Turn From Their Wicked Ways

2 Chronicles 7:13-14 – “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

2 Kings 17:13 – The Lord warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and seers: “Turn from your evil ways. Observe my commands and decrees, in accordance with the entire Law that I commanded your ancestors to obey and that I delivered to you through my servants the prophets.”

Ezekiel 18:32 – For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!

Isaiah 57:18-19 – I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel’s mourners, creating praise on their lips. Peace, peace, to those far and near,” says the Lord. “And I will heal them.”

Malachi 4:2 – But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.

Application:

• ·         Israel not only violated the requirements of the Sinaitic covenant but also spurned the words of prophets the Lord had graciously sent to call His people back to the covenant.
• ·         The Sovereign Lord takes no pleasure in the death of anyone. Repent and live!
• ·         God will forgive and restore His people.
• ·         Christ is the “rising sun” from heaven.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV