“But they did not listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do evil more than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the sons of Israel.” 2 Kings 21:9
The Nations that possessed Canaan before Israel did, brought God’s Judgement on them. Here we read Judah had become worse! How can this be? These were God’s People, now so corrupt, they had crossed the Line of no return. Even Josiah’s Revival would not reverse this proclamation. How Sobering!
What can we learn from this? In Matthew 6, Jesus warns us about our eyesight. He says our eye is the Light of our body. It’s “how” we see what we see. If our eye is good, we see fine. But if bad, we see darkness; or Deception! Obviously, Israel was not seeing well. He finishes by saying “If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!” Oh God, give us clear and healthy eyesight!!!