 Okay, so all are able to see the screen also, the notes on the screen, okay, great. So and welcome to today's class and today we will be going through the survey and briefly summarize the book of chronicles that is the first and second. So the author of this first chronicles does not specifically name but then the tradition says that the first and second chronicles were written by Ezra. So as per the date of writing we see the completed books were probably compiled post exile period about 450 to 430 or some scholars say 425 BC probably in Jerusalem where the court records were kept. Now for the purpose of writing this book, we see the first and second chronicles cover mostly the same information as first and second Samuel and first and second Kings too. And also just like the book of Samuel as it was one single book and also the book of Kings was one single book, even the book of chronicles is actually one single book and for the purpose of reading it and making it more clear they divided the book into two, perhaps the and this book the first and second chronicles focuses mostly on the priestly aspect of the time period and also focuses on King David's rule. The book of first chronicles was written after the exile to help those returning to Israel to understand how to worship God. And we'll see also the second point there is the history focuses on the Southern Kingdom that is the tribe of Judah, Benjamin and Levi and we see these tribes tend to be more faithful to God during the rule. So the first chronicles can be turned to book of first chronicles and before we turn let's see in the notes what does it say comparison of first and second chronicles to the other books. Yeah the courses of Capetive we see here and yes this is what something that I would like to look into the declaration occurred in three stages. In 605 BC we see King Nebuchadnezzar first invaded Judah that is the Southern Kingdom and took away Joachim the King Joachim and the leading nobles which includes Daniel and in 597 BC we see Nebuchadnezzar next invades Judah and took away Joachim and leading nobles which includes Prophet Ezekiel and in 586 BC the third time Nebuchadnezzar invades Judah and this time Zedekiah the king broke his alliance with Nebuchadnezzar and had entered into alliance with Egypt to throw off the Babylonian yoke and Jerusalem fell both the city and the temple were destroyed so this time Jeremiah was taken as a captive to Egypt and we see 70 years of captivity for Judah which is a southern kingdom of Israel was predicted by the prophet Jeremiah in chapter 25 and we also see in chapter 29 and thus it happened in second chronicles chapter 36 and we also see that in the book of Ezra and there's a comparison between Samuel kings with chronicles yes but this we will move on to a book from our Bible first chronicles so the first chronicles I'll just stop the share okay so the first chronicles begin with the first nine chapters of genealogy long list of names and you will read these and think that this is kind of boring and that may be true for some of us but actually these are very important you know when we go through the genealogy we understand the line age of the descendant so the further list and genealogies are been scattered throughout the rest of first chronicles in between the book of first chronicles we also see David's ascension to the throne and this action thereafter and and we see how the shaping of genealogies emphasize on the two key line age one is the messianic king and the priesthood so the first in the line of the promise messiah king so a lot of spaces dedicated to tracing the line of Judah and that led all the way to king David to whom the messianic promise was given and then from David we see the author traces the lineup into his own day the other family line that receives lot of attention and that is the priesthood the descendants of Aaron who of course served in the temple and we see that the authors designed the book to emphasize two clear themes throughout the book first we see there's a hope that he creates of the messianic king and the second we see the hope of a new temple so here we see the author gives a strong hope again and again that the messiah there is a messiah he will come and he will come to build a new temple and it's rooted in these genealogies so that's the main reason why it's been repeated the same thing that has been stated in the book of Samuel and book of kings has been repeated in the book of chronicles now we may think why is it repeated does this also remind us of any other book that god repeated things was there any book deuteronomy yes yes yes god repeated why did god repeat deuteronomy why did god repeat the same things again god instructed moses to tell the generation what happened in Egypt i guess to remind them again yes yes lubega please go ahead i think basically because god was talking to the to another generation it was god was like telling them because we almost know that there were only two people were remaining on the former generation who had had the information before i think that was cadiban geosha so since they are going into the promised land and these were new people so that's why god had to repeat the information to them that's why it could be a deuteronomy the second of the century yes yes brother thank you that's exactly yes because they were in the wilderness for about 40 years the older generation were almost gone and the younger generation who have grown they would not even know why they are in the wilderness why they are living in the tent what is happening around them so moses tends to repeat repeat and tell the generation and remind them so god is actually asking moses to remind the generation of how god supernaturally rescued them from the 400 years of slavery so that's the reason of the repeat the same thing yeah in the book of chronicles again there's a repeat why do you think it's been repeated about her david though we have seen the stories about david and most of these are familiar from the book of samuel and kings but again there's something really different in this chapter we see that the author leaves all the negative stories about david where he portrays he does not portray about his weakness or the immoral character or about chasing david around the desert and persecuting him there or the story of david's adultery with betsheba and then murdering her husband all that is not mentioned here but then david has been portrayed as a in a very as a good king in a very positive manner and god's covenant blessing over david and this descendants so this reminds us it doesn't mean that the author want to leave away the flaws of david but then the author is mindful that it has been written in the other books which we would anyways get to know but then you know hear the main intention of the author of the first and second chronicles for us to know the faithfulness of god even though when david made mistake god is a god of mercy and forgiveness when david repented when he genuinely asked sorry god forgave david and also it also shows that god is a promise keeper when he makes a covenant he keeps his covenant yes he punishes those of sin yes he punished david's descendants and even david you know he had to face his consequence of a sin but then even the later part we see whenever the kings or the later descendants of david when they made mistake and they repented we see the heart of god the forgiveness of god the mercy of god over his descendants to keep them he does not remove them just like how he removed sol and his family but then the covenant promise that he made with david throughout we see how god keeps his covenant that through his descendants the messiah the hope of messiah will be fulfilled so we we learned something new that we find in this we don't find in the book of samuel and we only see in these book is the very positive david in a very positive light so we see in first chronicles chapter before we go to first chronicles chapter 22 i would like to share about as we study the genealogy in chapter 4 we see chapter 4 we see verse 9 and 10 a short story about a prayer of jabez okay we it does not clearly say about his is complete detail but in chapter 9 it says and jabez was more honorable than his brothers and his mother called his name jabez okay it gives a genealogy of husan ubigat home and then it gives a story about jabez that jabez was more honorable than his brothers so here's a person called jabez and he was more honorable than his brothers and his mother called him jabez saying because i bore him in pain because i bore him in pain and so in this verse 10 we see jabez called on the god of israel now what is it in the name does the name make difference as name matters class you can go ahead and tell me does name matter yes the verse is name matters yes niki niki please go ahead yes so i think it definitely matters for the simple reason even in the bible that you see paul became sold and israel and so many names are changed my understanding of why it matters is because of just the power of confession also you're confessing that over your life and you're calling that person that so that is one i think that's the main reason what you're confessing constantly and that's what happens in your life and with your permission can i just sneak in a question in between this yes yes so i've had this question for a long time about jabez that it says he bore him with pain and this is my understanding of it of why would someone go out of the way to say that she bore him with pain and the and i thought one could be because actually that maybe they were all living with so much faith that the others didn't really have so much pain but this one particular person had pain and it had she mentioned it in the word of god is it something like that or is it some other reason this was around the time when my wife was pregnant that's why i was wondering why so anyway you can answer this thank you yes thanks niki yeah unlike you we all may have different questions about you know jabez and why actually he made a prayer like this and when the mother says i bore him in pain what actually the pain mean was it the the natural pain but every delivery women goes through or was it something to do with her personal life or in the season when she carried the child jabez in her womb we actually don't know because it's not clearly mentioned we don't know this we all of a sudden this prayer just comes between but what is our learning what is the essence of these two words about jabez is what is no matter what his background was no matter i come to that point okay so i want to i i'll answer to your question i'm sure as i share it will answer because if i go to the conclusion that i will not be able to explain what i wanted to say yeah the importance of the name so why the name was imported in the jewish tradition or for some of us even now it goes back to genesis you know chapter one two where you know god gave man the power power that man is not even aware of now but but then adam knew the power because god trained adam in the garden of he didn't by telling adam he brought all the animals and he said adam named them so whatever adam named them one by one and they were called by that name and the very nature of each animal was that and they became that so we see that god was teaching adam the power was in his mouth in his mouth because god told man to have dominion over the earth and so imagine that they were a big dinosaur and a huge mammoth those days and i don't think adam was controlling them with a stick no but then adam would have just controlled them by his word he would have just spoke to them and they obeyed god you know god made adam sovereign over all the creatures of the earth isn't that amazing and same way as he was and adam was also trained by god there that to know that there was power in his words and so in the bible we see that wherever the word of king is there is power especially we read that in the book of samuel kings and chronicles and uh but but we are using how are we using our words today are we using it uh well or are we using it by speaking negative that leads to death because we see in proverbs 18 21 it says uh the death and life is in the power of her tongue so whatever we speak we have the power and later in the same in the book of genesis we see adam and eve sin and you know they they fall and uh you know we see god saying uh you came from dust and dust you shall return so what did yes that that very word was became effective in adam's life and we see but that took nine thirty years for that to take effect but at that moment his spirit died so uh we saw the process of died but this is what god said to them they have sinned and in sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground for out of it you may take it we see that in genesis chapter 3 19 to 20 when god said that to adam he turned he turned to eve we see in the book of genesis chapter 3 if we take okay uh when god created adam and eve you know god only gave name to adam and he called both of them see when you turn to book of genesis chapter 3 i'm sorry i didn't mark and keep the verse ready but then i'll just see he named them both adam did anyone find that verse i think it is in chapter 2 out of ground chapter verse 19 chapter 2 verse 19 out of the ground of the lord god formed every beast okay and whatever adam called it not that is it genesis five two i'm just checking brother one second please yes male and female bless seven man can they created adam no no not that not that sorry i can give that verse later to your lizard okay please is it 127 man but god created where is the name adam first appeared he created man and women and and called them adam what is the verse okay i i can get that verse and give it to your sorry okay we'll get back to our lesson so god called both of them adam and we see when when god told them you shall return to dust immediately we see adam knew the sentence of death has been pronounced over both of them but he loved his vibe so he turned straight into her and said but you shall be the mother of all living and he called her hava in Hebrew in English we call it heave but in Hebrew it is called us hava you will be living and not dying and you will be imparting and proclaiming life and then so this is what adam gave name to eve knowing the power of words we need to believe you know in the power of the word that we speak into our life is it bringing life or death in the same way jabb is you know no matter what his mom named him what his mother named him okay saying jabb is that i bore him in pain okay but jabb is knowing the power on the god of israel the one true god he looks up to god he looks up to god see verse nine says jabb is was more honorable than his brothers but in midst of all that jabb is saying that i want to be a blessing blessing to your people and he looks up to god and he calls on the god of israel knowing the power that god can bless him despite his name god can change his life and make him a blessing than anyone you know when he seeks the god of israel that's why in verse 10 he prays this way oh that you would bless me in deed and enlarge my territory that your hand would be with me so you know the power on the importance of the hand of god and that you would keep me from evil that i may not cost pain so god granted him what he requested so uh the point that we wanted to make here is jabb is despite a situation despite what the people called him what his mom named him okay what people looked at him you know he called on god of israel and when he called on the god of israel god answered his prayer request god responded to him and his prayer was answered and we also see the foreshadowing in uh first chronicles chapter 16 verse 33 that david's song of thanks giving to god and he refers to the time when god will come to judge the earth and this foreshadow we also see in matthew matthew chapter 25 in which jesus describes the time when he will come to judge the earth and later part we see through the parables of the ten virgin and the talents he wants that those who are found without the blood of christ covering their sin will be cast into utter darkness he also encourages his people to be ready because he's coming and we also see uh jesus demonstrating like he will separate the sheep from the goats and time of judgment so part of this davidic covenant which god reiterates in first chronicles chapter 17 from 13 to 14 can we turn to 17 yeah 13 to 14 we uh or from 11 onwards we can read and it shall be when your days are fulfilled when you must go to be with your fathers that i will set up your seed after you and who will be of your sons and i will establish his kingdom he shall build me a house and i will establish his throne forever i will be his father and he shall be my son and i will not take mercy away from him as i took it from him who was before you your god is talking about sol and verse 14 he says i will establish him in my house and in my kingdom forever and this throne shall be established forever so here we see it refers to the future messiah who would descend from the line age of david describes the son who will establish in god's house and whose throne will be established forever this can only refer to jesus christ so we see uh in the genealogies as the ones and first chronicles may seem very dry sometimes we may think it's not important but then time and now we see god reminding his children about the the descendant the line age so that we see in matthew chapter 10 30 we see that god knows each of his children by their personality even to the number of hair on our head so from this fact that we can take comfort that you know uh we are in god's mind god is mindful of each of us and also in uh we also see the confirmation in the book of revelation chapter 13 verse 8 it says we belong to christ and our names are written in the book of land of life lambs book of life so we see that god is faithful to his people he keeps his promise and he brings the descendant that's the main reason time and again we see god uh you know the authors are mentioning the line age very very important because god promised that there would be a messa messanic king coming from the line age of david so we need to know through whom it is coming and how it's coming and throughout the story we see god is a covenant keeper he's a god of mercy god of forgiving he forgives us when we repent and you know he blesses us and also uh we go back to verse chapter 11 verse 1 2 3 we see the fulfillment of god's promise to david when he made king all uh you know overall is ryan we we can be sure that his promise to us will be fulfilled no matter what promise god has made though at times that taris button the book of abacus 2 we see that write down your vision write down your promise and there will be a due time without any tari it will be fulfilled don't worry even when it is getting delayed but a god who promised he will fulfill but he will bring it to come to pass so as he promised a blessing to those who follow him who come in christ in repentance and who obey his word god will bless them so that is the learning we see in the book of samuel in the book of kings and in the book of chronicles we see that obedience brings blessing and disobedience brings judgment so we may have a question okay we went through all this in the book of samuel and the book of kings and again repeat of david's story but here we see the positive side of david has been repeated as david is the ideal king in order uh in order to you know the type of messiah the future messiah would be from the line of david it would be very similar to how jeremiah or ezekiel speaks about the cupic messiah as a new king david we will study when we cover those books later on so uh this is most clear how the author retells the story of god's covenant promise to david in the book of chronicles especially in the first chronicle when we compare the story which is parallely to second samuel chapter seven we see the author of chronicles highlighting that david uh or solemn or any other king when uh when not the king the messiah which they are talking about but it is the messiah is going to come from this lineage and we know who's that messiah king now but then back then they had a hope that there is a messiah king who will come from the lineage of david so as we study these stories about david and solemn and his son and his son and their sons and their descendants lineage it gives us the hope for the future for the people at that time who were studying over reading and they were waiting upon the messiah whom the prophets have been prophesying or continuously talking about it gives them the hope that the messiah will come from this lineage so with this we will move on to second chronicles uh yeah we see uh before the second we could start the second chronicles and the first chronicles we see how david's praised god and you know passing off david to solemn and solemn has been anointed as king and the second chronicles starts with the wisdom of solemn and we see there's a lot of new things we can learn about these kings from david's lineage how the kings were obedient to god and how their obedience led to success in god's blessing and at the same time we also see some some stories about the kings who were unfaithful to god they didn't follow the Torah or they led Israel to worship idols and these kings you know they were they had to face horrible consequences because you know they defiled the temple and they led the people of Israel to worship idols and child sacrifice was happening in those days and all these things you know stirred the anger of god and you know they were led uh this led to israel's exile and we see the we saw that how king nebuchadnezzar invaded israel three times and then later egypt so when the whole section of repeat becomes a series of chapter study when the author wants later generation of israel to learn from their family history and so they become faithful to their god and to keep up the Torah we see some of the kings here in second samur second chronicles the story of asa we see how he obeyed god and how god blessed him god gave him peace all around the place just like solemn and sorry we also see uh king joshaphat story in chapter 20 can we turn to chapter 20 i would recommend as always okay it's just a survey so we cannot cover each and every chapter or every king's story but then i would request you all to please go through this book and go through each and every story and for now i we will just read one of them that is king joshaphat who was from the line age of david what happened so we see in chapter 19 then king the joshaphat the king of judah returned safely to his house in jerusalem and you know we go through it and uh he obeyed god and he followed the god of israel and for every water every battle that came up he used to inquire with god through his prophets and then step into it and we see in chapter 20 there were three kingdom amen moab and mounts here came against came against joshaphat so what happened now verse three chapter 20 verse 3 we see that joshaphat feared and set himself to seek the lord and proclaimed a fast throughout all judah and judah that is the southern kingdom of israel and judah gathered together to ask help from the lord and from all the cities of judah they came to seek the lord and we see joshaphat stood in the assembly okay uh by assembly and from all the cities of assembly of judah and jerusalem in the house of the lord before the new court and said oh lord god of our fathers and you are you not god in heaven and do you not rule over all the kingdom of the nation and in your hand is there not power and might so that no one is able to withstand you he just prays and he gets a he gets a message through his prophet that god they come and say that you know the battle belongs 14 then the spirit of the lord came upon jehazel the son of zakariah the priest the son of benaiah okay he says listen all you of judah and you inhabitants of jerusalem and you king joshaphat thus says the lord to you do not be afraid not dismayed because of this great multitude for the battle is not yours but gods so tomorrow you go down against against these three kingdom and god will fight for you and verse 17 you will you will not need to fight in this battle but position yourself stand still and see the salvation of the lord who is with you oh judah and jerusalem do not fear nor dismay tomorrow go out against them for the lord is with you so joshaphat believes on this promise whatever they said and what he does is we see he puts the singers the men who praise god before in the battle usually how do they prepare for the battle they they would prepare with a mighty man of valor they put the strongest man uh in front but then joshaphat prepared this battle in a much different way because god said through his prophet that the battle belongs to god okay battle belongs to god so you know he stands strong with that word and he puts the the musician the one who praises god and the friend and you know the others later and he says and they sing like this they go marching to the battlefield saying praise the lord for his mercy endures forever verse 21 which is a very powerful praise let's say which the king raises the praise to the lord and verse 22 now when they began to sing and to praise the lord praise the lord said ambush against the people of amen moab and mounts here who had come against judah and they were defeated so what happened we see the power of praise the power of praise so just like joshaphat if we have such uh you know a huge uh situation before us what would we do would we seek man's help how would we seek god whose help do we seek in our life if any circumstance as such arises can be financial it can be health it can be our carrier it can be a personal life it can be any of the situation that could arise as a big mountain at a big battle just before us like how it has suddenly for joshaphat where he was not prepared how would we face anyone in the class can unmute and answer so just like joshaphat we need to we need to inquire with the lord we need to first bring it to the lord even if before we could take help from any man we need to bring it to the lord there's nothing wrong in taking godly counsel or getting the medical advice seeking doctors taking medicine or taking help from others despite our situation or what our situation may be but then first is we need to bring the case to the lord we need to inquire with the lord so that the lord can deliver us and when we praise in our situation praises pleases god so that we don't have to fight the battle but then god takes it god fights our battle and the victory belongs to us just like how god fought the battle for king joshaphat he don't have to by the time they reach the battlefield he saw everyone dead in the later verse we see every one way dead not even one man was alive and it took three days for them to take the spoil because the goods that these people carried for the battle was huge and it took three days for them to gather the spoil and come back and god gave them victory and the you know and the king joshaphat and his people rejoiced over the victory what god gave them and they praised god they made sacrifice and to god so just like that when we bring our situation out our battle front of god it can be anything god gives us the victory god gives us the victory when we seek him he is the same god who's who was then and now and he's the same god who answers our prayer he is a living god now the book conclusion is very unique at the very end of this book we see the king of persian and his name is syris and he tells the israelites that they can go back home return from exile and he's also not only sending them back home but he's telling them we build the city and the temple and here he says you know the last time very abruptly ends the last verse chapter 36 verse 23 it says whoever there is among you and all of his people may the lord is god be with him and let him go up and let him go up and that's how the book ends with the incomplete sentence now of course the author knows that or the first return from exile and the story of Ezra and Nehemiah but clearly in his view the prophetic hope of israel were not fulfilled in those events and so this incomplete ending shows that the author hopes is set on yet another return from exile when the messiah will finally come to rebuild the temple and to restore god's people so the book of chronicles we see that there is a hope hope that god still keeps his covenant promise god still shows mercy and god yet rebuilds his temple and his people and we also see that god will yet come in great sovereign saving mercy and great towards his people so the book of chronicles as well as the book of Samuel and kings we see the pattern of sin repentance forgiveness restoration of the nation of israel and in the same way we also see in the in the New Testament in 1 John 1 9 that god is patient with us and he forgives us our sins when we come to him in true repentance we see that throughout the book how god forgave the kings whoever repented the same way we can take confidence and comfort in that fact that you know god years our prayer he understands our situation and he forgives our sin when we repent genuinely he restores us to that fellowship with him to that intimacy with him and sets us on path of joy so this is what our learning would be from the book of chronicles that covers both the first and second chronicles when we study each king's life the one who disobeyed god and act to face the consequence of the very own act and for the kings who obeyed god we see the hand of blessing on them and there are certain kings yes they disobeyed initially but they learned from the mystic when they repented we see the mercy of god for giving them and restoring them back and then we see the blessing of god and their life so this is what the first and second chronicles is all about so now I open to the class you would like to share anything you can add on from what we studied or from the book of first and second chronicles if I've not covered yes I've not covered many aspects but the main points I touched upon is there anything that you would like to add on it would be a blessing to us as a class anyone in the class what was our learning anyone yes brother please go ahead brother please go ahead I wanted to add something about the story of Jabez when when you read in the extra books of the bible the Mishina when you try to read in the Babylonian Talmud and when you try to read also in the Jerusalem Talmud you realize that this madame called that boy that name not basically because of the natural pain she had in giving birth to because it automatically every mother has the same issue but basically she called him this name because it was an outcast for a child to be called by to be referred to by his mother's side so since this boy wasn't referred to by the names of his dad it means that this boy was given birth when the mom was at their home which was a mischief which was not right in their family or in the Jewish culture hence saying that I bore him our pain thank you so much thank you brother thank you so much Nikki initially you asked for a question did what's your question answered yes yes thank you brother Lubey thank you yeah any other learning I open to the class you would like to add on to the point anyone? Zellie, Divya, brother Subashish, anyone in the class? Georgia, Hamilton, but Isaac, Jeffina since a long time you've been very quiet please go ahead I just called out a few names it can be anyone from the class Alan or said okay as the time is up okay but was the class helpful will you be able to understand it we learn something new the class aside and am I audible I see a comment okay it would be nice if you can verbally say so that that will be helpful I see a lot of comments coming up okay praise god we learned a lot of new things and it was a blessing for us in our spiritual work of life praise god thanks Sid thank you ma'am for sharing this knowledge praise god okay okay thank you okay let's end this class with a word of prayer dear god we thank you we praise you we love you we honor you you are our god you are our lord the god who where then is the same god who's with us now you are the true living god the god of Israel you're the god of Abraham Isaac Jacob David the same god is alive and living in midst of us you're the god of understanding you're the god of forgiveness you're the god who keeps the covenant who makes the covenant and you keep the covenant you're the god who's faithful lord today I lift up each and every student we're attending this class now and later lord I pray and I thank you that you have called each one of us and you are faithful to that calling lord you will strengthen us in the way in the path that we walk in our father during the difficult times lord as we seek you I pray that you will be with us you will strengthen us you will answer our prayer just just the way you answer Jabez pray you will be with us just the way you were with king David and you led him you blessed him and his descendants same you will bless us lord we also pray for the greater wisdom of father the way you're blessing Solomon same way you will bless each of us with your wisdom the wisdom of Jesus as we read in the book of New Testament saying that Jesus grew in wisdom knowledge and understanding lord I speak that over each one of us in our class and we'll listen later we'll watch this class later that we speak that your wisdom will be increased in us lord you are the source of all wisdom thank you father thank you lord that you are comforting us and you're leading us that you are the god of hope that no matter what we face in our life the battle belongs to God when we when we bring it to you when we inquire with you you are the god will bless us you will fight our battles and you will give us the rest and you will give us the victory and our hope is in you we claim this over each one of us lord in Jesus mighty name we pray amen amen class thank you so much for joining in today's session god bless thank you thank you thank you good bless thank you thank you god bless thank you thank you good bless