6/30/2011
8:07:26 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: They lost their wealth and their leading
people
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference: 2Ki. 24:8-17; 25:27-30; 2Chron. 36:9-10
Message of the verses: “8 ¶
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned
three months in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of
Elnathan of Jerusalem. 9 He did evil in
the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done. 10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came
to the city, while his servants were besieging it. 12 Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the
king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his
officials. So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his
reign. 13 He carried out from there all
the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house,
and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made
in the temple of the LORD, just as the LORD had said. 14 Then he led away into exile all Jerusalem and
all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and
all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained except the poorest people of
the land. 15 So he led Jehoiachin away
into exile to Babylon; also the king’s mother and the king’s wives and his officials
and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to
Babylon. 16 All the men of valor, seven
thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all strong and fit
for war, and these the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon. 17 Then the king of Babylon made his uncle
Mattaniah king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.”
“27 Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year
of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the
twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the
year that he became king, released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison;
28 and he spoke kindly to him and set
his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon. 29 Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes and had
his meals in the king’s presence regularly all the days of his life; 30 and for his allowance, a regular allowance
was given him by the king, a portion for each day, all the days of his life.”
“9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became
king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in
the sight of the LORD. 10 At the turn of
the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with the valuable
articles of the house of the LORD, and he made his kinsman Zedekiah king over
Judah and Jerusalem.”
I
believe that I had mentioned that Ezekiel was taken captive in 605BC along with
Daniel, however I was mistaken for Ezekiel was taken captive in 597BC along
with the king of Judah, Jehoiachin.
There were many more taken captive during this deportation to
Babylon. Jehoiachin would never have a
son sit on the throne of Judah for after he was taken captive Nebuchadnezzar
appointed his uncle king. Zedekiah was
the third son of Josiah and his birth name was Mattaniah but it was changed by
Nebuchadnezzar to a Babylonian name.
Nebuchadnezzar’s
son Evil-Merodach would let Jehoiachin out of prison in Babylon after he had
been there for 37 years so he would have been 55 years old. Evil-Merodach liked Jehoiachin above all of
the other kings that Babylon had taken captive and he took care of him. When the remnant would return seventy years
later Jehoiachin’s son Zerubbable would be one of the leaders, but he would
never continue the dynasty of David on the throne of Judah, for they would be
under the control of other nations until they were again dispersed all over the
known world as prophesied in the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy. They would return as a nation under another
David in May of 1948, but as Ezekiel prophesied it would not be a spiritual
people until sometime during the tribulation period.
All
of the things that happened to Judah were prophesied in different OT books like
Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Jeremiah and also some of the minor prophets, but none of
the leaders would believe the prophets and had some of them put to death.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: The message of Pastor Ed last Sunday was to
obey the Words of the Lord and if the children of Israel would have done this
then this portion of Scripture would never have been written. I want to learn from what they did not do and
obey the Word of the Lord.
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
Obedience is better than sacrifice.
2.
Romans 12:1-2
3.
Philippians 4:11-13
4.
Proverbs 3:5-6
5.
Psalm 139:23-24
6.
Ephesians 6:10-18
6/30/2011
8:49:41 AM
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