Josiah, Part 2
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What happens when the Word of God comes afresh and anew?
What happens when the Word of God comes afresh and anew?
Recap
Responding humbly to the Word of God...
Here is Josiah’s decision:
Here is Josiah’s decision:
He is spared… the coming exile, he won’t go through.
So… does he do nothing OR does he do something.
He decides to “do something.”
1 Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 2 He went up to the temple of the Lord with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the Lord. 3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the Lord—to follow the Lord and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, thus confirming the words of the covenant written in this book. Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant.
Josiah pledged himself to the covenant and following the Lord as the Book of the Covenant described and commanded.
Josiah pledged himself to the covenant and following the Lord as the Book of the Covenant described and commanded.
The “ALL” the people pledged themselves.
The “ALL” the people pledged themselves.
From there we are told of 10 things Josiah did:
From there we are told of 10 things Josiah did:
Josiah orders the priests to remove from the temple all the cultic vessels used in the worship of other gods.
He stops pagan priests who staff the high and outlying places where people worship idols.
He burns the Asherah pole (an idol of worship) his grandfather placed in the Temple. (Canaanite fertility goddess and the wooden pole that symbolized her.)
He demolishes the living quarters of “the male shrine prostitutes” where materials for were Asherah were made.
These first four are All inside the Temple area.
5. He desecrated the places from Geba to Beersheba used to
worship idols — that is Judah’s Northern and Southern
boundaries.
6. He demolished shrines in the city gates.
7. He defiles and destroys Topheth — a place where child sacrifices were made in honor of the dark lord Molech.
These final 3 occur near the Temple and just outside the city.
8. He take the ornamental horses dedicated to the sun from the Temple entrance.
9. He has removed all alters on peoples rooftops altars set aside for the worship of astral deities.
10. He desecrates, then smashes, the high places King Solomon built for his wives — going alllllll the way back to the glory days when idol images were not welcome in Jerusalem or the Temple.
What happens when we find the Bible or the Bible finds us afresh and anew?
What happens when we find the Bible or the Bible finds us afresh and anew?
Cleansing… a cleansing is what happens.
Mom’s cleaning the house for visitors coming over.
The cleaning was searching for dirt. Fearlessly.
12 Steps — inventory
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We’re entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
This was not always the case for the Temple and the holy land on which it resided.
This was not always the case for the Temple and the holy land on which it resided.
1 I will exalt you, Lord,
for you lifted me out of the depths
and did not let my enemies gloat over me.
2 Lord my God, I called to you for help,
and you healed me.
3 You, Lord, brought me up from the realm of the dead;
you spared me from going down to the pit.
4 Sing the praises of the Lord, you his faithful people;
praise his holy name.
5 For his anger lasts only a moment,
but his favor lasts a lifetime;
weeping may stay for the night,
but rejoicing comes in the morning.
6 When I felt secure, I said,
“I will never be shaken.”
7 Lord, when you favored me,
you made my royal mountain stand firm;
but when you hid your face,
I was dismayed.
8 To you, Lord, I called;
to the Lord I cried for mercy:
9 “What is gained if I am silenced,
if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise you?
Will it proclaim your faithfulness?
10 Hear, Lord, and be merciful to me;
Lord, be my help.”
11 You turned my wailing into dancing;
you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
12 that my heart may sing your praises and not be silent.
Lord my God, I will praise you forever.
Psalm 30
The Temple:
The Temple:
15 On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, 16 and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. 17 And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
18 The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.
Was Jesus/Was Josiah:
Was Jesus/Was Josiah:
Restoring the Temple for authentic worship?
Judging the Temple and prophesying its destruction?
The Temple:
The Temple:
The first Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians not long after King Josiah is killed at war in the year 586 BC.
The second Temple was envisioned by Ezekiel and undertaken by Haggai and Zechariah around 520 BC.
The second Temple suffered desecration at the hands of Antiochus Epiphanes in 167 BC, but in 164 BC it was rededicated.
This second Temple was the one standing in when Jesus enters it to “cleanse” it.
The second Temple stood until Jerusalem’s destruction by the Romans in AD 70… and then, Temple worship ceased.
So, what happens to the Temple in the New Testament?
So, what happens to the Temple in the New Testament?
18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
2 Kings
21 The king gave this order to all the people: “Celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.” 22 Neither in the days of the judges who led Israel nor in the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah had any such Passover been observed. 23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the Lord in Jerusalem.
Paul in 1 corinthians 11...
Ruthless Inventory
Cleaning house