Perhaps no other nation has a history as strange as that of the nation of Israel. Turn on the news tonight and there will be at least one segment giving an update of all that is currently happening in Israel. Open your Bible to the Old Testament and you will read the history of ancient Israel, from the time of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, through the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC and the rebuilding of Israel from 538 BC till around 400 BC. Much of that history is contained in the books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles. In this episode of our journey down Route 66 and through the Bible, we come to the book of II Kings. If I were to give the book a theme, along with its history of the Kings of Israel and Judah, I would call it “Heading Toward Catastrophe.” As we pick up in the second half of our trip through Missouri in The Road to Somewhere, we will see the corresponding biblical text ends with the complete destruction of both the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah. It is bleak! But God is not finished with Israel. In coming weeks we will see the return of the Israelites to the land and the rebuilding of what is destroyed in II Kings and Chronicles. The links to both today’s episode and the teaching on II Kings are below. So let’s get back on the road and back into the Book!
Here’s today’s episode:
Here’s the link for II Kings: