God's faithfulness - despite everything
If you want to get really depressed, read 2 Kings, the book in the Old Testament which covers the final years of the kingdoms of Israel (in the north) and Judah, where Jerusalem is situated. Spoiler alert – both kingdoms fail.
At first sight it seems a fairly straight-forward, even lacklustre narrative of how each of these kingdoms are governed by their respective kings, who are assessed as either good in that they pleased God or bad when they didn’t. Most were bad.
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