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What happens when the Word of God comes afresh and anew?
Recap
Responding humbly to the Word of God...
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.”
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.
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.
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He demolished shrines in the city gates.
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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.
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He take the ornamental horses dedicated to the sun from the Temple entrance.
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He has removed all alters on peoples rooftops altars set aside for the worship of astral deities.
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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?
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.
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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.
Psalm 30
The Temple:
Was Jesus/Was Josiah:
Restoring the Temple for authentic worship?
Judging the Temple and prophesying its destruction?
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?
2 Kings
Paul in 1 corinthians 11...
Ruthless Inventory
Cleaning house
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