Positivity Successor - Episode 369 - Positivity Successor (2 Kings 20-21, 21-22)

Episode Date: June 29, 2026

Mental Health Awareness! ❤️🙏 Physical Health Awareness! ❤️🙏 Spiritual Health Awareness! ❤️🙏 Emotional Health Awareness! ❤️🙏 Another Interesting Bible Read! 2 Kings 20-21, 2...1-22! God Bless! Amen 🙏

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Starting point is 00:00:01 Hey, positive people. Welcome to positivity successor. This goes from Monday through Sunday, including holidays, every season, every year, including leap year. Thanks for sure to the light, changing podcast. God bless. Amen. Have a positive day. Welcome to a positivity successor, episode 369. Continue on with the Bible. Let's get into it. Hezekia's illness. 20. In those days, Hezekia became ill. and was at the point of death.
Starting point is 00:00:34 The prophet Isaiah's son of Amaz went to him and said, This is what the Lord says. Put your house in order because you are going to die. You will not recover. Hezekia turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord. Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholeheartedly, holdhearted devotion. and have done what is good in your eyes.
Starting point is 00:01:04 And Hezekia wept bitterly. Before Isaiah had left the middle court, the word the Lord came to him. Go back and tell Hezekia, the leader of my people, this is what the Lord, the God of your father, David, says. I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will heal you. On the third day from now, you will go up to the temple.
Starting point is 00:01:31 of the Lord. I will add 15 years to your life and I will deliver you in the city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend the city for my sake and for the sake of my servant, David.
Starting point is 00:01:48 Then Isaiah said, prepare a poultice of figs. They did so and applied to it to the boil. and he recovered
Starting point is 00:02:02 Hezekia had asked Isaiah What will be the sign That the Lord will heal me And that I will go up to the temple of the Lord On the third day from now Isaiah answered This is the Lord's sign to you
Starting point is 00:02:20 That the Lord will do what he has promised Shall the shadow go forward Ten steps Or shall it go back ten steps? Or shall it go back ten steps? It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps, said Hezekia. Rather have it go back ten steps. Then the prophet Isaiah called upon the Lord,
Starting point is 00:02:49 and the Lord made the shadow go back the ten steps, and had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz. Envoys from Babylon. At that time, Marodas, Baladon, son of Baladon king of Babylon, sent Hezekiah letters in a gift, because he had heard of Hezekia's illness. Hezekia received the messengers and showed them all that was in the storehouses. The silver, the gold, the spices, and the food. and the fine oil.
Starting point is 00:03:33 His armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekia did not show them. Then Isaiah the prophet went to King of Ezekia and asked, What did those men say? And where did they come from? From a distant land, Hezekia replied. They came from Babylon.
Starting point is 00:04:05 The prophet asked, What did they see in your palace? They saw everything in my palace. Hezekia said, there is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them. Then Isaiah said to Ezekia, hear the word of the Lord. The time will surely
Starting point is 00:04:25 be, surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord. And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood that will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become you in the palace or the king of Babylon. The word of the Lord, you have spoken. spoken as good, Hezekia replied, for he thought, will there not be peace and security in my lifetime? As for the other event of Hezekia's reign, all his achievements, and how he made the
Starting point is 00:05:18 pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city. And are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? Hezekia arrested with his fathers and Manese, his son, succeeded him as king. Manesei, king of Judah, 21. Manese was 12 years old when he became king and he reigned in Jerusalem 55 years. His mother's name was Hebzeba.
Starting point is 00:05:54 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord following the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites. He rebuilt the high places his father, Hezekia, had destroyed. He also erected altars to ball and made an Astroa pull as a hob king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the starry hosts. worship them. He built altars in the temple of the Lord of which the Lord had said. In Jerusalem, I will put my name. In both courts of the temple of the Lord, he built altars to all the starry hosts. He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists.
Starting point is 00:06:54 He did much evil in the eyes of the Lord. invoking him to anger. He took the carved Asherap pull he had made and put in the temple of which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon. In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.
Starting point is 00:07:18 I will not again make the feet of the Israelites wander from the land I gave their four fathers. If only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them And will keep the whole law that my servant Moses gave them But the people did not listen Manessay had led them astray So that they did more evil Than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites
Starting point is 00:07:50 The Lord said through his servants the prophets Anese, King of Judah, has committed these detestable sins. He has done more evil than the Amarites, who preceded him, and has led Judah into sin with his idols. Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says. I am going to bring such disaster on Jerusalem in Judah that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle. I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plum line used against the house of a hob. I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance and hand them over to their enemies.
Starting point is 00:08:52 They will be looted and plundered by all their foes because they have done evil in my eyes and have provoked me to anger from the day their forefathers came out of Egypt until this day. Moreover, Manessi also shed so much innocent blood that he fulfilled Jerusalem from end to end. Besides the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, so that they did evil in the eyes of the Lord. As for the other events of Manessay's reign and all he did, including the sin he committed,
Starting point is 00:09:38 are they not written in the book of the animals of the kings of Judah? Manesei rested with his fathers and was buried in his palace garden, the Garden of Uza and Amon, his son, succeeded him as king. Amon, king of Judah. Amon was 22 years old when he became king and he reigned in Jerusalem two years.
Starting point is 00:10:08 His mother's name was Mesulameth. Daughter of Haruz. She was from Jatba. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Manessay had done. He walked in all the ways of his father. He worshipped the idols his father had worshipped and bowed down to them. He forsook the Lord, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the Lord.
Starting point is 00:10:42 Amon's officials conspired against him and assassinated the king in his palace. Then the people of the land killed all who had plotted against King Amman, and they made Josiah, his son, king in his place. As for the other events of Amman's reign, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the Anil, so the kings of Judah? He was buried in his grave in the guard of Uzah and Josiah, his son succeeded him as king and that's what we're going to stop
Starting point is 00:11:25 we'll pick back up with the book of the law found 22 let's live it two kings 21 through 11 pray when you are sick Hezekia had prayed when Jerusalem was going to be attacked by Assyria C2 kings 18 through 19
Starting point is 00:11:45 God answered his prayer and saved the city So when Hezekia became sick and was about to die, he prayed again. Read two kings 20, 1 through 11, then draw a picture of Hezekia. Draw a large red boil somewhere on him. Now get a band-aid and put it over the boil. Write out, Peace Psalm 32, 32. Page 622 on your picture.
Starting point is 00:12:19 Put your picture and Bible verse inside the door of your family medicine cabinet to remind you to pray when you or a family member gets sick. Thanks for tuning to our incident, Bowery, our episode, Positive, Your Successor. Remember, we took back of the reflections that ourselves in the mirror to all the beautiful and handsome people out there because you're a work in progress and we'll get to what you want to like, believe that. Thanks for students to our interesting about your episode, positive,
Starting point is 00:12:48 your successor. God bless, amen. Tune tomorrow for the next episode, a positive to your successor. God bless, amen. Have a positive day.

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