Reading
SAA Notes
Obedience and its blessing are contrasted with disobedience and judgment from this point on, in Chronicles. When Rehoboam disobeyed, judgment came. When he obeyed, God blessed him and his. One example is given – the priests and Levites from the new northern kingdom move down and strengthen Judah.
SJA Notes
* Dear Lord, deliver us from evil men, preserve us from violent men. They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s, and under their lips is the venom of asps.
“So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.”
It is good to remember that these words in Chronicles were written for the exiles returning from Babylon.
They were lost sheep returning to the fold.
Ezekiel the prophet, whose ministry was through the Babylonian exile, spoke God’s word to His people there.
We read in Ezekiel 34 of God’s desire to shepherd, to search and seek out His sheep. A wonderful word of hope for those of His people in exile.
“I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, …”
Words of hope.
Further in that chapter of Ezekiel we read,
“And I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them. I am the LORD; I have spoken.”
Israel were in rebellion against the house of David.
We know that by the time Jesus walked the earth the Samaritan people were mostly what was left of the northern tribes.
Jesus calls to the Samaritan woman in John 4 with a message of what true religion is, worshipping in spirit and truth, that any – ANY – who ask will receive the water of life from Him.
For us – We have also rebelled against the house of David, the lion of Judah, the servant King – God in the Person of the Son, Jesus the Christ.
Praise God that through Him and His work, our King, we His people are no longer in rebellion.
We are found in Him. We are His. The LORD is our God, we are His people and Jesus is prince among us!
* Father God,
Thank You that You are our God.
Thank You that You in the Person of the Son are the true prince among us, the righteous Son of Man, the Branch and Root of Jesse. Great king David’s GREATER SON.
Thank You!
Amen.