TEMPLE INVADERS (1)
(Message by Tanny Keng)
0. Introduction
a) Just 5 years after Solomon died, the temple and palace were ransacked by foreign invaders. How quickly the glory, power, and money disappeared! When the people became spiritually corrupt and immoral, it was just a short time until they lost everything.
b) Wealth, idol worship, and immorality had become more important to them than God. When God is gone from our lives, everything else becomes useless, no matter how valuable it seems.
1. Who are these temple invaders and what happened?
@1. Who? Shishak king of Egypt.
a) Reference text: 1 Kings 14:25-26
i) 25 It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house; he took away everything. He also took away all the gold shields which Solomon had made. (1 Kings 14:25-26 NKJV)
b) What happened?
i) Ransacked the temple, carried away certain treasures.
@2. Who? Asa king of Judah.
a) Reference text: 1 Kings 15:18-19
i) 18 Then Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and the treasuries of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying, 19 “Let there be a treaty between you and me, as there was between my father and your father. See, I have sent you a present of silver and gold. Come and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.” (1 Kings 15:18-19 NKJV)
b) What happened?
i) Took temple treasures and money to buy an alliance with King Ben-Hadad of Syria.
@3. Who? Athaliah queen of Judah.
a) Reference text: 2 Kings 11:13-15; 2 Chronicles 24:7
i) 13 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the escorts and the people, she came to the people in the temple of the Lord. 14 When she looked, there was the king standing by a pillar according to custom; and the leaders and the trumpeters were by the king. All the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. So Athaliah tore her clothes and cried out, “Treason! Treason!” 15 And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the army, and said to them, “Take her outside under guard, and slay with the sword whoever follows her.” For the priest had said, “Do not let her be killed in the house of the Lord.” (2 Kings 11:13-15 NKJV)
ii) 7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God, and had also presented all the dedicated things of the house of the Lord to the Baals. (2 Chronicles 24:7 NKJV)
b) What happened?
i) Ravaged the temple; later ran into the temply only to discover that her wicked reign had come to an end.
The End ...
0. Introductiona) Just 5 years after Solomon died, the temple and palace were ransacked by foreign invaders. How quickly the glory, power, and money disappeared! When the people became spiritually corrupt and immoral, it was just a short time until they lost everything.
b) Wealth, idol worship, and immorality had become more important to them than God. When God is gone from our lives, everything else becomes useless, no matter how valuable it seems.
1. Who are these temple invaders and what happened?
@1. Who? Shishak king of Egypt.
a) Reference text: 1 Kings 14:25-26
i) 25 It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house; he took away everything. He also took away all the gold shields which Solomon had made. (1 Kings 14:25-26 NKJV)
b) What happened?
i) Ransacked the temple, carried away certain treasures.
@2. Who? Asa king of Judah.
a) Reference text: 1 Kings 15:18-19
i) 18 Then Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and the treasuries of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying, 19 “Let there be a treaty between you and me, as there was between my father and your father. See, I have sent you a present of silver and gold. Come and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.” (1 Kings 15:18-19 NKJV)
b) What happened?
i) Took temple treasures and money to buy an alliance with King Ben-Hadad of Syria.
@3. Who? Athaliah queen of Judah.
a) Reference text: 2 Kings 11:13-15; 2 Chronicles 24:7
i) 13 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the escorts and the people, she came to the people in the temple of the Lord. 14 When she looked, there was the king standing by a pillar according to custom; and the leaders and the trumpeters were by the king. All the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. So Athaliah tore her clothes and cried out, “Treason! Treason!” 15 And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the army, and said to them, “Take her outside under guard, and slay with the sword whoever follows her.” For the priest had said, “Do not let her be killed in the house of the Lord.” (2 Kings 11:13-15 NKJV)
ii) 7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God, and had also presented all the dedicated things of the house of the Lord to the Baals. (2 Chronicles 24:7 NKJV)
b) What happened?
i) Ravaged the temple; later ran into the temply only to discover that her wicked reign had come to an end.
The End ...
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