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God is not done yet!
That’s my working summary of the Book of Chronicles.
The book of 1-2 Chronicles is composed of three large sections:
1 Chronicles 1–9
Genealogies of the tribes of Israel
1 Chronicles 10–2 Chronicles 9
Reigns of David and Solomon
2 Chronicles 10–36
Kingdom of Judah
Originally written as one book, 1 & 2 Chronicles forms the bookend of Hebrew Bible.
Three large sections:
- Genealogies of the tribes of Israel
Genealogies of the tribes of Israel
- Reigns of David and Solomon
- Kingdom of Judah
According to a bloke named Jerome (340-420), these books are “the chronicle of the whole of sacred history.”
Hence, the title Chronicles.
But notice the other part of the title.
“…of the whole of sacred history.”
In other words, this book is about everything that God has done, is doing and will do in the future.
Chronicles had a very important message for it’s original readers.
Mark J. Boda, Cornerstone Biblical Commentarya: 1-2 Chronicles, vol. 5 (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2010), 3.
They were the exiles returning from Babylon, rebuilding the Temple, reestablishing the priesthood, looking for the Davidic King.
They were still under the control of the Persian Empire.
Although they are back in the land, back in Jerusalem they are not back to the glory days of David & Solomon.
Their Temple is pitiful.
Their worship is weak.
They have no King.
Their power on the world stage is diminished if not entirely dead.
The Chronicler comes along at this point, with his long lists of names, with his retelling of the story of Israel and Judah right up to the exile, and he has a loud and clear message for the people: God is not done yet!
It’s precisely that message we need to hear today in the Church.
We are exiles.
Our worship is weak.
Our glory days are long behind us.
We are waiting for our King.
Life as Christians, as churches, in this hostile world is hard.
It’s hard to keep going - with God, with the faith, with church.
We desperately need the Chronicler’s message to ring out to us load and clear, that God is not yet done.
His Sovereign purposes for the world are ongoing, unfinished, there is so much more to come.
And it all centres around Jesus Christ.
Genealogies of the tribes of Israel
God isn’t done with humanity, he isn’t done with sinners, he isn’t done with his King.
God isn’t Done With Humanity
Reigns of David and Solomon
Genealogies are boring.
Or are they?!
To the Ancient Israelite, the returning exile in Jerusalem, these nine chapters of names are both fascinating and reassuring.
They are important and they are encouraging.
Why?
Because they serve to remind the people of who they are.
They’re having a massive identity crisis!
Their place in the world is changing!
So they need reminding: They are the descendants of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
They are the chosen people of Israel.
The 12 tribes who came up out of Egypt.
Chapters 1-9 detail the family line of each of those 12 tribes.
Their national identity is founded on the exodus, God’s dramatic rescue of an enslaved nation.
They are a people in covenant with Yahweh their redeemer.
All that is still true even though they and their ancestors have forsaken the Lord, even though they were banished from the land for 70 years, even though they have been humbled by the Lord.
They are still the people of God.
He isn’t finished with them yet.
And neither is he finished with the whole of humanity.
It would be easy to read Chronicles and think that it’s all about the Jews.
It’s all about the line of King David.
It’s all about the Temple and Jerusalem.
But that is blown out of the water by the very first name - Adam.
From that we’re reminded, the Israelites were reminded, that God has a sovereign plan for all the nations.
Chronicles is...
a vision for a community to live faithfully among the nations because they represent God’s hope for the world.
God isn’t done with the world.
It might look like it.
It might feel like it.
We might think that the world doesn’t deserve to have hope.
We’d be right, but then neither do we.
God’s hope for the nations is Jesus Christ, the Second Adam, the Son he sent to seek and save a lost humanity.
And God displays this hope to the world, how?
Through the church!
A community called to live faithfully among the nations because we represent God’s hope for the world.
So when you read , and you’re getting bored with all the names and the lists and the begetting, remember this: there are innumerable lists of names in the Book of Life, in the annals of heaven.
Yours is there if you are in Christ.
And the some of those names belong to your unsaved friends and family, the ones you’re praying for, the one’s you’re hoping to share the gospel with, the one’s you’re inviting to church.
God isn’t done yet.
And the names of many in this community, this city, are in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
The one’s we welcome to Playtime/Dadtime, Easter Funday, Christianity Explored etc.
The one’s who receive invitations to Christmas service through their doors each year.
God isn’t done yet.
And the names of many in the UK
God is still working out his sovereign purposes in Christ to save every one of them in Christ.
He isn’t done with humanity yet!
Because...
God Isn’t Done With Sinners
Kingdom of Judah
That message is loud and clear in Chronicles.
Let’s jump right to the end of the book, ...
This is the straw that broke the camel’s back, the sin that provoked the Lord to take action.
2 Chron 36:15-
2 Chron 36:15-
6:20
2 Chron 36@
This was a devastating time for the nation.
This nation that had once enjoyed prominence and power in the time of David & Solomon, now once again enslaved in a foreign land.
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