Oops of the Day
God was mean to let the southern kingdom of Judah be led captives to
Babylon and Jerusalem be burned.
Leviticus 18:25-28 – all of II Chronicles – all prophets listed below – Hebrews 11:35b-38
Fact of the Day
No! They repeatedly turned away from the only true God, their Maker.
1. Solomon built altars to the child-sacrificing god, Moloch, to please one of his wives, and altars to other gods to please his other wives. That was the beginning.
2. Out of the 20 kings that followed, 13 led the people to worship fake deity, mostly pornographic goddesses and child-killing gods.
3. God sent these prophets to warn them: Shaiah, Hanani, Obadiah, Joel, Isaiah, Micah, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel. The Israelites called good bad and bad good. These 10 men spent their lives warning them, but they did not want to change.
4. Hebrews 11 tells how these men of God were treated: “There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better Resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.”
5. God was patient for over 400 years. Nothing would change them. So he punished them to wake them up. Why? Because they were his children, descendants of Abraham and David, and he wanted them back.
