Although the books of Kings and Chronicles cover much of the same history, they have different and complimentary perspectives, focusing mostly on the time of the united Kingdom of Israel under Solomon and then the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Kings answers the question: What went wrong? Chronicles answers the question: Is there any hope for us? It turns out that there was more hope than the people could have conceived, but it wasn’t realized until the coming of Christ in whom the apparently failed promises of the Old Testament find their fulfillment.
Through a series of mistakes by the disciples, Jesus taught them and us what following him is not.
In the famous story of Daniel in the lions’ den, we learn about being blameless and see again that God reigns and rescues.
Four short parables point to the surpassing value of the kingdom of God and the need to find it now.
