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.
The rejection of Jesus by many Israelites is God‘s plan for the salvation of the nations, and even of Israel itself.
Timothy and Epaphroditus demonstrated the mind of Christ in the way they lived.
In the lives of the ones mentioned in the final greetings of Colossians, we see evidence of God’s abundant grace, which is available to...
