARM FROZE IN POSITION AND THEN HE HAD TO PRAY TO 14:47 THE PROPHET TO HEAL HIS ARM. 14:49 IT'S JUST A VERY INTERESTING STORY. 14:51 SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY? 14:52 AND THAT PROPHET, ACTUALLY, DOESN'T LIVE 14:55 VERY LONG, BUT HIS PROPHECY COMES TRUE. 14:58 ACTUALLY, WHEN JOSIAH, YEARS LATER, GOES AND HE 15:02 PURGES THE NORTHERN KINGDOM FROM THESE FALSE 15:05 ALTARS - HE WAS WANTING TO JUST PURGE THE LAND OF 15:08 ISRAEL - HE ACTUALLY SEES THE GRAVE OF THIS PROPHET 15:11 THAT HAD FORETOLD ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT HAPPENED. 15:14 NOW YOU READ ABOUT IT - JOSIAH - OH, YOU CAN READ ABOUT JOSIAH 15:17 IN 2 CHRONICLES 34 - AND THIS'LL BE VERSES 1 THROUGH 7, "JOSIAH 15:20 WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN HE BECAME KING, AND HE 15:23 REIGNED THIRTY-ONE YEARS IN JERUSALEM. 15:26 AND HE DID WHAT WAS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, 15:29 AND WALKED IN THE WAYS OF HIS FATHER DAVID; HE DID 15:32 NOT TURN ASIDE TO THE RIGHT HAND OR TO THE LEFT. 15:34 FOR IN THE EIGHTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN, WHILE HE WAS 15:37 STILL YOUNG, HE BEGAN TO SEEK THE GOD OF HIS 15:39 FATHER" - NOW YOU WONDER WHAT HAPPENED IN THE 15:41 EIGHTH YEAR - HOW OLD WAS HE THEN? 15:43 STARTS TO RULE AT EIGHT AND THE EIGHTH YEAR OF HIS 15:48 REIGN HE'S SIXTEEN. SOMETHING'S HAPPENING. 15:50 HE'S BECOMING A MAN. WE DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT'S 15:52 THROUGH THE INFLUENCE OF SOME OF THE PRIESTS. 15:55 IT SAYS HE REALLY BEGAN TO START SEEKING "THE GOD OF 15:58 HIS FATHER DAVID; AND IN THE TWELFTH YEAR HE BEGAN 16:02 TO PURGE JUDAH AND JERUSALEM OF THE HIGH PLACES, THE WOODEN 16:05 IMAGES, THE CARVED IMAGES, AND THE MOLDED IMAGES. 16:08 THEY BROKE DOWN THE ALTARS OF THE BAALS IN HIS 16:11 PRESENCE," - HE HAD THEM BROKEN DOWN - "AND THE 16:14 INCENSE ALTARS WHICH WERE ABOVE THEM HE CUT DOWN; 16:17 AND THE WOODEN IMAGES," - HOW DID ALL THESE IMAGES 16:19 AND ALTARS END UP IN THE LAND OF JUDAH? 16:23 DURING THE TIME OF MANASSEH, IN PARTICULAR, 16:26 THEY HAD TURNED AWAY FROM JEHOVAH - THEY EVEN PUT 16:30 IDOLS IN THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD. 16:32 NOW THINK ABOUT HOW FAR THEY HAD DRIFTED. 16:34 COULD THIS EVER HAPPEN TO GOD'S PEOPLE? 16:36 HERE THEY WERE GOD'S PEOPLE, THEY HAD THE 16:39 SCRIPTURES, THEY HAD THE FOUNDATIONAL DOCTRINES, 16:42 THEY HAD THE TEMPLE PLANS GIVEN BY GOD TO MOSES AND 16:46 DAVID RIGHT THERE IN THEIR PRESENCE, AND THEY ALLOWED 16:50 THE SURROUNDING NATIONS AND THE WORSHIP OF THE 16:52 SURROUNDING RELIGIONS TO INFILTRATE WHERE THEY JUST 16:55 GOT USED TO THE CO-MINGLING OF THE TRUE WITH THE FALSE. 17:01 AND SO, WHEN JOSIAH COMES ALONG AND HE SAYS, 'NO, 17:03 WE'RE GOING TO PURGE THE KINGDOM FROM ALL OF THESE 17:06 PAGAN INFLUENCES.' THEY THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A 17:08 RIGHT-WING FANATIC. DON'T YOU THINK? 17:12 THIS NEW KING, HE COMES THROUGH AND HE SAYS, 17:15 'WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE THAT. WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE THIS. 17:17 AND THIS IS PAGAN. WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO 17:18 THE BIBLE.' AND HE PROBABLY RAISED SOME 17:20 EYEBROWS BECAUSE HE WAS STILL SIXTEEN YEARS OLD. 17:23 THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAD LIVED DURING 17:26 THE TIME OF MANASSEH WHO HAD JUST GROWN UP WITH THAT KIND OF 17:29 WORSHIP AND THEY THOUGHT IT WAS NORMAL. AND SO I'M SURE HE MET 17:32 WITH SOME RESISTANCE, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS KING. 17:34 AND "HE BROKE IN PIECES, AND MADE DUST OF THEM AND 17:38 SCATTERED IT ON THE GRAVES OF THOSE WHO HAD SACRIFICED 17:41 TO THEM. HE ALSO BURNED THE BONES OF THE PRIESTS ON THEIR 17:45 ALTARS," - THE REASON THEY DID THAT IS IT WOULD THEN 17:48 POLLUTE THE ALTAR AND DEFILE IT SO IT COULD NEVER BE USED 17:52 AGAIN - IF YOU BURNED THE HUMAN BONES ON IT - SO HE DID THAT 17:55 SO THEY WOULD NEVER BE TEMPTED TO USE IT AGAIN - 17:57 "AND CLEANSED JUDAH AND JERUSALEM. 18:01 AND SO HE DID IN THE CITIES OF MANASSEH, EPHRAIM, AND 18:05 SIMEON, AS FAR AS NAPHTALI AND ALL AROUND, WITH AXES." - 18:09 THEY WENT AND THEY CUT DOWN ALL THE GROVES - AND 18:11 "WHEN HE HAD BROKEN DOWN THE ALTARS AND THE WOODEN 18:14 IMAGES, HAD BEATEN THE CARVED IMAGES INTO POWDER, 18:15 AND CUT DOWN ALL THE INCENSE ALTARS THROUGHOUT 18:19 ALL THE LAND OF ISRAEL, HE RETURNED TO JERUSALEM." 18:21 SO NOT ONLY DID HE EFFECT A REVIVAL IN JUDAH, THE 18:25 SOUTHERN KINGDOM, HE WENT UP NORTH WHERE THE OTHER 18:27 KINGS USED TO REIGN - REMEMBER, THEY'RE ALL GONE NOW. 18:30 THEY'VE BEEN CARRIED AWAY BY ASSYRIA - THEY DIED - AND HE 18:32 PURGES THE WHOLE LAND THAT GOD HAD GIVEN DAVID AND SOLOMON. 18:36 SO BOY, WHATEVER HE DID, HE DID WITH ALL HIS MIGHT. 18:39 NOW WE'RE GOING TO FAST-FORWARD A LITTLE BIT. GO TO 2 CHRONICLES 18:43 34 - STILL TALKING ABOUT THE TIME OF JOSIAH. 18:46 HIS LIFE OVERLAPS THE REIGN OF JEREMIAH. 18:49 SO JEREMIAH, THESE WERE THE GOOD DAYS. 18:53 YOU EVER HEARD PEOPLE TALK NOSTALGICALLY ABOUT 18:56 'THE GOOD OLD DAYS'? AFTER JOSIAH WAS GONE, THE 19:00 FOUR REMAINING KINGS, THEY WERE BAD. 19:05 JEREMIAH KEPT LOOKING BACK TO THE DAYS OF JOSIAH AS 19:08 THE GOOD OLD DAYS, WHEN THEY TURNED TO THE LORD 19:12 AND THEY PURGED THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AND THEY 19:14 RESTORED THE PASSOVER AND THERE WAS A GREAT REVIVAL 19:16 AND, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES I HEAR A NEWS COMMENTATOR 19:20 SAY, 'OH, STOP TALKING ABOUT THE GOOD OLD DAYS. 19:22 EVEN THE BAD - BACK IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS, THINGS WERE 19:25 PRETTY BAD.' THAT'S NOT TRUE ALWAYS; SOMETIMES 19:27 THERE ARE GOOD AGES IN HISTORY, AND THE TIME OF 19:31 JOSIAH WAS ONE OF THE GOOD AGES. 19:33 ALRIGHT, LOOK IN 2 CHRONICLES 34:14, "NOW 19:38 WHEN THEY HAD BROUGHT OUT THE MONEY THAT WAS BROUGHT 19:40 INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, HILKIAH THE PRIEST 19:43 FOUND THE BOOK OF THE LAW OF THE LORD GIVEN BY MOSES." 19:47 WHAT'S IMPLIED THERE WHEN IT SAYS HE FOUND IT? 19:50 >>IT WAS LOST. >>IT HAD BEEN, AT LEAST, 19:53 MISPLACED. NOW THIS IS NOT JUST ANY 19:55 BOOK, WHICH BOOK IS THIS? >>THE LAW. 19:58 >>THE BOOK OF THE LAW GIVEN BY MOSES - MOST 20:01 LIKELY THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY AND, BASED ON 20:03 WHAT YOU'RE READING HERE, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL COPY. 20:07 SO CAN YOU IMAGINE LIKE HAVING THE ORIGINAL COPY 20:13 OF THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS? HAVING IT MISPLACED FOR 20:16 HUNDREDS OF YEARS AND THEN FINDING IT AGAIN? 20:19 HE HAD - YOU KNOW, THEY'D ALWAYS KEPT IT. 20:23 IT WAS NEAR THE ARK AND FINALLY, WHEN THEY MOVED 20:25 THE ARK INTO THE - SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, THEY PUT 20:27 ALL OF THE SACRED ROLLS IN THERE AND, WITH ALL THESE 20:29 KINGS COMING AND GOING - THESE OTHER GODS - THEY 20:32 DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO READ ALL THESE BOOKS. 20:34 THEY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY WERE AFTER AWHILE. 20:36 AND FINALLY, THE PRIEST, WHO COULD STILL READ THE 20:38 HEBREW, HE PULLS OUT THE SCROLL AS THEY'RE CLEANING 20:40 THINGS - YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T JUST THROW BOOKS AWAY, YOU SAY, 20:43 'WHAT IS IT?' AND - I WORKED AT A MISSION AND I WORKED WITH 20:50 MY FRIEND DAVE BOATWRIGHT - MANY OF YOU KNOW WHO - 20:52 WAS AN ELDER AT OUR FORMER CHURCH - AND HE AND I 20:57 WORKED TOGETHER AT THIS MISSION AND SOMEONE 20:59 DONATED A TRAILER AND THE TRAILER WAS JUST FULL OF, 21:01 YOU KNOW, PEOPLE'S THINGS AND BOOKS AND STUFF AND I 21:04 SAID, 'OH DAVE, MAYBE YOU CAN GO THROUGH ALL THOSE 21:06 BOOKS AND THROW THEM OUT.' AND SO I CAME BACK TO 21:07 CHECK ON HIM HOURS LATER AND HE HAD ONLY THROWN OUT 21:11 ABOUT ONE BOOK. (LAUGHTER) 21:13 I SAID, 'WHAT'S GOING ON?' HE SAID, 'WELL, HOW DO I KNOW 21:15 WHETHER OR NOT TO THROW IT OUT UNLESS I READ IT?' 21:17 AND SO HE HAD BEEN SITTING THERE JUST READING THROUGH 21:20 ALL THESE BOOKS. I SAID, 'JUST READ A COUPLE PAGES AND THEN 21:23 DECIDE. FLIP THROUGH IT AND THROW IT OUT. 21:26 YOU CAN'T READ THE WHOLE BOOK.' AND SO, ANYWAYS, 21:31 HE'S READING THIS - HIS HAND STARTED TO TREMBLE 21:33 AND HE'S GOING, 'IS THIS WHAT I THINK IT IS?' 21:36 IT LOOKED VERY OLD AND IT WAS SIGNED AT THE BOTTOM 'MOSES'. 21:41 AND HE SAID, 'THIS IS THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY - THE 21:44 LAST SERMON OF MOSES BEFORE HE DIED - THE ORIGINAL COPY. 21:47 CAN YOU IMAGINE THEIR DELIGHT? 21:50 IT ACTUALLY - I THINK IN THE ORIGINAL HERE IT SAYS, 21:53 'GIVEN BY THE HAND OF MOSES.' - "THEN HILKIAH 21:56 ANSWERED AND SAID TO SHAPHAN THE SCRIBE, 'I 21:58 HAVE FOUND" - NOT A BOOK OF THE LAW, HE SAID, "I 22:01 HAVE FOUND THE BOOK OF THE LAW IN THE HOUSE OF THE 22:04 LORD.'" NOW WHERE WOULD YOU EXPECT TO FIND IT? 22:07 DON'T YOU HOPE YOU CAN GO TO CHURCHES TODAY AND FIND 22:10 THE BOOK OF THE LAW IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD? 22:14 A LOT OF CHURCHES YOU GO TO TODAY, YOU WILL NOT 22:16 FIND THE BOOK OF THE LAW IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. 22:19 THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT EVERYTHING BUT THE BIBLE - 22:21 "AND HILKIAH GAVE THE BOOK TO SHAPHAN. 22:24 SO SHAPHAN CARRIED THE BOOK TO THE KING, BRINGING 22:26 THE KING WORD, SAYING, 'ALL THAT WAS COMMITTED TO 22:28 YOUR SERVANTS THEY ARE DOING. 22:30 AND THEY HAVE GATHERED THE MONEY THAT WAS FOUND IN 22:32 THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND HAVE DELIVERED IT INTO THE 22:33 HAND OF THE OVERSEERS AND THE WORKMEN.' THEN SHAPHAN 22:36 THE SCRIBE TOLD THE KING, SAYING, 'HILKIAH THE 22:38 PRIEST HAS GIVEN ME A BOOK.' AND SHAPHAN" - SCRIBE - THEIR 22:41 SPECIALTY IS READING - HE READS IT BEFORE THE KING. 22:44 HE GOES FROM BOW TO STERN - DEUTERONOMY 1 TO 32 AND 22:50 HE READS IT. AND IT SAYS THEN THAT AFTER HE DOES THAT, "THUS 22:57 IT HAPPENED WHEN THE KING HEARD THE WORDS OF THE 22:59 LAW, THAT HE TORE HIS CLOTHES. 23:01 THEN THE KING COMMANDED HILKIAH, AHIKAM THE SON OF 23:06 SHAPHAN, ABDON THE SON OF MICAH, SHAPHAN THE SCRIBE, 23:09 AND ASAIAH A SERVANT OF THE KING, SAYING, 'GO, 23:11 INQUIRE OF THE LORD FOR ME, AND FOR THOSE WHO ARE 23:15 LEFT IN ISRAEL AND JUDAH, CONCERNING THE WORDS OF 23:17 THE BOOK THAT IS FOUND; FOR GREAT IS THE WRATH OF 23:20 THE LORD THAT IS POURED OUT ON US, BECAUSE OUR 23:23 FATHERS HAVE NOT KEPT THE WORD OF THE LORD, TO DO 23:25 ACCORDING TO ALL THAT IS WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK.'" 23:28 NOW WHY WAS HE ESPECIALLY TROUBLED WHEN THEY READ 23:31 THAT BOOK OF THE LAW OF MOSES - DEUTERONOMY? 23:35 HAVE YOU READ DEUTERONOMY? >>BLESSINGS AND CURSES. 23:39 >>IT TRACES THE HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE FROM THE 23:42 EXODUS THROUGH WHAT THEY COULD EXPECT. 23:47 AND EVERYTHING THAT HAD COME UPON ISRAEL IT OUTLINES. 23:50 HE SAID, 'I KNOW THAT YOU'LL FOLLOW AFTER OTHER 23:53 GODS AND WHEN YOU DO THIS, THESE CURSINGS WILL COME UPON YOU.' 23:56 AND EVERYTHING THAT HE HAD FORETOLD WOULD HAPPEN, HAPPENED. 23:59 AND THE KING IS GOING, 'WOW.' HE'S READING IT AND 24:03 IT'S JUST THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY ONE AFTER THE 24:06 OTHER THAT WAS RATHER DISTURBING. 24:10 NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ ISAIAH 1:16 AND 17 IN 24:13 JUST A MOMENT HERE, OKAY? 24:15 SO HE SENDS AND HE INQUIRES OF THE LORD, FROM 24:18 THE PROPHET, TO FIND OUT 'WHAT SHALL WE DO?' 24:21 AND, BASICALLY, THE MESSAGE COMES BACK FROM 24:23 THE PROPHET THAT SAYS, 'EVERYTHING THAT WAS 24:26 FORETOLD, JUDGMENT'S GOING TO COME. 24:28 BUT BECAUSE YOUR HEART WAS TENDER AND YOU SOUGHT ME, 24:31 I'M NOT GOING TO DO IT IN YOUR DAY.' AND SO THE LAST 24:34 WINDOW OF PROBATION AND MERCY REALLY CAME DURING 24:39 THE TIME OF JOSIAH, BECAUSE HIS HEART WAS TENDER AND HE 24:42 WANTED TO SERVE THE LORD AND HE SAID, 'LOOK, IF MY SEEKING AFTER 24:45 GOD IS GOING TO BE A PROLONGING OF OUR TRANQUILITY, THEN I'M 24:47 REALLY GOING TO SEEK AFTER GOD.' AND HE DID. 24:49 AND THERE ARE TWO PARTICULAR THINGS THAT WERE INVOLVED IN 24:53 THE REFORMS OF JOSIAH. WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD AND 24:57 READ THAT FOR US IN ISAIAH 1:16 AND 17. 25:00 >>"WASH YOURSELVES, MAKE YOURSELVES CLEAN; PUT AWAY 25:05 THE EVIL OF YOUR DOINGS FROM BEFORE MY EYES. 25:08 CEASE TO DO EVIL, LEARN TO DO GOOD; SEEK JUSTICE, 25:14 REBUKE THE OPPRESSOR; DEFEND THE FATHERLESS, 25:18 PLEAD FOR THE WIDOW." >>AMEN. 25:21 TWO PARTICULAR THINGS: CEASE TO DO EVIL. LEARN TO DO GOOD. 25:25 SO A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY THAT TO HAVE A REVIVAL YOU 25:29 SIMPLY NEED TO BELIEVE. 25:30 BUT, YOU KNOW, BIBLICALLY, THE PART OF EVERY REVIVAL 25:33 WAS PRACTICAL REFORM - PRACTICAL REFORM. 25:37 WHEN PAUL WOULD GO THROUGH A TOWN AND PREACH, THEY'D 25:40 BRING THEIR SATANIC BOOKS AND BURN THEM IN A PILE. 25:42 THERE WERE TANGIBLE THINGS THAT HAPPENED. 25:45 THE GREAT REFORMS THAT HAPPENED DURING THE AGE OF 25:47 ENLIGHTENMENT AND CHRISTIAN REVIVALS. 25:50 YOU WOULD SEE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, THEY WOULD THROW OUT 25:54 THEIR ALCOHOL, THEY'D MAKE CHANGES, THEY'D START 25:56 GOING BACK TO CHURCH. SO THERE'S REAL PRACTICAL THINGS. 26:00 I'VE SEEN YOUTH REVIVALS WHERE THEY'D, YOU KNOW, 26:02 THEY'D JUST TURN UP THE VOLUME AND THEY'D SAY THIS 26:04 WAS A REVIVAL. THAT'S NOT A REVIVAL. 26:06 A REVIVAL IS WHEN THOSE KIDS BRING THEIR CDS THAT 26:09 THEY'RE LISTENING TO THEY KNOW THEY SHOULDN'T BE 26:12 LISTENING TO OR THE MAGAZINES THAT THEY'RE 26:15 READING AND THEY THROW THEM AWAY. 26:18 THEY START MAKING - THAT'S WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT 26:20 REALLY BEGINS TO MOVE, BECAUSE AS WE EMPTY 26:23 OURSELVES AND MAKE ROOM FOR THE FILLING OF GOD IN 26:25 OUR LIVES AND WE MAKE PRACTICAL CHANGES - AND IT 26:29 MIGHT MEAN PRACTICAL CHANGES IN WHERE WE GO, WHAT WE WATCH, 26:34 WHAT WE EAT, WHAT WE DO, WHAT WE THINK ABOUT, WHAT WE SAY. 26:37 WHEN WE CEASE TO DO EVIL AND LEARN TO DO GOOD. WHEN JOSIAH 26:41 HAD A REVIVAL, HE WENT AND HE CUT DOWN THE ALTARS. 26:44 NOT ONLY DID HE CUT DOWN THE ALTARS, HE THEN SAID 26:47 'WE'VE NEGLECTED THE PASSOVER. 26:49 LET'S FOLLOW THE WORD OF THE LORD. 26:50 LET'S CELEBRATE THE PASSOVER.' IT SAID THEY 26:52 HAD A PASSOVER UNLIKE ANY THEY'D EVER HAD BEFORE. 26:55 AND SO, IT WAS A COMBINATION OF TURNING 26:57 AWAY FROM THAT WHICH IS BAD AND DOING WHAT YOU 26:59 KNOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO. 27:01 AND SO THAT BROUGHT ABOUT GREAT REVIVAL. 27:03 SO I COULD SAY MUCH MORE ABOUT JOSIAH BUT WE'RE 27:05 GOING TO RUN OUT OF TIME. 27:06 IT WAS A TIME OF GREAT REVIVAL - A GOOD YOUNG KING. 27:10 THERE WAS A PHARAOH THEN, BY THE NAME OF PHARAOH NECHO. 27:14 HE REIGNED FOR SEVERAL YEARS. 27:15 PHARAOH NECHO WAS AN INTERESTING CHARACTER IN 27:18 THAT, FOR AN EGYPTIAN PHARAOH, HE WASN'T ALL BAD. 27:22 HE ACTUALLY SENT SHIPS - IT'S IN HISTORY - THAT HE 27:25 WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PHARAOHS THAT SENT SHIPS 27:27 FROM THE RED SEA, THEY WENT DOWN ALONG THE 27:33 EASTERN COAST OF AFRICA - THEY COMPLETELY 27:36 CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA - WENT 27:39 AROUND AFRICA, BACK INTO THE MEDITERRANEAN AND CAME 27:42 TO ALEXANDRIA. AND HE HAD A FLEET OF SHIPS 27:45 THAT MADE THIS COMPLETE CIRCLE. THAT'S IN HISTORY - ONE OF 27:48 THE FIRST PHARAOHS THAT DID THAT - AND THEY GOT AN ACCURATE - OR 27:51 SEMI-ACCURATE - MAP OF AFRICA AT THAT TIME. 27:54 SO HE WAS A VERY PROGRESSIVE KING. HE WAS INVOLVED IN A WAR 27:57 WITH THE KING OF ASSYRIA AND ON HIS WAY NORTH HE HAD 28:00 TO TRAVEL THROUGH THE LAND OF JUDAH. 28:03 AND WITH HIS LARGE EGYPTIAN ARMY, WAS GOING 28:05 UP THE COURSE THROUGH PHILISTIA TOWARDS ASSYRIA. 28:09 JOSIAH THOUGHT, 'AS SOON AS HE'S DONE THERE HE'S 28:13 GOING TO COME AFTER US. IF WE CAN WEAKEN HIM NOW THEN 28:15 HE WON'T THINK ABOUT ATTACKING US WHEN HE COMES BACK.' 28:18 AND PHARAOH NECHO SENT A MESSAGE TO JOSIAH AND HE SAID, 28:21 'LOOK, GOD HAS SENT ME TO FIGHT AGAINST ASSYRIA, DON'T 28:23 COME OUT AND MEDDLE WITH WHAT GOD HAS TOLD ME TO 28:25 DO.' HE ACTUALLY TALKED ABOUT GOD AS THOUGH IT WAS 28:28 THE ONE GOD, WHICH WAS UNUSUAL FOR THE EGYPTIANS. 28:33 AND JOSIAH DIDN'T LISTEN AND HE WAS HIT BY THE 28:37 ARCHERS IN THE BATTLE AND THEY CARRIED HIM AWAY AND 28:39 PHARAOH WENT NORTH - HE FOUGHT AND WON IN HIS 28:42 BATTLE AGAINST ASSYRIA AND CAME BACK AGAIN. 28:45 LATER, THE SON OF JOSIAH, HE WAS SUBJUGATED BY 28:49 PHARAOH NECHO. BUT JOSIAH WAS HIT BY THE 28:53 ARCHERS; HE DIED AND THEY SANG AND LAMENTED HIS DEATH 28:55 FOR - FOR MANY YEARS, ACTUALLY. AND I THINK JEREMIAH WRITES 29:01 ABOUT THAT ALSO. ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO JEHOAHAZ 29:04 AND JEHOIAKIM. THESE ARE TWO OF THE SONS - NOW JOSIAH HAD 29:10 THREE SONS. SOME OF THEM WERE CHOSEN TO BE KING. 29:14 AND IT SAYS, "JEHOAHAZ WAS TWENTY-THREE YEARS OLD" - 29:17 I'M IN 2 KINGS 23:31 - IT SAYS 'THE KINGDOM IS 29:22 DESCENDING LOWER STILL.' - "JEHOAHAZ WAS TWENTY-THREE 29:26 YEARS OLD WHEN HE BECAME KING, AND HE REIGNED THREE 29:28 MONTHS IN JERUSALEM. HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS HAMUTAL 29:32 THE DAUGHTER OF JEREMIAH OF LIBNAH." - OBVIOUSLY A DIFFERENT 29:35 JEREMIAH - "AND HE DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, ACCORDING 29:39 TO ALL THAT HIS FATHERS HAD DONE. 29:41 THEN PHARAOH NECHO PUT HIM IN PRISON AT RIBLAH IN THE 29:44 LAND OF HAMATH, THAT HE NIGHT NOT REIGN IN 29:47 JERUSALEM; AND HE IMPOSED ON THE LAND A TRIBUTE OF 29:49 ONE HUNDRED TALENTS OF SILVER AND A TALENT OF GOLD. 29:53 THEN PHARAOH NECHO MADE ELIAKIM THE SON OF JOSIAH 29:56 KING IN PLACE OF HIS FATHER JOSIAH, AND CHANGED 29:59 HIS NAME TO JEHOIAKIM. 30:02 AND PHARAOH TOOK JEHOAHAZ AND WENT TO EGYPT, AND HE 30:06 DIED THERE." SO THE PHARAOH KNEW RIGHT AFTER 30:12 THREE MONTHS THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO BE A VERY GOOD 30:14 KING AND HE WAS NOT LOYAL TO HIM - HE COULDN'T COUNT 30:18 ON HIM TO PAY TRIBUTE AND SO HE DEPOSED HIM, PUT HIS 30:22 BROTHER IN PLACE, GAVE HIM A NEW NAME, AND THAT OTHER 30:25 YOUNG MAN, HE WENT TO EGYPT AND HE DIED THERE. 30:29 JEHOIAKIM WAS AN OPPRESSIVE AND A GREEDY 30:32 KING AND YOU'LL FIND THIS IN YOUR LESSON. 30:34 HE IMPOSED HEAVY TAXES ON JUDAH. 30:38 NOW, YOU KNOW ONE REASON HE DID THAT, HE HAD TO 30:40 SEND SO MUCH MONEY DOWN TO EGYPT AND SO FOR HIM TO 30:44 HAVE ALL OF THE TREATS THAT THE KINGS WERE USED 30:47 TO, HE NEEDED TO INCREASE THE TAXES OF THE PEOPLE. 30:49 SO THEY'RE BEING TAXED TO PAY TAXES TO PHARAOH NECHO 30:52 AND THEY'RE BEING TAXED TO PAY TAXES TO THE LOCAL 30:55 KING OF JUDAH, JEHOIAKIM. 30:57 WORSE, USING A FORCED LABOR, HE HAD ELABORATED - 31:03 ELABORATE CONSTRUCTION DONE ON HIS OWN PALACE IN 31:06 DEFIANCE OF THE TORAH - THE TORAH WAS VERY CLEAR 31:09 ABOUT PAYING PEOPLE A FAIR WAGE FOR THEIR WORK. 31:11 HE MADE HIS OWN PEOPLE SLAVES. 31:13 IT SAID, "THOU SHALL NOT DEFRAUD THY NEIGHBOR, 31:15 NEITHER ROB HIM OF THE WAGES OF HIM THAT IS HIRED. 31:18 THEY SHALL NOT ABIDE WITH THEE ALL NIGHT" - THIS IS 31:21 THE TORAH - "UNTIL MORNING." 31:23 THAT'S LEVITICUS 19:13. ALSO, UNLIKE JOSIAH, HIS 31:25 FATHER, JEHOIAKIM PERMITTED PAGAN RITES TO FLOURISH AGAIN 31:28 IN JUDAH. SO NO SOONER HAD JOSIAH DIED 31:31 - THEY DRIFTED BACK TO THE OLD WAYS. 31:34 IDOLATRY CREPT IN AGAIN ALONG WITH PAGAN RITES. 31:38 ALRIGHT, SOMEONE IS GOING TO READ FOR ME NOW 2 KINGS 31:41 24:6 - OKAY SAM, YOU'LL BE READING THAT. 31:44 >>SO JEHOIAKIM RESTED WITH HIS FATHERS. 31:47 THEN JEHOIACHIN HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS PLACE. 31:51 AND THE KING OF EGYPT DID NOT COME OUT OF HIS LAND 31:54 ANYMORE, FOR THE KING OF BABYLON HAD TAKEN ALL THAT 31:57 BELONGED TO THE KING OF EGYPT FROM THE BROOK OF 32:01 EGYPT TO THE RIVER EUPHRATES." 32:03 >>SO RIGHT DURING THIS TIME, AFTER JOSIAH DIED, 32:07 THERE WAS PEACE PRETTY MUCH DURING THIS TIME, BUT 32:09 THERE WAS A WAR THAT WAS RAGING FOR AN EMPIRE - IT 32:13 LOOKED LIKE THE KINGDOM OF BABYLON WAS SPREADING, THE 32:16 KINGDOM OF ASSYRIA WAS GETTING WEAKER, EGYPT SAW 32:19 THAT IN THIS VACUUM 'WE CAN ONCE AGAIN BECOME A 32:22 WORLD EMPIRE' AND THAT'S WHAT PHARAOH NECHO WAS DOING. 32:24 THEY WEREN'T SO MUCH WORRIED ABOUT JUDAH, THEY 32:26 WERE A SMALLER KINGDOM. 32:28 THEY WEREN'T WORRIED ABOUT THE EDOMITES AND THE 32:29 MOABITES AND THE AMMONITES, THEY WERE 32:31 WORRIED ABOUT THE BIG EMPIRES. 32:32 AND SO PHARAOH NECHO WENT TO FIGHT WITH ASSYRIA AND 32:34 THEY WERE FIGHTING AGAINST THE CHALDEANS. 32:37 WELL, ABOUT THAT TIME THAT JEHOIAKIM BECAME KING, 32:43 PHARAOH NECHO LOST HIS BATTLE WITH THE KING OF 32:46 BABYLON AND BABYLON PUSHED THE EGYPTIANS ALL THE WAY 32:50 BACK TO THE RIVER OF EGYPT AND NOW JUDAH BECAME A 32:53 TERRITORY ALMOST OVERNIGHT. 32:55 WHAT HAD ONCE BELONGED TO EGYPT NOW BELONGED TO BABYLON. 32:58 THEY SAID, 'NOW YOU HAVE TO PAY YOUR TAXES TO US 33:00 BECAUSE WE ARE THE BIG DOG IN THE AREA.' AND PHARAOH 33:05 - RATHER THE KING OF BABYLON WASN'T SO SURE 33:07 THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE FAITHFUL PAYING HIS TAXES. 33:10 IT SAYS, "THE KING OF BABYLON HAD TAKEN ALL THAT 33:12 BELONGED TO THE KING OF EGYPT FROM THE BROOK OF 33:14 EGYPT TO THE RIVER EUPHRATES." 33:16 NOW BABYLON IS GROWING INTO ITS EMPIRE STATUS. 33:19 AND YOU CAN - NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THE BOOK OF 33:23 JEREMIAH - WE'VE BEEN STUDYING JEREMIAH BUT WE 33:25 HAVEN'T BEEN READING FROM IT. 33:26 JEREMIAH 22:18, "THEREFORE THUS SAYS THE LORD 33:30 CONCERNING JEHOIAKIM THE SON OF JOSIAH, KING OF 33:33 JUDAH: 'THEY SHALL NOT LAMENT FOR HIM, SAYING, 'ALAS, MY 33:36 BROTHER!' OR 'ALAS, MY SISTER!' THEY SHALL NOT LAMENT FOR HIM, 33:40 SAYING, 'ALAS, MASTER!' OR 'ALAS, HIS GLORY!'" - 33:43 AS THEY DID FOR HIS FATHER JOSIAH - "HE SHALL 33:45 BE BURIED WITH THE BURIAL OF A DONKEY, DRAGGED AND 33:48 CAST OUT BEYOND THE GATES OF JERUSALEM." 33:51 SO JEHOIAKIM, HE WAS NOT APPRECIATED. 33:57 HE DIED, THE KING OF BABYLON HAD HIM CAST OUT, 34:00 AND HE HAD HIS SON PUT IN HIS PLACE, BUT JEHOIACHIN 34:06 WAS NOT VERY CAPABLE. AND SO AFTER A SHORT PERIOD 34:10 OF TIME HE WAS CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON. 34:13 NOW LET ME READ TO YOU FROM HISTORY ABOUT THIS. 34:16 IN ABOUT 598 BC JEHOIACHIN WAS CARRIED CAPTIVE TO 34:22 BABYLON ALONG WITH 3,220 JEWS - AND YOU CAN READ 34:27 ABOUT THAT IN JEREMIAH. HE PLACED JEHOIACHIN, 34:30 THE DEAD KING'S SON, ON THE THRONE. 34:32 THREE MONTHS WERE SUFFICIENT FOR HIM TO 34:35 PROVE JEHOIACHIN'S CHARACTER AND YOU CAN READ 34:38 ABOUT THAT IN EZEKIEL ALSO. 34:39 HE WAS TAKEN WITH 10,000 OF THE BEST OF THE PEOPLE 34:42 OF JERUSALEM AND HE CARRIED THEM TO BABYLON. 34:45 SO THERE WERE TWO GROUPS THAT WERE FIRST CARRIED 34:48 OFF TO BABYLON BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR: FIRST 34:51 3,000 WENT THEN 10,000 WENT. 34:53 IN THE FIRST 3,000, YOU KNOW WHO WAS IN THAT GROUP? 34:57 DANIEL, HANANIAH, MISHAEL, AZARIAH - LATER KNOWN AS 35:03 BELTESHAZZAR, SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO - 35:06 THOSE WERE THEIR BABYLONIAN NAMES. 35:08 NOTICE HOW THESE KINGS KIND OF RENAME EVERYBODY? 35:11 THEY BASICALLY SAY, 'LOOK, I'M GIVING YOU YOUR POWER 35:15 AND I'M GIVING YOU YOUR NAME.' 35:16 AND SO THEY WOULD RENAME THEM ALL. 35:18 AND SO THIS YOUNG KING, WHO WAS NOT A GOOD KING, 35:22 ONLY REIGNED FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME - 35:24 THREE MONTHS. HE'S A YOUNG MAN. HE'S CARRIED OFF. 35:27 HE'S PUT IN PRISON IN BABYLON. 35:29 THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF THE KING OF JUDAH - THE 35:33 NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD KING OF JUDAH BECAME JEHOIACHIN, 35:38 THE SON OF JEHOIAKIM, HE REIGNED ON DAVID'S THRONE 35:42 FOR BARELY THREE AND A HALF MONTHS. 35:43 IN 598 BC NEBUCHADNEZZAR BROUGHT HIS FORCES TO 35:46 JERUSALEM, SEIZED THE YOUNG KING, ALONG WITH HIS 35:50 MOTHER AND HIS WIVES AND MANY ROYAL CAPTIVES. 35:56 YOU KNOW, I READ SOMETHING, OH YEAH, 35:59 SOMETHING ABOUT JEHOIACHIN - I WANT TO JUST GIVE YOU 36:02 THE FOLLOW UP. GO TO JEREMIAH CHAPTER 51. 36:06 SO THERE'S THIS YOUNG KING - I DON'T KNOW WHETHER TO 36:09 DO THIS NOW OR TO DO IT AT THE END OF THE LESSON. 36:12 I THINK I'M GOING TO DO IT NOW. 36:13 IF YOU GO TO JEREMIAH CHAPTER 52 - JEREMIAH 52, 36:20 VERSE 31 - NOW AFTER JEHOIACHIN WAS CARRIED OFF 36:26 TO BABYLON, HE WAS PUT IN PRISON THERE, HE STAYED 36:31 THERE 37 YEARS, WHICH IS A LONG TIME. 36:35 ONLY ELEVEN YEARS AFTER HE WAS CARRIED TO BABYLON 36:39 NEBUCHCADNEZZAR HAD TO COME BACK AND HE DESTROYED 36:41 THE CITY. HE DESTROYED THE TEMPLE. 36:42 ZEDECHIAH'S EYES WERE PUT OUT. 36:44 HIS SONS WERE ALL KILLED. 36:46 AND THAT WAS THE UNCLE OF JEHOIACHIN. 36:49 BUT ALL THAT TIME - AND HE WAS CARRIED TO BABYLON AND 36:53 ULTIMATELY DIED THERE - ALL THAT TIME, JEHOIACHIN 36:56 IS STILL IN PRISON. 36:58 SO YOU FAST FORWARD NOW AND YOU CAN READ, "NOW IT 37:01 CAME TO PASS IN THE THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF THE 37:03 CAPTIVITY OF JEHOIACHIN KING OF JUDAH, IN THE 37:06 TWELFTH MONTH, ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH DAY OF THE 37:08 MONTH, THAT EVIL-MERODACH KING OF BABYLON, IN THE 37:11 FIRST YEAR OF HIS REIGN," - THAT MEANS AFTER 37:13 NEBUCHADNEZZAR - AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR REIGNED 37:15 ABOUT 42 YEARS. AFTER NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD 37:18 DIED, "HE LIFTED UP THE HEAD OF JEHOIACHIN KING OF JUDAH 37:22 AND BROUGHT HIM OUT OF PRISON. AND HE SPOKE KINDLY TO HIM 37:25 AND GAVE HIM A MORE PROMINENT SEAT THAN THOSE OF 37:28 THE KINGS WHO WERE WITH HIM IN BABYLON. 37:30 SO JEHOIACHIN CHANGED FROM HIS PRISON GARMENTS, AND 37:33 HE ATE BREAD REGULARLY BEFORE THE KING ALL THE 37:36 DAYS OF HIS LIFE. AND AS FOR HIS PROVISIONS, 37:38 THERE WAS A REGULAR RATION GIVEN HIM BY THE KING 37:42 OF BABYLON, A PORTION FOR EACH DAY UNTIL THE DAY OF 37:44 HIS DEATH, ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE." 37:47 NOW YOU KNOW WHAT IS INTERESTING? 37:48 THERE HAVE BEEN THOUSANDS OF CUNEIFORM TABLETS AND 37:54 BABYLONIAN TABLETS - THEY FOUND A LIBRARY WITH LIKE 37:56 14,000 TABLETS IN ANCIENT BABYLON. 37:58 YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT WAS WRITTEN ON ONE OF THE TABLETS? 38:02 THEY TRANSCRIBED THIS AND IT SAYS, "TABLETS FROM THE 38:08 ROYAL ARCHIVES OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF 38:11 BABYLON WERE UNEARTHED IN THE RUINS OF BABYLON THAT 38:13 CONTAINED FOOD RATIONS PAID TO CAPTIVES AND CRAFTSMEN." 38:17 YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE TABLETS DON'T HAVE 38:19 ANYTHING PROFOUND, SOME OF THEM WERE JUST MUNDANE. 38:21 IT SAYS, 'THIS ONE GETS A RATION FOR THIS MUCH. 38:23 AND THEY FOUND, ON ONE OF THOSE TABLETS - 38:25 SOMEONE HAD TO POUR OVER HUNDREDS OF THEM - 38:27 ONE OF THOSE TABLETS SAID YAUKINU, KING OF THE LAND OF 38:32 YAHUDU IS MENTIONED AMONG THEM WITH FIVE SONS AS BEING GIVEN 38:36 A ROYAL RATION AND THAT IS JEHOIACHIN THE KING OF JUDAH. 38:41 >>WOW! >>AND SO THEY ACTUALLY FOUND 38:43 THE RATION TABLET THAT TALKED ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT YOU JUST 38:47 READ THERE IN JEREMIAH, A PROVISION WAS GIVEN BY THE KING 38:50 FOR HIM. AND SO I THOUGHT THAT WAS 38:53 VERY INTERESTING. BUT NOW, LOOK SPIRITUALLY 38:56 AT THIS LAST PHRASE IN JEREMIAH BRIEFLY. WE JUST READ IT. 39:02 WHY DID KING EVIL-MERODACH DECIDE, OUT OF THE BLUE, 39:07 TO TAKE JEHOIACHIN OUT OF JAIL? BEEN THERE 37 YEARS. 39:11 WAS DANIEL STILL ALIVE THEN? 39:14 SEE DANIEL PROBABLY APPEALED TO KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 39:17 BUT NEBUCHADNEZZAR - THE BIBLE SAYS WHO HE PUT DOWN, 39:19 HE PUT DOWN - WHO HE LIFTED UP HE LIFTED UP. 39:21 HE WAS A KING WHO SAID, 'ONCE IT IS WRITTEN, IT IS 39:22 WRITTEN' AND THERE WAS NO CHANGING IT. 39:25 BUT, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT A PRESIDENT 39:27 DOES JUST BEFORE THEY GO OUT OF OFFICE IS THEY 39:29 START PARDONING PEOPLE. AND SO THEY DID IT AT 39:33 THE BEGINNING OF AN OFFICE THERE. SO WHEN A NEW KING CAME 39:37 INTO POWER, HE WOULD OFTEN PARDON PEOPLE WHO HAD 39:40 BEEN IMPRISONED BY THE FORMER MONARCH. 39:42 AND DANIEL APPEALED TO EVIL MERODACH AND SAID, 39:44 YOU KNOW, 'HERE'S OUR FORMER KING. 39:46 HE'S NO THREAT TO YOU. 39:47 HE'S BEEN THERE 37 YEARS. 39:49 HE'S REPENTED OF HIS SINS. 39:51 COULD YOU PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON HIM?' 39:52 HE SAID, 'SURE, I'LL SHOW HIM MERCY.' YOU REMEMBER 39:54 WHAT DAVID DID WHEN HE CAME INTO POWER WITH 39:56 MEPHIBOSHETH, THE CRIPPLED SON OF JONATHAN? 39:59 HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO TAKE CARE OF YOU. 40:01 I'M GOING TO FEED YOU. 40:02 YOU COME AND EAT AT MY TABLE. 40:03 I'LL PAY YOUR EXPENSES THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.' WELL, 40:06 THIS IS WHAT HE DOES. 40:07 NOW, I LIKE THIS STORY BECAUSE IT'S THE STORY OF 40:09 SALVATION. HE SHOWS MERCY TO HIM - 40:12 KINDNESS - IT'S WHAT GOD DOES. HE DOESN'T DESERVE IT. 40:14 HE DESERVES PRISON. HE CHANGES HIS CLOTHES - 40:18 THE LORD GIVES US NEW RAIMENT - HE GIVES US 40:20 CHRIST'S ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. HE CHANGES HIS FOOD. 40:23 WE DON'T EAT THE BABYLONIAN - OR WE DON'T 40:25 EAT THE BREAD OF AFFLICTION ANYMORE, BUT 40:27 NOW WE EAT THE NEW BREAD OF THE KING. 40:29 AND IT TELLS US THAT - AND HE DIDN'T HAVE TO EAT THE 40:32 UNCLEAN THINGS DANIEL DIDN'T WANT TO EAT. 40:34 HE GIVES HIM A NEW SEAT - WE HAVE A NEW STATUS. 40:37 HE GIVES HIM A CREDIT CARD AND SAYS THERE'S A RATION. 40:40 YOU GET AN EXPENSE ACCOUNT. YOU GET TO LIVE IN A PALACE. 40:43 CAN YOU IMAGINE THE RADICAL CHANGE OF BEING IN 40:45 A DARK DUNGEON FOR 37 YEARS AND SUDDENLY YOU GET 40:47 WASHED UP AND YOU'RE BROUGHT TO THE PALACE? 40:50 >>JOSEPH. >>THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED WITH 40:53 JOSEPH. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED WITH ESTHER - IN A SENSE - 40:56 ESTHER WENT FROM BEING A CAPTIVE TO A QUEEN. 40:58 YOU KNOW, DANIEL, IT HAPPENED TO HIM - WENT 41:02 FROM BEING A CAPTIVE TO PRIME MINISTER. 41:05 IT HAPPENED TO MANASSEH - HE WAS IN - MANASSEH WAS 41:08 IN PRISON IN ASSYRIA.HE REPENTED. GOD FORGAVE HIM - 41:10 BROUGHT HIM OUT OF PRISON - HE CAME TO THE PALACE. 41:12 AND SO, THIS IS REALLY THE STORY OF THE BIBLE WHERE 41:15 GOD TAKES US FROM THE PRISON TO THE PALACE, BUT 41:17 I DON'T WANT TO SAY MUCH ABOUT THAT 'CAUSE THAT'S 41:18 IN ONE OF MY SERMON'S NEXT WEEK IN LANSING, MICHIGAN. 41:21 BUT OUR LESSON'S ON IT TODAY. 41:24 AND SO I THOUGHT THAT WAS REALLY INTERESTING. 41:27 IT'S JUST THE STORY OF SALVATION. 41:28 NOW, WE'VE GOT TO BACK-TRACK A LITTLE BIT. 41:31 WHAT HAPPENED TO THE UNCLE OF JEHOIACHIN? 41:34 WE FOUND OUT HE'S BROUGHT OUT OF PRISON. 41:37 HE IS NOT LISTENING TO THE KING. 41:40 AND IT SAYS - AT THE END OF A DEAD END - IS THE 41:44 NEXT SECTION WE'VE GOT TO LOOK AT - JEREMIAH 21, VERSE 9. 41:48 THIS WARNING HAD COME FROM JEREMIAH TO KING ZEDEKIAH, 41:53 "'HE WHO REMAINS IN THIS CITY SHALL DIE BY THE SWORD, 41:56 BY FAMINE, AND BY PESTILENCE; BUT HE WHO GOES OUT AND DEFECTS 42:01 TO THE CHALDEANS WHO BESIEGE YOU, HE SHALL LIVE, AND HIS LIFE 42:06 SHALL BE AS A PRIZE TO HIM. FOR I HAVE SET MY FACE AGAINST 42:09 THIS CITY FOR ADVERSITY AND NOT FOR GOOD,' SAYS THE LORD. 42:12 'IT SHALL BE GIVEN INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF 42:14 BABYLON, AND HE SHALL BURN IT WITH FIRE.'" JEREMIAH 42:18 HAD A REALLY DIFFICULT MESSAGE TO GIVE. 42:20 AFTER JOSIAH, AND AFTER NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME AND 42:24 HE CARRIED JEHOIACHIN OFF TO BABYLON - PUT HIM IN PRISON - 42:29 ZEDEKIAH MADE A COVENANT WITH THE KING OF BABYLON. 42:33 HE SAID - NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAID, 'I WILL MAKE YOU 42:36 KING BUT YOU HAVE TO PROMISE THAT YOU WILL NOT 42:39 REBEL, THAT YOU WILL PAY TAXES TO BABYLON, THAT YOU 42:42 WILL - FAITHFUL - AND HE MADE A COVENANT IN THE 42:44 NAME OF THE LORD THAT HE WOULD DO IT. 42:46 SWORE BY JEHOVAH HE WOULD DO IT. 42:48 BUT AFTER HE LEFT, A FEW YEARS WENT BY AND HIS 42:50 COUNSELORS SAID, 'WE DON'T NEED TO PAY TAXES TO NEBU - 42:53 HE'S BUSY FIGHTING IN OTHER BATTLES. 42:54 HE'S NOT GOING TO COME BACK.' AND HE SAID, 'WELL, 42:57 BUT WE MADE A VOW IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.' 42:58 'OH, THAT DIDN'T MATTER. YOU HAD TO DO IT. 43:00 IT DOESN'T COUNT.' AND PRETTY SOON HE BROKE HIS 43:03 PROMISE AND HE STOPPED PAYING TAXES. 43:06 JEREMIAH SAID, 'DON'T DO IT. YOU'VE MADE A VOW. 43:08 HE'S GOING TO COME.' AND THEY SAID, 'JEREMIAH IS 43:11 GIVING A FALSE PROPHECY.' THESE OTHER FALSE PROPHETS 43:14 WERE TELLING THE KING, 'REBEL. GOD'LL PROSPER YOU. 43:18 THE KING OF BABYLON WILL NEVER COME BACK.' AND THEY 43:21 HAD ALL THESE PHONY PROPHECIES OF 'PEACE! PEACE!' 43:24 YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THAT BEFORE? 'YOU DON'T HAVE TO 43:27 WORRY.' JEREMIAH HAD A VERY UNPOPULAR PROPHECY. 43:29 HE SAID THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE PEACE. 43:31 HE SAID, 'THERE'S GOING TO BE TROUBLE. 43:33 THERE'S GOING TO BE WAR. 43:34 THE CITY IS GOING TO BE BURNT WITH FIRE. 43:35 THE PALACE IS GOING TO BE BURNT WITH FIRE. 43:36 THE TEMPLE'S GOING TO BE BURNT WITH FIRE.' THEY 43:38 SAID, 'THAT'LL NEVER HAPPEN. 43:39 THE TEMPLE'S HUNDREDS OF YEARS OLD. 43:41 IT'S SURVIVED EVERY OTHER INVASION AND WAR.' 43:43 HE SAID, 'THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN LIVE IS IF YOU 43:47 SURRENDER.' ALL THE FALSE PROPHETS, THEY BEAT UP JEREMIAH. 43:51 HE HAD SUCH A HARD TIME. 43:52 YEARS WENT BY, FINALLY NEBUCHADNEZZAR DID COME BACK. 43:55 HE BESIEGED THE CITY AND THEY COULD SEE HIM OUT 43:58 THERE AND EVEN ZEDEKIAH HAD A FEW PRIVATE 44:02 INTERVIEWS WITH JEREMIAH AND HE SAID, 'WHAT DO YOU 44:05 THINK I SHOULD DO?' HE SAID, 'I'LL TELL YOU, IF 44:07 YOU SURRENDER YOU WILL LIVE. YOUR SONS WILL LIVE. 44:10 THE CITY WILL NOT BE BURNT. 44:12 THE TEMPLE WILL NOT BE BURNT. 44:13 JUST SURRENDER.' AND HE COULDN'T BRING HIMSELF TO 44:16 DO IT BECAUSE THE OTHER PRINCES SAID, 'NO, NO, 44:18 DON'T LISTEN TO JEREMIAH. 44:19 YOU CAN'T TRUST HIM.' AND SO JEREMIAH WAS PLEADING 44:23 AND THEY PUT JEREMIAH IN PRISON. 44:24 THEY SAID, 'YOU'RE RUINING - YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING 44:27 READY TO FIGHT THE BABYLONIANS AND WE NEED 44:29 THE MORALE BUILT UP AMONG THE SOLDIERS AND YOU'RE 44:31 DEFLATING THE MORALE BY SAYING 'SURRENDER' - THAT 44:33 WE'RE GOING TO LOSE.' AND HE SAID, 'WELL, THAT'S 44:35 WHAT THE WORD OF THE LORD TOLD ME TO SAY.' SO HE HAD 44:37 A VERY UNPOPULAR MESSAGE, YOU COULD SEE. WELL, YOU READ 44:41 ON, 2 CHRONICLES 36, VERSES 11 - IT SAYS HERE, 'ZEDEKIAH 44:48 WAS TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLD WHEN HE BECAME KING, AND 44:51 HE REIGNED ELEVEN YEARS IN JERUSALEM. 44:53 HE DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD HIS GOD, AND 44:55 DID NOT HUMBLE HIMSELF BEFORE JEREMIAH THE 44:58 PROPHET, WHO SPOKE FROM THE MOUTH OF THE LORD. 45:01 AND HE ALSO REBELLED AGAINST KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 45:04 WHO HAD MADE HIM SWEAR AN OATH BY GOD; BUT HE STIFFENED HIS 45:08 NECK AND HARDENED HIS HEART" - WHERE DO YOU HEAR THOSE WORDS? 45:12 'HARDENED HIS HEART - STIFFENED HIS NECK' - WHAT DID PHARAOH DO? 45:17 BUT HE "...HARDENED HIS HEART BY TURNING - AGAINST 45:22 TURNING TO THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL. 45:24 MOREOVER ALL THE LEADERS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE 45:27 PEOPLE TRANSGRESSED MORE AND MORE, ACCORDING TO ALL 45:31 THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE NATIONS, AND DEFILED THE 45:34 HOUSE OF THE LORD WHICH HE HAD CONSECRATED IN 45:37 JERUSALEM." SO EVEN AMONG THE PRIESTS - 45:39 THE SONS OF AARON - WHAT WAS HAPPENING? 45:42 DOESN'T IT MAKE YOUR HEART SAD TO THINK THESE PEOPLE 45:46 WHO HAD THE TRUTH - THEY HAD THE SCRIPTURES, THEY 45:49 HAD THE TESTIMONIES, THEY HAD THE LAW, THEY HAD THE 45:51 PRIESTS, THEY HAD THE TEMPLE - THEY HAD IT ALL 45:55 IN THEIR HANDS AND EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD IT ALL 45:57 WRITTEN BEFORE THEM, THEY SOMEHOW WERE ABLE TO 45:59 NEGLECT IT ALL AND BEGAN TO COMPROMISE AGAIN WITH 46:02 ALL THE PAGAN NATIONS AROUND THEM, AND CORRUPT THE TRUTH. 46:04 WE'RE PROBABLY IMMUNE TO THAT, AREN'T WE? 46:07 THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN TO US. 46:09 CAN YOU BE GOD'S PEOPLE WITH GOD'S BOOK AND GOD'S 46:13 TRUTH AND COMPROMISE WITH THE WORLD AROUND YOU? 46:17 >>YES. >>AND HOW DOES THE LORD 46:18 FEEL ABOUT IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS, EVEN AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE? 46:21 IS THERE JUDGMENT? 46:22 YOU LOOK AT THE HISTORY IN THE BIBLE AND, JUST 46:26 BECAUSE HE'S COMMITTED TRUTH TO US - YES, THEY 46:29 WERE THE GUARDIANS OF THE SACRED ORACLES. 46:31 PAUL SAYS, TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE GOD GAVE THE SACRED 46:33 ORACLES.' THEY WERE HIS PEOPLE, BUT HE JUDGED THEM 46:36 AND HE PUNISHED THEM AND MANY DIED AND MANY 46:38 SUFFERED WHEN THEY WERE UNFAITHFUL AND THEY 46:40 COMPROMISED WITH THE WORLD AROUND THEM. 46:42 WE'VE GOT TO BE ON GUARD THAT WE'RE NOT MAKING THAT 46:45 SAME MISTAKE, FRIENDS. AMEN? >>AMEN. 46:48 >>YOU READ ON IT SAYS, 'THEY DEFILED THE HOUSE OF 46:52 THE LORD THAT HE HAD CONSECRATED IN JERUSALEM.' 46:54 2 CHRONICLES 36, VERSE 15, "AND THE LORD GOD OF THEIR 46:59 FATHERS SENT WARNINGS TO THEM BY HIS MESSENGERS, 47:02 RISING UP EARLY AND SENDING THEM," - JEREMIAH 47:05 WAS ONE OF THEM - "BECAUSE HE HAD COMPASSION ON HIS 47:07 PEOPLE AND ON HIS DWELLING PLACE. 47:09 BUT THEY MOCKED THE MESSENGERS OF GOD, 47:11 DESPISED HIS WORDS, AND SCOFFED AT HIS PROPHETS, 47:15 UNTIL THE WRATH OF THE LORD AROSE AGAINST HIS 47:18 PEOPLE, TILL THERE WAS NO REMEDY." 47:21 YOU KNOW, YOU CAN GET TO THE POINT WHERE PROBATION CLOSES. 47:23 THEY FINALLY GOT TO THE PLACE WHERE PROBATION CLOSED. 47:27 THERE WAS A TIME, EVEN WHILE NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS 47:30 STILL SURROUNDING THE CITY, THERE WAS A TIME 47:33 WHERE, IF THEY HAD REPENTED AND HUMBLED 47:34 THEMSELVES, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN PUNISHED, BUT 47:37 THE CITY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BURNT - THE TEMPLE 47:39 WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BURNT. BUT THEY HARDENED THEMSELVES 47:41 UNTIL THEY GO TO WHERE THERE WAS NO REMEDY. 47:43 FINALLY, WHILE JEREMIAH'S IN PRISON, ZEDEKIAH SENDS 47:48 FOR HIM AGAIN AND SAYS, 'WHAT'S THE WORD OF THE LORD?' 47:51 JEREMIAH SAID, 'IT'S HOPELESS NOW. 47:53 HERE'S THE WORD OF THE LORD. 47:55 THE CITY'S GOING TO BE BURNED, PALACE IS GOING TO 47:57 BE BURNED, TEMPLE'S GOING TO BE BURNED, THE SOLDIERS 47:59 ARE GOING TO BE SLAIN, BECAUSE IT'S TOO LATE. 48:03 YOU JUST -' HE WAITED TOO LONG TO REPENT. THERE WAS NO REMEDY. 48:10 IT SAYS, "...HE BROUGHT AGAINST THEM THE KING OF 48:13 THE CHALDEANS, WHO KILLED THEIR YOUNG MEN WITH THE 48:14 SWORD IN THE HOUSE OF THEIR SANCTUARY," - YOU 48:17 KNOW, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE ROMANS IN 70 AD, 48:20 THEY - THE ROMANS - ACTUALLY, THEY FLED TO THE 48:22 SANCTUARY FOR REFUGE AND THEY WERE SLAIN THERE. 48:24 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED BACK IN THE DAYS OF JEREMIAH - 48:27 "AND HAD NO COMPASSION ON YOUNG MAN OR VIRGIN, OR 48:30 THE AGED OR THE WEAK; HE GAVE THEM ALL INTO HIS HAND. 48:33 AND ALL THE ARTICLES FROM THE HOUSE OF GOD, GREAT 48:36 AND SMALL," - PROBABLY WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE 48:39 ARK - "THE TREASURES OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND 48:41 THE TREASURES OF THE KING AND OF HIS LEADERS, ALL 48:44 THESE HE TOOK TO BABYLON." 48:46 NOW, DO YOU KNOW THAT HAD BEEN FORETOLD SEVERAL 48:48 HUNDRED YEARS EARLIER? 48:50 YOU REMEMBER WHEN HEZEKIAH ENTERTAINED THE 48:53 AMBASSADORS FROM BABYLON? 48:54 AND INSTEAD OF SHOWING THEM THE LORD, HE SHOWED 48:57 THEM ALL HIS STUFF AND ALL HIS TREASURES. 49:00 AND ISAIAH SAID, 'BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T SHOW THEM THE 49:03 LORD AND YOU BRAGGED AND SHOWED ALL YOUR STUFF, ALL 49:05 OF IT WILL BE CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON.' SO THIS WAS A 49:08 FULFILLMENT OF THAT PROPHECY. 49:09 "THEN THEY BURNED THE HOUSE OF GOD, BROKE DOWN 49:12 THE WALL OF JERUSALEM," - WHY'D THEY BREAK DOWN THE WALL? 49:15 IT TOOK A LOT OF ENERGY TO DO THAT. 49:18 THEY WERE, BASICALLY, SAYING 'THIS IS NEVER 49:21 GOING TO BE - IT HAS A GREAT HISTORY, BUT THERE'S 49:23 NO CHANCE OF IT EVER BEING FORTIFIED AGAIN AND 49:27 DEFENDED AGAIN.' AND SO WITH PRY BARS AND SOLDIERS 49:30 AND ROPES, ONE BY ONE THEY PULLED OFF ALL THOSE 49:33 STONES THAT HAD BEEN PUT THERE BY DAVID AND SOLOMON 49:36 - ALL THE - KING UZZIAH REALLY BUILD UP THE CITY. 49:39 HEZEKIAH - THEY'D DONE A LOT TO EXPAND IT AND MAKE 49:41 BIGGER STONES AND BIGGER WALLS AND TOWERS AND FORTRESSES AND 49:44 - PULLED IT ALL DOWN SO IT WAS DEFENSELESS. 49:47 NOW THE REASON THIS IS IMPORTANT - YOU REMEMBER 49:50 WHAT NEHEMIAH SAID TO THE KING OF PERSIA? 49:53 'WHY SHOULD I NOT BE SAD WHEN THE WALL OF THE CITY 49:57 OF MY FATHERS IS ALL BROKEN DOWN AND THE GATES 49:59 ARE BURNT WITH FIRE?' 50:01 AND SO NEHEMIAH, HE WANTED TO GO AND RESTORE IT SO IT 50:04 WAS A PLACE WITH WALLS AND GATES AGAIN. 50:05 YOU KNOW, UNLESS YOU'VE GOT WALLS AND GATES - AND 50:08 THAT'S WHY GOD GIVES US HIS LAW - YOU DON'T HAVE 50:10 THE BOUNDARIES IN YOUR LIFE. 50:12 OKAY, I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME. 50:14 I NEED TO - I'M ALMOST DONE HERE. 50:16 AND YOU CAN READ IN THE DARK YEARS - JEREMIAH 39, 50:19 VERSES 8 AND 9 - "AND THE CHALDEANS BURNED THE 50:22 KING'S HOUSE AND THE HOUSES OF THE PEOPLE WITH 50:23 FIRE, AND BROKE DOWN THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM. 50:26 THEN NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD" - I 50:29 KNOW IT SOUNDS LIKE NEBUCHADNEZZAR, BUT IT'S 50:31 DIFFERENT - "...CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD CARRIED AWAY 50:33 CAPTIVE TO BABYLON THE REMNANT OF THE PEOPLE WHO 50:36 REMAINED IN THE CITY AND THOSE WHO DEFECTED TO HIM, 50:39 WITH THE REST OF THE PEOPLE WHO REMAINED." 50:41 ONLY THE VERY POOREST OF THE PEOPLE WERE LEFT TO 50:43 KEEP SOME OF THE FIG TREES AND THE VINES AND THE 50:45 VINEYARDS FLOURISHING SO THEY COULD SEND TAXES AND 50:48 PAY TRIBUTE TO THE KING OF BABYLON. 50:51 SO THAT WAS THE LAST SAD END OF WHAT HAPPENED. 50:54 NOW THIS GIVES YOU THE BACKDROP OF WHAT'S GOING 50:56 ON IN THE KINGDOM DURING THE TIME OF JEREMIAH'S PROPHECY 50:58 AND THAT'S WHY SOMETIMES HE'S CALLED THE WEEPING PROPHET - 51:00 HE HAD A LOT TO CRY ABOUT AFTER KING JOSIAH. 51:03 NOW WE'VE RUN OUT OF TIME BUT I DO WANT TO REMIND OUR LISTENERS 51:06 JUST BEFORE WE GO OFF THE AIR, WE DO HAVE A FREE BOOK. 51:09 IT'S CALLED ALONE IN THE CROWD - THAT'S PROBABLY 51:12 HOW JEREMIAH FELT - HOW YOU CAN STAND FOR RIGHT 51:13 WHEN YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY WRONG. 51:15 ALONE IN THE CROWD WRITTEN BY JOE CREWS - WE'LL SEND 51:17 YOU A FREE COPY. 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