2 CHRONICLES 25:8-NLT
IF YOU LET THEM GO WITH YOUR TROOPS INTO BATTLE, YOU WILL BE DEFEATED BY THE ENEMY NO
MATTER HOW WELL YOU FIGHT.GOD WILL OVERTHROW YOU,FOR HE HAS THE POWER TO HELP YOU OR TO TRIP YOU.
IF YOU READ THIS CHAPTER 25 OF 2 CHRONICLES YOU GET TO UNDERSTAND HOW AMAZIAH WAS ONLY 25 YRS OLD WHEN HE BECAME THE KING OF JERUSALEM AND REIGNED FOR 29 YRS, THOUGH HE DID WHAT PLEASED GOD BUT NOT WHOLEHEARTEDLY.
IF YOU READ FURTHER DOWN WE SEE HIM TAKING A CENSUS OF HIS ARMY WHICH NUMBERED UPTO 300,000, TO ADD MORE 100,000 HE PAID THE ISRAELITES AND GOT MORE EXPERIENCED FIGHTING MEN.
NOW GOD SENT HIS SERVANT TO WARN HIM FROM HIRING ANY WARRIOR FROM ISRAEL AS GOD WAS NOT WITH ISRAEL & IF THEY ACCOMPANIED HIS TROOPS HE WOULD BE DEFEATED, NO MATTER HOW WELL HE FOUGHT, GOD WOULD OVERTHROW HIM, FOR GOD HAS THE POWER TO HELP OR OVERTHROW, SO HE SENT THE HIRED WARRIORS BACK HOME,WHO IN ANGER KILLED 3000 PEOPLE OF JUDAH.
WHEN HE PREPARED HIS ARMY AND WENT AGAINST THE EDOMITES (MEN OF SEIR) GOD GAVE HIM THE VICTORY BUT HERE HE DOES SOMETHING VERY STUPID HE BRINGS ALL THE IDOLS OF THE EDOMITES AND BOWS BEFORE & WORSHIPS GOD WAS VERY ANGRY AT THIS BETRAYAL AND SENDS HIS SERVANT TO TELL HIM THAT GOD INTENDED TO DESTROY HIM, AFTER THIS WE SEE HIM CHALLENGING KING JOASH TO A BATTLE WHERE WE SEE KING JOASH DISSUADING HIM BUT AMAZIAH REFUSES TO LISTEN BECAUSE IT WAS FROM GOD, SO HE WOULD GIVE HIM INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY AND WE SEE HIM BEING DEFEATED. SEVERAL YEARS AFTER THIS BATTLE WE SEE AMAZIAH WAS ASSASSINATED.
WHAT DO WE UNDERSTAND HERE IS; IT WAS RIDICULOUS OF AMAZIAH TO WORSHIP THE IDOLS OF THE EDOMITES, THESE IDOLS FAILED TO SAVE THE EDOMITES FROM AMAZIAH’S ARMY.
PRAYER: FATHER GOD MAY I NOT WORSHIP OR IDOLISE THE LOUSY THINGS OF THIS WORLD, MAY I NEVER WORSHIP IDOLS OF MONEY, FAME, SEX, DRUGS, POPULARITY, SELFISHNESS, ETC., MAY I NOT PURSUE THESE IDOLS WHO HAVE FAILED COUNTLESS PEOPLE AND DESTROYED THEIR LIVES. MAY I NOT BE LIKE AMAZIAH AND TRADE THE ONLY TRUE GOD,FOR LOUSY GODS WHO HAVE A TRACK RECORD OF FAILING THEIR WORSHIPPERS.
IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME WE PRAY, AMEN AMEN AND AMEN.
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