Inerrant Lie #60

Another lie from "God's ineffable, inerrant word":

It's been mentioned, in a previous 'Lie', that Moses' LORD was (like Moses) perhaps not only a false God but a false prophet to boot. This 'Lie' is another nail in that coffin.

Josiah was the next- to- last king of Judah not appointed by a conquering foe as a stool- pigeon over a puppet regime. He did more than most (if not all) others to order the kingdom as per Moses' law. As such, his kingdom represents the final death- throes of the LORD's temporal authority over the kingdom of heaven as envisioned by Moses.

It's ironical-- given the great priority and power attributed to anointing by all the followers of Moses-- but nowhere is it written this Josiah was anointed king. In all cases it is written he was "made" king, and that by the people: not by the priesthood. (Josiah's son Jehoahaz was likewise made king by the people after Josiah's death. He reigned three months.)

Thus, Josiah was made king when he was eight years old. When he was twenty- six years old, Josiah was given a copy of Moses' law by the priest Hilkiah: after he had already reigned eighteen years as king without the law. What Josiah read in Moses' law disturbed him deeply. Therefore he sent Hilkiah, the priest, to enquire of the LORD concerning the state and fate of his kingdom and what was left of the nation over which he ruled. Such was the state of the priesthood's relationship with the LORD that Hilkiah outsourced this enquiry to a prophetess by the name of Huldah.

One of the affirmations Huldah the prophetess claims came of the resultant divination was the declaration by the LORD, to Josiah the king that, "Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace [2 Kings 22:20a - c]." This prognostication of the LORD's is subsequently refuted by the course of historical events: in the valley of Megiddo [called Armageddon, in Revelation 16:16], of all places.

Of Josiah's fate in the valley of Armageddon, it is recorded: "23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded. 24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah [2 Chronicles 35:23 & 24]."

Certainly, Custer and the 7th met a more gruesome fate at Little Bighorn than the Judaeans met at Megiddo; but Josiah was nonetheless overrun by the Egyptians at Megiddo, and met his fate in battle-- not in peace, as the LORD God of Israel had promised him.