Brothers and sisters, we come tonight to the passage that we have all been waiting for. Finally someone is doing something serious about the relentless corruption and apostasy so rife within the borders of Israel and Judah! Finally we’re seeing a political solution to a political problem. At least, sort of a political problem. Obviously the ultimate problem lies in the corrupt hearts of the people of God. But the most obvious presenting problem is the godless, Ahab-tainted leadership of both Israel and Judah. It’s no accident that the last two kings of Israel have been Jehoram and Ahaziah, and the last two kings of Judah have been Ahaziah and Jehoram, in that order. It’s as if the narrator is trying to highlight how interchangeable the two kingdoms have become, how much they look like one another in their orgasmic pursuit of Baal. Yet tonight, the word of God decisively intervenes not by the moral suasion of a prophet or a domestically-scaled act of mercy such as we have been seeing for the last several weeks, but rather by the brutal reality of bronze-tipped arrows in the hearts of wicked kings. What we’ll see tonight is that the word of God drives history and wrenches the arc of the moral universe toward justice.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
