God Becomes Man, Lesson 15: Bad Kings and Better Prophets

Course Overview

On Wednesday nights throughout the next nine months, we will be walking our way through the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, learning the story of salvation, especially how everything points to and is fulfilled by Jesus.

Lesson 15: Bad Kings and Better Prophets
Lesson Overview

After the reign of David, things begin to look bad for the people of God. Solomon’s reign begins with fanfare and triumph, as he completes the Temple in Jerusalem, replacing the Tabernacle as the central sanctuary of Israel. But he is influenced by his foreign wife to worship idols, and the northern tribes are torn from his heir by God as a result, forming the kingdom of Israel. But God keeps the Davidic line in the southern kingdom based in Jerusalem, called Judah. Generations of apostasy, idolatry, and injustice, despite intense prophetic warnings, culminate in the fall of the Northern Kingdom in 722 bc by the Assyrians and the fall of the Southern Kingdom under the Davidic kings and the destruction of Jerusalem and Solomon’s Temple in 586 bc by the Babylonians. The story of Israel’s history under the monarchy is a case study in the stubbornness and pervasiveness of sin.

Key Text(s): 2 Kings 17:1-23; and 2 Chronicles 36
Office Texts: Psalms 80, 2 Kings 17:1-23; Acts 7:30-53

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