MC: Kings--Esther: God Rules His People
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"The Books of 1 and 2 Kings and 1 and 2 Chronicles tell the story of kings and prophets. Israel and Judah easily forget that the Lord alone is their king. When they go after other gods, the Lord raised up prophets, men and women who spoke from God. They invited God's people to return to him and warned them of the consequences if they did not. Ezra and Nehemiah tell the story of the return of God's people from exile. It is God who acts through pagan human rulers to return his people to the Promised Land. These books are therefore books of hope. Although God's people abandoned him, he did not abandon them. After their time of punishment in exile, the Lord brings them home. Esther is a strange book to be in the Bible, telling the story of a girl who becomes queen after winning a beauty pageant. It has no mention of temple, covenant, or even God! With the surrounding books that talk so much of the kings of Israel and Judah, Esther is set in a different country, Persia, at the court of a foreign king"--
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1684264375
ISBN13:9781684264377
Release Date:August 2024
Publisher:ACU Press/Leafwood Publishers
Length:144 Pages
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