2 Chronicles 25 - Amaziah's Reign in Judah | Bible Podcast, David Alley, Peace Christian Church
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Show Notes
In this video listen to 2 Chronicles Chapter 25, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.
In 2 Chronicles 25 Amaziah followed the Lord, but Not with a perfect heart - That’s pretty much summarizes most believers. It is worth nothing that there is a difference between having a perfect heart, and perfect deeds. You can have a heart after the Lord, but not do things perfectly as David did, or have a heart that is not perfect. A mixed up heart follows many other things too.
One of Amaziah’s lunatic actions was after defeating the Edomites, to take their gods and worship them. This brought the Lord’s rebuke.
It was lunacy to think you could worship the gods of people you have conquered. They were not able to save their own people, so why would you worship them. The logic here is that they apparently turned on their own people and handed them over. There is a precedent for this when Yahweh handed the Israelites over to the Philistines and didn't fight for them. However the Philistines didn’t worship Yahweh but took the ark away as a trophy, not for adoration. But here Amaziah worships it… so he seems to have stopped thinking logically.
Amaziah felt proud that he had won a victory and must have thought he could now conquer the northern nation. Pride comes before a fall.
Amaziah is the second of the kings to be killed by others. In the northern nation we saw kings regularly killed, and they were succeeded by a new dynasty. In the south, there are several times the kings are killed, but their own children succeed them. The line of David, leading to Jesus continues. It's remarkable that this line seems so tentative and yet it succeeds in lasting. The Lord’s promises can seem so tentative too, and yet miraculously can survive.