Calvary Church is dedicated to doctrine, and we want you to experience the life change that comes

from knowing God's word and applying it to your life. So we explain the Bible verse by verse,

every chapter, every book, this is expound. Turn in your Bibles to Second Chronicles, Chapter 30.

By the way, we are getting new Bibles for the church, ones that you don't have to bring

microscopes from home in order to read.

These have respectable size print that are good for older eyes as well as younger eyes.

So if you leave your Bible at home, you'll be able to follow along with the scriptures here in the church.

Second Chronicles, Chapter 30.

We are nearing the end of the Book of Chronicles.

Nearing the end doesn't mean we're going to end it anytime imminently, but we are in chapter 30,

and there are 36 chapters in this book, so we're nearing the end of the message of the writer of Second Chronicles, the history of the kingdom of Judah.

And we're also nearing the end, chronologically speaking, of the entire Old Testament.

Let me explain. Within a hundred years of where we are in this chapter,

Judah will be taken captive into Babylon for a period of 70 years.

They will then return under Ezra and Nehemiah, and that is the end of the Old Testament.

Chronologically speaking, that ends it. After they return under Ezra and Nehemiah, there are 400 silent years,

theologians refer to them as, and then the New

Testament starts up chronologically. So even though you have Psalms which harken back to David

and Asaph and others, and you have proverbs which harken back to Solomon, whom we have

already covered, he's in chronologically in our study of the scriptures.

They've kicked the bucket. They're buried long ago.

Even though there's the prophet Isaiah coming up, he's a contemporary here of Hezekiah, the king we're studying.

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