列王纪下［第23章］
Book of 2 Kings 23
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列王纪下［第23章|Book of 2 Kings 23【通国洁净释放】
12/11/2021
引言 :干净的城市与肮脏的城市，你喜欢哪一个？
肮脏滋生蛇鼠臭虫，病毒病菌，威胁人类的健康！在属灵上也是一样!
一、为神招聚众民（V1-11）
迈向复兴的道路有什么步骤呢？罪恶消除脱离黑暗，生命复苏重建光明！
1.集合全民（V1-2）
约西亚王爱神，坚守神的诫命。要带动全国的复兴，首先需要召集领袖。把犹大全地和首都京城的众长老，领袖们召集起来。除了有了百姓的领袖，跟着还要有其他属灵领袖，甚至是一家大小都聚集起来。来到神的殿，一同来听取神与人立约的圣书卷。
神的子民要听见关乎祝福与咒诅的真理诫命！ 他们不像我们今天这样幸福，人人拥有神的话语在手中。甚至时刻不离手，因为神的话也在手机里。但是，我们却是因此而变得不珍惜，不去读、不去听、不去行，所以才回到咒诅的模式里。此时此刻，我们除了在主日集会是召集大家来敬拜神，而且还可以透过晨祷和607的平台召集大家来听神的话，向神祷告。
2.尽心守约（V3）
神是与人立约的神，这是极不对称的盟约。神是全能、全知、至圣、至高的创造主。人却是无能、无知、污秽、卑微的被造物，而神竟然愿意与人立约。而且这约的性质很特别：即是父与子之约、也是夫与妻之约、更是主与仆之约、亦是师徒之约、又是王与民之约。两者的身份和等悬殊？
立约者永不放弃，永不食言。神对守约者只有一个条件：‘尽心尽性’去回应神。（整本圣经有34次说到‘尽心’这词，其中31次都是形容人对神的回应。）耶稣也是这样教导我们面对神的诫命。
王带领众人一同向神立约，并且表明要尽全力的顺服神的带领，严守神的诫命。最终蒙福的是人自己，何乐不为呢？
3.洁净圣殿（V4-11）
（1）把一切属偶像的器具都从圣殿中清理出来
（2）废除一切拜偶现的祭司和相关人士
（3）把偶像搬到专门焚烧垃圾的地方打碎烧净
（4）作为淫乱祭祀之用的房子也要拆毁
我们做家居洁净的处理原则也是由此而来····，我们的环境空间洁净了，神也就乐于同在显出祝福。
二、为神洁净全国（V12-20）
洁净的范围应该是多大呢？就根据当事人的管辖权限而定。一家之主对全家有权柄、全国之首对国家有权柄。
1.破除列王的祭坛（V12-14）
以前的列王所建立的偶像祭坛该如何处理呢？他们既然已经不在了，如今谁做王就是谁说了算。因为，当权者有权柄把不好的、败坏的、得罪神的风俗通通给消灭掉。
想想我们的家族中有没有一些什么“不属神的祭坛”？例如暴怒的灵、淫乱的灵、疾病的咒诅、贫穷的咒诅等“祭坛”，不是属神的本质，而是罪恶咒诅的果子，统统要拆毁打碎除灭。
2.彻底根除罪恶源（V15-20）
伯特利בֵּית אֵל神的家怎么会有外邦偶像的祭坛？这就是过往神子民被蒙蔽而产生的误差，如今都要一一破除销毁。否则就继续惹神发怒，这样还有什么祝福呢？
今天【神的家】就是教会，教会有没有什么惹神发怒的“祭坛”呢？ 骄傲、自义、包庇罪恶、贪图财利、自私排他、分门别类、勾心斗角····。这些神所看为罪的元素不也是很容易滋长于神的家中吗？那里有这些“祭坛”，那里就给仇敌留地步。我们要一一破除！
三、恢复神的节期（V21-23）
这是非常振奋人心的记载，我们如今都以守神的节期为教会的高潮点。在以色列民得地为业之后，过去几百年的历史中，他们竟然忘了要守神的节期。原来到了约西亚王的这个时候，他们才重新发现和想到要守神的节期。尤其逾越节是纪念神的救赎，这是何等宝贵的经历，怎能忘记神恩呢？
我们不也要时时纪念神的救赎恩典么？想到自己原本是被判死罪的死人，如今却被逾越节的代罪羔羊给救赎了，我们怎么忘记这恩典呢？我们岂能不为这位主而活？甚至完全摆上自己，一生被主使用呢？
四、彻底洁净全地（V24-25）
1.破除巫术权势（V24-25）
在前两章经文说到玛拿西王的败坏的时候，我说从希西家接触巴比伦到后来的世代，似乎都受到一种使人混乱的巫术之灵的影响，如今约西亚王的确就是要破除一切巫术邪术的权势。这样才得以全面洁净全地，破除国家的咒诅。
对教会的弟兄姐妹而言，我们都知道也向往破除家族和生活中可能隐藏的一切咒诅，所以大家都积极参与教会的医治释放课程和营会。但是也要像约西亚那样，尽心、尽性、尽力归向神，爱神服事神，为神作祂所吩咐的事。
2.神为何还动怒（V26-27）
（代下33不是记载玛拿西侧底悔改吗？）
两卷书的记载很不同，也许和作者的重点有关。《列王纪》应该是由先知耶利米所写，先知的信心总是责备罪恶，从神管教的角度，表明犯罪作恶的结局就是死。信息鲜明没有含糊，犯罪就得死。但是《历代志》是由文士以斯拉所写，作者就比较注重细节，把事情的来龙去脉记录得更详尽。因此把玛拿西悔改的事也记载了。既然如此，为何神还如此发怒呢？
在我的灵里似乎感受到神说：“我是有怜悯有恩典的，所以玛拿西悔改的时候我就饶恕了他。但是他所种下的恶种，在子民中间的恶行影响深远。玛拿西所种下的恶种，已经遍布全民。虽然约西亚做得很好，但是这只是他权柄上可以办到的事，在外表上虽然铲除了所有的巫术权势，但是百姓心里的毒根还在，还没有被栽种真理的稻种所取代，所以约西亚走了以后，百姓又重蹈覆辙。这都是玛拿西所造成的，所以我很生气。“
3.死于自己多事（V28-30）
一生为神执行公义的好王是怎么死的呢？这里记载是在战场上被杀死，那不是死于非命？不得好死吗？但是 上一章经文的最后一节却引述一位女先知的预言说：‘我必使你平平安安地归到坟墓，到你列祖那里；我要降与这地的一切灾祸，你也不至亲眼看见。’他们就回复王去了。（王下22:20）其实这里可以说是约西亚王太多事了，埃及法老王要去攻击亚述王，这又关他何事呢？神即没有要他插手，而且两个外邦国家的事何时轮到他了介入呢？结果他就白白的送死了。
主啊！为什么约西亚一生都勇敢的为真理而活，只是在错误抵挡埃及的事上有误差判断，祢就让他结束了生命呢？ 在我的灵里又感受到神说：“正因为他一生都行得正，按我的心意做事，他更不应该犯这样的错，所以我就让他回家了，免得日后错得更大。”
五、恶王依然延续（V31-37）
约西亚之后的最后四个王都是恶王，四王的执政只经过大约22年就完全亡国了，被掳掠到巴比伦去了。大家可能觉得很惊讶，为什么约西亚作了那么伟大的全国性洁净之后，国家不但没有复兴，反而在他之后就一路走向灭亡？
主啊！为什么约西亚侧底的洁净了全国，祢却是在这个时期说出要赶出犹大人的愤怒之言？
我再次感受到神说：“因为我看到罪恶的历史不断重演，约西亚所显示的就是我所要的，但是在他之后人又是固态复发，因此我发出最后的预警，我是说到做到。”
总结：时代将要结束
你作何回应？
这里让我们看到一个时代将要结束，剩下不到23年的时间，但是人心如何回应呢？约西亚王做了全面的洁净，然后就安然见主了。后来的罪恶就是一路引向灭亡。
我们现今的世代不正是如此吗？我们竭力炼净生命预备见主，往后的罪恶会恶化到最终被神灭绝！
2 Kings 23 【Cleansing And Realise Over The Whole Nation】
Introduction: Which do you prefer, a clean city or a dirty city?
Filth breeds snakes, rats, bedbugs, viruses and germs that threaten human health! It is the same in spirituality!
1. Gathering the People for God (V1-11)
What are the steps on the road to revival? Sin is removed from darkness, and life is restored to the light!
(1) Gathering All People (v1-2)
King Josiah loved God and held fast to the commandments of God. To bring about a national revival, the first thing needed to be the gathering of leaders. Gather all the elders and leaders from all the land of Judah and the capital city. In addition to the leaders of the people, spiritual leaders, even families, needed to be gathered. Come to the house of God and hear together the holy scroll of the covenant between God and man.
God's people need to hear the commandments of truth concerning blessings and curses! They were not as blessed as we are today, when everyone has the word of God in their hands. The word of God does not even leave their hands at all times, for the word of God is also in their cell phones. However, we have become unappreciative because of this and we do not read, hear, or act on it, so we have returned to the pattern of curses. At this moment, except gathering people to worship God in the Sunday Services, but also gathering people to hear God's words and pray to God through the Morning Devotion and 607 Worship & Prayer.
(2) Keep the covenant with all your heart (v3)
Our God is a God who makes a covenant with man, which is a highly asymmetrical covenant. God is the omnipotent, omniscient, holy, and supreme creator. Man, however, is an impotent, ignorant, defiled, and vile creation, but God is willing to make a covenant with man. The nature of this covenant is very special: it is a covenant between the Father and the Son, a covenant between the husband and the wife, a covenant between the master and the servant, a covenant between the master and the disciple, and a covenant between the King and the people. What a difference in status between the two?
He who makes a covenant never gives up and never breaks his word. God has only one condition for the keepers of covenant: to respond to God with all their heart and soul. (The entire Bible speaks of the word 'with all your heart' 34 times, and 31 of those times are describing man's response to God). This is also how Jesus teaches us to face the commandments of God.
The king led the people in a covenant to God and made clear that he would do his best to obey the leading of God and keep His commandments. It is the man himself who is ultimately blessed, so why not?
(3) Cleansing the Holy Temple (v4-11)
Cleanse the temple of all idolatrous objects Abolish all the priests and related persons who worshiped the idols Removing the idols to a designated place for burning garbage to break them up and burn them The house used for obscene sacrifices should also be demolished.
This is where we get the principle of dealing with household cleansing ...., and when the environment is clean, God is pleased to show His blessing with His presence.
2. Purify the Nation for God (V12-20)
How large should the range of purification be? It depends on the jurisdictional authority of the person concerned. The head of a family has authority over the whole family, and the head of the nation has authority over the nation.
(1) Break down the altars of the former kings (v12-14)
What should be done with the idolatrous altars erected by the former kings? Since they are no longer there, whoever is king now is in charge. For those who are in authority have the power to destroy all the bad, corrupt, and offensive customs.
Consider if there are any "ungodly altars" in our families. Such "altars" as the spirit of wrath, the spirit of adultery, the curse of sickness, the curse of poverty, etc., are not of God's nature, but are the fruit of the curse of sin, and must all be broken down and destroyed.
(2) Complete Eradication of the Source of Sin (v15-20)
How could there be an altar of gentile idols in the house of God in Bethel בֵּית אֵל? This is the error of the past when God's people were deluded, and now they are all to be broken and destroyed one by one. Otherwise, they will continue to provoke God's anger, and what blessing is there in that?
Today [the house of God] is the church. Does the church have any "altars" that provoke God's anger? Pride, self-righteousness, harboring of sin, greed for wealth and profit, selfishness and exclusivity, compartmentalization, and rivalry ..... Don't these elements, which God regards as sin, also grow easily in the house of God? Where there are these "altars", there is room for the enemy. We must break them down one by one!
3. Restoration of the Feasts of God (V21-23)
This is a very exciting account, and we all use the keeping of God's feasts as the high point of the church today. After the people of Israel had been given the land for their property, they had forgotten to keep God's feasts for the past several hundred years of their history. It was only at the time of King Josiah that they rediscovered and thought about keeping God's feasts. Especially the Passover is a remembrance of God's salvation, what a precious experience, how can one forget God's grace?
Don't we also need to remember God's saving grace at all times? How can we forget this grace when we think of ourselves as dead men condemned to death, but now redeemed by the Lamb during Passover? How can we not live for the Lord? Even lay ourselves out completely and be used by the Lord all the days of our lives?
4. Complete Cleansing of the Whole Land (v24-25)
(1) Break the power of witchcraft (v24-25)
In the first two verses about the corruption of King Manasseh, I said that from Hezekiah's contact with Babylon to later generations, it seems to be under the influence of a confusing spirit of sorcery, and now King Josiah is indeed to break all the power of sorcery and evil spirits. In this way the whole land was fully cleansed and the curse of the nation will be broken.
For our brothers and sisters in the church, we all know and desire to break all the curses that may be hidden in our families and lives, so we all actively participate in the church's healing and deliverance lessons and camps. But also, like Josiah, we must turn to God with all our heart, soul, and strength, loving and serving Him and doing for Him what He has commanded.
(2) Why is God still angry (v26-27)
(Isn't it written in 2 Chronicles 33 that Manasseh repented thoroughly?) The accounts of the two books are very different, perhaps related to the focus of the author. The book of Kings is supposed to be written by the prophet Jeremiah, whose faith always rebukes sin and shows that the end of sin and evil is death from the perspective of God's discipline. The message is clear and unambiguous, sin and you die. But the book of Chronicles was written by the scribe Ezra, and the author was more detail-oriented, recording the events in more detail. Thus the repentance of Manasseh was also recorded. If this is the case, why was God so angry?
In my spirit I seem to feel God saying, "I am merciful and gracious, so I forgave Manasseh when he repented. But the evil seed he sowed had a far-reaching effect on the wickedness among his people. The evil seed sown by Manasseh has spread throughout the whole nation. Although Josiah did a good job, it was only what he could do in his authority. Although all the witchcraft power was eradicated outwardly, the poisonous roots in the hearts of the people were still there, and had not been replaced by the planting of the truth, so the people repeated the same mistakes after Josiah left. This was all caused by Manasseh, so I was angry. "
(3) Died of his own meddling (V28-30)
How did the good king, who had been executing justice for God all his life, die? It is written here that he was killed on the battlefield, so didn't he die a wrongful death? Wouldn't it be a good death? But The last verse of the previous chapter quotes a prophetess who prophesied:“Surely, therefore, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place.So they brought back word to the king.(2 Kings 22:20) In fact, it can be said that King Josiah was meddlesome here. What did it matter to him that the Pharaoh of Egypt was going to attack the king of Assyria? God did not ask him to intervene, and when was it his turn to intervene in the affairs of two foreign nations? As a result, he died in vain.
Lord! Why did you let Josiah, who had lived courageously for the truth all his life, end his life only because of his error of judgment in resisting Egypt? I felt in my spirit that God said, "Because he lived righteously all his life and did what I wanted, he should not have made such a mistake, so I let him go home, so that he would not make a greater mistake later."
5. Wicked Kings Still Continue (V31-37)
The last four kings after Josiah were all wicked kings, and the reigns of the four kings only lasted about 22 years before the nation was completely destroyed and taken into captivity in Babylon. You may find it surprising why, after Josiah made such a great national cleansing, the nation was not revived, but went all the way to destruction after him.
Lord! Why did Josiah purify the nation, but at this time You spoke angry words to drive out the people of Judah? Once again I felt God saying, "Because I see the history of sin repeating itself, and what Josiah showed is what I want, but after him man is solidly relapsed, therefore I send a final warning, and I am as good as my word."
Summary: The Era Is Coming To An End How do you respond?
Here we see an era coming to an end, with less than 23 years left, but how do the hearts of the people respond? King Josiah did a complete cleansing and then met the Lord in peace. The sin that followed led all the way to destruction.
Is this not true of our present generation? We are trying to purify our lives in preparation to meet the Lord, sins will worsen in the days to come until ultimately all will be exterminated by God!
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