When you hear the word “RECKONING” I wonder what images come to your mind? Perhaps a mother with a wooden spoon and her little boy draped over her knee? Or maybe a courtroom with a judge declaring “guilty as charged” and the gavel coming down with a vengeance?
For the past three days we’ve been considering God’s warnings through His prophet Jeremiah to the Jewish people of Jerusalem who were embracing wickedness and turning away from God in the years following King Josiah’s death. Josiah was the final God honoring King in Jerusalem. Josiah was followed on the throne by not one but two of his sons, both of whom were wicked men and they turned Jerusalem into an idol worshiping, decadent city!