Day 141 - 2 Chronicles 35-36

ONE-YEAR JOURNEY OF THE BIBLE
Day 141 - 2 Chronicles 35-36 (Ignore God's Word to Your Own Peril)
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"Then they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions.  And those who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, where they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years."  (2 Chronicles 36:19-21)

The unthinkable finally happened.  The temple of God which Solomon had built over four hundred years earlier and which God had said that He would dwell in it for as long as Israel remained faithful to Him but that He would depart from their midst and destroy the temple if they served other gods was burned to the ground by the Babylonians.

Also, Israel had existed for 490 years in the land which God had given unto them.  They were commanded in the law of Moses to let the land rest every seven years.  Six years they were to plant but on the seventh year they weren't to plant.  They were to eat just that which grew up by itself.  They were to let the land rest in the seventh year.  

But they ignored God's commands.  And so we read from our text above that they were to become servants to the Chaldeans and the Persians "to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years."  Herein lies a crucial lesson for all people: What God says He will fulfill.  

God said that He would destroy the temple if the Jews worshipped idols and He did.  God said that the land must have its Sabbath rest and He let the land become desolate for seventy years to make up for the 490 years that the Jews did not give the land its Sabbath.

God has said many things in His Word the Bible and we can be sure that every single one of those things will be fulfilled as Christ Himself assured all:  "For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled (Matthew 5:18)."

Among all the things God has said in the Bible, this one may be the most important since for the person who ignores it would mean spending eternity in hell:

         "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him                  should not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16)."