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Josiah's Reforms |
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| The last major
efforts in the history of Judah to turn it back to the ways of God before
it was taken into Babylonian captivity were made under the direction of
King Josiah. He was one of the very few righteous kings Judah had.
(Northern Israel did not have even one righteous king.) Josiah's noble
efforts were successful for a while until his untimely death brought the
period of reform to an end.
One thing he did, among many, was that "he brake down the houses of the sodomites..." (2 Kings 23: 7). He waged a righteous war by his government against this perversion which has always been an abomination to the Lord (Rom. 1: 26, 27). Would such a movement against sin be profitable today? I believe it would. At least it would provide employment for a lot of bulldozer operators as they took down their "gay bars" and other conclaves of iniquity. Nobody need get killed necessarily. But the communities where dens of evil presently exist would be much improved by their destruction. |
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