How do you know when a message is from God? This week we turn to the listeners. 2 Chronicles 36 gives a blunt summary of Judah’s last kings: they mocked God’s messengers until there was no remedy. But the story that holds our attention is Josiah, the righteous king, who ignores a warning from King Neco of Egypt that the text says came from God. If even the best of the kings could get this wrong, how are the rest of us supposed to tell? We wonder whether checking with community is part of the answer, and we leave the question mostly open.