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June 23 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today's reading will cover 2 Kings Chapter 24:8-20, 2 Chronicles Chapter 36:16, Jeremiah Chapters 22:18-22, 22:24-30, 24, and Chapter 37:1-2. We will read about a succession of kings in Judah and the judgment that God will bring on them because of their disobedient ways. They and the remnant of the people left in Judah will be considered like a bowl of bad figs. We will read about God considering those taken into exile as being good, comparable to a bowl of very good figs, like figs that are first ripe. In our discussion for daily application we will talk about the parallel between the exiled people being already considered good, the same way that WE are considered good by God, because we are washed clean by Jesus' blood. God has written His Torah on our hearts and minds and sealed us with His Holy Spirit. He will plant us and gives us a heart to know Him. We are His people and He is our God!
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Introduction and Support Options
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Hi there, everybody. Welcome to June 23rd's Daily Bible Reading as we go through the Day by Day Kids Bible written by Karen Henley. You are here with Robin at In the Family Way Coaching.
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Thank you for joining me today, whether you are following along on your podcast with audio only or whether you are watching a video somewhere. I'm so glad that you're joining this event. If you are following along on your daily commitment calendar, it's time to take that out and your sticker or however you're marking it off because you're about to hear the Bible today.
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Reading from Jeremiah: Kings of Judah
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So thank you for being here today. And we are going to be picking up with the books of Jeremiah today and hearing about the kings of Judah.
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Our first section comes to us from Jeremiah chapter 22, and it is taken from verses 18 to 22. And this is entitled, Like a Dead Donkey.
Consequences of Prioritizing Wealth
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Now here's what God told Jeremiah about King Jehoiakim of Judah. And this occurred right after ah God had ah told King Jehiakim that he didn't need to be trying to become rich all the time and ignoring his duties to be good to people, that he was cheating people.
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And we spoke about that, that he ah God had told him, he says, you want it to be rich, but look at your father. He ate and drank and he took care of the people and good things happened to him.
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Things went well for him. He says, but you, you are building a great big palace. And does having a great big palace make you a king? No, that doesn't do it. And he says that you needed to seek me first.
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And then all of the rest of the things would have happened, like with your father. So because King Jehoiakim had been... ah putting gaining material wealth and being rich over ah ah seeking God.
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This is what God is telling him in response to that.
Babylon's Invasion and Consequences
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People won't cry for him when he dies. His body will be dragged off like a dead donkey and he will be thrown out of Jerusalem.
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Go and cry. Nations who were your friends have been torn down. I told you it would happen, but you thought you had no problems. You said, I won't listen.
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That is the way you have been since you were young. You have not obeyed me. Nations who were your friends will be taken away. You will feel no good, and it's all because you did what was wrong.
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So we're in between the two time frames of the first time that Babylon came and removed people and into the second time.
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Now this section is entitled Babylon and it comes to us from 2 Kings chapter 24 verses 8 through 20. verses eight through twenty 2 Chronicles 36, verse 16, and Jeremiah chapter 22, verses 24 to 30, as well as 37, chapter 37, verses 1 and 2.
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Jehoiakim was Judah's next king after Jehoiakim. So this is Jehoiakim, C-H-I-N. c h i n was Judah's next king, and he was 18 years old.
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But he was a bad king, and he did what was wrong. Then God spoke about Jehoiachin. If you were a ring, I would pull you off of my finger, says God.
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I will give you to the land of Babylon. You will die there, and you will never come back to this land. Jehoiachin is like something nobody wants, and he will be taken to a land he doesn't know.
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Oh, land, land, land. Hear God's word. Here's what God says. Write it down. Jehoiachin is like a man with no children.
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He will not see good things in this life, in his life. None of his children will be the king's. Then Babylon's army marched to Jerusalem and fought against the city.
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And Jehoiakim and the leaders gave up. So King Nebuchadnezzar took them to Babylon, and it happened just like God said it would.
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Babylon took all the riches from God's worship house. They took the riches from the palace. They took them to Babylon. They put them in their idol's worship house.
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they took all the fighting men of Judah. They took all the artists, they took all the workers who could make things, they took 10,000 people in all.
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And the only people who were left were those who were very poor. King Nebuchadnezzar chose Zedekiah to be the king of Judah, but he was a bad king and he did what was wrong and he would not obey God.
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The people also turned away from God too. God sent prophets to talk to his people again and again. God did feel sorry for them.
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But the people made fun of God's prophets. They thought God's words were nothing. So God got angry with them and then he sent them away from him.
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Jeremiah chapter 24, the figs.
Vision of Figs: Exile and Restoration
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This is Jeremiah speaking. Now God showed me two baskets of figs, and they were in front of God's worship house. Good figs were in one basket, and bad figs filled the other basket.
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They were not good to eat. And God asked me, What do you see, Jeremiah? Figs, I said, the good ones are very good, but the bad figs are too bad to eat.
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Then God spoke to me and God said, I sent the people of Judah to Babylon. They are like good figs. They are good, so I will watch over them.
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Someday will bring them back to their land. I will build Judah up, says God. I won't tear the people down. They will be like a plant that I put in the ground.
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I will give them hearts that know me. They will know that I am the Lord. They will be my people. I will be their God. They will come back to me with all their hearts.
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But Zedekiah and his leaders are like bad figs, said God. So I will make the other kingdoms hate them. People will make fun of Zedekiah and his leaders, says God.
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People will say bad things about them. Wherever they go, there will be fighting. There will not be enough food. There will be sickness. And this will happen until they are gone.
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And that's the end of our reading today.
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So I thought I would give us just a little bit of relation to the timeframe as to what's going on. So we are told in the beginning of our reading about King Jehoiakim and how he would be ah taken away and how he would be killed.
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And so he was, he was taken away ah to Babylon and and he died there. And then we have King Jehoiakim,
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And his name ah was... was actually changed from something else. And he was only king for three months.
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So during that time that he was a bad king, that God said that if he were a signet ring, he would pull him off of his finger and said that he would give him to the land of Babylon and he would die there and he would never come back.
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That's exactly what ended up happening. you knew He was only king for three whole months. Then the next king that would be coming, ah let's see, that he they talk about here, King Zedekiah, his name was also changed.
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He was King Jehoiakim's uncle, who was the the, let's see, he was, and his real name was Mataniah, and he was Jehoiakim's uncle,
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And I was trying to see, I read somewhere that I think he was King.
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Mataniah was the son of King Josiah. So he was another son and he was the brother of King Jehoahaz and King Jehoiakim. And, uh,
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So I want us to understand the family line here. They're they're going through pretty rapidly at this point. And so he was king, but he was appointed by and King Nebuchadnezzar.
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And as King Nebuchadnezzar does, like he did with Daniel and his three friends, he's changing everybody's name. So our versions in the Bible will usually include the the new name, but it's like, well, where do these people come from?
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i want us to understand where they came from. They actually were coming from King Josiah's line.
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So we are going to be talking about, for our daily application, however, that ah about the ah vision that God gave Jeremiah about the figs.
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God shows Jeremiah two baskets of figs, one which is very good and one which is very, very bad that it can't even be eaten.
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So the the good figs, God tells him, are representative of the fruit. people that he has sent into exile, into Babylon.
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Remember, we've talked about that the people, when they get sent to Babylon, that this is going to be a cleansing time. And so God reiterates here that he has already, as soon as they took him, as soon as they went into exile, he is now considering them good because they obeyed.
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As soon as they did one thing, what he told them to do. God already marked them as being good. And he told us earlier that, and he will repeat again in Jeremiah, I think 29, as we mentioned yesterday, that he says that when the, when the kingdom comes, when Babylon comes,
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that the people are to surrender and go. And if they do, then they will be allowed to live. And so those who have been taken, was about 10,000.
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Nebuchadnezzar took everybody who was of any value and carted them off. And, uh, God is telling them that they are considered good. I'm going to actually read it out of our big Bible because it gives uh,
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ah more information. And I just really loved it. It says in verse four, it starts, it says, actually in verse five, says the Lord, the God of Israel, like these good figs, so will I regard the exiles of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place to the land of the Chaldeans as good.
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I will set my eyes on them as good. i will bring them back to this land and I will build them up and not pull them down. I will plant them and not uproot them.
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Then i will give them a heart to know me. For I am the Lord and they will be my people and I will be their God. For they will return to me with their whole heart.
New Covenant in Hebrews and Forgiveness
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This is, ah we've also mentioned in the past that Jeremiah, the book of Jeremiah is not just a pro prophetic book about what would be coming with the Babylonian exile, but it also is to be fulfilled in in end times.
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So this is also prophetic of the new covenant that God would be making where he would be writing his word on their hearts and on our minds.
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And so actually in my big Bible version here on my Tree of Life app, it takes me in reference to Hebrews chapter 8.
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We're not entirely certain who wrote the book of Hebrews. I just want to mention it's thought that it could be Paul, but it's really just not completely known who exactly wrote the book of Hebrews.
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But this is what he's he is talking about. The whole chapter eight talks about Jesus being the mediator of a better covenant.
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Beginning in in verse 6 of chapter 8 of Hebrews, it says, But now Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry, insofar as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
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For if that first one, referring to the first covenant, had been faultless, there would not have been need for seeking a second. For finding fault with them, God says, behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will bring about a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
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It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not remain in my covenant, and I did not care for them, says thatte the Lord.
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For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my Torah into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write it, and I will be their God.
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and they shall be my people. That is the reference to Jeremiah. And Jeremiah also says that exact same thing in chapter seven, which we read.
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and they shall be my people, and no more will they teach each one his fellow citizen, and each one his brother, saying, Know the Lord, because all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest, for I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.
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In saying new, he has treated the first as old, but what is being made old and aging is close to vanishing. So God is telling us, just like the people that he already regarded as good, it's like when we accept Jesus as our Savior, we are considered without sin.
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He no longer sees our sin. They have obeyed, and when God brings them back, he will ah plant them. And so i I love that, that God is already, just like with when we are washed with the blood of Jesus, that we are made new and we are made good.
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In the same way, God already considers his people good. Isn't that wonderful? Like a new basket of fresh figs, it says.
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It says like the new figs. I love that the God's words are never out of coincidence. They always go together. They have so much depth to them.
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We are made new in Jesus and they are like the first new figs because Jesus is the first ah fruits of of the new covenant of being raised, ah made alive in the dead.
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And so we are also part of that. And here the people are made good too, like the new basket of figs. So I hope bit that that is very encouraging in in your daily application to know that God considers us good, that we are, he doesn't see our sin anymore.
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And I love how everything connects between the old covenant and the new covenant and how we can see these things coming together as we are getting closer to finishing out and the old covenant.
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There is more and more about Jesus and about what God is going to be doing every day.
Conclusion and Encouragement
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I love that. So I hope that you find that encouraging in your daily application today.
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And that when you are finished watching or listening, that you will click that light button so that we can draw others to God's word, to spread the word about reading his word, that other people will also know that God considers us good.
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Jesus has paid the price for our sins, and God doesn't see them anymore. He has written his word on our hearts and on our minds and has sealed us with the Holy Spirit who reminds us of the things that we are taught so that when times come, he will open up our mouths and speak for us.
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So thank you very much for joining me today, and I will see everyone again or be here for everyone to listen to again tomorrow.