Wednesday Night Bible Study | 10.13.2021
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Starkville, Martin Lifer – Wednesday Night Bible Study
October 13, 2021 - Bible Study Martin
Lifer, FPC Starkville
Antichrist, Jezebel,
Elijah and You.
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In ancient societies, definitely in Israel,
the king set the moral
compass for the nation & her people.
The
nation’s fate & the peoples’ future were subject in large part to their
king’s faithfulness or wickedness, wisdom
or folly.
N. Kingdom, Ten Tribes/ “Israel”/ “Samaria”/ “Ephraim:”
ALL the kings of the N. Kingdom, Israel, were unfaithful and
practiced idolatry & the worst served Baal.
King Ahab “did
more evil in the eyes of the LORD than any of those before him.” … [1 Kings 16:30]
And it came about – as though it had been
a trivial [too light a] thing for him to walk in the sins of
Jeroboam, the son of Nebat (!!) – that he married Jezebel the
daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped
him. [1 Kings 16:31]
Surely there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do
evil in the sight of the LORD, because Jezebel his wife incited him. He
also acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the
Amorites had done, whom the LORD cast out before the sons of Israel. [1 Kings 21:25-26]
So the king died, and was brought to Samaria. And they buried
the king in Samaria. And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and
the dogs licked up his blood, and the prostitutes washed themselves there,
according to the word of the LORD that he had spoken.
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that
he did, and the ivory house that he built and all the cities that he built, are
they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? So Ahab
slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place. …
Ahaziah the son of
Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel. He did what was evil in the sight of
the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and
in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. So he served
Baal and worshiped him and provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger, according
to all that his father had done. [1 Kings 22:37-40, 51-53]
Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his
upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I
shall recover from this sickness.”
But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the
Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the
king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel
that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Now, therefore,
thus says the LORD, ‘You shall not come down
from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” So Elijah went. [2 Kings 1:2-4]
Jezebel Thrown Down to Death (per order of Jehu) & devoured by the Jezreel dogs
(per the LORD’s Word via Elijah).
[2 Kings 9:30-37]
Ahab’s Seventy Sons Killed, Ahaziah’s Forty-two Brothers
Killed, the Rest of Ahab’s Family Killed, & Worshipers of Baal Killed,… followed by Jehu’s faults & Death. [2
Kings 10]
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Omri’s
son, Ahab reigns in Israel,… and Hiel of Bethel rebuilds Jericho [bringing
upon himself the curse of Joshua 6:26] giving a son for the foundations and
a son for the gates. 1 Kings 16:29-34
Elijah
proclaims Drought; Widow of Zarephath & Raising Widow’s Dead Son. 1 Kings
17
Elijah’s
Message for Ahab; the Great Confrontation, Witness, Victory & Judgment at
Mt. Carmel; God Sends Rain & Drought Ends. 1 Kings 18
Elijah
Flees Jezebel, Sustained by Angel, and Hides at Horeb, the Mountain of God; the
LORD’s Revelation to Elijah, Answers to Elijah’s Complaints, and Further
Commissioning; Elijah Calls Elisha. 1 Kings 19
The
LORD delivers the Syrians into Ahab’s hand, including by provision of direct
prophetic Word; Ahab disobeys the LORD’s Word – making treaty with Ben-Hadad
and releasing him; God send prophetic Word to Ahab that he – Ahab – has brought
judgment on himself. 1 Kings 20
Ahab
Covets Naboth the Jezreelite’s Vineyard; Jezebel has Naboth killed, and Ahab
takes the Vineyard; the LORD sends Elijah to bring Word of Judgment v. Ahab: “And you shall speak to him, saying,
‘Thus says the LORD, “Have you murdered, and also taken possession?”’ And you
shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD, “In the place where the dogs
licked up the blood of Naboth the dogs shall lick up your blood, even yours.”’”
1 Kings 21
Ahab’s
false prophets & plans to take Ramoth Gilead; Micaiah’s Warnings and then
Further Prophecies v. Ahab, Including Judgment unto Death; Ahab’s Death in
Battle; Jehoshaphat’s Reign (in Judah) and Ahaziah’s Brief Reign Under God’s
Judgment (in Israel). 1 Kings 22
