Now, we're closing out our study
from 2 Kings, and we're going to look at just a few things
found in chapter 24, and then in chapter 25, and we hope to
end up with those last three or four verses there, and show
a picture of salvation to God's people in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, I'm entitling the message
from what is said in these two chapters. And what I'm entitling
the message is this, the Lord kept His promise. The Lord kept His word. He's always true to His Word. All that He has spoken and all
that He has promised, not one word shall fail. Not one word. All the promises
of God in Him are yes and amen. All that God had promised, He
is able to perform. Now the Lord promised to destroy
Jerusalem because of their rebellion against him the Lord promised
to destroy to destroy the temple and carry away the people into
captivity and he says I'm going to do it for 70 years 70 years
because of their constant and instant rebellion against God
and he brought it to pass as we read in Jeremiah 25 verse
8 down to verse 12, but look just across the page at 2 Kings
23 verse 26. Notwithstanding, the Lord turned
not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger
was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that
Manasseh had provoked him. And the Lord said, I will remove
Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will
cast off this city, Jerusalem, which I have chosen, and my house,
of which I said, my name shall be there. God said, I'm going
to do it. That was his promise. And you
know what? It came to pass, didn't it? But
the Lord also made another promise. The Lord kept this promise too.
The promise was made to David that he would raise up a king
from his loin to sit on the throne from the house of David and from
the seed of David. Now, if you'll turn to 2 Samuel
chapter 7. 2 Samuel chapter 7. 2 Samuel chapter 7. You remember when David had done the things that he had
done? In 2 Samuel 7, 12, when thy days be fulfilled, and thou
shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after
thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish
his kingdom. He shall build a house for my
name, and I will establish thy throne and his kingdom forever. The Lord made him that promise,
and the Lord made good on that promise. Now find 1 Kings 11.36.
The Lord's always true to his word. 1 Kings 11.36. Unto his sons will I give one
tribe, that David my servant may have a light always before
me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen, chosen me to put
my name there." Now find 1 Kings 15 verse 4, you see the Lord
promised David a seed and a son to sit on that throne. Now 1
Kings 15 verse 4, nevertheless for David's sake did the Lord
his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem to set up his son after him and
to establish Jerusalem, because David did that which was right
in the eyes of the Lord." 1 Kings 15 verse 4. Now, the Lion of
the tribe of Judah, who was none other than the Lord Jesus Christ,
who was lamp and light, is none other than the Lord said, I am
the light of the world, the lion of the tribe of Judah. We know
that for sure. Jehoiakim is lifted out of prison
after 37 years of being a captive because the Lord Jesus Christ
must come through the house of David God preserved that seed
that the Lord Jesus Christ would be that fulfillment of that Scripture,
the tribe of Judah, the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Now, if
you hold your place there and find Acts chapter 13, Paul reminds
us that in his first message in Acts chapter 13, Verse 22, Acts 13, 22, And when
he had removed him, that is Saul, he raised up unto them David
to be their king, to whom also he gave testimony, and said,
I have found David, Acts 13, 22, I found David the son of
Jesse, a man after my own heart, which shall fulfill all my will.
Now of this man's seed have God, according to his promise, raised
unto Israel a Savior. There's that seed, the promised
seed. God must preserve Jehoiachin
because the Messiah is coming through his loins, through David,
through Judah, through Isaac, through Abraham, all the way
back. Now, we come to the sad end of
the story of Judah found here in 2 Kings 24 and verse, chapter
24 and 25. It's a sad end. to this kingdom who had at many
times such a glorious, glorious reign in the days of David, in
the days of Solomon, but now they've come to a very sad, total
ruin. They deserve nothing less than
what they've earned for their sin against God. They've rebelled
continually and continually against God. We've seen that, haven't
we? What a rebellious, rebellious nature. And that's us by nature.
We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God. And the
wages of sin deserve nothing but nothing but death. Death. But such is the whole
sad story of the human race, is it not? Since the first and
original sin that Adam had committed against God, we deserve nothing
but judgment, wrath, and God's disfavor. Had not the Lord Jesus
Christ stood as everlasting surety for his covenant people, the
Lord would have justly ended the existence of mankind in a
righteous judgment and holy wrath when Adam sinned. Apart from
Christ standing as a surety, we have all been wiped out in
Adam. But I love the prayer of the
prophet of God Habakkuk in Habakkuk chapter 3 where he said, Lord
in wrath remember mercy. It is of the Lord's mercy that
we are not consumed. Aren't you glad the Lord Delight
to show mercy is sovereign mercy, but he delights to show mercy.
The Lord is long-suffering to his covenant people only because
the Lord Jesus Christ, he shows abundant and constant mercy to
sinners only because of Christ. It is of the Lord's mercies that
we are not consumed because his compassion fail not. Lamentations
3, 22. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
promised seed of woman that would bruise Satan's head and in doing
so put away our sin by the sacrifice of himself. It is the Lord Jesus
Christ, the promised Messiah. the Christ of God that would
establish a justifying righteousness for us. That's why he came, for
us. Daniel writes about that in Daniel
9, 24. The Lord Jesus Christ came to finish transgression,
to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity,
to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up the vision and prophecy,
that is to fulfill it, and to anoint the most holy. Do you
mean he did all that for us? Absolutely. Absolutely. Now let's consider several things
as we work our way down to the end of chapter 25. Remember the
verse I've quoted to you often from Romans chapter 15 through
our studies in 1 and 2 Samuel and 1 and 2 Kings. Whatsoever
was written aforetime was written for our learning. that we through
patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. And we do have a good hope, but
we have only one hope. We only have one hope of salvation
because there's only one Savior. Our hope is Christ in you, the
hope of glory. We have a good hope through grace. Now, we see in these last two
chapters, what we see in these last two chapters, I put it under
three headings. The first one is this, slavery
to sin. Secondly, stupidity, stupidity
from sin. And thank God, finally, salvation
by the Lord's grace. Now, here's the first part, slavery
to sin. Found in 1 Kings, 24 verses 1
through 4, the Lord sent a righteous judgment upon Judah and Jerusalem. Look at verse 2, the Lord sent
against him all these armies. You mean, you mean the Lord did
that? Absolutely, absolutely. He said, I have spoken it, I'll
bring it to pass, I've purposed it, I will do it. Evil men, now listen to me, I'm
not just spouting off here, evil men only carry out their evil
designs according to the purpose and will of God. Nebuchadnezzar
at the time, had no idea when he, out of pride and sinful ambition,
wanted to conquer Judah and Jerusalem. He did it for His glory, didn't
he? But he was fulfilling the will
of the Lord. Exactly right. God works all
things after the counsel of His own will. Now this is not going
to go over good with a lot of folks, but I'm going to say it
anyway. A lot of people talk about the evil and the evil things
that Hitler did to the Jewish people. Is Hitler any different
than Nebuchadnezzar? Adolf Hitler accomplished the
purpose of God in exterminating as many Jews as God said needed
to be exterminated. Now you would say that in this
liberal country that we live in today, and people would absolutely
gag over it. I'm going to put this up on the
internet. This is going up on Sermon Audio, and I might get
some pushback from it, but that's okay. It's still the truth, isn't
it? God sent Nebuchadnezzar, and
God sent Adolf Hitler as well. to accomplish the Lord's purpose. These people were given warning
after warning after warning to the prophets of God. We read
that in Jeremiah 25. And they would not hear. They
would not hear. You find, don't turn, let me
just read it to you. 2 Chronicles 36, the Lord said, I sent them prophets many, many
times, speaking my word, but they mocked the messengers of
God, they despised his words, misused his prophet, until the
wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no
remedy. None. No remedy? None. Now, something else we
see here, under the slavery of sin, We see Jehoiakim reign of
11 years come to an end as we read earlier in chapter 23 verse
37. He did evil in the sight of the
Lord like so many before him. Now, why did he do that? That is what comes naturally. That's our natural tendency.
It's not toward holiness. It's toward evil. Our bias, our
will is bent toward wickedness. That's why we see so many terrible
things going on in this life. The Lord has expelled the Egyptians. They no longer control Jerusalem.
But somebody else is coming to town. His name is Nebuchadnezzar,
and he completely destroys Judah and Jerusalem. Jehoiakim, being
just a very young, young child, he reigns only three months,
and it says there in verse 9, and he did Jehoiakim, verse 8,
18 years old when he began to reign. And he did that which
is evil in the sight of the Lord. Now, why did the Lord lift him
out of prison after being in prison for 37 years? He did that
which is evil in the sight of the Lord. That shows you that
salvation is not by works, it's by grace, by grace alone. Jehoiachin He did that which
is evil in the sight of the Lord, yet the Lord showed mercy to
him. Jehoiachin quickly goes out to meet Nebuchadnezzar there
in verse 12, and what does he do? He surrenders. He surrenders
immediately to the king of Babylon. He's carried off to Babylon along
with 17,000 other there in Judah and Jerusalem, as it says in
the following verses, among which we find Daniel, Ezekiel, they
were all carried away. Now, you know what he says to
these people? Look at verse 15. And he carried away Jehoiakim
to Babylon, and the king's mother, the king's wives, and his officers,
and the mighty of the land. Those carried he into captivity
from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the men of might, even 7,000,
all the craftsmen, the thousands, all that were strong and apt
for war, Even the king of Babylon brought into captivity. Now we're going to see Jehoiachin
again as he's carried away into captivity and he spent 37 years
in prison. Nebuchadnezzar now in verse 17
down to verse 20 in 2nd Kings 24, he installs a new king. Mattaniah, and he quickly changes
his name to Zedekiah. Why did he do that? To show that
he was in charge. To show that he was in control
of all things. We read in 2 Chronicles 36 and
also it says of Zedekiah there in verse 18 down to verse 19
look what it says and he did that which is evil in the sight
of the Lord according to all that Jehoiakim had done for through
the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah
until he had cast them out from his presence that Zedekiah he
rebelled against the king of Babylon. In second. He did that which is evil in
the sight of the Lord. Nothing apart from the grace
of God can change the sinner's will and heart. We read of this
man in 2 Chronicles 36, Zedekiah. He did that which is evil in
the sight of the Lord his God. He humbled not himself before
Jeremiah the prophet, speaking from the mouth of the Lord. What
did he do? He rejected the word of the Lord. Isn't that too the sad story
of this human race? Rejecting the Word of the Lord. Faith comes by hearing and hearing
by the Word of the Lord. But what if you reject the Word
of the Lord? You're not going to have faith. Faith is a gift
of God, but it comes through hearing the Word of the Lord.
He did that which is evil in the sight of the Lord. The only
way we can do right or be right The only way we can be right
and do right, how? Is to be found in Christ. What was that old TV series years
ago of that soldier? It was somebody, Daniel do right
or Dudley do right. We're doubly do wrong by nature. We're only doubly do right by
God's grace, grace alone. That's why Paul said, oh, that
might win Christ and be found in him. Now, as we come to chapter
25, we're still talking about slavery to sin. We see the beginning
of the end. Now, one of the things that I
noticed when reading through this chapter is the exact time
the Lord does everything according to his exact time. Look at verse 1, "...it came
to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month,
in the tenth day of the month." That's pretty exact, isn't it?
That's exactly according to the Lord's purpose. Notice down at
verse 3, "...and on the ninth day of the fourth month, the
famine prevailed." The ninth day of the fourth month. Look
at verse 8, "...and in the fifth month, on the seventh day of
the month, Which is the 19th year. Again, an exact date. Look down at verse 27, it came
to pass in the 37th year of the captivity of Jehoiachin, king
of Judah, in the 12th month, on the 7th and 20th day of the
month. God does everything on His time
schedule in His own way. The Lord does everything according
to His time and His schedule. Now there's a little book over
here, don't turn, let me just find it for you, called the book
of Ecclesiastes. It's right after the book of
Proverbs, but this is a familiar scripture. The Lord does everything
according to His time schedule. Ecclesiastes 3, to everything
there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.
God does everything on His purpose, by His purpose. A time to be
born, a time to die. A time to plant, a time to pluck
up that which is planted. A time to kill, a time to heal.
A time to break down, a time to build up. A time to weep,
a time to laugh. A time to mourn, a time to dance.
A time to cast away stone, a time to gather stone. A time to embrace,
a time to refrain. A time to get, a time to lose.
A time to keep, a time to cast away. Go on and on and on. A time to rend, a time to sow. A time to love, a time to hate.
A time of war, a time of peace. Everything according to God's
time schedule. Is everything on time? Everything's on time. Everything's
on time. In the fullness of the time,
God sent forth His Son, made of a woman. Aren't you glad everything's
on time? When Zedekiah rebelled against
the king of Babylon's final judgment, the final judgment of God fell
without mercy. God sent a famine and a sword. Look at verse 3. And the famine
prevailed in the city and there was no bread for the people. Now you can read about that again
in the book of Lamentation. It was a severe famine. They surrounded the city. They
cut off all the provisions of the city and the people were
in desperate, desperate condition. No bread. No bread. Many tried
to flee the city. Verse 4, the city was broken
up and all the men of war fled. And King Zedekiah, he also fled,
but he's overcome by the army of the Chaldeans and he is captured.
Down in verse 7, they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes
and put out his eyes. The eyes of Zedekiah bound him
with fetters and carried him off. to Babylon and we never
read another word of him and he dies there in Babylon, a blind
man having the last sight that he saw was his sons being murdered,
murdered before his eyes. Now in verse 8 down to verse
17 of 2 Kings 25, the city is besieged And overrun, the temple is destroyed,
the walls are broken down, many are killed, and thousands and
thousands are taken captive. The temple that David dreamed
of, that David the king wanted to build so, so desperately,
and God said, you can't build it, you're a bloody man. Solomon
built that temple that David dreamed of according to the word
of the Lord, and that temple stood for 420 years, Now, it's
in ruin. It's in ruin. You think of that.
Think of that. In verse 13, 2 Kings chapter
25 verse 13, down to verse 17, much is given about these two
pillars of brass. You see it in verse 13? and the
bases in the brazen sea that was in the house of the Lord,
did the Chaldeans break in pieces and carry the brass away? It
was such a great weight that it says in verse 16 that the
vessels of brass, they couldn't even weigh it. I mean they were
loaded down. They were loaded down. Now much
is given to these two pillars of brass being destroyed. Remember
they were in the front of the temple, the entrance to the temple. They were, these two pillars
were 30 feet high, they were 20 feet in diameter. I mean,
these are massive structures. And somehow they are pulled down,
somehow they were destroyed. But you remember they had names.
This is found in 1 Kings 7 verse 15. Their two names were Jachin
and Boaz. They were named. And they were
symbols of what their name means, strength and power. being established by the Lord. That large brazen sea, remember,
that was set upon those twelve oxen, where the priests washed
themselves and cleaned themselves ceremonially before they went
about the service of the Lord, that too was destroyed. Now one thing I noticed is not
mentioned in all this destruction here, with the complete destruction
of the city and of the temple, One thing I noticed, it mentions
all the fire pans, the bowls, the pots, the shovels, the snuffers,
the spoons, and all those things. You know what's missing? You
know what we read nothing about? There's no mention of the Ark
of the Covenant. There's no mention of the mercy
seat. That was the center central part. You'd think the Babylonians
would have attacked that mercy seat That's how they approach
God, through that mercy seat. But somehow, and we don't know
how, and I don't want to pry into how, God knows how, somehow
the Lord removed it and hid it where no one could destroy it. But it made me think of this.
What happened to the Ark of the Covenant? I guess they made a
movie where they've been trying to find it for years, haven't
they? Raiders of the Lost Ark. But what I thought about was
this, the mercy seat of God, our mercy seat, we know exactly
where it is, who it is, and it will never be attacked. That
mercy seat is the Lord Jesus Christ, and He's seated in the
heavenly on the throne of glory. He is our mercy seat, and we
know where it is, and we know who it is, and that's how we
approach God in the Lord Jesus Christ. From verse 18 down through
verse 21, all the priests are rounded up, and the priests are
killed, and it says in the last part of verse 21, So Judah was
carried out of the land. Out of the land. Now, think about
this. Where did they go to? Babylon. Where did they come from? Babylon. Where did God find Abram? He was in the land of idolatry
in the air of the Chaldees. The air of the Chaldees in idolatry
and God called him out. Now his seed is right back in
the land of idolatry. Just like many of those in this
story here went back into Egypt. It's going to take a mighty miracle
of grace to preserve the king and the throne of Judah so that
the Messiah will come to David's seed." Now I thought about this,
from the days of Joshua when they entered into the land until
the days of Zedekiah when they were taken away 850 years. 850 years. The promised land
became a prison land, didn't it? They were under the dominion
of the Babylonians. And when the Lord Jesus Christ
came, these many hundreds of years later, where was Jerusalem? Under the dominion of a pagan
Roman army. right back in bondage. But think about this. That Jerusalem
in that day was destroyed. But our spiritual Jerusalem will
never be destroyed. Turn to Revelation 21. Let's
read about it. Revelation 21. Verse 1, Revelation 21, 1. And
I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and
the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. And
I, John, saw the holy city, new Jerusalem. Oh, I'm interested
in that. coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, and heard a great
voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God
is with men, he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people,
and God himself Himself shall be with them. God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain,
no more hunger in this city of Jerusalem, no more pain in this
city of Jerusalem. For the former things are passed
away. And He that sat upon the throne
said, Here is the seat of David. He is on the everlasting throne.
Behold, I make all things new." That's our hope, is it not? in
the New Jerusalem. Now, that's the first point.
Here's number two. Here's number two, the stupidity
of sin. The king of Babylon installs
a new governor by the name of Gedaliah to rule over the people
that are left. And Gedaliah's own brothers,
led by Ishmael, take counsel against him and kill him. Gedaliah's
word to them was to submit to the rule of Nebuchadnezzar and
all things shall be well. Look at verse 24. Get a lie,
swear to them and to their men, and said, Fear not to be the
servants of the Chaldeans, and dwell in the land. Serve the
king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. Now, what was
he doing? He was submitting to the will
of the Lord. And he told these men, Just submit,
this is the Lord's will, and all things will be well. Well,
what'd they do? They wouldn't have that. They
rose up and killed him. And then they fled, fled, fled
to Egypt. Now, notice, it shall be well,
it shall be well with you. It shall be well, all things
shall be well. This is similar to the gospel
message in the Lord Jesus Christ. Bow and submit to the sovereign
rule of Christ our King and all things shall be well. That's what he said there. Bow
to the will of the King and all things will be well. And we read
in Scripture, he that believeth on the Son shall have life. You see the stupidity of sin,
instead of bowing, they killed the messenger. They killed Goliath. Now, I said all that to get to
the third thing. We see salvation for sinners
found in verse 27. And it came to pass. Now what
does that tell you? And it came to pass. I mean it
just happened. No, it just happened by the purpose
of God, by the will of God. It came to pass in the seventh
and thirtieth year of the captivity. Now we get back to Jehoiachin. Thirty-seven years he's been
in captivity. He's still the king of Judah.
in the twelfth month on the seventh and twentieth day of the month
that a new king now his name is indicating what his character
is but he acts out of character evil Morodac the king of Babylon
in the year that he began to reign did he lift up the head
of Jehoiakim king of Judah out of prison now did Jehoiakim Merit
or earn. He didn't do anything. I mean,
he was in prison. He was in captivity. God said
he did evil on the side of the Lord, and yet the Lord said,
I'm gonna show mercy to you. And he spake kindly to him. Notice
the marginal reference on the word kindly. Good things with
him. Good thing, good news. And set
his throne above the throne of the king that were with him in
Babylon. changed his prison garment, he
did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life,
and his allowance was a continual allowance given to him of the
king a daily rate for every day, all the days, every day, for
all the days of his life. Does that familiar story sound
familiar? It does. Jehoiachin is being
lifted out of prison, because God must save this man from death
because the promised Messiah will come through his seed, son
of David, tribe of Judah. He's the heir, the sole heir
to the throne of David. He certainly did not do anything
to merit such favor from the king who was an evil king. Some think this man, evil Merodach,
was the same king named Darius that showed mercy to Daniel.
There in the lion's den, I have no reason to doubt that. Notice the exact timing of his
deliverance in verse 27, the 37th year, the 12th month on
the 27th, 37th year, the 12th month on the 27th day of the
month. That's pretty exact, isn't it? Why that day? Because it
pleased the Lord. The Lord has fixed the exact
time of our salvation in the experience of our salvation. Now, God has chosen us from all
eternity. and in the sense that our salvation
is an eternal salvation because we're chosen in Christ. But the
Lord has fixed the exact time of our salvation in the day which
he lifts us out of the pit of sin and sets us free and gives
us liberty in Christ. The second thing, how this pictures
salvation of a sinner, it said the king spake kindly to him,
or as a marginal reference says, spoke unto him good things. Isn't
that what the gospel is? Good things, good news, grace
for the guilty, mercy for the miserable, salvation for sinners,
righteousness provided in Christ, all spiritual blessings freely
given. Here is the third thing I see,
how this pictures our salvation in verse 28. He spake kindly
to him, and set his throne above the
throne of the kings or the princes that were with him in Babylon."
I mean, he not only lifted him out, he exalted him, didn't he? set him above the thrones of
the kings of Babylon, much like Daniel was. Christ has made us
kings and priests under our God, and we shall reign with him. It says that in the word of the
Lord. I'm not making this up. Unto him who loved us and washed
us from our sin and his own blood, and has made us kings and priests
under our God, to him be the glory for now and forever. Not
only that, but in verse 29, He changed his prison garments. You reckon what those prison
garments looked like after 37 years of being locked up in a
dungeon? I bet they smelled a little bit,
don't you think so? I mean, I bet they were ragged,
smelly, vile things. Probably didn't wash them. Maybe
he didn't wash them at all. I don't know. But he changed
his garments. Now, you see the picture of salvation
there? His old rotten prison clothes were removed and he was
given new clothes. The Lord our God has given us
a new garment, a robe of righteousness in Christ. Remember Isaiah 61
10, I will greatly rejoice in the Lord for my soul shall be
joyful in my God. He has clothed me with the garments
of salvation. He has covered me with the robe
of righteousness, as a bridegroom decorates himself with ornaments,
as a bride adorns herself with jewels." He has given us a robe
of His righteousness. Here is the fifth thing I see
in verse 29, and He did eat. What did He eat? Bread. What does that The Lord Jesus
Christ is a bread of life. And those who are born of God
desire the sincere milk of the word and the sincere bread of
the word. He did eat bread continually
and we feed upon Christ continually before him all the days of his
life. Now, you know what that reminded
me of? reminded me of another named Mephibosheth. He was raised
up in a similar situation. David raised him up, and Mephibosheth
did not merit favor, rather disfavor, but God showed mercy, because
that covenant made with Jonathan, like Mephibosheth did eat at
the king's table continually, but he was lame on both his feet.
We constantly feed upon the Lord Jesus Christ who is the bread
of life. Here's the last thing. He was given a daily allowance. Did you see that in verse 30?
And his allowance was a continual allowance, given him of the king,
no less, a daily rate every day all the days of his life a daily allowance now if you
read the last chapter in Jeremiah chapter 52 the last verse of
Jeremiah 52 verse 34 it talks about Jehoiakim and his diet
And for his diet there was a continual diet given him of the king of
Babylon every day a portion until the day of his death all the
days of his life. How does that picture salvation,
our salvation? The Lord has promised us grace
to help in a time of need. The Lord has promised us daily
grace every day, all the days of our life. He said, I'll never
leave you. I'll never forsake you. My God
shall supply all your need according to his riches and glory through
Christ Jesus. The Lord said, my grace is sufficient
for thee. The Lord is my shepherd. Therefore
I shall not want." He said, let us come boldly unto the throne
of grace that we may obtain mercy, find grace to help in time of
need. Now Jehoiachin was preserved by the power of the king, right? I mean the king lifted him, the
king clothed him, the king fed him, the king provided for him,
sustained him, and protected him and kept him such as it is
with every believer. We're kept by the power of God. Jehoiachin was preserved by the
power of God because he was the sole heir to the throne of David
and the Lord Jesus Christ must come through this man's loins. You see the purpose of God, how
exact it is? In closing, we have been made
heirs of God and joint heirs with the Lord Jesus Christ. Peter calls it our inheritance. Inheritance is incorruptible,
undefiled, that fadeth not away. that's reserved in heaven for
you, for you.