The Fall of Judah

THE FALL OF JUDAHTEXT: 2 Chronicles 36:1-21; Jeremiah 36:1-32: Jeremiah 38:7-23; Jeremiah 3:6-17SUMMARY: Despite the indications of God’s approval during the years of Josiah’s reformation, Judah’s careless return to her former sins of idolatry, and her refusal to accept the Babylonian invasion as God’s rod of correction, brought upon the nation a series of events much more painful and destructive and humiliating than otherwise might have been necessary.I. THE DANGER OF CONTINUING CARELESSLY IN OLD SINS. A. The Return to Idolatry. B. Ignoring Natural Warnings. III. THE DANGER OF IGNORING GOD’S WORDS OF CORRECTION.A. The God Who Speaks. B. The Unheeded Call. 1. The example of Jehoiakim.2. The example of Zedekiah.3. The example of Ishmael and Gedeliah.