Alisdair Semple

Past the 'Sell By' Date

2 Chronicles 36:16 (ESV)
But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Mistakes good men make

2 Chronicles 35:20-22 (ESV)
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him.

Mixed worship

2 Chronicles 33:17 (ESV)
Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

Testing times

2 Chronicles 32:31 (ESV)
And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.

God is gracious

2 Chronicles 30:19 (ESV)
who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary's rules of cleanness."

Laughed to Scorn

2 Chronicles 30:10 (ESV)
So the couriers went from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.

It came about suddenly

2 Chronicles 29:36 (ESV)
And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because God had prepared for the people, for the thing came about suddenly.