1 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: Life Audio. For more resources to help you in your 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at Bible Studyheadquarters dot com. 3 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: You're listening to the chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm 4 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: John Stangi, and today we're in Second King's Chapter twenty one, 5 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: and we'll be reading from the message. Manassa was twelve 6 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: years old when he became king. He ruled for fifty 7 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 1: five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hefseiba. In 8 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 1: God's judgment, he was a bad king, an evil king. 9 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: He reintroduced all the moral rot and spiritual corruption that 10 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:47,159 Speaker 1: had been scoured from the country when God dispossessed the 11 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: pagan nations. In favor of the children of Israel. He 12 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: rebuilt all the sex and religion shrines that his father 13 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: Hezekiah had torn down, and he built altars and phallic 14 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: images for the sex god Bail and sex goddess Ashira, 15 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: exactly what a has king of Israel had done. He 16 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 1: worshiped the cosmic powers, taking orders from the constellations. He 17 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: even built these altars in the Temple of God, the 18 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: very Jerusalem Temple dedicated exclusively by God's decree. In Jerusalem, 19 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: I place my name to God's name, and he built 20 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: shrines to the cosmic powers and placed them in both 21 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 1: courtyards of the Temple of God. He burned his own 22 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: son in a sacrificial offering. He practiced black magic and 23 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:44,039 Speaker 1: fortune telling. He held seances and consulted spirits from the underworld. 24 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: Much evil in God's judgment, a career in evil, and 25 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: God was angry. As a last straw, he placed the 26 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: carved image of the sex goddess Ashira in the Temple 27 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: of God. Of flags and provocative violation of God's well 28 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: known statement to both David and Solomon. In this temple 29 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: and in this city, Jerusalem, my choice out of all 30 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: the tribes of Israel, I place my name exclusively and forever. 31 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: Never again will I let my people Israel wander off 32 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,919 Speaker 1: from this land I gave to their ancestors. But here's 33 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 1: the condition. They must keep everything I've commanded in the 34 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: instructions my servant Moses passed on to them. But the 35 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: people didn't listen. Manassa led them off the beaten path 36 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: into practices of evil, even exceeding the evil of the 37 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: pagan nations that God had earlier destroyed. God thoroughly fed 38 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: up sent word through his servants the prophets, because manassa 39 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: king of Judah, has committed these outrageous sins, eclipsing the 40 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: sin performance of the Amorites before him, setting no records 41 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: in evil, using foul idols to debase Judah into a 42 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: nation of sinners. This is my judgment, God's verdict. I, 43 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 1: the God of Israel, will visit catastrophe on Jerusalem and Judah, 44 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: a doom so terrible that when people hear of it, 45 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: they'll shake their heads in disbelief, saying I can't believe it. 46 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 1: I'll visit the fate of Samaria on Jerusalem, a rerun 47 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: of Ahab's doom. I'll wipe out Jerusalem as you would 48 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: wipe out a dish, wiping it out and turning it 49 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: over to dry. I'll get rid of what's left of 50 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: my inheritance, dumping them on their enemies. If their enemies 51 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: can salvage anything from them, they're welcome to it. They've 52 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: been nothing but troubled to me from the day their 53 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: ancestors left Egypt until now. They pushed me to my limit. 54 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: I won't put up with their evil any longer. The 55 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: final word on Manasso was that he was an indiscriminate murderer. 56 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: He drenched Jerusalem with the innocent blood of his victims. 57 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: That's on top of all the sins in which he 58 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: involved his people. As far as God was concerned, he 59 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: turned them into a nation of sinners. The rest of 60 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 1: the life and times of Manassa, everything he did in 61 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: his sorry record of sin is written in the chronicles 62 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: of the Kings of Judah. Manassa died and joined his ancestors. 63 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 1: He was buried in the palace garden, the garden of Uza. 64 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 1: His son, Ammon became the next king. Ammon was twenty 65 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: two years old when he became king. He was king 66 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: for two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Mischulimeth, 67 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: the daughter of Harah's. She was from Jatpa. In God's opinion, 68 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: he lived in evil life, just like his father Manassa. 69 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: He followed in the footsteps of his father, serving and 70 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: worshiping the same vowel gods his father had served. He 71 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: totally deserted the God of his ancestors, and he did 72 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: not live God's way. Amin's servants revolted and assassinated him, 73 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: killing the king right in his own palace. But the 74 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: people in their turn, killed the conspirators against King Amin, 75 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 1: and then crowned Josiah, Ammon's son as king. The rest 76 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:27,919 Speaker 1: of the life and times of Amin is written in 77 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 1: the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah. They buried Amin 78 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,919 Speaker 1: in his burial plot in the garden of Uza. His 79 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 1: son Josiah became the next king. Let's pray, Lord, we 80 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: thank you for your word, and we thank you for 81 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: the privilege of being able to look at it today. 82 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: And we pray Lord that as we look at this 83 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: chapter of scripture, that you would speak to our conscience, 84 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: that you would help us to be people who obey you, 85 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: that we would be people who are sensitive to your leading, 86 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: that the God of this world, the things of temptation, 87 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 1: the things that can present themselves as idols in our lives, 88 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: would not be the things that our hearts bow to. 89 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,359 Speaker 1: We pray Lord, that we would bow in worship to 90 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 1: your son, Jesus Christ, who is our Savior, who is 91 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: our Lord, who is our God, who is our King, 92 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:23,280 Speaker 1: who is the Messiah, who is promised, and who fulfilled 93 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:27,039 Speaker 1: the teaching of your word and all righteousness. Lord, We 94 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: know that that's not something we could have fulfilled. So 95 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:32,479 Speaker 1: Christ fulfilled it for us. We see in these kings 96 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: that they broke your word. We see that the people 97 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: broke your word. And if it came down to us 98 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 1: to try and fulfill the things that you communicated through Moses, 99 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: we couldn't do it. So your son, Jesus Christ, who 100 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: is himself God, one with the Father, one with the Spirit, 101 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:52,039 Speaker 1: three persons, one God, our Lord, Jesus Christ, came to 102 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: this earth and fulfilled all righteousness for us. And now 103 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 1: through faith in your Son, we know, Lord that our 104 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: sin is forgiven, and we live forever, and we rejoice 105 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: in the presence of Christ in our lives and the 106 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: righteousness of Christ that's been granted to us. So we 107 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: thank you Lord for these realities, and we pray Lord 108 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: that throughout the course of this day that we would 109 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: walk by faith in You. We love you, Lord, and 110 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: we thank you for all these things in Jesus' name. Amen.