06.09.2015 Old Testament: 2Ch 29.15–19

To read the Bible in a year, read Second Chronicles 29–31 on June 9, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

Hezekiah’s father brought idolatry to Jerusalem, even into the house of God built by Solomon. However, Hezekiah sought the Lord with all his heart, and that meant that he had to cleanse the house of God, removing the idolatry and sanctifying everything again, including the house itself, for service to God,

And they gathered their brethren, sanctified themselves, and went according to the commandment of the king, at the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord. Then the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and brought out all the debris that they found in the temple of the Lord to the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it out and carried it to the Brook Kidron. Now they began to sanctify on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the Lord. So they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished. Then they went in to King Hezekiah and said, “We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, the altar of burnt offerings with all its articles, and the table of the showbread with all its articles. Moreover all the articles which King Ahaz in his reign had cast aside in his transgression we have prepared and sanctified; and there they are, before the altar of the Lord” (2 Chronicles 29.15–19). 

You are the temple of God now, and the church is the temple of God also. Please do not think of the building where the church meets. Therefore, do to yourself what Hezekiah did to the temple, and encourage your leaders to do in your local church the same things.