Today, I am reading and commenting on 2 Chronicles 34-36.

When Josiah was sixteen, he began seeking the Lord.  As part of that process, he began to destroy the altars to other gods, and the idols which the people of Israel worshipped when he was twenty years old.  Six years later he ordered the repair and consecration of the temple.  While they were cleaning and repairing the temple, the priests found a copy of the Book of the Law, which they brought to Josiah and read to him.  Josiah then implemented the practices described in the Book of the Law.  As I read this I thought about a video where a nonbeliever was pushing a Christian saying, “What about those people who never heard of Christ?  Are they condemned to Hell?”  This passage here gives us a way to understand God’s answer to that question.  Josiah did not know God’s Law when he was sixteen, but he knew that he wanted to seek God.  So, he began doing so.  After four years of seeking God and seeking to understand what God wanted of him, Josiah realized that he was being called by God to get rid of the idolatry in the land.  So, he acted upon that knowledge.  Josiah still did not know exactly what God’s Law said.  He just knew part of what God wanted from His people, so he acted on what he knew.  When Josiah completed removing the idols from the land he felt led to clean and repair the temple.  So, he ordered that done.  It was only while re repairing the temple that they found the Book of the Law.  Josiah sought the Lord and did the next thing he understood God asked of him.  It was only after following several steps, that God revealed the Law to Josiah.  In the same way, God will reveal Himself to those who seek Him, even those who have never heard of Jesus.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.