Message Take Aways:

1. King Josiah committed to spiritual restoration to direct the nation back into proper worship of the One True God—“Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD!” Joshua 24:14

2. Though revival occurred during King Josiah’s reign, the reckoning for Judah’s continual rebellion was still to come as promised by the word of God—“For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.” Habakkuk 2:3

3. The reigns of both King Jehoahaz and King Jehoiakim demonstrate the nation’s regression back into wickedness against the Lord God—“But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.” Jeremiah 7:23-24