Romans 11:22, Choose Blessing Not Cursing
The Apostle Paul presents the history of Israel as an object lesson for the Christian church. When Israel abide with Him, they prospered. We see this in the reign of David and the early part of the reign of Solomon. When Solomon began to wander away from God’s law to multiply wives and gold and horses, God caused the kingdom of Israel to be rent into two after Solomon’s death. In the Northern Kingdom, there were no good kings. The king led the people astray in the worship of other gods. God judged the Northern Kingdom severely in 722 B.C. The Assyrians came and destroyed the kingdom. There was no recovery for the North Kingdom after that. Likewise, the Southern Kingdom was judged by God through the hand of the Babylonians in 586 B.C. There was a remnant God preserved that still experienced God’s goodness and good hand protecting and prospering them.