Entry 45
And the LORD Hearkened to Hezekiah, and Healed the People
For a multitude of the people, [even] many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one that prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary. And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. (2Chr 30:18-20)
Here we have a King making intercession for the people. The people were returning to God, however wrong in some of their way in which they returned; "had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written". It was the Priest's job to make intercession for the people and to facilitate in the sacrificing of animals, the shedding of blood, to get the people cleansed. What we see here is Hezekiah, a man whose name means "Strengthened of JAH", a type of Christ in his facilitation, out of divine zeal and compassion, making intercession on behalf of the people who were not yet cleansed and who ate the Passover other than how it was written. They were in violation of the letter of the law; they were, however, in the spirit of repentance and contrition before God. God heard the plea of Hezekiah and healed the people.
"[...] for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." (2Cor 3:6)
We see a glaring picture of Christ our Passover, our intercessor, our propitiation here. God has made a way which is better than the law and saves those whom the law condemns. God promises that all who seek Him earnestly shall find Him. He promised that all who call upon His name shall be saved. This is a glaring statement of the fact that God is our salvation, not the law. Hezekiah pleaded with God and God healed the people. This looking forward to the sacrifice of Christ which was planned from before the foundation of the world.
"[...] for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." (2Cor 3:6)
We see a glaring picture of Christ our Passover, our intercessor, our propitiation here. God has made a way which is better than the law and saves those whom the law condemns. God promises that all who seek Him earnestly shall find Him. He promised that all who call upon His name shall be saved. This is a glaring statement of the fact that God is our salvation, not the law. Hezekiah pleaded with God and God healed the people. This looking forward to the sacrifice of Christ which was planned from before the foundation of the world.
(Heb 7:25 [AKJV/PCE])
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he [Jesus Christ] ever liveth to make intercession for them.
(Heb 7:26 [AKJV/PCE])
For such an high priest became us, [who is] holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
(Heb 7:27 [AKJV/PCE])
Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
(Heb 7:28 [AKJV/PCE])
For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, [maketh] the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he [Jesus Christ] ever liveth to make intercession for them.
(Heb 7:26 [AKJV/PCE])
For such an high priest became us, [who is] holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
(Heb 7:27 [AKJV/PCE])
Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
(Heb 7:28 [AKJV/PCE])
For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, [maketh] the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
(1Pet 2:24 [AKJV/PCE])
Who his [Jesus Christ's] own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
(1Pet 2:25 [AKJV/PCE])
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Who his [Jesus Christ's] own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
(1Pet 2:25 [AKJV/PCE])
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
(Gal 2:16 [AKJV/PCE])
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
(Mal 3:7 [AKJV/PCE])
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept [them]. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept [them]. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
(John 6:37 [AKJV/PCE])
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
(Jas 4:7 [AKJV/PCE])
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
(Jas 4:8 [AKJV/PCE])
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.
(Jas 4:9 [AKJV/PCE])
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
(Jas 4:10 [AKJV/PCE])
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
(Jas 4:8 [AKJV/PCE])
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.
(Jas 4:9 [AKJV/PCE])
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
(Jas 4:10 [AKJV/PCE])
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
(Prov 8:17 [AKJV/PCE])
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early [earnestly, diligently, first and foremost] shall find me.
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early [earnestly, diligently, first and foremost] shall find me.
(1Pet 1:18 [AKJV/PCE])
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers;
(1Pet 1:19 [AKJV/PCE])
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
(1Pet 1:20 [AKJV/PCE])
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers;
(1Pet 1:19 [AKJV/PCE])
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
(1Pet 1:20 [AKJV/PCE])
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
Devotional Reading
I pray the Lord feed you by His Spirit as you read the following passages.
Set your ears upon Him as you read.
I pray the Lord feed you by His Spirit as you read the following passages.
Set your ears upon Him as you read.
(Isa 53:1 [AKJV/PCE])
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
(Isa 53:2 [AKJV/PCE])
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.
(Isa 53:3 [AKJV/PCE])
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
(Isa 53:4 [AKJV/PCE])
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
(Isa 53:5 [AKJV/PCE])
But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
(Isa 53:6 [AKJV/PCE])
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
(Isa 53:7 [AKJV/PCE])
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
(Isa 53:8 [AKJV/PCE])
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
(Isa 53:9 [AKJV/PCE])
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither [was any] deceit in his mouth.
(Isa 53:10 [AKJV/PCE])
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
(Isa 53:11 [AKJV/PCE])
He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
(Isa 53:12 [AKJV/PCE])
Therefore will I divide him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
(Isa 53:2 [AKJV/PCE])
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.
(Isa 53:3 [AKJV/PCE])
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
(Isa 53:4 [AKJV/PCE])
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
(Isa 53:5 [AKJV/PCE])
But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
(Isa 53:6 [AKJV/PCE])
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
(Isa 53:7 [AKJV/PCE])
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
(Isa 53:8 [AKJV/PCE])
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
(Isa 53:9 [AKJV/PCE])
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither [was any] deceit in his mouth.
(Isa 53:10 [AKJV/PCE])
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
(Isa 53:11 [AKJV/PCE])
He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
(Isa 53:12 [AKJV/PCE])
Therefore will I divide him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
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