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Title: A Tale of Two Cities


1
A Tale of Two Cities
  • Auditorium Class
  • 07/12/09

2
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.

3
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

6
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

7
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

8
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
9
  • 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,.

10
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.
11
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12
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.

13
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.

15
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.

16
Does their society remind you of ours?
17
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.

19
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!

20
  • Will turning back to God spare a nation?

21
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

22
Result of Seeking God
  • 2Kings 19 20, 32-34
  • Angel of the Lord fought the battle
  • 185,000 dead Assyrians, 0 dead Judeans

23
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.
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