Today's Reading June 11

Good Monday to you. It's just past 05:30 here and it's warming already.
This morning's reading will be 2nd Chronicles 34, 35, and 36. This will complete the Chronicles. And it's not a fun read.
It starts well, mind you. Josiah is counted as one of the good kings and he was a very good one. And he sought the Lord. But in the end the nation had become so wicked for so long that judgment, while delayed, came. Josiah died not far from the place we call Armageddon. And his successor (have we seen this before?) is wicked. And judgment comes, and it's not pretty.

14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

Anybody think it can't happen here?
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This evening's reading continues in the Gospel of John 19, verses 1 through 22.
This is the Crucifixion of our Lord. Nothing more needs be said.