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4. God’s Promise Triumphs Through Northern Israel4. God’s Promise Triumphs Through Northern Israel
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(74-75) Judah fell into idolatry so God allowed Pharaoh Shishak to plunder the Temple 5 years after the death of King Solomon in 931
BC as inscribed on the walls of the temple of Karnack in Egypt
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Northern Israel
Jeroboam - 3rd Dynasty
Rehoboam
(76) But God rescued King
Abijah of Judah from a
massive attack by Northern
Israel to destroy King
David’s family
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)77-84 (King Jehoshaphat restored the Temple - So the
prophet Joel foretold that God would protect Judah from an
attack by many nations
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(85-86) While in Northern Israel God had the prophet Elijah confront
King Ahab and Queen Jezebel as they tried to murder all of God’s
prophets and spread idolatry 5
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)87 (But King Jehoshaphat helped Northern Israel and made one of King Ahab’s daughters his queen in Judah which endangered
David’s family 6
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(79-89) And yet God rescued King Jehoshaphat and
Judah from an attack by 3
nations as Joel prophesied
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(89-92) And God empowered the prophet Elisha to work many
miracles to help God’s prophets in Northern Israel as he saw God take prophet Elijah up in a fiery chariot
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The Moabite Stone written
around 830 BC is displayed in
the Louvre Museum and talks about
Jehovah as the God of King
David’s family and about King
Ahab of Northern Israel
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Judah
Northern Israel
Jehu - 8th Dynasty
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Athaliah
(93-95) But Queen Athaliah, the daughter of King Ahab of Northern
Israel, took over the throne of Judah and killed all of King David’s family except
the small child Joash who was hidden in the Temple and made king at age 7
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(96-103) So God had Elisha order Jehu to kill King Ahab’s family in
Northern Israel to protect King David’s family in Judah - but God also had the
prophet Amos foretell judgment on Judah for their corruption after Athaliah
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The Black Obelisk in the British Museum shows King Jehu bowing to the king of Assyria
Northern Israel withered from attacks by enemy nations after Jehu became king
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(104-106) So God had prophet Jonah help Northern Israel overcome its enemies, but he
forgot that God cares about ALL NATIONS- So he refused to help Assyria until God had him swallowed by a great fish for 3 days which
was a sign of the one to bless ALL NATIONS
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(107-110) God had the prophet Hosea marry an unfaithful wife to show how
God felt about Northern Israel, yet they did not listen and urged Assyria to
destroy King David’s family in Judah
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(111-112) But Assyria attacked
Northern Israel instead and took Galilee
which became a very dark
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(113-118) So Northern Israel joined the king of Damascus to try to destroy Judah and King David’s family again even while King Ahaz
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Southern Judah
Sargon II
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(119-122) But Assyria destroyed Northern Israel instead
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And yet how was God’s promise to bless ALL NATIONS through
King David’s family ever going to come true when Assyria now
turned to destroy Judah also?
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5. God’s Promise Triumphs Through Assyria5. God’s Promise Triumphs Through Assyria
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(123) The prophet Isaiah foretold that God would stop the Assyrians
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And that God will bring peace to ALL NATIONS one day
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(124-127) So King Hezekiah of Judah sought God’s help and
compiled the book of Proverbs as he restored the Temple
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But Assyria plundered Judah and attacked Jerusalem
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(128) Even as the prophet Micah foretold that God’s King from David’s family to bless ALL NATIONS would
come from the little town of Bethlehem right outside the walls of Jerusalem 24
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So King Hezekiah of Judah prayed in the Temple for
God’s help against Assyria25
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(129-130) And God’s Angel slew the Assyrian army as the prophet Isaiah foretold - But God had to
rebuke King Hezekiah for trying to become an ally of Babylon instead
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Hezekiah at Jerusalem – The disappearance of the Assyrian
army was one of the great mysteries of history and was
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(131) God showed the prophet Isaiah that He anointed the one (Messiah or Christ) to bless ALL NATIONS and He foretold that one named Cyrus would destroy Babylon in the distant future 28
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(132-139) But Manasseh became the next king of Judah and
murdered God’s people and it seems even Isaiah 29
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Yet when King Manasseh was captured he prayed to God for
forgiveness and God restored him to the throne of Judah 30
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But although King Manasseh tried to undo the evil he created in
Judah the land was now so corrupted by idolatry that nothing
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Jehoahaz
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Egypt Psamtik I
Babylonia Nabopolassar
Assyria Sin-Shar-Ishkum Babylon Sacks Assyria
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Neko II
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So the prophets Nahum and Zephaniah now foretold that both Assyria & Judah would
face God’s judgment
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So when Babylon attacked Assyria the Egyptians tried to help Assyria
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)140-143 (The prophet Jeremiah mourned when King Josiah of
Judah was killed at Megiddo as he tried to be an ally of Babylon like
King Hezekiah and stop Egypt from helping Assyria despite warnings 34
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Then the Babylonians defeated the Assyrians at the battle of
Carchemish
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So how was God’s Promise to bless ALL NATIONS ever going to
come true when Babylon then turned on Judah to destroy them along with Egypt after defeating
Assyria’s capital of Nineveh?36
6. God’s Promise Triumphs Through Babylon6. God’s Promise Triumphs Through Babylon
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(144-145) The prophet Habakkuk saw that God was not going to spare Judah this time as He did before with Assyria 38
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Exiles in Babylon
Ezekiel in Exile
Southern Judah
Zedekiah
Jeremiah
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And King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Judah and took Daniel and other youth of
Judah’s nobility captive to Babylon
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(146) But Daniel and his friends were faithful to God
while in Babylon 40
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So God blessed them by revealing a dream that King
Nebuchadnezzar had
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And Nebuchadnezzar made Daniel and his friends governors in Babylon
and this helped the Jews while captive 42
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And God even protected them when Daniel’s friends were
thrown into a fiery furnace by King Nebuchadnezzar
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(147-151) Then King Nebuchadnezzar took the prophet Ezekiel and King
Jehoiachin of Judah captive to Babylon as well
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This Ration Record written in Babylon around 569 BC is
displayed in the Pergamum Museum and lists the rations fed to captured King Jehoiachin of Judah while he was captive in
Babylon
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(152) But God revealed to the
prophet Jeremiah that He would only
allow the captivity of Judah in Babylon to
last 70 years showing this was
under God’s control
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(153) And then God revealed His power over ALL NATIONS to the prophet Ezekiel in Babylon
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(154-158) So although God let Babylon defeat Judah and exile the Jews to Babylon still God was the
one who controlled their future 48
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)159-161 (And God spared the prophet Jeremiah who then
wrote Lamentations from Egypt 49
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(162) Then God showed the prophet Ezekiel a vision of dry bones that came back to life as
His people would 50
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And God showed the prophet Ezekiel a new Temple that had a river of life flowing out from it
foretelling God’s plans 51
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)163 (While God humbled King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon by
driving him insane for 7 years until he acknowledged God as his ruler
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(164)And God even had King Evil Merodach of Babylon show favor to King Jehoiachin while
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(165 )But Daniel interpreted handwriting from God on the palace
wall in Babylon that foretold its destruction – So how can God’s
Promise to bless ALL NATIONS through the Messiah ever come true when the Jews were exiled inside Babylon and
now the Persians were coming to destroy it?
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