Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calbury Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with the

divided kingdom as we pick up in First Kings chapter 12 verse one and now with

today's message here's pastor Chuck and so he gathered together an army and the Lord spoke to them and told them not to start a war at that time.

And so the kingdom was divided and this is an important point in the

history of the nation. The Northern Kingdom, as I said, was called Israel. Unfortunately, they did not have

one decent king. Israel was plagued with idolatry from the beginning.

Judah had some good kings, some excellent kings, and some bad kings.

Israel never had any good kings at all.

They went from bad to worse. But at least in Judah, they did have some

decent kings who did bring reforms there in Judah. But the kingdoms were never united again. The Northern Kingdom fell first, because

of its idolatry and all, it fell first to Assyria. Later on, about 500 BC, the southern

kingdom fell to Babylon. Babylon.

Later there was a regathering, of course,

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