Well, we're 4 minutes, almost 5 minutes past, so let's go ahead and get started and we'll start with the word of prayer. You guys are the one who sits on the throne, and it is you who ordered the affairs of mankind. You are the one. Who, raises up nations and you're the one who takes them down.
You're the one who, directs the affairs of mankind and even to the, the affairs of our own lives and, and Fathers before you that we, we bow and we, We worship and, and give to you the honor that is due to you because of that. And as we look into your word this morning, may our hearts be open to what you are doing and what you have done so that we may learn and be strengthened in our own relationship with you. Lord, we want to seek after you. We want to know you more and may our hearts be led into that this morning in Jesus' name, Amen.
This morning, we'll be looking at the fall of Jerusalem. And Some of the, the lessons that can be learned from that. We're going to be looking at, what? What we can see from, the history of, of kings of Israel.
We've been looking over the last few weeks at those kinds of things. And I wanted to, propose this question, for us to ponder as we go through, our, our lesson today that what happens to God's plans when man fails? That's something that we will be, at the end of the, lesson today answering more succinctly, but, be thinking about that question as we're, we're going through. Our, study today....