A Tale of Two Cities

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A Tale of Two Cities

• Auditorium Class
• 07/12/09

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Why Look to the Old Testament

• Rom 154 For whatsoever things were written
  aforetime were written for our learning, that we
  through patience and comfort of the scriptures
  might have hope.

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Timeline

• Moses and Exodus 1500
• Joshua 1450 BC
• Time of the Judges
• David 1000 BC
• Divided Kingdom - 931 BC
• Dates are approximate only and varied by a few
  years depending on dating of events

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Kingdom Divided

• Rehoboam Follows Solomon as king of Judah
• Tribes rebel and follow Jeroboam and form kingdom
  of Israel
• Jeroboam institutes worship in Israel

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Timeline

• Divided Kingdom - 931 BC
• Israel Conquered by Assyria 722 BC
• Assyria Conquered by Babylonians 612 BC
• Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon 605 BC
• Jerusalem (Judah) Conquered) 586 BC
• Dates are approximate only and varied by a few
  years depending on dating of events

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Why the difference in life of each nation?

• Israel lasted approx 210 yrs
• Judah lasted approx 346 yrs
• Dates are approximate only and varied by a few
  years depending on dating of events

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Israel (Nation of North) conquered

• 2 Kings 171-6
• Why ?
• 2 Kings 177-18 (7-8, 16-18) Reason Given
• Joshua 239-16 (warning)
• Ex 203 (warning)
• Deut 71-4, 9-10 (warning)

Disobedience
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• Jos 239-16 (9)For the LORD hath driven out from
  before you great nations
• (12) Else if ye do in any wise go back, and
  cleave unto the remnant of these nations, (13)
  Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will
  no more drive out any of these nations from
  before you but they shall be snares and traps
  unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns
  in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good
  land which the LORD your God hath given you.
  (15) Therefore it shall come to pass, that as
  all good things are come upon you, which the LORD
  your God promised you so shall the LORD bring
  upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed
  you from off this good land which the LORD your
  God hath given you. (16) When ye have
  transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God,
  which he commanded you, and have gone and served
  other gods, and bowed yourselves to them then
  shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against
  you,.

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Israel (Nation of North) conquered

• 2 Kings 171-6
• Why
• 2 Kings 177-18
• Joshua 239-16
• Ex 203
• Deut 71-4, 9-10
• God is Longsuffering (20 evil kings 200 Yrs)

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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God Sent Prophets

• 2 Kings 1713
• Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and
  against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all
  the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways,
  and keep my commandments and my statutes,
  according to all the law which I commanded your
  fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants
  the prophets.

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Who were these prophets

• Elijah Elisha
• Isaiah
• Jeremiah
• Hosea
• Amos
• Micah
• Habakkuk

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What did they have to say

• Amos 26-7 511-15 Treatment of the Poor
• Jeroboam II, rich get richer, transgress then
  offer sacrifice (Ch. 4)
• Hosea 41-3
• Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of
  Israel for the LORD hath a controversy with the
  inhabitants of the land, because there is no
  truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the
  land.
• By swearing, and lying, and killing, and
  stealing, and committing adultery, they break
  out, and blood toucheth blood.
• Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one
  that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the
  beasts of the field, and with the fowls of
  heaven yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be
  taken away.

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What did they have to say

• Amos 26-7 511-15 Treatment of the Poor
• Hosea 41-3
• Habakkuk 13-6
• Habbakkuk questions God
• (3) Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me
  to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence
  are before me and there are that raise up strife
  and contention.
• (4) Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment
  doth never go forth for the wicked doth compass
  about the righteous therefore wrong judgment
  proceedeth.
• Lords Reply
• (5) Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and
  wonder marvellously for I will work a work in
  your days, which ye will not believe, though it
  be told you.
• (6) For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that
  bitter and hasty nation, which shall march
  through the breadth of the land, to possess the
  dwelling places that are not theirs.

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Does their society remind you of ours?
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Is God Punishing America? By Hector Carreon
July 18, 2002 http//www.aztlan.net/godpunishing
usa.htm
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• The USA has certainly been "blessed" in the
  past, but something terrible has gone wrong in
  recent years that now threatens its very
  existence. Pure evil is no longer confined to
  the traditional seamy sectors of society. It is
  now present inside the "Boardrooms of Corporate
  America", inside the "Halls of Congress", in the
  "White House", in "Academia" and yes, even inside
  "Catholic Churches" where altar boys have been
  raped by homosexual priests. The USA is now ruled
  by an "evil cabal" of greedy, corrupt and totally
  immoral people. The "wake up call" for America's
  citizens should have been the image that was
  broadcast over and over of the collapsing World
  Trade Center towers. Yes, the attendance in
  America's churches spiked soon after September
  11, but now the American people are returning to
  their old ways. Their lust for money, drugs, sex
  and entertainment is even greater now than before
  911. It is nowonder that the USA is now feeling
  the increasing wrath of the Lord.

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What is Hectors Answer?

• The American people must collectively begin to
  reject the "evil cabal's" false teachings and
  seek forgiveness from God for all the nation's
  sins at home and abroad. The only way to heal
  from destructive "guilt" that leads to all sorts
  of addictions is not through Freudian and other
  modern psychiatric and psychological
  "headshrinking" but through true and genuine
  repentance.
• America must get on its knees and humbly pray
  for forgiveness to the Son of God, The True
  Messiah Jesus Christ. If it does not, the
  nation and its children will surely perish!

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• Will turning back to God spare a nation?

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Turning back to God

• Judah on the same track as Israel
• God protected Judah from Assyria
• 2 Kings 18 19
• Hezekiah became King - trusted God
• Rebelled against Assyria
• Assyria came against Judah
• Hezekiah prayed to God for protection
• 2 Kings 1915-19

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Result of Seeking God

• 2Kings 19 20, 32-34
• Angel of the Lord fought the battle
• 185,000 dead Assyrians, 0 dead Judeans

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What should we do/how should we live

• Seek first the kingdom of God Matt 633
• Php 215-16
• (15) That ye may be blameless and harmless, the
  sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a
  crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine
  as lights in the world
• (16) Holding forth the word of life that I may
  rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run
  in vain, neither laboured in vain.
• Mat 513,14 Salt/Light

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What should we do/how should we live

• Seek first the kingdom of God Matt 633
• Php 215-16
• Mat 513,14 Salt/Light
• The Great Commission
• Mat 2819-20 Go ye therefore, and teach all
  nations, baptizing them in the name of the
  Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
  (20) Teaching them to observe all things
  whatsoever I have commanded you and, lo, I am
  with you always, even unto the end of the world.