Come Follow Me-July 13-19, 2026-2 Kings 16-25

Welcome my friends to another week at He is Our Story. I am so happy you have chosen to join with us this week.  I think I have studied more for this weekthan I have for any other week of He is Our Story.  This week is so vitally important formultiple reasons, and I had a hard time choosing where to focus our attention.   We had a lot of reading this week.  2 Kings16-25. And it is not super easy reading! At some points while I was reading this—I shouted out loud-my husband can verify that—I don’t understand what is going on! It’s a lot of history. It’s Assyria and Egypt and Israel and Judah. It’s a lot of names.  The names of the Kings of all these places and the cities in all those countries. It’s a lotof back and forth between the two kingdoms of Israel.  The southern kingdom of Judah and thenorthern kingdom of Israel.   At onepoint I was like—are they worshipping Jehovah or are they worshipping idols?  What is going on?  And to complicate matters a bit more there isanother account of this same time period in 2 Chronicles chapters 29-36.  So, if you want the full picture of what isgoing on it is helpful to read that!  So, today we are going to take things slow, and we are going to focus on answering 3 questions.  Why was the House of Israelscattered? How will the House of Israel be gathered? And maybe the most important question we will answer today is Why should we care about the scattering and gathering of Israel?  It’s time to open up your scriptures and get ready to get excited about what the Lord has in store for His kingdom, and more importantly the role we can play in helping Him do His work.