Day 188 - 2 Kings 17

2 Kings 17  •  2 min. read  •  grade level: 7
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God’s patience has run out. We have read a long sad story. God sent warning after warning, prophet after prophet, but they refused to listen to any of them. Now the enemy comes. The kingdom of Israel (the 10 tribes) is swept away, never to return for the 2,600 years which have gone by since then. We are living in exactly the same conditions. The Word of God has no effect on most people, and little effect on believers. Indifference (not caring) is the disease of our days. In Revelation 3:1616So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. (Revelation 3:16), God is speaking about the last days of the church’s history on earth we are there now. Read what He says He is going to do with the professing Christians — just what He did with the kingdom of Israel in today’s chapter. Read carefully. It is just like today. Don’t think of it as applying only to the unsaved. True believers are poisoned by false teaching as never before. Our voice is feeble, but we raise it for God and His truth. Are you continuing on in the poison of compromise and the traditions which men have established, and refuse to accept God’s warning in His Word? God wants all believers to separate from religious evil (2 Cor. 6:17). As you read the chapter, notice how many times it says that they did not listen or obey (vvs. 7-12, 14-17, 22, 40).
V.36 The God who had so mercifully redeemed these people out of Egypt, Who had led them across a trackless wilderness for forty years, Who had given them the good land where they ate without scarceness, and lacked nothing in it (Deut. 8:77For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; (Deuteronomy 8:7)), now has to turn them out of it for disobeying Him (see Hos. 9:1717My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations. (Hosea 9:17)). So it is a sad story. But we wonder how many readers are willing to say to the Lord “Yes, I want to put Thee above all my present thoughts and obey Thee.”