The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in 2 Chronicles 28:19,
"The Lord had humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had promoted wickedness in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the Lord."
"The Lord had humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had promoted wickedness in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the Lord."
Ahaz was the twelfth monarch of Judah. Unlike Asa, Jehoshaphat, Joash, Amaziah, Uzziah and Jotham before him, "he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord", verse 1. He led Judah astray from the Lord as the remainder of the kings (and one queen - Athaliah) before him had done.
Under Ahaz's rule, Judah suffered at the hand of the Lord - as she and the northern kingdom of Israel did under the rule of all the kings that led them in a direction antithetical to the Lord's agenda. The Lord used this period of monarchy, as well as the earlier period of judges and the later period of captivity, to prepare Israel for the eventual coming of the Messiah.
One wonders what the Lord is afoot doing these days in preparing the world for the second coming of the Messiah...
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