Good King-Bad King

October 16
I was reading in II Kings today about all the good and bad kings in the Northern and Southern Kingdoms of Israel and Judah after the reigns of David and then Solomon. You may remember towards the end of Solomon’s reign, he had begun turning away from the God of Israel because of all the foreign women he had married. He began worshiping all the gods of the wives he had taken from all the tribes around him that God had warned him not to marry. When he died, the kingdom was divided between his son, Rehoboam, and Jeroboam, who took over the kingship of the Northern 10 tribes.
Amazingly enough God had promised Jeroboam He would bless him and make one of his sons to sit upon his throne forever if he just followed the commandments of the law. He didn’t. He was evil. He set the pattern that nearly every king of the Northern kingdom who followed him. Only one or two of the kings of the Northern kingdom wasn’t an abomination before God. For today, the point I would like us to consider is that every king who did what was good in the sight of God experienced God’s blessing on his kingdom; and every king who did what was evil in the sight of the Lord experienced God’s wrath on his kingdom. I believe that same rule applies today and has applied in all history for all the years mankind has lived on this planet. There are many biblical examples, the most significant and obvious of which is Nineveh. It was a wicked kingdom. Jonah preached the wrath of God was coming. The king repented, work sackcloth and threw ashes on his head, fasted, and decreed that everyone else would do likewise. God changed His mind about the evil he was going to bring on Nineveh. One hundred and twenty thousand people’s lives were spared because the king called for fasting and repentance throughout the land.

Today in America, we have rulers who are evil. It’s not because they are democrats that I say so. It is because our head of state promotes the murder of children. It is because our head of state promotes gay rights. It is because our head of state bows to leaders of countries who worship false gods. It’s because our head of state is an accomplished liar and deceiver. It is because our head of state promotes the worship of the gods of our enemies. America will experience the wrath of God for choosing a man who promised change without its citizens considering the evil that change would demand. America will experience God’s wrath for not caring that its head of state promotes the murder of helpless children while they are still in the wombs of their mothers. The voters have spoken and what they have said is they are more concerned for their own welfare than the welfare of unborn children. Personal wealth in America is exponentially more important to its citizens than integrity, righteousness, care for the helpless, or honor. We had best begin praying, fasting, and weeping for our country. We had best begin praying for a godly man to lead this country back to the cross; or we will soon be reaping what we have sown. And that’s God’s word for us today.