(like II Kings 17:7). History seems to flow as we always have known
it. Nations fight, people are captured, and on and on. But the Bible
has a different take. History moves at the moving of the Lord.
Nations fight and people are captured. But all of this is simply
plays into the promises and warnings of the Lord. God is moving and
acting even in history.
To be living in the time of II Kings would mean I would have been
captured, deported, confused. I would have wondered where God is, why
this is happening, etc. But likely I would not have realized that my
sin brought this about, mine and many others.
History is not free flow and left to the whims of even the most
powerful. They always play to the hand of God. Always! History moves
us toward the realization of God's kingdom and in the process reveals
to us more of what that Kingdom must be like.
That doesn't mean that I can just allow everyone and anyone to condemn
me attaching a painful time to sin. It does mean that God's Kingdom
has come and all of the pieces of life that seem out of control and in
the hands of the powers that be are not. He is in control and is
working His plan. Though it may be hard to see in the moment, God is
in control and the world is not just happening. Behind history we
will find the hand of God taking even the battle over power, even
abuse, even hurtful things and working them toward an end. He is the
God of history.
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