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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The books of 1st and 2nd
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- Kings. What we end up seeing about these two books is in the Hebrew Bible there is only one book called the
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- Book of Kings. This is a historical account of the kings of Israel. Tradition has it that this was written by the prophet
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- Jeremiah, which would mean this was before the 70 year captivity. So this is primarily looking at the life of the kings, the history of the kings, specifically starting with Solomon.
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- Going into great detail, actually most of 1st Kings is all about Solomon, and then it's going to get into the start of the division.
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- You're going to look at the decline of the divisions of the northern and southern tribes.
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- We're going to look at these kingdoms as they fall because they've walked away from God.
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- There's going to be many lessons to learn in the books of 1st and 2nd Kings. Lessons that apply for us today because there's still the fact that we should be faithful to God.
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- What we end up seeing over and over and over again with these kings is that as they walked away from God and worshiped idols and didn't put their trust in God, that they ended up having problems.
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- Those problems arised and those problems drew them away from God. There were some kings who were faithful to God, but these are learning lessons for us.
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- We end up seeing here is this is Jeremiah probably writing before Israel goes into a 40 year captivity to encourage them and teach them lessons that they need to learn and we can learn them today.
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