VENGEANCE IS MINE SAITH THE LORD

2 KINGS 24-25

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

To me belongeth vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. - Deuteronomy 32:35

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. - Romans 12:19

 

I. THE KING WITH A PENKNIFE [24:1-6, Jer. 36:1, 20-26]

- AND it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying…

- And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king. So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king. Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth. Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words. Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them. But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord hid them.

 

II. THE KING WRITTEN CHILDLESS [24:6-16, 25:27-30, Jer. 22:28-30, Matthew 1:1, 11, 16]

- Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

- THE book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

- And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:

- And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. [How accurate is the Word of God – Jesus is NOT of the seed of Joseph and thus not of the seed of Jeconiah]

 

III. THE KING OF LIES [24:17-20, 25:1-7, Jer. 21, Ezek. 12:1-13]

Zedekiah had sworn in God’s name to be faithful to Nebuchadnezzar. He lied to man but more importantly he lied to God. God has no pleasure in fools. [Eccl. 5:4]

 

 IV. THE MEN WHO WOULD BE KING [25:8-27]

 

Remember-

God is God

Sin must be paid for

Jesus will either be your Saviour or your Judge