历代志下36：一切都在神的手中
 
GK611晨祷生命读经
28.11.2025
主讲：郑伟健传道


引言：叠乐高的技巧

一、作恶结局就是毙（代下36:1–22）
四位君王的悲剧:

1. 约哈斯 (V1-4)
约哈斯是“国民立”的，不是神拣选的。三个月就被埃及废掉、掳走。他的生命告诉我们：人可以把你推上去，人也可以把你推下来；唯有神立的，才站得住。今日我们也要问：我现在站的位置，是神给的，还是人推的？当根基 不在神那里，再高也不稳。

2. 约雅敬（V5–8）
约雅敬不仅行恶，他还撕毁神借耶利米所传的卷轴，等于公开藐视神的话。结果，第一次被掳发生，圣殿器皿被夺，国家尊荣被羞辱。属灵原则很清楚：拒绝神的话，只会被世界捆住。今天我们不会撕圣经，但我们会“选择性顺服”。神提醒我们：祂的话不是给我们挑的，是给我们抓住的。

3. 约雅斤（V9–10）
约雅斤年轻、无助、没有根基，三个月零十天就投降，精英被带走，第二次被掳发生。问题不是年轻，而是没扎根。很多年轻人不是输给诱惑，而是输在不站稳。我们也需要反思：外表看似有活力，但里面是否容易向世界投降？属灵的根基决定我们站不站得稳。

4. 西底家（V11–21）
西底家是犹大的最后一位王。神透过耶利米一次又一次地劝他要回头、顺服、不要靠埃及。但圣经说他“强项硬心，不归服耶和华”。祭司、百姓、领袖也一起嘲笑神的使者、藐视神的言语。于是圣殿被焚、城墙被拆、器皿被掳、百姓被掳，国家彻底灭亡。真正让人灭亡的不是罪，而是拒绝悔改。不是神救不了，而是人硬到不愿被救。

二、神亲自纪念百姓（代下36:22–23）

七十年一满，神激动波斯王古列的心，让他发出归回诏书说“凡属祂子民的，可以上去。”	历史不是巴比伦决定，也不是埃及决定，而是神推动的。即使百姓经历荒凉、被掳、失败，神仍记念他们，没有忘记他们。枯干不是终点，而是转折；神的归回，就是新的开始。

总结：100% 的公义、信实、怜悯。

神是百分之百公义、百分之百信实、百分之百怜悯。四个王的故事告诉我们：作恶必自毙，悔改必蒙福。神怜悯人的软弱，但祂的管教不会减少。而七十年后，当百姓愿意回转，神亲自带他们回来，对他们说：“一切都在我的手中。”

今天也一样。我们的工作在祂手中，我们的家庭、人际、健康、未来都在祂手中，我们现在可能仍在废墟，但只要我们愿意继续归回神、继续守约、继续行正，就有盼望，就有祝福，就有新的开始。因为一切，都在神的手中。



    
  

2 Chronicles 36：Everything Is in God's Hands
GK611 Morning Devotion
28 Nov 2025 
Speaker: Ps Asher Chang 


 Introduction:  The Skill of Stacking Lego

I. The Consequence of Wickedness Is Death (2 Chronicles 36:1–22) 
The Tragedy of Four Kings:

1. Jehoahaz (v1–4)
Jehoahaz was “set up by the people,” not chosen by God. Within three months, Egypt deposed him and took him captive. His life teaches us: People can lift you up, and people can tear you down; only those established by God stand firm. Today we must ask: Does my present position come from God, or from human promotion? When the foundation is not in God, no height is secure.

2. Jehoiakim (v5–8)
Jehoiakim not only did evil, but he tore up the scroll of the law God had given through Jeremiah. Openly despising God’s word. As a result, the first exile occurred, the temple vessels were plundered and the nation was humiliated. The spiritual principle is clear: rejecting God's word only binds us to the world. Today we may not tear the Bibles, but we practise “selective obedience.” God reminds us: His word is not for us to pick and choose, but to seize firmly.

3. Jehoiachin (v9–10)
Young, helpless, and lacking foundation, Jehoiachin surrendered after just three months and ten days. The elite were taken away, and the second exile occurred. The problem was not youth, but lack of roots. Many young people do not lose to temptation, but because they fail to stand firm. We too must reflect: outwardly we may appear vigorous, but inwardly are we easily surrendered to the world? Our spiritual foundation determines whether we stand firm.

4. Zedekiah (v11–21)
Zedekiah was Judah’s last king. God repeatedly urged him through Jeremiah to turn back, obey, and not rely on Egypt. Yet Scripture says he “stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord God of Israel.” Priests, people, and leaders mocked God’s messengers and despised His words. Thus the temple was burned, the walls torn down, the vessels carried off, the people exiled and the nation utterly destroyed. 

What truly brings destruction is not sin itself, but the refusal to repent. It is not that God cannot save, but that people become so hardened they refused to be saved.

II. God Himself Remembers His People (2 Chronicles 36:22–23) 

When the seventy years were fulfilled, God stirred the heart of Cyrus, king of Persia, to issue a decree of return: “Who is among you of all His people? and let him go up!” History was not determined by Babylon, nor by Egypt, but driven by God. Even as the people endured desolation, exile, and defeat, God remembered them and did not forget them. Desolation was not the end, but a turning point; God's return marked a new beginning.

Conclusion: 100% righteousness, faithfulness and mercy. 

God is 100% righteous, 100% faithful, 100% merciful. The story of the four kings teaches us: those who do evil destroy themselves, but those who repent are blessed. God has mercy on human weakness, but His discipline does not diminish. Seventy years later, when the people were willing to turn back, God Himself brought them back and said, “Everything is in My hands.”

The same holds true today. Our work is in His hands; our families, relationships, health, and future are all in His hands. We may still be in ruins now, but as long as we are willing to keep returning to God, keep keeping the covenant, and keep walking uprightly, there is hope, there is blessing, and there is a new beginning. For everything is in God's hands.