In the midst of all this idolatry in Judah, God raised up Josiah, a good King who fulfilled all that had been foretold of him, destroying the images and the shrines erected to other gods, including the goddess Astarte whom they called “The Queen of Heaven”, and whose shrines were akin to the modern Lady Chapels and such-like, which desecrate God’s House today. Over three centuries later this “Josiah” was born as foretold, at a time of much wickedness in the land of Judah and the prophet Jeremiah then wrote, “The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also” ( Jeremiah 3:6-8). And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee” ( I Kings 13:1-2). 3357, when King Jeroboam first taught the Ten-Tribed House of Israel to worship golden calves and burn incense before images, concerning which we read, “.and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. He was the father of Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem and “did that which was right in the sight of the Lord” ( II Kings 22:1-2).Ī most remarkable prophecy had been given concerning him in the year A.M. before the Times of the Gentiles oppression began, Judah was ruled by a most God-fearing King, “Josiah” by name. JOSIAH’S ENDEAVOR TO SAVE JUDAH FROM GENTILE OPPRESSIONįor over a quarter of a century preceding Nebuchadnezzar’s first incursion into the Holy Land, i.e. “Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the Times of the Gentiles be fulfilled” - Luke 21:24

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