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The Message of Chronicles: One Church, One Faith, One Lord is unavailable, but you can change that!

Michael Wilcock sees 1 and 2 Chronicles as first and foremost a sermon. Its object is to foster a right relationship between God and His people. The Chronicler finds in the records of Israel the “great overall pattern” of God’s hand in history. The Lord’s constant mercy, love, and faithfulness shine through. With great perception, the Chronicler first selects and then proclaims this vibrant...

the glory of the LORD filled the temple’ (7:1). The glory has been mentioned already, in 5:14; the answer to prayer was the fire. God had answered in this spectacular way before in his people’s history, when Moses first set up the altar in the wilderness,19 and when David set one up on this very site, while it was still the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite (1 Ch. 21:26). It would happen again, in a time of crucial decision for Israel, at Elijah’s altar on Mount Carmel (1 Ki. 18:38). To speak
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