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Isaiah declares hope for faith-walkers
is 66
vs 19, the period of exile will be a sign that God will send the Messiah.
God will use the exile as a means to spread the message about God’s glory to the nations.
vs 20 God is offering hope to a people who will be scattered.
But this is also a picture of the work of the church.
Often we think of evangelism as something we do to obey Jesus’ command.
It is a task.
I want you to notice the bigger picture.
We will bring new believers from every nation as an offering to the Lord.
Every church will bring the offering to the Lord of those who were lost but are now saved.
vs 21 God will take from the nations some to be priests and Levites.
The new covenant will not be based on bloodline, but on faith.
vs 22 The nation of Judah will be scattered for a time, but just as God has promised to create a new heaven and new earth, He is promising not to completely destroy Judah.
The church is the fulfillment of this promise.
vs 23 Every day will be a day of worship in the new covenant.
vs 24 The Lord will execute judgment on those who rebel against Him.
It will be a terrifying reality that all people will be aware of for eternity.
57 Years of Rebellion and Judah’s final reform
Manasseh reigned for 55 years and his son Amon ruled for 2 years.
Manasseh and Amon:
He did evil such as the Canaanites did.
He returned to the ways of his grandfather, Ahaz.
He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah destroyed.
He reestablished the altars for Baal.
He made and Asherah and placed it in the temple (sexual immorality).
He worshiped the stars and served them.
He built altars to the stars in the temple.
He built altars to false God’s in the temple.
He sacrificed his son in the fire of Molech.
He practiced witchcraft and divination.
He shed so much innocent blood that Jerusalem was filled with it from one end to the other.
Manasseh caused the people to do worse evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.
Amon continued the ways of his father.
Josiah followed the Lord.
God sent Zephaniah, Jeremiah, Habbakuk to pronounce judgement on the people and offer hope to a people of faith.
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Josiah:
became king when he was 8 years old.
He did what was right in the Lord’s sight.
To Help you make sense of this time period, notice the value of studying the Bible Chronologically:
The prophets who influenced Josiah’s reforms
Zephaniah and Jeremiah:
Zephaniah was probably older than Josiah—because Manasseh and Amon sacrificed their sons in the fire (this probably at the very least would have been their oldest sons).
He was Hezekiah’s great-great-grandson. Josiah was Hezekiah’s great-grandson.
Because he was the g-g-grandson of Hezekiah, he would have had access to the king’s court.
He would have been a powerful influence on Josiah.
Josiah became king when he was 8.
When he was 16, he began to seek the Lord…probably a result from Zephaniah’s teaching.
When Josiah was 20, he began to purge Judah of idol worship.
The very next year, when Josiah was 21, Jeremiah began preaching as a young man (youth).
After 5 years of Jeremiah’s preaching, Josiah ordered that the temple be restored.
At this time they found the Book of the Law.
When it was read, Josiah tore his clothes in repentance and he sent Hilkiah the priest who had found the Law with a few men including Shaphan the scribe to the prophetess, Huldah, to inquire of the Lord.
Here is what she said:
2 kings 22 15-20
Also remember that Zephaniah preached:
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Josiah responded to this by enacting sweeping reforms:
He gathered everyone in Jerusalem, including the prophets, and read the first 5 books of the Bible.
He made a covenant to obey the Lord, and all the people agreed to the covenant.
he removed all of the idols and articles made for the idols out of the temple.
He also removed the false priests (probably killed them).
he tore down the houses of the male cult prostitutes that were in the temple.
Josiah destroyed the golden calf at Bethel that Jereboam had set up as it had been prophesied to Jereboam.
He put away all witchcraft and mediums and spiritists.
He reinstituted the Passover.
2 kings 23
The messages of Josiah’s three prophets:
Zephaniah: The Lord will judge all nations, repent now and maybe you will be hidden during the judgement.
Habakkuk: God tells him that God will raise up the Babylonians to judge Judah.
Habakkuk asks why—the Babylonians are more wicked than Judah?
God answers him by teaching him that the just will live by their faith.
Pride is the great contrast to faith, and the proud will be torn down—eventually also the Babylonians.
But that God would accomplish this:
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Jeremiah: God confirms to him that the Babylonians will indeed conquer Judah, but it will only last 70 years.
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Danial will read these words and believe them and obey the Lord during his captivity:
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