II Chronicles 30-31

“People of Israel, return to the Lord ... that he may return to you who are left, who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria” (6). King Hezekiah planned to celebrate the Passover as part of his intense spiritual reform in Judah, and he invited the ‘rebels’ in northern Israel to cross borders and join them. He urged them not to be “stiff-necked” like their ancestors, but to take the opportunity to repent and worship (30:8). Some ridiculed this invitation, but others “humbled themselves” and went (30:10-11).

“Come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever” (30:8). God’s sanctuary is still open to all through Christ, if we are willing to humble ourselves and enter in.