False Apostles
by Pastor Don Elmore
July 6, 2014
Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 25:1-7
This portion of Scripture gives the reference of when it was spoken: the fourth year of Jehoiakim, king of Judah. For twenty-three years, God had sent Jeremiah and His prophets to them telling the Judahites to repent. Notice they all got up early. Did any of the Judahites listen?
JUDAH | REIGN | ISRAEL | REIGN |
Rehoboam | 931-913 | Jeroboam | 931-910 |
ASA | / | ||
JEHOSHAPHAT | |||
Jehoram | |||
Ahaziah | |||
Athaliah | 17 kings | ||
Joash | |||
Amaziah | |||
Azariah | |||
Jotham | |||
Ahaz | / | ||
HEZEKIAH | 716-687 | Hoshea | 732-721 |
Manasseh | Assyrian Captivity | ||
Amon | |||
JOSIAH | 640-608 | 627-- Started | |
Jehoahaz | 608 | 23 years | |
Jehoiakim | 608-597 | 604-- NOW | |
Jehoiachin | 597 | / | |
Zedekiah | 597-586 | / | |
Babylonian Captivity | 18 years |
You can tell from the chart that the Kingdom of Judah went into the Babylonian Captivity eighteen years after this portion of Scripture was given. The House of Israel was already taken into the Assyrian Captivity as well as most of the House of Judah. It was given in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim and in eighteen more years Judah no longer existed as a nation.