Hope For Dark Days | The Writings | 2 Chronicles 28

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🗓️ 1 April 2024

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Where do you turn when you have a bad day? Where is God when you feel surrounded by darkness? How can you make the world feel less dark? In today's episode, Tanya shares a powerful story from 2 Chronicles 28 and shares the hope of a rescuer from darkness. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 2 Chronicles 28

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Tanya Wilmoth.
0:19.0	Have you ever had a really bad day or a string of bad days? Your answer is probably yes.
0:21.0	Maybe you felt darkness enveloping you, maybe you couldn't even see a way forward.
0:26.7	It can be hard to believe that God is good and that what he has for us is good when we feel
0:32.3	enveloped by darkness.
0:34.6	Second Chronicles 28 describes a dark time
0:37.8	and one very, very bad day for the southern kingdom of Judah. A-Haz was the new king in the south,
0:45.0	and he was a drastic contrast to his father, Jotham,
0:48.0	who was with no fault.
0:50.0	There isn't a positive thing to be said about A has.
0:53.0	The account of his kingship emphasizes his unfaithfulness, and it describes how the worship
0:58.0	of the Lord had been replaced by worship of foreign gods.
1:01.3	It also describes the faithlessness of the people in the Southern Kingdom. It was a truly
1:06.8	dark time for Judah. It says, therefore the Lord his God gave him into the hand of the King of Syria, who defeated him and took
1:14.7	captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus.
1:18.4	He was also given into the hand of the King of Israel, who struck him with great force.
1:23.1	For Pekka, the son of Ramalaya, killed 120,000 from Judah in one day.
1:28.5	All of them men of valor because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. So because of their unfaithfulness,
1:35.3	in the words of Moses prophecy, they were uprooted and thrust into another land.
1:40.3	200,000 civilians, including women and children, and the elderly, were taken captive along with all
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