{"id":4570,"date":"2024-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/may-11\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T16:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T21:37:53","slug":"may-11","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/reading-plan\/may-11\/","title":{"rendered":"May 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insight from Kings<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through Israel\u2019s conquest of the promised land, Yahweh exalted himself before the nations as the only true God\u2026. Yahweh was completely faithful to his promises. As with Adam in Eden, he brought Israel into a new paradise, and in a foreshadow of the messianic Savior\u2019s greater work, God used Joshua to give them rest. Nevertheless, the majority soon forgot Yahweh and progressively became Canaanized\u2026. Without a faithful king, the people did what was right in their own eyes, and God\u2019s word became rare . The people sought a king, which God granted, but they wanted one who would replace rather than represent Yahweh. Ultimately, because the leaders and community refused to listen to God\u2019s gracious appeal via his prophets, the united empire was divided (1 Kings 11:11, 13), and both the northern and southern kingdoms came to a ruinous end\u2014exile and a destroyed temple (2 Kings 17:14\u201315, 18; 25:1\u201320). Despite all the darkness and rebellion of Israel\u2019s rise and fall, Yahweh graciously renewed his promise of a coming royal Redeemer. King David foreshadowed this deliverer, and God declared that he would fulfill his universal kingdom purposes through David. One of David\u2019s offspring would be God\u2019s royal \u201cSon\u201d who would possess and bless the nations and destroy God\u2019s enemies. God would establish and uphold David\u2019s throne with justice and righteousness. Bearing the name \u201cIsrael,\u201d this new representative servant-king would \u201cbring back the preserved of Israel,\u201d the people, and be \u201ca light to the nations,\u201d thus extending Yahweh\u2019s saving reign to the end of the earth. The anticipated savior-king would proclaim Yahweh\u2019s end-times reign\u2014the year of his favor and the day of his vengeance. While himself guiltless, he would also satisfy God\u2019s wrath against sinners through a substitutionary death and would, by his righteousness, \u201cmake many to be accounted righteous\u201d (Isa. 53:5, 10\u201311).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-4570","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}