Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—2 Chronicles 36:17-21
by: Dale Rood.
God is a God of compassion, but God is also a God of justice. Sooner or later, those who rebel against God will pay the consequences. The people of God, the Jews, paid dearly for their sin when Jerusalem was destroyed and vacated in 586 B.C. The Temple, the very focus of their faith, was destroyed (v. 19). There were now no trappings to fall back on for faith. There was only God himself to go to. Can you name times in your life when you felt there was only God for you to fall back on? (See John 6:68.)