Endless Evil
“Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.” Jeremiah 52:31 NKJV http://bible.com/114/jer.52.31.nkjv One of the endless frustrations in the battle against evil is the lack of capacity for evil to combat evil. Protest against a perceived act of evil has always lead to the escalation of wickedness and unrighteousness. Unfortunately, human beings have always blamed God for the cause of their evil-generated wickedness and the consequences of their unrighteousness. Unlike king Jehoiachin, instead of accepting the judgment and turning away from wickedness, most of the kings of Judah and Jerusalem rejected the judgment of God with the consequent and endless escalation of evil. Jehoiachin spent about twice the length of his life’s ...