CSearchResult:RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:3 kjv@2Kings:3 @ @ RandyP comments: What is God showing to these two other kings by giving them the battle over Moab? These two have little or no business going to a prophet of God and the prophet as much as says so. You have probably known people who have had little business going to God who would just as soon turn from God after receiving His blessing. God blesses them just the same. The fact that that the one king from Judah had the foresight courage to seek God may have been reason enough for God to bless the three; perhaps. No matter, it must be said that doing so for them served God's manifold and mysterious purpose.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:4 kjv@2Kings:4 @ @ RandyP comments: Here we see some of the miraculous spiritual powers of this prophet Elisha. The power to multiply and supply. The power to bless conception. The power to resurrect. The power to divine answers. The power to feed. Previously we saw Elijah call fire down from the sky.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:5 kjv@2Kings:5 @ @ RandyP comments: Two men, both trusted servants to different masters. One asks to be healed and is angered at the means of the prescribed cure. The other seeks to extract payment for his masters miraculous healing deed even though his master had refused it, and then has the gall to lie about what he had just extracted. One man was caught prescribing the terms of his own cure but, was reasoned by better counsel. The other man was caught prescribing his masters form of reimbursement for services rendered and then trying to hide it. We see the two common tricks of the human mind. We should be aware and advised.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:6-8 kjv@2Kings:6-8 @ @ RandyP comments: I am thinking today of how the nations surrounding Israel/Judah must see this God Jehovah. He is well known to them by now. Israel/Judah has won wars against them that they have no earthly business winning. Legends and accounts of His doing have to have been circulating for centuries now. Many would be familiar because of the ancestor Esau. They would have to of seen Israel/Judah's failings as well and known that God punishes this nation like no other for sin and idolatry. God said that He had chosen Israel to make His name known throughout the world. And yet these nations are emboldened against the chosen nation Jehovah. Is it their national pride or is it the windows of opportunity the chosen continuously project? Is it God emboldening them further to mold and shape Israel?
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:9-10 kjv@2Kings:9-10 @ @ RandyP comments: Jehu thus removed the false god Baal from Israel but not the contorted worship of Jehovah by means of the two golden calves. The calves stood as a direct compromise of the Law of Moses and Levitical Law prescribing an alternate method and means of service and worship devised by independent Israels first king Jeroboam. Many kings of Israel continued this tradition perhaps as support/method for continued division from Judah.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:11 kjv@2Kings:11 @ @ RandyP comments: Hopefully, we are beginning to see why God was not too much for the establishment of the monarchy early on. He had Samuel warn the unified kingdom in very personal and family level terms that any commoner would understand and fear. There is just so much political distraction and bloodshed resulting. This is what those of influence wanted however. This is what they got.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:12:2 kjv@2Kings:12:2@ @ RandyP comments: It occurs to me that throughout the kings the high priests are pretty much silent. We see an occasional prophet, but, what about the general day to day counsel and influence of the church. This is not to say that they weren't there, it is to say that there is little mention of their role and position in these national matters.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:15:1-7 kjv@2Kings:15:1-7@ @ RandyP comments: We have here a king that did right and yet the Lord smote him with leprosy. That the Lord is said to have done it may show a purpose or intent but, the verse does not state shat that might be. We can guess perhaps that not all the high places were removed and yet other kings had done the same. We could guess that maybe it was for the purpose of someone(s) other than the king. Or it may have been no purpose at all other than to develop him in a way different than other kings. The Lord's judgment is perfect and true whether we know why or not.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:15:25 kjv@2Kings:15:25@ @ RandyP comments: It must be said that these assassinations are becoming much to commonplace in Israel. It is evident that none are seeking the Lord and that the stability and psyche of Israel are effected.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:16:3 kjv@2Kings:16:3@ @ RandyP comments: I thought that the ways of Jeroboam were in eliminating the use of the Temple in Jerusalem with the two golden calves, it was a falsified form of Judaism. Here I am seeing sacrifice and high place worship which suggest Baal. Have the two religions merged or morphed?
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:17 kjv@2Kings:17 @ @ RandyP comments: This is one of the key chapters in the entire Bible. We see the final fall of Israel in all of it's horror. God's protection is completely lifted and only Judah remains. Key is the complete discription of what God had expected, how they had completely failed, and how the invading and occupying forces felt (fearing the Lord but, planting there own regional gods just the same). Considering the hope and the warning declared by the elderly Moses, this is a sad sad end.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:18:4 kjv@2Kings:18:4@ @ RandyP comments: Even the holy objects of old have now become idolatrous objects. Braking the object helps us to see that it wasn't the object itself that performed the previous miracles but what the object symbolized.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:18-19 kjv@2Kings:18-19 @ @ RandyP comments: What would Judah had done had it not been for the strength and conviction of Hezekiah? We tend to think that when a man is strong desperate sittuations never come against him, somehow he just handles things before they get out of hand. For some this is true. For others however they are strong before and they are all the more stronger for the desperate experience. Leaders are tested. The stronger they are the stronger they are tested. Weak leaders are rarely tested because they fail at every turn and compromise to every situation.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:18-19 kjv@2Kings:18-19 @ @ RandyP comments: What a terrible moment tiny Judah faces here. A true test of their conviction to Jehovah. There is no way for them to stand by their own resource or aliances. The Assyrian envoy calls his shot, puts the situation in brutally clear terms, compares Jehovah to all the other gods that have been defeated, bribes the citizens support against king Hezekiah. Jehovah preforms His work in a way that one could make no mistake that it was only by His own hand.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:18-19 kjv@2Kings:18-19 @ @ RandyP comments: What a terrible moment tiny Judah faces here. A true test of their conviction to Jehovah. There is no way for them to stand by their own resource or aliances. The Assyrian envoy calls his shot, puts the situation in brutally clear terms, compares Jehovah to all the other gods that have been defeated, bribes the citizens support against king Hezekiah. Jehovah preforms His work in a way that one could make no mistake that it was only by His own hand.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:18-19 kjv@2Kings:18-19 @ @ RandyP comments: What a terrible moment tiny Judah faces here. A true test of their conviction to Jehovah. There is no way for them to stand by their own resource or aliances. The Assyrian envoy calls his shot, puts the situation in brutally clear terms, compares Jehovah to all the other gods that have been defeated, bribes the citizens support against king Hezekiah. Jehovah preforms His work in a way that one could make no mistake that it was only by His own hand.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:21:21 kjv@2Kings:21:21@ @ RandyP comments: Why is it so easy for the son to follow the evil of a father and so hard to follow his good? Perhaps in part, it could be said that to do good takes a personal decision and the personal conviction to stand against and see it through, evil only takes continuation and cowardice.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:22:12-13 kjv@2Kings:22:12-13@ @ RandyP comments: Repairs to the temple and .... oh ya .... we found this book. Seems things had been so far off in Jerusalem for so long that not even the priests there knew of the existence and where abouts of this book. No wonder God was raging mad at Judah...His house and no one knows where His book is kept. By the way, do you know where His book has been kept in your house?
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:23-24 kjv@2Kings:23-24 @ @ RandyP comments: Not even the finding of the book and the resulting clearing out of Judah of the idols, high places, ashes of the bones of those burnt at these heathen alters were enough to calm the anger of the Lord. The Lord knew that it wouldn't be long till it all came back. Besides, there was the blood of His own people previous that He would not pardon.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:23-24 kjv@2Kings:23-24 @ @ RandyP comments: It is interesting to consider what it might take politically within a nation to go about a cleansing such as this. No doubt the book that was found carried a whole lot of impact which leads us to assume that this is "the" book copy penned by Moses. There also the will and resolve of the king. But, to actually carry this off to the extent that they did undoubtedly took tremendous persuasion and momentum.
RecentComments:kjv@2Kings:25 kjv@2Kings:25 @ @ RandyP comments: The teaching perhaps to take out of this is that this could have happened to Judah so many times so many years ago but it didn't for the power of God. The odds of Israel's existence from the beginning were miraculous and providential. Israel and then Israel/Judah neglected this providence considerably. Babylon for all of it's power was not stronger than the Lord. Judah did come back to God this last time, but, by then it wasn't enough to sway the Lord's anger. His promise and namesake remains, as we will see in the near future.
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