What if the most powerful religious leader in ancient Judah was the king’s mother? Sister Heather Farrell walks us through 2 Chronicles and the queen mother whose name the record keeps even when it forgets everything else, and makes the case that the covenants have always traveled through the household and through family stories far messier than we’d like to admit.
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TIMECODE
0:00 - Part 1 - Sister Heather Farrell
1:15 Why would anyone love Chronicles?
2:51 “Our eyes are upon thee”
4:01 Bio
6:40 Come, Follow Me Manual
7:49 Chronicles 101: one book, not two (and its two obsessions)
9:50 Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, and Torah
10:55 The Chronicler as Mormon
13:04 Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia–4 ways to conquer a people
16:28 The last verse in the Hebrew Bible is about the temple
17:47 Dolly, Mary, and a messy line
22:23 Why do Kings and Chronicles tell the same stories?
24:24 Solomon built two houses
26:36 The Nauvoo parallel
28:13 God accepts the dedication
31:03 The verse that became a song
33:33 The second covenant
35:43 Official religion vs. household religion
38:30 Easter happens at home (why we need fridge magnets)
40:40 Asa tears down the high places and groves
43:18 Asherah and why she is NOT our Heavenly Mother
46:35 Asa’s prayer
48:20 Worthiness to ask for a miracle
50:38 Spiritual storehouses (like grain but better)
53:03 The hard verse is descriptive not prescriptive
55:21 Asa’s mistake
58:13 The gebirah–the King’s mother
1:00:13 Bathsheba and why Kings always names the mother
1:02:39 Covenant power that transfers through a woman
1:05:13 A dynasty that runs on worthiness, not just blood
1:06:12 Jumping Jehoshaphat
1:08:37 “There is yet one man … but I hate him”
1:09:47 End of Part 1 – Sister Heather Farrell
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