We Believe: Chapter 16 - A Divided People: Judah, The Southern Kingdom
The Students will learn:
Judah struggled to remain faithful to God.
Prophets brought Judah hope and comfort.
The kingdom of Judah came to an end.
Prophets called the people to faithfulness.
Faith Words
Vocation- God;s call to serve him in a special way
Blasphemy- a thought, word, or act that refers to God without respect and reverence.
Facts
1. Rehoboam, the king of Judah, and his successor permitted the worship of FALSE GODS.
2. The people of Judah questioned God’s power and doubted him, because they were mistreated by the ASSYRIANS.
3. The Assyrians forced the people of Judah to recognize their false gods and even set up a huge altar in the Temple of Jerusalem.
4. God sent the prophet ISAIAH to remind the people of Judah of his love for them.
5. Isaiah told the people that in his mercy GOD would spare a remnant of the people.
6. King Ahaz did not listen to Isaiah’s warning to act justly on behalf of God’s people.
7. The prophet MICAH warned of the eventual destruction of both the northern and southern kingdoms.
8. Micah assured the people that God would welcome his people back, forgive their sins and restore them through the work of David.
9. The prophet MICAH preached that goodness lies in the practice of social justice and in the faithfulness to one true God.
10. HEZEKIAH removed foreign idols from the Temple.
11. King Josiah began a reform of religious practices in Judah after finding a copy of “book of the law.”
12. The Babylonian king captured Jerusalem and forced Judah’s new king and others to leave and go to Babylon.
13.God told Habakkuk that Babylon was an instrument for purifying Judah of its sin.
**The Book of Baruch was written to bring comfort to people who had lost their homeland. What was the message?
**Name some ways we see that the promise of a new David has been fulfilled in Jesus Christ.