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DAILY ⓂANNA – Devotion : The Wicked will give way

TUESDAY 20TH OCTOBER,2020“`

📜📜“`TEXT:2 CHRONICLES 23:12-21“`📜📜

🔑📖“`KEY VERSE:“` _”And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword” (2 CHRONICLES 23:21)._

 

The Wicked will give way

Hundreds of years before Athaliah, the word of God had been revealed to Job about the worthlessness of the prosperity of the wicked. He himself had once swum in great riches, but falling into Satan-inspired penury and bodily afflictions, the man considered “the greatest of all men in the east” said: “How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger” (Job 21:17).

God’s anger having gone the way of Athaliah, she was deposed and laid bare for judgment here on earth before the eternal one in the presence of the Almighty whose laws she had rejected. In her pride and refusal to accept the reality of her fall and recognise the new King Joash, she put up a fight. But she was eventually caught and executed.

With Athaliah’s exit from the affairs of Judah, there followed a period of reforms characterised by the true worship of Jehovah. All the requirements of the Law of Moses in the house of the Lord were met. The singing ministry instituted by King David also resurfaced. The shrine of Baal was pulled down and his priest slain. Porters were placed at the gates of the house of the Lord to prevent any unclean thing from entering. Above all, the people made a covenant that Judah “should be the LORD’S people”.

That is the picture of the new life of the born-again child of God. When sin and wickedness disappear from their lives as a result of the work at Calvary, the Lord settles in with peace, righteousness and joy. This is also a glimpse of what awaits us during the Millennium Reign of Christ here on earth. Joash symbolises Jesus the King who will drive away the wicked kings of this world, for Him to take over full universal authority. It will be a glorious time.

✍“`THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:“` _The throne isn’t for the wicked._

📜📜“`THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:“` *ISAIAH 61 – 66*📜📜

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