Read: 2 Kings 23: 1-28; 2 Chronicles 35:1-19; Nahum 1-3
I love Josiah’s heart and conviction! He stood and read aloud the whole book of Moses. That must have taken all day to do. What Josiah did was a formula for repentance.
1. He read the truth
2. He realized his authority in the Lord
3. He renewed his covenant before God
4. He pledged to obey the Lord’s Word
5. He read again all God’s commands and confirmed them in his heart and before the people
6. He rid the land of idolatry
7. He led the people to repent also
The list of idolatry was pretty extensive. They had picked up the built a place of worship for every false god of God’s enemy. This reminds me of our nation. We have shrines or churches to so many false gods and call it “Coexistance”. It is nothing more than idolatry that is destroying our nation.
The last thing Josiah did was to reinstitute Passover which stood for salvation. He re-established the need to bring a blood offering to the Lord and repent. In our day that would mean he lifted up Jesus for all to come and find him. It says that there had never before or after been a king like Josiah, who turned to the Lord with all his heart and soul and strength, obeying all the laws of Moses. We pray for a leader for America that we could say the same thing about.
During this time, God raised up Nahum which means “comforter”. He was to speak against Nineveh which means “offspring of ease”. He prophesied their destruction for all their cruelty and rebellion. Nineveh was a very rich and thriving city which Jonah had called to repentance many years earlier. They had turned from God and became a stench to heaven. Today they would be the people who go after all the conveniences of life and forget we are in a battle where sacrifices have to be made.
When true revival comes it brings a cleansing to the earth.
Lord, we pray for revival! You are good; a strong refuge in the time of trouble.
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