Jason Hensley – Class 1: Ahab’s Israel

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This is day one of the 2022.
Idlewild Bible School.

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Our first period teacher is
brother.

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Jason Hensley.
His General subject is Elijah.

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A man of like passions, today’s
topic is ahab’s Israel, brother,

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Jason, good morning everyone.
It’s very nice to be here to see

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you all Ruth and I left
California on June 18th and we

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just got back so it’s very nice.
It’s very nice to be back.

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We ring the greetings of your
brothers and sisters at

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Shippensburg.
So in Pennsylvania, I’m sure

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they would love to see you all.
We’re going to be talking about

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Elijah this week, which is a
topic that I actually I

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requested to talk about it
because I was so excited about

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Elijah and the committee very
nicely said.

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Okay that that would be fine.
So what we’re going to do as we

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walk through this series on
Elijah’s today, we’re going to

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talk about ahab’s.
Israel, to First, we’re going to

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look at what was the text that
Elijah was living in and then

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we’re going to spend time
essentially looking at his early

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life.
So tomorrow is going to be about

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Elijah’s drought.
So we’re going to actually spend

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an entire class on 1st Kings 17
verse 1.

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I know it’s kind of crazy but
it’s Phil, you know, that makes

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it fun, right?
So, we’ll do First Kings 17

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verse 1 tomorrow, we’re going to
talk about the Ravens.

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You remember that Elijah fed by
Ravens.

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So, we’ll discuss Elijah at the
brook the next day after that,

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we’ll talk about Elijah with the
Widow, then Mount Carmel.

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This is going to be an
interesting thing to discuss.

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Not caramel particularly because
I don’t know about you.

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But when somebody says Elijah,
what do you think of?

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Like you usually think about
Mount Carmel, maybe like this is

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kind of how I always pictured
him.

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I saw this guy with a really big
beard, right?

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We know he was Harry.
So he had it had a real big

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beard.
And you almost see him striking,

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like a superhero pose, right?
And his beards like blowing in

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the wind would, like, triumphant
music in the background or

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something.
So that’s how I always pictured.

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Elijah.
Maybe you weren’t that way, but

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to me, he was like the superhero
guy who went up and said you

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guys are losers get with it,
right?

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Right.
And you’re like, wow, he’s so

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cool.
I wish I could be that cool.

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We’re going to see, I think that
it scripture actually paints a

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little bit of a different
picture as far as Elijah goes,

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and I think that’s going to be
really helpful.

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So that’s really what we’re
going to get to.

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When we talk about Mount Carmel,
it’s all going to kind of lead

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up to that.
And it’s going to climax here

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when we talk about the voice, as
he leaves caramel and goes to

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Mount Sinai and that’s where
we’re going to finish it now.

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I know that’s not the full
Elijah story, there’s still a

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few other pieces here but that
is the point.

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At Mount Sinai in Elijah story
when he is told by God.

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You know what, you need to go,
anoint someone else.

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So it’s almost like this is the
point where God says, okay, I’m

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going to keep working with you
and I’m gonna keep working

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through you but your time as a
prophet is dwindling down.

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So that’s where we’re going to
take it this week and what I

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hope we can see is that maybe if
you had that Superhero picture

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of Elijah that maybe we can have
a more realistic picture.

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That’s one of the things that I
think is is just beautiful about

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the Bible and it makes it unique
as far as a lot of books.

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And that is it actually paints
people as they are.

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It paints people as they are,
you know, it says, here’s

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somebody who did some really
good things, but they had some

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real struggles that they went
through and sometimes in our

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desire for heroes or things like
that or or, you know, I read a

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lot of books for kids, right?
Because I have a lot of kids.

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So you read a lot of kids books
and you always get.

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Here’s the good guy.
Here’s the bad.

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Guy and life’s not really that
way.

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Right?
There’s there’s not somebody

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that you look at you say oh
yeah, everything that person

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ever did in their life was bad.
There’s nobody like that, right?

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And so scripture shows us that’s
not true.

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You know, you look at Elijah and
you think.

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Yeah.
He was a good guy, but was

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everything he ever did.
Good.

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Definitely wasn’t and I think
it’s helpful for us to come with

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a realistic picture and
recognize.

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Oh, you know what?
This is actually the picture

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that scripture is giving to us
of him and I think we can learn

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a lot from that.
So that’s the plan.

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Each class is going to have a
main message.

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This first message today is that
God is in control.

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So these are messages about how
God works every day.

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This is the main thing that we
want to remember.

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So I teach Middle School.
I recognized, you know, that as

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humans, it’s sometimes hard to
remember more than one line.

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So, that’s the big thing each
day.

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Remember this one line, and I
even made it easier that each

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line starts with the same first
words.

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All right.
So, so here we go.

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God is in control.
That’s today’s thing to

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remember.
These are going to be simple

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lessons but their lessons, that
I really think we need to hear

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every day.
God is in control and I’m going

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to suggest you.
These are lessons that Elijah

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also needed to hear.
So the first one is, God is in

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control.
Tomorrow’s is going to be that

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God hears prayer Wednesday is.
This one’s kind of long?

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God gives lessons that push us
beyond our comfort zones.

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So God is actually going to put
us in situations where we say.

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I know this is the right thing
to do.

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But I don’t feel good about it,
you know, this doesn’t feel like

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it’s what I should do, you know,
and and it and it makes you a

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little uncomfortable.
God gives lessons though these

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this discomfort comes with
fantastic blessings.

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God decides when it’s time for
judgment and that’s a big one.

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And I think that I would suggest
to you as Elijah’s this was the

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Crux of Elijah’s big problem.
It wasn’t that the Judgment was

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bad, but it was that Elijah
thought he could decide when it

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was supposed to come.
So God decides when it’s time

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for judgment and finally on
Sunday Saturday Saturday we’re

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going to say God doesn’t relent
and this is something that I

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think is beautiful about the way
that God works.

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That we are basically going to
see Elijah saying, no, it can’t

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be that way.
God, that’s not okay.

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It can’t be like that and it’s
almost like Elijah’s running and

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hitting his head against the
wall over and over and over.

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And God says, no, it actually is
and he brings him back over.

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And Elijah says, no, and he runs
away and hits his head against

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the wall and God says no,
actually it is that way.

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And this is one of the Beautiful
Things is that God says Elijah.

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You’ve devoted yourself to me.
I’m not going to let you go.

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You know, I am going to teach
you this and you’re going to

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learn it even if I have to take
you and make you live in a cave,

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all by yourself.
You will learn this lesson.

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So we’re going to see that in
the story of Elijah today.

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With ahab’s Israel, here’s the
plan.

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We have three sections as always
Jeroboams religion.

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So let’s discuss a little bit
about jeroboam because that’s

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going to provide our context and
the big reason that it provides

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a context is because Omri is
ahab’s, father.

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And Omri.
We’re told does worse than

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anyone who came before?
So we need to understand how bad

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jeroboam was so that we can
therefore understand how bad

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Omri was.
Because, you know what?

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It says when Ahab became king he
did Worse than everyone who came

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before him, right?
So, you know, it was like a

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chain of Badness, right?
Like going up steps here.

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So with Ahab, you actually get
that he was worse than all

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murmuring.
So as we put this together, what

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we want to be able to see is
okay.

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Jeroboam was bad, Omri was bad
bad and Ahab was bad, bad bad.

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All right, so that’s that’s what
we’re going to see is we put

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this together.
Now again, the Bible doesn’t

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show us cardboard characters.
So we’re going to notice Yes,

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Ahab is painted as bad bad bad
but there are good things he

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does.
And that’s a helpful thing to

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recognize the main lesson is
that God is in control.

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And that education is powerful.
I had to put that in, you know,

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as a teacher education is
powerful.

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This is this is what God wants
to use to change the World to

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Change lives.
It’s not that you go up and you

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force somebody to change, but
it’s that the word of God

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teaching.
This is what changes things when

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we have these conversations
about, what does it mean to

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follow God?
I always like to have why

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questions?
Where we ask, why is it like

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this?
So here’s something to Stew on

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during this class why was Ahab
worse than everyone else.

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What made him so bad and in
fact, you know, like, how do you

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define that Omri?
Omri was bad bad.

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So, how do you get worse than
bad bad?

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Like, what does that mean?
Does that mean, you know, Omri

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worshipped Idols for like nine
hours every day and a have

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worshipped them 10 hours.
Like how do you, how do you

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define that?
Like, what does it look like?

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So, that’s what we want to try
and figure out what, what made a

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have so bad.
So as we start, let’s discuss

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jeroboam.
All right, now let’s talk about

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his last name, jeroboam the son
of nebat of nebat, who made

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Israel sin, right?
So, this is the last name of

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jeroboam basically, you see it
basically, every time he shows

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up, That would really be sad.
I don’t know if you ever thought

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about that, but like, you know,
if you were named like Jason,

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who was a loser or something
like that, like that that’s

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essentially like, what what
happens when it shows up with

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jeroboam.
So he becomes jeroboam the son

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of nebat who made Israel sin,
like the guy who messed up

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everything.
Okay?

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So that’s jeroboam.
Now, let’s talk about how he did

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it.
So, basically, if you look at

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almost every king of Israel, you
will notice Is that there are

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described as walking in the sins
of jeroboam, not all of them, so

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jeroboams not described that
way.

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But I mean, that’s kind of
obvious because he was jeroboam.

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So he obviously walked in his
own sins.

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Ela is not described that way,
but all these other kings here

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are in addition.
Let me show you the rest of the

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slides here.
Here’s the other kings, you

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might want to just take a
picture of that or I can send

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you the slides.
So, you will notice so far we’ve

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seen Ela was not described as
sinning after the way of

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jeroboam.
So we have two kings.

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Now, if you want to count
jeroboam as well, we have three

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kings who are not described as
following after the ways of

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jeroboam out of 18.
That’s pretty bad.

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Oh sorry.
There there’s Scioscia I forgot

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he was the last one.
So you got three out of 19 Kings

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who are not directly associated
with jeroboam sin.

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However, if you look at, when
God destroys Israel, here’s how

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he describes the destruction.
Second Kings, 17 21 to 23.

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It says, when he had torn Israel
from the House of David, they

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made jeroboam the son of nebat
King, jeroboam drove Israel,

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from following the Lord, and
made them commit.

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Great sin.
The people of Israel walked in

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all the sins of jeroboam did.
And look at this, they did not

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depart from them until the Lord
removed Israel out of his sight.

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So even though three of those
kings are not described as

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following in jeroboam sin.
God’s Divine summary here is

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that sin never stopped.
That was always what was going

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on with Israel?
okay, so as you can perhaps

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Envision on the Badness meter
here, jeroboams sin, Would you

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agree it ranks?
Pretty high, right?

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Like this is this is not so
good.

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Okay, well what we want to ask,
then we’re always asking this

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question, why?
Why was this so sticky?

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You know what made it so that
every single king after jeroboam

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said, oh yeah those cows, you
know those golden cows.

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Yeah.
That’s good, right?

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You know that that I gotta do
that.

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Why, you know, it’s it just
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who actually wants to bow down
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Like But, for some reason, it
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So why, and what, particularly
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So let’s talk about what
jeroboam ended up doing as we

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read this.
See, if you notice, what is so

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Sneaky about what jeroboam does.
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there’s there’s strong
sneakiness here and that

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sneakiness makes jeroboam ‘s
sin, very sticky, it makes it

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stay around.
So, look for the sneakiness

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here, first, Kings 12, 26 to 29.
I’m this isn’t the ESV, by the

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way.
And jeroboam said, in his heart.

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Now, the kingdom will turn back
to the house of David.

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If this people go up to others
to offer sacrifices in the

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temple of the Lord of Jerusalem,
then the heart of this people

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will turn again to their lord to
rehoboam King of Judah.

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And they will kill me and return
to riobamba King of Judah.

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So the king had counsel and made
two calves of gold.

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He said to the people you have
gone up to Jerusalem long

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enough.
Behold your God’s o Israel, who

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brought you up out of the land
of Egypt?

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He set one in Bethel and the
other he put in An now, what do

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you notice?
Anybody, you’re going to shout

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this out if you want.
I don’t know if you feel

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comfortable with that or not,
but I don’t mind.

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What was that since like, the
Wilderness outside of Sinai, you

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might notice.
In fact, so you got two kinds of

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cold right.
In addition, he says, behold

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your God, who brought you up out
of the land of Egypt?

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Which I don’t know if you’re
aware is actually a quote from

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Exodus 32.
So, quote of Exodus 32 for when

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Aaron says that to the people.
Now, here’s an interesting

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piece.
When Erin says to the people,

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behold your Gods who brought you
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Do you know what he says in the
next verse he says, tomorrow is

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A feast unto Yahweh.
That’s fascinating, right?

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Here’s this cow right.
And Aaron says, oh, and by the

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way, everybody tomorrow, we’re
going to dance around.

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We’re going to celebrate what
Yahweh has done and everybody

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would be looking in there.
Like, but Aaron that’s a cow,

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you know?
Like what do you mean?

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And for Aaron this wasn’t a oh,
we’re going to make Idols

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because we know Idols have
power.

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Everybody knew God.
Delivered them from Egypt.

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And Aaron was saying, well, we
haven’t seen Moses.

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We don’t know where Moses went.
So let’s get a replacement.

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You know, let’s have something
we can actually see touch.

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So he says this Idol here, this
represents Yahweh to us, so you

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can picture.
Jeroboam is taking the power of

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that tradition and saying, oh
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This is Yahweh.
Okay, so that’s an interesting

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piece.
What else do you notice about

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the sneakiness here?
I got a little excited and

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underlined it.
He puts one cow in Bethel and

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one and Dan.
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Israel, geography Dan is in the
north and Bethel is in the

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South.
So you got Dan in the north

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Bethel in the South.
Now, there’s a few other pieces

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here, these locations.
Yes, we’re strategic because of

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their placement, but in addition
to that Bethel, if you

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translates it, if you translate,
it means House of God who named

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it that by the way.
Jacob Wright.

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Why did he name it that?
Because he saw angels ascending

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and descending there.
Now, can you picture this?

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Just put yourself in the shoes
of like a faithful Israelite,

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right?
You walk up to jeroboam and

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you’re like, jeroboam, are we
supposed to Worship in

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Jerusalem?
Jeroboam says, oh yeah.

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Yep, you are.
But You can also Worship in

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Bethel.
I mean, didn’t Jacob Wright?

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Didn’t Jacob?
See Angels ascending and

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descending and and didn’t he
named it House of God right?

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And you can Picture People Say
oh yeah.

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Oh yeah, that’s true.
You know.

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And what about this jeroboam
could even say something like?

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And if it’s good enough for
Jacob, I’ve heard it’s good

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enough for me, right?
So you can picture that.

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Obviously, I’m not saying he
said that but he could have

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right?
He could have if you wanted to.

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So you see that in Genesis 28
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That is where Jacob names at
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He says, surely this is the
house of God, are his words now?

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Dan is a little bit different.
Dan is interesting, it was for

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hundreds of years, the site of
another Tabernacle.

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So you remember that weird story
and judges where a woman says

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I’ve lost Eleven Hundred shekels
of silver.

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Remember that?
And her son comes up and he’s

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like, oh yeah, Mom, I stole them
and she says wow.

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Blessed be our way, right?
It’s really strange.

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And, and he says I’ll give them
back to you.

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And she says, thanks, son.
Here, I’ll give you 200 of these

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shackles and you can make an
idol.

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And he says, okay, you know, and
he makes an idol and then the

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danites come they like besieges
house, they take his Idol and he

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runs after them and he says, why
did you take my idol?

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And they’re like, go away or we
might hurt you and he says, okay

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and he goes home.
It’s really there’s a lot of

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weird stuff about the story
anyway, the danites take the

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idol and They go up to lo and
behold the city of Dan, it’s in

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judges 18 verse 30.
They go up to the city of Dan

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and they say.
We’re going to make a tabernacle

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with this idle at it and to
legitimize the idol.

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We are going to have a very
important person as our priest.

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It’s just so happens to be
Moses’s, grandson.

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So there’s another one of those,
if it’s good enough for Moses

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grandson, it’s good enough for
me, sort of deals.

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Now, again, all of this is
Tainted with the whole.

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This is also Yahweh worshipped
at the same time.

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You know, when Micah’s mom says
thanks for giving me back the

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money.
She says, blessed, are you by

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Yahweh?
My son.

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That’s judges. 17, blessed, are
you by Yahweh?

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And then she says, I’m going to
give you 200 of those shackles,

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but she specifically says, I’m
going to give you 200 of them to

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dedicate to Yahweh and Michael
makes an idol.

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Now it probably wasn’t Here’s,
you know, idle whatever bail,

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blah, blah, blah bail Mica or
something.

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You know, it was this Idols,
Yahweh, same kind of thing as

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the golden calf.
And so, that’s why Micah, then

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does this whole thing to try and
get a levite as his priest and

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he says, now God will bless me
because I have a levite as my

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priest.
So you can see all of this that

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this was Yahweh worship.
So it was very sneaky in that,

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it wasn’t straight out idol
worship.

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If anybody came to jeroboam and
said, well, wait a minute

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jeroboam, this isn’t right?
He could say, oh, Wait.

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Wait, wait, wait.
This is Yahweh.

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You know what?
What kind of issues do you have

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with this?
This is building on tradition.

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We’re building on Jacob on
Moses.

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Like surely you don’t have any
issues with them.

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And he keeps the priesthood.
In addition to that if you keep

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reading through First Kings 12,
he allows anybody to be priests.

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So he keeps the priesthood, he
just removes the exclusivity of

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it and he creates a feast like
the Feast of Judah.

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Probably, the Feast of
Tabernacles, he just moves it

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one month later, which by the
way, also has a precedent in the

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law.
Do you remember that?

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Celebrating a feast one month
later?

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That that was what you were
allowed to do.

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I believe it’s numbers nine
Numbers chapter 9 if you were

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unclean.
So God actually said, you know,

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you can celebrate a feast one
month later.

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So all of these things have
connections to what they were

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actually allowed to do.
The point of all of this is that

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jeroboam probably still stated
that he was worshiping Yahweh

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and that’s an important piece.
Therefore, I think we can back

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this up by the name of his son.
Now, it’s important to grasp

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this.
I Think.

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In today’s society, we don’t
think a whole lot of our names.

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You know, we name our kids like
names that we think are cool and

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pretty and like sound nice but I
don’t know.

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Maybe maybe you did when you
were naming your child or your

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children.
Maybe you thought about like

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what their name means or
something like that.

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But it was a little different
back then, everybody spoke

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Hebrew, right?
And if you gave, when you named

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your kid, it was basically, like
you gave them a Hebrew sentence,

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as a name.
So, for instance, abijah means,

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Yahweh is my father, A biter
Yahweh is my father.

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Now if you were going to just
tell somebody oh by the way, did

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you know, Yahweh is my father
you want to know how you’d say

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it in Hebrew?
It was abijah.

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So names. in scripture, have a
huge significance, I think a lot

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more than we think now, This kid
was named by jeroboam, right?

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We think of him as the bad bad
King, who made Israel sin, he

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named his son, Yahweh is my
father.

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And so, every time people would
talk to him they’d say, hey,

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Yahweh is my father.
Can you, you know go clean your

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room or whatever, right?
Like this, this would just be

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like imprinted on this kid’s
head.

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Yahweh is my father, you always
my father?

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So I think that’s important, you
know, it would be like, if you

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named your son, Michael, he, who
is like God, right?

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It would be like, if you always
just called him that sort of

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calling him Michael, you I said,
hey, he who is like God, Right,

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it makes a big difference.
Okay, so that’s jeroboam so you

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can see yes bad because he made
every mess everybody up.

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But weirdly enough there was
still this, like aspect of

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Yahweh Worship in it.
So let’s talk about Omri.

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So things start to change with
him ahab’s.

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Dynasty starts, one generation
earlier, with Omri Omri, takes

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the leadership during a Civil
War.

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I don’t know how much you
thought about like the history

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of Israel but it’s really weird.
So let’s let’s get introduced to

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a few characters here.
The king at the time was Ela,

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Ela does not rain for very long.
He is the son of bay Asha, which

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probably doesn’t mean a whole
lot because they didn’t really

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do anything important.
So they Asha Ela, they were the

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Kings Eli’s, the king at the
time, Omri is a commander of the

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Army zimri is a leader of the
Cavalry.

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So these are two like Warriors
and the king at the top.

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Okay, we’re good.
That make sense to you, or your

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king at the top, okay.
Zimri decides to start a

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rebellion against Ela.
He goes, and he kills Ela and

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his whole family.
So I don’t think we often let

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the sink in a lot when we’re
reading scripture.

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But can you imagine that kind of
thing taking place, you know,

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that that would throw a nation
into chaos like the leader gets

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assassinated and not just the
leader, but their whole family

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by the leader of the Cavalry.
Okay?

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00:24:18,000 –> 00:24:22,200
So that happened.
What then takes place is zimri

427
00:24:22,200 –> 00:24:24,800
says, you can figure this part
out, right?

428
00:24:25,000 –> 00:24:27,000
I’m now King.
Okay.

429
00:24:27,400 –> 00:24:31,000
Well maybe peace will come back.
Not Anarchy.

430
00:24:31,000 –> 00:24:32,400
That’s not really how it goes
though.

431
00:24:32,700 –> 00:24:34,800
Because the people then say,
yeah, but zimri, we don’t like

432
00:24:34,800 –> 00:24:37,400
you, right?
You know, you leave the Cavalry,

433
00:24:37,400 –> 00:24:39,500
whatever zimri.
We don’t think you’re very good.

434
00:24:39,600 –> 00:24:41,000
We don’t actually want you as
the leader.

435
00:24:41,200 –> 00:24:43,900
So the people say, no zimri.
You’re not the king even though

436
00:24:43,900 –> 00:24:46,800
now he’s in the palace.
So think about the chaos here,

437
00:24:46,900 –> 00:24:49,700
Zim reason the palace the people
say no no no that’s not gonna

438
00:24:49,700 –> 00:24:50,200
work.
Work.

439
00:24:50,200 –> 00:24:52,700
Actually, we want Omri as the
king.

440
00:24:53,500 –> 00:24:57,100
So now you have the leader of
the Cavalry against the leader

441
00:24:57,100 –> 00:24:59,800
of the army.
This would be like, I don’t know

442
00:24:59,808 –> 00:25:03,000
what the Air Force versus the
Marines or something like it.

443
00:25:03,400 –> 00:25:06,400
It’s that’s bad, right?
You really don’t want that to

444
00:25:06,400 –> 00:25:09,400
happen in the country.
You’re living in like you, you

445
00:25:09,400 –> 00:25:13,300
hope that that the Armed Forces
will provide stability and stead

446
00:25:13,300 –> 00:25:16,200
of fighting one another?
And that’s what’s going on here,

447
00:25:16,900 –> 00:25:19,900
okay, so Omri then says, okay,
well, how about this?

448
00:25:20,000 –> 00:25:24,400
This is Emory, I’ll come in
besiege you in the palace and

449
00:25:24,400 –> 00:25:27,900
zimri says, oh yeah.
Well, I have a plan and zimri

450
00:25:27,900 –> 00:25:29,500
lights.
The palace on fire and dies.

451
00:25:31,200 –> 00:25:33,600
That’s what he does.
He reigns for a grand total of

452
00:25:33,600 –> 00:25:36,200
seven days.
Okay.

453
00:25:36,300 –> 00:25:40,800
Now, if you were an Israelite,
you’d say who glad that didn’t

454
00:25:40,800 –> 00:25:43,600
last very long Civil War is
done, you know?

455
00:25:43,600 –> 00:25:45,300
Now there’s going to be peace,
but guess what?

456
00:25:45,300 –> 00:25:50,800
There isn’t because what then
goes on to happen is war

457
00:25:50,800 –> 00:25:54,700
continues.
Another guy shows up named

458
00:25:54,700 –> 00:25:58,200
Tiffany and Tiffany says, Omri.
I don’t want you to be king.

459
00:25:58,400 –> 00:26:02,100
Let’s fight this out and half of
Israel, says, yeah, actually,

460
00:26:02,100 –> 00:26:05,400
that’s a good idea, whatever,
that was about so half of them.

461
00:26:05,400 –> 00:26:07,400
Follow Armory, half of them,
follow Tiffany.

462
00:26:08,400 –> 00:26:11,600
And now there’s Civil War for
four years.

463
00:26:13,700 –> 00:26:15,800
So here’s how you can.
Here’s how you can time this.

464
00:26:16,100 –> 00:26:20,500
First king 16:15, says, in the
27th year of Asa, king of Judah.

465
00:26:20,600 –> 00:26:24,500
So you’ll notice the stability
by the way of Judah. 27 years

466
00:26:24,500 –> 00:26:28,700
here, zimri rain, for how long
seven days, right?

467
00:26:29,300 –> 00:26:31,800
27th year of Asa zimri, rain
seven days.

468
00:26:32,600 –> 00:26:36,400
Okay, so zimri becomes king in
the 27th year of Asa.

469
00:26:36,900 –> 00:26:41,600
And finally, Omri puts down all
these rebellions and he becomes

470
00:26:41,600 –> 00:26:47,500
king in the First year of Asa.
So, there’s Civil War for

471
00:26:47,500 –> 00:26:52,400
approximately four years.
Okay, so that’s the situation in

472
00:26:52,400 –> 00:26:58,100
Israel.
So now you ask, you know, Omri

473
00:26:58,100 –> 00:27:00,600
brings a little bit of
stability, but somehow he’s

474
00:27:00,600 –> 00:27:03,300
worse than all those who had
come before him now, maybe just

475
00:27:03,300 –> 00:27:07,500
because he brings Civil War, you
know, and that’s clearly not

476
00:27:07,500 –> 00:27:10,300
awesome.
Here’s how scripture describes

477
00:27:10,300 –> 00:27:12,700
it.
Omri did, what was evil in the

478
00:27:12,700 –> 00:27:15,200
sight of the Lord and did more
evil than all who were before

479
00:27:15,200 –> 00:27:17,200
him for.
He walked in the way of jeroboam

480
00:27:17,200 –> 00:27:19,400
the son of nebat, so he did
that.

481
00:27:19,700 –> 00:27:22,600
And in the sins that he made,
Israel sin provoking, the Lord,

482
00:27:22,700 –> 00:27:26,000
the god of Israel to anger by
their idols now, if you just

483
00:27:26,000 –> 00:27:32,100
said that verse, What, what
would you take out of that?

484
00:27:32,700 –> 00:27:39,700
How How is he worse?
It’s it’s kind of weird, right?

485
00:27:39,700 –> 00:27:44,800
Because he it says he was worse
than everybody because he walked

486
00:27:44,800 –> 00:27:48,700
in the way of jeroboam and
you’re kind of like well wait a

487
00:27:48,700 –> 00:27:51,100
minute.
How does walking in the way of

488
00:27:51,100 –> 00:27:52,800
jeroboam make him worse than
jeroboam?

489
00:27:55,400 –> 00:27:59,000
Okay, I think maybe we have a
hint.

490
00:28:00,500 –> 00:28:04,300
There’s one place outside of the
historical record that mentions

491
00:28:04,300 –> 00:28:07,700
Armory.
And notice what it connects him

492
00:28:07,700 –> 00:28:10,200
with here.
Says for you have kept the

493
00:28:10,208 –> 00:28:14,000
statutes of Omri and all the
works of the House of Ahab.

494
00:28:14,000 –> 00:28:18,300
This is Micah 6:16 and you have
walked in their councils that I

495
00:28:18,300 –> 00:28:22,000
may make you a desolation and
your inhabitants a hissing.

496
00:28:22,400 –> 00:28:24,900
So you shall bear.
The scorn of my people, you

497
00:28:24,900 –> 00:28:28,300
notice what a connection with
connects him with.

498
00:28:30,000 –> 00:28:32,900
Ahab.
All right, it connects him with

499
00:28:32,900 –> 00:28:40,000
Ahab which is interesting.
because, In the time of a have

500
00:28:40,100 –> 00:28:42,800
we definitely get more fervent
false worship.

501
00:28:43,400 –> 00:28:46,900
So false worship becomes a
bigger deal in the time of Ahab.

502
00:28:47,600 –> 00:28:50,000
So First Kings, 18 19.
Look at this.

503
00:28:51,000 –> 00:28:52,900
This is what Elijah says to
Ahab.

504
00:28:52,900 –> 00:28:55,900
Now, therefore, send and gather
all Israel to me a Mount Carmel,

505
00:28:56,500 –> 00:29:00,800
the 450 prophets of Baal, and
the four hundred prophets of

506
00:29:00,800 –> 00:29:04,400
asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s
table, so they were 850 false

507
00:29:04,400 –> 00:29:07,300
prophets and they ate at
Jezebel’s table.

508
00:29:09,600 –> 00:29:10,800
Now, here’s why that’s
interesting.

509
00:29:12,200 –> 00:29:14,200
Back then eating at somebody’s
table.

510
00:29:14,200 –> 00:29:16,600
Didn’t just mean you know you
walked up and you got some food

511
00:29:16,600 –> 00:29:21,400
and you ate it or something, it
was perhaps a Hebrew idiom.

512
00:29:21,600 –> 00:29:26,200
This is it in the Hebrew?
Oh, clay, she’ll con which means

513
00:29:26,700 –> 00:29:30,100
eight at the table.
But it shows up in a number of

514
00:29:30,100 –> 00:29:34,700
different passages.
Most notably in second Samuel

515
00:29:34,700 –> 00:29:37,100
chapter 9, it says up three
times.

516
00:29:37,300 –> 00:29:39,300
Now, you might remember because
this was a reading, two days

517
00:29:39,300 –> 00:29:42,600
ago, who was told they would eat
at David’s table.

518
00:29:44,000 –> 00:29:47,400
Mephibosheth.
And what did that mean?

519
00:29:47,400 –> 00:29:51,900
That he would eat there?
It meant mephibosheth.

520
00:29:52,100 –> 00:29:56,200
You’re going to be one of my
son’s now.

521
00:29:57,100 –> 00:29:59,500
Didn’t just mean, you know,
you’re going to come and sit

522
00:29:59,500 –> 00:30:00,800
here because I feel sorry for
you.

523
00:30:01,200 –> 00:30:03,000
It meant you’re going to come
here and you’re going to eat

524
00:30:03,000 –> 00:30:07,600
with all the rest of my family.
I’m adopting you into my family.

525
00:30:07,900 –> 00:30:11,600
So the fact that we get this
phrase about the prophets of

526
00:30:11,600 –> 00:30:14,400
Baal and asherah at Jezebel’s
table.

527
00:30:14,500 –> 00:30:18,700
I think indicates that false
worship became so much more

528
00:30:18,700 –> 00:30:21,200
fervent at that time.
So that’s one way.

529
00:30:22,000 –> 00:30:23,600
False worship became a lot
bigger deal.

530
00:30:23,700 –> 00:30:26,700
This was like family.
Okay.

531
00:30:26,700 –> 00:30:28,700
So perhaps that began during the
time of Omri.

532
00:30:29,000 –> 00:30:31,500
In addition, here’s what Micah
goes on to say.

533
00:30:31,500 –> 00:30:36,400
So Micah 6 verses 11 and 12.
Listen, see if you pick up what

534
00:30:36,400 –> 00:30:40,400
was going on at the time.
It says, shall I equip the man

535
00:30:40,400 –> 00:30:44,000
with Wicked scales and with a
bag of deceitful weights.

536
00:30:44,200 –> 00:30:47,600
So remember Micah said you’re
following the statutes of Omri?

537
00:30:49,100 –> 00:30:50,600
Shall I quit the man with Wicked
scales?

538
00:30:50,600 –> 00:30:53,300
And with a bag of deceitful
weights, your rich men are full

539
00:30:53,300 –> 00:30:56,100
of violence.
Your inhabitants speak lies.

540
00:30:56,200 –> 00:30:58,200
Their tongue is deceitful in
their mouth.

541
00:30:59,600 –> 00:31:03,900
So you see what’s going on.
The place is full of violence.

542
00:31:04,200 –> 00:31:08,200
People are attacking each other
destroying each other and would

543
00:31:08,200 –> 00:31:10,000
you say that describes the time
of honoree?

544
00:31:11,400 –> 00:31:16,100
I’d say, so right, a civil war.
So you have deceitful weights

545
00:31:16,200 –> 00:31:20,600
you have lies violence and this
is how Micah keeps describing

546
00:31:20,600 –> 00:31:23,200
that time.
So Micah 7 verses 2 to 4 they

547
00:31:23,200 –> 00:31:26,300
set says the goodly has perish
from the earth.

548
00:31:26,300 –> 00:31:28,800
There is no one upright among
mankind.

549
00:31:29,400 –> 00:31:33,000
They all lie in wait for blood
and each hunts the other with a

550
00:31:33,000 –> 00:31:35,600
net.
Their hands are on what is evil

551
00:31:35,600 –> 00:31:37,600
to do it.
Well The Prince and the judge

552
00:31:37,600 –> 00:31:42,100
asked for a bribe, the great man
mutters the evil desire of his

553
00:31:42,100 –> 00:31:44,300
soul.
Thus, they weave it together.

554
00:31:44,600 –> 00:31:47,100
The best of them is like a
briar, right?

555
00:31:47,108 –> 00:31:49,300
That’s that’s a pretty terrible
description, right?

556
00:31:49,700 –> 00:31:52,200
The best of them is like a
briar, the most upright of them.

557
00:31:52,200 –> 00:31:55,900
A thorn hedge, the day of your
Watchman of your punishment has

558
00:31:55,900 –> 00:31:58,400
come.
Now, their confusion is a hand.

559
00:31:59,400 –> 00:32:03,300
So you can see this was not a
good time because people were

560
00:32:03,300 –> 00:32:07,000
terrible to each other.
And so that is how God describes

561
00:32:07,000 –> 00:32:10,000
the time of Omri.
They’re lying in, wait for blood

562
00:32:10,000 –> 00:32:13,000
and hunting the other with a
net, okay?

563
00:32:13,000 –> 00:32:19,200
So perhaps in the time of
jeroboam The vestiges of Truth.

564
00:32:19,300 –> 00:32:23,400
You know, this like these pieces
of Yahweh worship, we’re almost

565
00:32:23,400 –> 00:32:28,900
functioning as like a stopgap.
Sort of holding things back. and

566
00:32:28,900 –> 00:32:32,100
when you get to the time of Omri
and Ahab that all starts to

567
00:32:32,100 –> 00:32:37,400
disintegrate, That disappears
during a rain and the violence

568
00:32:37,400 –> 00:32:40,200
that characterized his Ascent,
characterizes the whole rain.

569
00:32:40,500 –> 00:32:42,700
And so, you’ll notice the
contrast in the sons names.

570
00:32:42,800 –> 00:32:46,300
So jeroboam name to send a
budget which means Yahweh is my

571
00:32:46,300 –> 00:32:50,900
father, right?
Omri names his son, check this

572
00:32:50,900 –> 00:32:54,400
out Ahab this is really
important.

573
00:32:54,700 –> 00:32:58,500
This is a quick Hebrew lesson if
you want to say love and Hebrew,

574
00:32:58,500 –> 00:33:04,200
you say aha have.
Okay I have That is not Ahab.

575
00:33:05,500 –> 00:33:07,700
Okay, a halves name was not
love.

576
00:33:08,000 –> 00:33:10,500
That would be like a total, you
know, weird irony.

577
00:33:11,600 –> 00:33:15,400
It has name is not love.
I’ll have it has name was OCH

578
00:33:15,600 –> 00:33:18,500
of.
Are you gonna get that sound?

579
00:33:18,700 –> 00:33:20,600
Aha, which makes it a different
word?

580
00:33:20,700 –> 00:33:23,800
It’s not a hobby, it’s octave.
So, the reason that that’s

581
00:33:23,800 –> 00:33:26,100
important is, it doesn’t mean
love.

582
00:33:26,100 –> 00:33:28,200
It means my father is my
brother.

583
00:33:29,000 –> 00:33:33,800
In other words, Omri says, I
want my son to be just like me.

584
00:33:35,000 –> 00:33:36,400
You’ll notice the difference,
right?

585
00:33:36,400 –> 00:33:42,300
My father is Yahweh versus my
father is my brother So, you can

586
00:33:42,300 –> 00:33:44,100
see the difference in the names
of their kids.

587
00:33:44,100 –> 00:33:46,300
So this is all about Omri and
preserving his own way.

588
00:33:46,500 –> 00:33:49,200
So, Ahab, basically does the
same thing, but gets even worse.

589
00:33:49,500 –> 00:33:53,900
So, let’s talk about that.
We got 10 minutes, so Ahab and

590
00:33:53,900 –> 00:33:56,400
Jezebel continue the antagonism
towards God, but they actually

591
00:33:56,400 –> 00:33:58,700
do worse.
And what we’re going to see is

592
00:33:58,700 –> 00:34:01,900
that they basically find what
are all the things that the law

593
00:34:01,900 –> 00:34:04,200
says, now, let’s do the
opposite.

594
00:34:04,800 –> 00:34:08,500
So this is how it goes.
Ahab, is worse than all, who

595
00:34:08,500 –> 00:34:12,400
were before him.
How well he takes for his wife,

596
00:34:12,400 –> 00:34:15,600
Jezebel the daughter of f Bell
King of the sidonians.

597
00:34:15,900 –> 00:34:18,400
Now, that’s the exact opposite
of what the law commands.

598
00:34:18,400 –> 00:34:21,000
You weren’t supposed to take a
foreign wife like that.

599
00:34:21,000 –> 00:34:28,199
So, Exodus 34 16 Excess 34:16
Deuteronomy 73, Joshua 23:12

600
00:34:28,300 –> 00:34:30,699
makes it.
They’ll make a very clear, no

601
00:34:30,699 –> 00:34:35,300
foreign wives can’t do that.
So that’s 34:16 of Exodus

602
00:34:35,300 –> 00:34:39,500
Deuteronomy 73.
Joshua 23:12. in addition to

603
00:34:39,500 –> 00:34:43,699
that, it says a had then went on
to erect an altar for bail in

604
00:34:43,699 –> 00:34:46,300
the house of bail, which he
built in Samaria and you made an

605
00:34:46,300 –> 00:34:49,900
asherah That’s also against the
law.

606
00:34:50,300 –> 00:34:54,199
No making Bales know making
asherah it says their Exodus 34

607
00:34:54,199 –> 00:34:56,300
13.
You can’t do that Deuteronomy

608
00:34:56,300 –> 00:34:58,900
75.
You can’t do that Deuteronomy 12

609
00:34:58,900 –> 00:35:00,000
3.
You can’t do that.

610
00:35:00,000 –> 00:35:05,000
We know those things.
Now What’s significant though is

611
00:35:05,000 –> 00:35:10,400
a lot of Kings broke the law.
You perhaps won’t be surprised

612
00:35:10,400 –> 00:35:14,000
to know.
Jeroboam did the same things.

613
00:35:14,600 –> 00:35:18,600
Jeroboam married, a foreign
wife, jeroboam also set up a

614
00:35:18,600 –> 00:35:21,500
stream so that would be the
plural of asherah.

615
00:35:22,300 –> 00:35:25,400
So he set up a stream you’ll
find that in First Kings, 14 15.

616
00:35:26,400 –> 00:35:30,700
So again, you have to ask What
major bone worse?

617
00:35:32,200 –> 00:35:34,500
How are sorry, what made a have
worse?

618
00:35:35,900 –> 00:35:38,300
Again we’re told to provoke the
Lord, the god of Israel, to

619
00:35:38,300 –> 00:35:41,000
anger.
Well, that’s said about jeroboam

620
00:35:41,100 –> 00:35:45,200
and First Kings 19, our first
Kings 14 9 and 15 that he

621
00:35:45,200 –> 00:35:47,800
provoked, Yahweh to anger, they
Asha.

622
00:35:47,900 –> 00:35:50,500
Same thing said about him.
And first King, 16 Ela?

623
00:35:50,500 –> 00:35:53,300
The same thing said about him
and First Kings 16 amarilla,

624
00:35:53,300 –> 00:35:57,400
same thing said about him.
So, What’s the big deal?

625
00:35:59,600 –> 00:36:03,500
What do they have do?
Well.

626
00:36:04,600 –> 00:36:06,800
A had probably worshiped Idols
more than anyone else.

627
00:36:08,000 –> 00:36:10,200
But I think that’s why the last
verse of this chapter matters.

628
00:36:10,200 –> 00:36:13,700
So much get this.
Have you ever read through first

629
00:36:13,700 –> 00:36:17,200
King 16 and wondered?
Why does this just suddenly show

630
00:36:17,200 –> 00:36:19,300
up?
So if you’re reading First Kings

631
00:36:19,300 –> 00:36:23,600
16, you get this whole story
about zimri burning himself up.

632
00:36:24,000 –> 00:36:27,700
I’m retaking over the Civil War,
all this like back and forth and

633
00:36:27,700 –> 00:36:32,100
then they had becomes king and
then it says he married Jezebel

634
00:36:33,200 –> 00:36:35,000
They did all these things.
They weren’t supposed to and

635
00:36:35,000 –> 00:36:40,500
then just like randomly you get.
In his days, Heil of Bethel,

636
00:36:40,500 –> 00:36:44,200
built Jericho, he laid its
foundation at the cost of a

637
00:36:44,200 –> 00:36:46,900
buyer on his firstborn set up.
Its gates at the cost of his

638
00:36:46,900 –> 00:36:49,700
youngest son, see gub according
to the word of the Lord, which

639
00:36:49,700 –> 00:36:52,300
he spoke by Joshua, the son of
nun, and that’s how the chapter

640
00:36:52,300 –> 00:36:57,800
ends.
What like here’s all this stuff

641
00:36:57,800 –> 00:37:00,300
going on Israel.
Everybody’s fighting down at a

642
00:37:00,300 –> 00:37:02,600
everybody’s bad.
Oh and by the way, somebody

643
00:37:02,600 –> 00:37:05,300
tried to rebuild Jericho, but he
couldn’t and his kids died and

644
00:37:05,300 –> 00:37:11,000
you’re like, Why is that there?
You know what, what’s the point

645
00:37:11,000 –> 00:37:13,800
of that?
What, why does the story just

646
00:37:13,800 –> 00:37:17,200
suddenly end with this?
Okay, that’s a bunch of question

647
00:37:17,200 –> 00:37:19,600
marks.
Okay.

648
00:37:19,600 –> 00:37:23,500
So on top of that, not only is
it just kind of weird that it’s

649
00:37:23,500 –> 00:37:26,300
there.
The story also makes no sense.

650
00:37:26,700 –> 00:37:29,100
Right.
What’s up with this a guy who’s

651
00:37:29,100 –> 00:37:31,000
like?
Oh my firstborn son, just died

652
00:37:31,000 –> 00:37:33,400
when I laid the foundation of
Jericho, I think I’ll keep doing

653
00:37:33,400 –> 00:37:35,400
it.
Oh my next kid died.

654
00:37:35,400 –> 00:37:39,100
When I put it the gates.
Oh well you know oh my next kid

655
00:37:39,100 –> 00:37:39,800
died.
Right?

656
00:37:39,800 –> 00:37:42,800
Like like this doesn’t make any
sense and then he does it until

657
00:37:42,800 –> 00:37:48,000
all of his kids are dead.
Nobody who is like a sensible

658
00:37:48,000 –> 00:37:52,000
logical person would do this.
So, what’s going on?

659
00:37:54,000 –> 00:37:56,300
Why did Joshua put the curse on
Jericho in the first place?

660
00:37:57,000 –> 00:37:58,200
I think that’s an interesting
question.

661
00:38:00,000 –> 00:38:02,500
All right, here’s my suggestion
Jericho’s.

662
00:38:02,500 –> 00:38:04,000
The first city that Israel
takes.

663
00:38:04,300 –> 00:38:05,800
Do you remember what God says
about it?

664
00:38:07,400 –> 00:38:12,100
Everything in Jericho was
devoted to destruction, it was

665
00:38:12,100 –> 00:38:14,100
devoted to God.
I don’t know if you’ve ever

666
00:38:14,100 –> 00:38:16,500
wondered, you know, why it
wasn’t like that in any of the

667
00:38:16,500 –> 00:38:19,100
other cities.
Everything was devoted to

668
00:38:19,100 –> 00:38:21,900
destruction.
So everything they saw even

669
00:38:21,900 –> 00:38:26,400
blankets clothes, all of that,
had to be destroyed, why?

670
00:38:28,200 –> 00:38:33,300
I think the reason is, This was
the first God wants to make it

671
00:38:33,300 –> 00:38:36,800
clear.
We are not going back to this.

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00:38:37,300 –> 00:38:39,700
You come take the city.
This is what I think about

673
00:38:39,700 –> 00:38:41,500
Kanan.
You’re not going to have this

674
00:38:41,500 –> 00:38:43,300
worship.
You’re not going to take any of

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00:38:43,300 –> 00:38:46,800
it with you, destroy everything
and so a can take some, right?

676
00:38:46,800 –> 00:38:50,500
And so Aiken has to die, because
God wants to make it clear, none

677
00:38:50,500 –> 00:38:52,900
of this will ever be in your
camp.

678
00:38:54,000 –> 00:38:59,300
Okay.
So then Joshua curses Jericho

679
00:38:59,600 –> 00:39:02,300
and says, you will never be
rebuilt because what it

680
00:39:02,300 –> 00:39:06,600
symbolizes, Israel’s conquest of
the land, we are getting rid of

681
00:39:06,600 –> 00:39:10,400
this way of life and we are
going to start a Godly way of

682
00:39:10,400 –> 00:39:14,400
life.
So with that, in mind, Any

683
00:39:14,400 –> 00:39:18,100
thoughts on what’s going on when
somebody rebuilds Jericho?

684
00:39:19,700 –> 00:39:23,600
I think this guy Heil was
advocating, let’s go back to

685
00:39:23,600 –> 00:39:28,400
this and as his kids are dying,
he says, you know, I want to go

686
00:39:28,400 –> 00:39:30,500
back to the so bed, I don’t
care.

687
00:39:31,500 –> 00:39:33,100
It doesn’t matter.
Doesn’t matter that there’s a

688
00:39:33,107 –> 00:39:35,600
curse.
We are bringing this all back

689
00:39:35,700 –> 00:39:38,100
and that I think is why it’s
there.

690
00:39:39,400 –> 00:39:41,800
Because the question is, what
makes Ahab so bad?

691
00:39:41,900 –> 00:39:43,500
And God says, well, let me give
you an example.

692
00:39:46,400 –> 00:39:51,200
In his reign.
People cared so much about this

693
00:39:51,200 –> 00:39:54,200
violent anti-god.
Way of life.

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00:39:55,400 –> 00:39:58,000
That they were willing to
sacrifice their families for it.

695
00:39:58,700 –> 00:40:01,000
They were willing to sacrifice
everything for it.

696
00:40:01,300 –> 00:40:04,800
And that’s that whole story of
Jericho, that’s why it’s there

697
00:40:04,800 –> 00:40:09,500
about being rebuilt.
So, this Becomes.

698
00:40:10,200 –> 00:40:12,700
This is all the stuff I just
said it happened.

699
00:40:12,700 –> 00:40:15,000
Jezebel didn’t just worship
idols more than everybody else.

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00:40:15,400 –> 00:40:18,000
I think, what we see is they’re
actually trying to reverse God’s

701
00:40:18,000 –> 00:40:20,100
rule.
They’re trying to rebuild

702
00:40:20,100 –> 00:40:22,800
Jericho, they’re trying to bring
it all back.

703
00:40:23,000 –> 00:40:25,800
It’s not just oh here’s a cow
that represents Yahweh.

704
00:40:26,400 –> 00:40:29,400
It’s no no no.
We don’t want Yahweh anymore.

705
00:40:30,400 –> 00:40:33,900
It was anti Yahweh.
This is the big change.

706
00:40:34,400 –> 00:40:37,600
So you might remember.
That one of the things that

707
00:40:37,600 –> 00:40:42,100
happens.
Is that Obadiah hides?

708
00:40:42,300 –> 00:40:45,700
A hundred prophets of Yahweh.
You remember why he had to do

709
00:40:45,700 –> 00:40:48,700
that?
Because Jezebel was hunting them

710
00:40:48,700 –> 00:40:53,100
down.
This is the first time we read

711
00:40:53,100 –> 00:40:56,500
about anything like that
jeroboam tries to capture one

712
00:40:56,500 –> 00:40:59,600
prophet of God, it’s one time
that he does that he tries to

713
00:40:59,600 –> 00:41:03,600
capture him and it doesn’t work.
He tries and the prophet curses

714
00:41:03,600 –> 00:41:05,300
jeroboam and his arm like
shrivels up.

715
00:41:05,400 –> 00:41:08,400
It’s a funny story.
Has his arms shrivels up and

716
00:41:08,400 –> 00:41:11,400
jeroboam like freaks out and
says, Ah, please pray to Yahweh

717
00:41:11,400 –> 00:41:12,900
to heal my arm and the prophets
like.

718
00:41:12,900 –> 00:41:15,100
Okay.
So he prays and then jeroboam

719
00:41:15,100 –> 00:41:17,100
says, you want to come and eat
dinner with me, right?

720
00:41:17,100 –> 00:41:20,200
Like it’s, it’s her again, a
strange story, but it shows,

721
00:41:20,300 –> 00:41:23,300
Shows you there was not this
hostility to Yahweh at that

722
00:41:23,300 –> 00:41:27,600
point.
With Jezebel, there was kill all

723
00:41:27,600 –> 00:41:32,000
the prophets of Yahweh.
She says to Elijah, May the gods

724
00:41:32,000 –> 00:41:36,100
do so and more to me if you are
still alive by this time

725
00:41:36,100 –> 00:41:39,400
tomorrow, right, there was this
intense hostility.

726
00:41:39,600 –> 00:41:42,300
Now what I really want to bring
out this is our main message as

727
00:41:42,300 –> 00:41:43,800
we wrap this up in the last few
minutes.

728
00:41:45,900 –> 00:41:49,300
God is in control.
So, can you picture the

729
00:41:49,300 –> 00:41:53,000
situation?
Can you picture being Elijah and

730
00:41:53,000 –> 00:41:59,000
looking out and seeing that the
leadership in the country is

731
00:41:59,000 –> 00:42:02,400
killing Believers and actively
hunting them down?

732
00:42:03,900 –> 00:42:05,700
Can you see why Elijah said
things?

733
00:42:05,700 –> 00:42:08,700
Like only I am left.
You can imagine how he felt that

734
00:42:08,700 –> 00:42:10,600
way.
Now he wasn’t right.

735
00:42:13,200 –> 00:42:14,700
But here’s what’s fascinating
about that.

736
00:42:16,500 –> 00:42:18,200
God says to him, Elijah, get
wrong.

737
00:42:19,300 –> 00:42:23,300
You aren’t the only one.
And in fact, I have this all

738
00:42:23,300 –> 00:42:28,200
under control on.
I always have Do you know how

739
00:42:28,200 –> 00:42:30,900
God illustrates that?
This is what I think is

740
00:42:30,900 –> 00:42:34,900
fantastic about the story.
In the Elijah story, there’s one

741
00:42:34,900 –> 00:42:39,300
chapter we never look at.
So, we always talk about Elijah

742
00:42:39,300 –> 00:42:41,300
and the Ravens Elijah living by
the Brook.

743
00:42:41,300 –> 00:42:44,400
All of this Elijah on the Widow.
We talk about Mount, Carmel and

744
00:42:44,400 –> 00:42:47,400
Fire coming down from heaven.
We talked about naboth, new

745
00:42:47,400 –> 00:42:51,400
boss, Vineyard Elijah saying you
know if I’m a prophet of God but

746
00:42:51,400 –> 00:42:53,800
Fire come down from heaven and
burn up these 50 men, all of

747
00:42:53,800 –> 00:42:55,600
this.
How about this do you remember

748
00:42:55,600 –> 00:42:59,700
this story about?
Elijah the story where A prophet

749
00:42:59,700 –> 00:43:01,900
comes to Ahab and says a have
you’re going to win against the

750
00:43:01,900 –> 00:43:04,600
syrians.
And they have says, okay and he

751
00:43:04,600 –> 00:43:06,000
fights the syrians and defeats
them.

752
00:43:06,000 –> 00:43:10,400
Do you remember that story?
You might not, maybe you do its

753
00:43:10,400 –> 00:43:12,400
first Kings chapter 20, it’s a
real Bible story.

754
00:43:12,400 –> 00:43:14,700
I didn’t just make it up.
So if you want to look it up.

755
00:43:14,700 –> 00:43:17,200
Its first Kings 20, and the
reason we don’t often think

756
00:43:17,200 –> 00:43:19,400
about it is because Elijah’s not
in it.

757
00:43:21,300 –> 00:43:23,000
But that’s the story where
everything changes.

758
00:43:24,300 –> 00:43:27,900
It’s fascinating Elijah’s life
goal is I’m going to convert a

759
00:43:27,900 –> 00:43:29,600
head.
I’m going to convert a have you

760
00:43:29,607 –> 00:43:34,600
know how they have converts in a
story where Elijah is not even

761
00:43:34,600 –> 00:43:39,000
there.
And I think that’s so like God.

762
00:43:40,200 –> 00:43:42,400
Yeah, he says Elijah.
I’m going to use you but you

763
00:43:42,400 –> 00:43:45,600
gotta understand.
I’m the one who’s running this,

764
00:43:46,300 –> 00:43:49,000
I’m the one who knows when
things are going to happen and

765
00:43:49,000 –> 00:43:51,600
so God changes Ahab in First
Kings, 20.

766
00:43:51,900 –> 00:43:54,800
So that, by the time you get to
the story of naboth, get this

767
00:43:56,100 –> 00:43:58,600
Jezebel says, we’re going to
accuse naboth.

768
00:43:58,600 –> 00:44:01,100
Do you know what they say?
They say naboth.

769
00:44:01,100 –> 00:44:06,400
Cursed God.
What can you imagine that like

770
00:44:06,400 –> 00:44:08,800
happening before the story of
First Kings?

771
00:44:08,800 –> 00:44:11,500
20?
Maybe I’ll curse God.

772
00:44:11,500 –> 00:44:13,500
Why would anybody care?
You know, they didn’t like, God.

773
00:44:14,400 –> 00:44:18,100
And in fact, she uses
Deuteronomy and she brings two

774
00:44:18,100 –> 00:44:23,600
witnesses against him. she in
fact basis, what she does off

775
00:44:23,600 –> 00:44:28,600
the law and in 1st Kings 21
Ahab, humbles himself and

776
00:44:28,600 –> 00:44:32,400
repents.
So I think it’s amazing to see,

777
00:44:33,000 –> 00:44:36,000
but the whole point of this is
God is in control.

778
00:44:37,000 –> 00:44:43,900
And as we see things that scare
us as it feels like, things are

779
00:44:43,900 –> 00:44:45,200
bad.
Things are getting worse.

780
00:44:46,000 –> 00:44:50,600
The point that we get from this
is Elijah says, I better fix it.

781
00:44:51,100 –> 00:44:54,900
I better be the one to save
everything and God says, no.

782
00:44:56,600 –> 00:45:01,300
That’s my job.
Your job is to recognize.

783
00:45:02,800 –> 00:45:07,000
That I’m in control.
And I’ll fix it.

784
00:45:08,000 –> 00:45:11,300
I’ll take care of it.
If you can wait.

785
00:45:12,200 –> 00:45:14,200
If you can wait for my timing
and so that’s what we’re going

786
00:45:14,200 –> 00:45:17,700
to see as we see Elijah and the
drought tomorrow.