Yesterday's prescribed reading...
Both Second Chronicles, chapter 6, and Second Chronicles, chapter 7, anticipate a falling away by the people of God. Solomon's prayer (chapter 6), dedicating the temple to the LORD, asks for God's mercy if and when the people forsake the LORD, are taken captive to other lands, and there cry out for mercy. The LORD's appearance to Solomon (chapter 7) promises mercy if and when the people forsake the LORD, are taken captive to other lands, and there cry out for mercy.
I wonder how things might have turned out if Solomon had not anticipated this falling away, but instead had anticipated unbroken faithfulness to the LORD. Some prophecies seem self-fulfilling. Once they have been imagined and stated, they seem to become inevitabilities.
What do you anticipate, reader? What do I imagine, then state aloud?
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