Tag: Foolishness

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2Chronicles 10, unwise advice!

2Ch 10:3-4, … And Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying, “YOUR FATHER MADE OUR YOKE HEAVY; NOW THEREFORE, LIGHTEN THE BURDENSOME SERVICE OF YOUR FATHER AND HIS HEAVY YOKE WHICH HE PUT ON US, AND WE WILL SERVE YOU.”

Solomon son Rehoboam became king over Israel and the people wanted some relief from all the burdens placed on them by Solomon!

2Ch 10:6, Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who stood before his father Solomon …, “How do you advise me to answer these people? …”If you are kind to these people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be your servants forever.” 

Pro 15:1, A soft answer turns away wrath, BUT A HARSH WORD STIRS UP ANGER. 

2Ch 10:8, BUT HE REJECTED THE ADVICE WHICH THE ELDERS HAD GIVEN HIM, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him. 

2Ch 10:15, So the king did not listen to the people; for the turn of events was from God… 

Rehoboam took unwise advice from the young men, and with that the kingdom was divided! YET, THE LORD WAS IN FULL CONTROL OF THIS SITUATION!

Isa 30:1, “Woe to the rebellious children,” says the LORD, “WHO TAKE COUNSEL, BUT NOT OF ME, AND WHO DEVISE PLANS, BUT NOT OF MY SPIRIT, THAT THEY MAY ADD SIN TO SIN; 

Pro 2:6, For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding; 

TRUE WISDOM COMES FROM THE LORD THAT’S WHY WE SHOULD ALWAYS SEEK HIS FACE AND TAKE COUNSEL OF HIM FROM HIS WORD!

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2Kings 14, A GODLY KING OR FOOL!

2Ki 14:1,3, … Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, became king. AND HE DID WHAT WAS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, yet not like his father David; he did everything as his father Joash had done.

Amaziah started out doing what was right in the sight of the LORD, but what counts is how we finish the race! 

2Ki 14:8, Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “COME, LET US FACE ONE ANOTHER IN BATTLE.” 

This godly king Amaziah fought against Israel yet he lost the battle and was imprisoned?

2Ki 14:13, THEN JEHOASH KING OF ISRAEL CAPTURED AMAZIAH KING OF JUDAH

What this chapter doesn’t tell you is that Amaziah turned his back to the LORD!

2Ch 25:14, Now it was so, after Amaziah came from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up to be his gods, and bowed down before them and burned incense to them. 

HE TRUST THE LORD FOR THE VICTORY OF EDOM, YET TOOK THE gods OF EDOM WHO WERE NOT ABLE TO PROTECT THEM?

Pro 26:12, DO YOU SEE A MAN WISE IN HIS OWN EYES? THERE IS MORE HOPE FOR A FOOL THAN FOR HIM. 

HE REJECTED GODLY COUNCIL AND GOD SO HE PAID FOR THE FOOLISHNESS OF HIS HEART! TRUSTING IN IDOLS RATHER THAN THE ONLY TRUE A LIVING GOD!

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2Kings 9, FOLLOWING IN HIS STEPS!

2Ki 9:5-6, … “I have a message for you, Commander.” Jehu said, “For which one of us?” And he said, “For you, Commander.” Then he arose and went into the house. And he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, “THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL: ‘I HAVE ANOINTED YOU KING OVER THE PEOPLE OF THE LORD, OVER ISRAEL. 

An un-named prophet came to Jehu with a message from the LORD!

2Ki 9:11-12, Then Jehu came out to the servants of his master, and one said to him, “Is all well? WHY DID THIS MADMAN COME TO YOU?” And he said to them, “YOU KNOW THE MAN AND HIS BABBLE.” And they said, “A lie! Tell us now.” So he said, “Thus and thus he spoke to me, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: “I have anointed you king over Israel.

The world believes that were crazy, madmen who believe in an invisible GOD! In their eyes were foolish, wasting time in fairytales!

Hos 9:7, The days of punishment have come; The days of recompense have come. Israel knows! THE PROPHET IS A FOOL, THE SPIRITUAL MAN IS INSANE, BECAUSE OF THE GREATNESS OF YOUR INIQUITY AND GREAT ENMITY.

EVEN JESUS WAS THOUGHT TO BE OUT OF HIS MIND! WE FOLLOW A GREAT KINGS FOOTSTEPS! FOR HE IS THE WAY!

Mar 3:21, But when HIS OWN people heard about this, they went out to lay hold of Him, for they said, “HE IS OUT OF HIS MIND.” 

EVEN IF FAMILY OR FRIENDS THINK WERE FOOLISH FOR FOLLOWING JESUS; TIME WILL SHOW THAT WE HAVE CHOOSEN WISELY!

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2Kings, the unrighteous deception!

2Ki 1:2-3, Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria, and was injured; so he sent messengers and said to them, “GO, INQUIRE OF BAAL-ZEBUB, THE GOD OF EKRON, WHETHER I SHALL RECOVER FROM THIS INJURY.” 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?’

For the vast majority of people, the LORD is always last on their list! BUT THERE IS A GOD, ONLY ONE GOD, IN ISRAEL WHO CAN HEAR AND HAS THE POWER TO HEAL! JEHOVAH-RAPHA “THE GOD WHO HEALS”

Luk 11:15, But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons.”

Jer 17:14, HEAL ME, O LORD, AND I SHALL BE HEALED; SAVE ME, AND I SHALL BE SAVED, FOR YOU ARE MY PRAISE. 

Yet, Ahaziah turn to satan first, the father of lies! He wanted to hear someone say that he will recover even though it was a lie!

2Th 2:10, AND WITH ALL UNRIGHTEOUS DECEPTION AMONG THOSE WHO PERISH, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT RECEIVE THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH, THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED. 

SEEK THE LORD FIRST IN EVERYTHING! LEAN NOT IN YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING; IN ALL YOUR WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE SHALL DIRECT YOUR PATHS!

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1Kings 18, no one answered!

1Ki 18:21, And Elijah came to all the people, and said, “HOW LONG WILL YOU FALTER BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS? IF THE LORD IS GOD, FOLLOW HIM; BUT IF BAAL, FOLLOW HIM.”…

A TEST TO SEE WHO IS GOD; NEVER MIND THE RICH HISTORY OF GOD’S WORK WITH ISRAEL? HOW THE LORD FEED ISRAEL FOR 40 YEARS, THE CROSSING OF THE RED SEA, THE CROSSING OF THE JORDAN YET, THEY NEED A TEST? A WICKED GENERATION!

Mat 12:39, BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM, “AN EVIL AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION SEEKS AFTER A SIGN, AND NO SIGN WILL BE GIVEN TO IT EXCEPT THE SIGN OF THE PROPHET JONAH.

1Ki 18:22, Then Elijah said to the people, “I ALONE am left a prophet of the LORD; BUT BAAL’S PROPHETS ARE FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY MEN. 

One against 450 baal worshippers! IF GOD IS WITH US WHO CAN BE AGAINST US?

1Ki 18:26, … and called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying, “O Baal, hear us!” BUT THERE WAS NO VOICE; NO ONE ANSWERED…

Hab 2:18, “What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it, The molded image, a teacher of lies, That the maker of its mold should trust in it, To make mute idols? 

Those who make them are like them; So is everyone who trusts in them (Psa 115:8). IF YOU PLACE YOUR TRUST IN ANYTHING OTHER THAN GOD ALONE THEN YOU ARE SPIRITUALLY DEAD! TRUST IN THE LORD FOR HE IS GOD!

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1Kings 14, Fooling ourselves!

1Ki 14:1-2, At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick. And Jeroboam said to his wife, “PLEASE ARISE, AND DISGUISE YOURSELF, that they may not recognize you as the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Indeed, AHIJAH THE PROPHET IS THERE, …

1Ki 14:4-5, … But Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were glazed by reason of his age. Now the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Here is the wife of Jeroboam … when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.“

We may be able to deceive people, but never the LORD! FOR HE KNOWS ALL ABOUT YOU, YET HE STILL LOVES YOU!

Psa 139:2-4, You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.

1Ki 14:6, And so it was, when Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, “COME IN, WIFE OF JEROBOAM. WHY DO YOU PRETEND TO BE ANOTHER PERSON? FOR I HAVE BEEN SENT TO YOU WITH BAD NEWS. 

Heb 4:13, AND THERE IS NO CREATURE HIDDEN FROM HIS SIGHT, BUT ALL THINGS ARE NAKED AND OPEN TO THE EYES OF HIM TO WHOM WE MUST GIVE ACCOUNT. 

WE CAN PRETEND AND HIDE OUR TRUE SELVES ALL WE WANT, YET WE DECEIVE OURSELVES! REMEMBER HE KNOWS ALL ABOUT YOU, AND STILL LOVES YOU!

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1Kings 12, A foolish son!

1Ki 12:4, “Your father made our yoke heavy; now therefore, lighten the burdensome service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.” 

Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, asked advice from the elders who served Solomon.

1Ki 12:8, BUT HE REJECTED THE ADVICE WHICH THE ELDERS HAD GIVEN HIM, and CONSULTED THE YOUNG MEN WHO HAD GROWN UP WITH HIM, who stood before him. 

1Ki 12:11, And now, whereas my father put a heavy yoke on you, I WILL ADD TO YOUR YOKE; my father chastised you with whips, BUT I WILL CHASTISE YOU WITH SCOURGES!

Job 12:12, WISDOM IS WITH AGED MEN, AND WITH LENGTH OF DAYS, UNDERSTANDING. 

Rehoboam with a few foolish words divided the nation of Israel. Solomon worried about this!

Ecc 2:18-19, … because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. And who knows whether he will be WISE OR A FOOL? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled ….

1Ki 12:15, So the king did not listen to the people; for the turn of events WAS FROM THE LORD, THAT HE MIGHT FULFILL HIS WORD…

GOD ALLOWED REHOBOAM’S FOOISH HEART TO SPEAK TO HIS OWN DESTRUCTION! IT WAS SOLOMON’S SIN AND REHOBOAM FOLLY THAT DIVIDED ISRAEL, YET GOD WAS IN FULL CONTROL AND FULFILLED HIS WORD!

Psa 118:8, IT IS BETTER TO TRUST IN THE LORD THAN TO PUT CONFIDENCE IN MAN.