Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Okay Bible Readers, it's time for our weekly check-in. We've read a lot of new

names, new places, and strangely-worded prophecies this week, so I just want to

remind you, there will not be a quiz.

If you were to tell me the name of a king and ask me which kingdom he ruled

over they'd be a good chance I'd have to guess. So this is just your

weekly reminder that understanding all these details on your first or 50th pass through scripture isn't the point.

The point is, what are you learning about God and his character?

Are you seeing more of him? Are you delighting in him more? If so,

thank him and if not ask him for help. He can open your eyes and he can change your heart.

But Jehovah has, not so much, whoever that is.

Today we're back in the narrative section of scripture

in a time that overlaps with the prophecies we're reading.

These prophecies are being delivered during this time

frame and many but not all of them are being fulfilled during this time frame as well.

Another portion of the prophecies were fulfilled after this time period, like the birth of the Messiah, for instance.

And some have yet to be fulfilled, like the Messiah coming back to reign in peace on the new earth.

For today, though, we're stuck in the final days of the

kingdom of Judah. They have a new king, A has, and he's horrible, honestly.

He's acted more like a northern king than a Southern King, building idols of his own,

and even initiating child sacrifices, which is exactly what the Canaanites who were in the

promised land before the Israelites were doing, and that's why God used

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