God has given us one book that can change the entire direction of our lives, the Bible.

And in this study, journeying through scriptures, we will take a brief big-picture look at every book of the Bible,

tracing God's unfolding story from Genesis to Revelation.

Our prayer is that this journey will stir your heart to open God's word daily.

Let's join Scott Pauli for today's study.

We view life in the past, the present, and the future. And now with God, there is no past present and future. He is the I am. He is in the great eternal now. We're bound by time. He's

not bound by time. But the beautiful truth in application to us is that

God is the God of the past. He's the God of the present and he's the God of the future. We're

journeying through Chronicles and we've come now the Second Chronicles, which picks up where the

former book left off. Ezra is still writing and he's writing to those who are coming back out of

the Babylonian captivity. They've been exiled for 70 years. They've been away from their homes. They've

been away from everything that's familiar. Their temple is gone. Their throne is gone. And God repeats

so many things in chronicles that they knew, that they had heard, that were written

in other places, because he wants to remind them that he has not changed. He wants to remind

them that he is still on the throne, that he's still at work, and that his promises are still

true. Now, when you come to Second Chronicles,

we see the rest of the story. You'll remember that First Chronicles left off with David

reigning. Well, Second Chronicles picks up with chapters 1 through 9 with the reign of his son Solomon.

Chapter 10 then tells us about the rebellion of the ten tribes. You remember the division of the kingdom into Israel and Judah.

And then chapters 11 through the rest of the book,

at least through chapter 36 and verse 16,

and I'll come back to that thought in a moment,

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