12:25-13:34 - These were dark
days for God’s people. They were deeply divided. There was the northern
kingdom (Israel). Jeroboam was their ‘big man’. There was the southern
kingdom (Judah). Rehoboam was the ‘voice’ of the south. What a shambles
it all was! Each side seemed intent on outdoing the other - ungodliness.
Sin reigned in the north (13:33-34). Sin reigned in the south
(14:22-24). The ‘big man’ was not so big in the eyes of the Lord. The
‘voice’ did not speak the Word of the Lord. Was there any hope? Yes!
There was an unnamed ‘man of God’ who spoke ‘the Word of the Lord’
(13:1). In all the confusion of these difficult times, God was planning
for a better future. His Word concerned Josiah: ‘a son shall be born…’
(2). We look beyond Josiah to Jesus: ‘to us a Child is born… a Son…’ (Isaiah 9:6-7).
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