7. Yahweh's People Renew their Covenant with God

Time:  622 BC - 605 BC
Place:  Jerusalem
Event:  Cleansing of the Temple & Covenant Renewal

Little Daniel witnessed the reformation of King Josiah and the cleansing of the Temple.

Once again the people of God gathered together at the Temple & had the Book of the Law read to them.  

How privilege it is to be in covenant with God, to be Yahweh's people again, worshipping the one True God, Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 34:29-31

Then the king Josiah called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. He went up to the temple of Yahweh  with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of Yahweh .  The king stood by his pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of Yahweh—to follow Yahweh and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, and to obey the words of the covenant written in this book.

**This video is an excerpt from our Music Drama in Easter Camp 2014**


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6. Shema Yisrael

Time:  622 BC - 605 BC
Place:  Jerusalem

With the rediscovery of the Book of the Law, Josiah and Jeremiah would have instructed the Israelites to the most important verse in the Book of the Law - Deuteronomy 6:4, "Hear, O Israel: Yahweh our God, Yahweh is one.

Hebrew:
:שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יהוה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יהוה אֶחָד

These words express the uncompromising worship of the one true God, Yahweh. Once our focus is on Yahweh God, this verse is immediately followed by the command, "You must love Yahweh God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength." (Deut 6:5)

At the time, the Israelites had strayed from the one true God and worshipped many idols and gods.  True spiritual revival calls people to return to worship and love the one true God Yahweh with all of their being.

Parents were instructed to impress these commandments onto the hearts of their children. They were to talk about them while sitting at home, walking along the road, lying down and getting up.

It is under this kind of spiritual atmosphere that Daniel lived in his early childhood under Josiah's revival and Jeremiah's preaching.  Jeremiah was a prophet preaching in Jerusalem at that time.  A firm spiritual foundation was laid.  Daniel knew the one true God Yahweh in his heart and to love God with all his being.

Let us also follow the same as we teach our children about the one true God, Yahweh, to worship and to love Yahweh God with all their hearts.

**This video is an excerpt from our Music Drama in Easter Camp 2014**