1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:06,000 When Solomon died in 930 BC, the kingdom appeared to be in good 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,500 shape outwardly yet because of the idolatry introduced in his 3 00:00:10,500 --> 00:00:14,800 last days, the seeds of Kingdom disintegration had already been 4 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:18,300 sown even. So the speed with which the 5 00:00:18,300 --> 00:00:22,100 Glorious Kingdom shattered, and the devastating spiritual 6 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:25,800 political, and economic consequences of that event are 7 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:29,600 somewhat, shocking, and certainly sad Ray boehm. 8 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,200 The son of Solomon was 41 at the time that hit that his father 9 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:37,000 dies his succession to the throne does not seem to have 10 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,700 been questioned in Judah, but the northern tribes however, 11 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:44,300 insisted on their right to ratify the coronation of the new 12 00:00:44,300 --> 00:00:48,100 king and all Israel. Meaning the northern tribes 13 00:00:48,100 --> 00:00:51,600 assembled at Chic. Mm, the most important city in 14 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,400 Ephraim. They had concrete plans of 15 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,500 rebelled. They did not have concrete plans 16 00:00:56,500 --> 00:00:59,900 of rebellion at this time. But they're going to come before 17 00:00:59,900 --> 00:01:03,700 the king and they're going to cast out various demands and see 18 00:01:03,700 --> 00:01:06,300 exactly what Rhea boehm was going to say. 19 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,600 Now I'm jumping ahead in our narrative just a little bit but 20 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,600 you remember that Rhea boehm tells them to go away for three 21 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,900 days and he's going to think about it in order to come and 22 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:19,900 respond as he wants to or as he chooses to do. 23 00:01:19,900 --> 00:01:23,400 So the question that's before us and this is really briefly. 24 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,300 Now, concerning the reign of King Solomon. 25 00:01:26,700 --> 00:01:28,500 What is it? That makes the wisest man. 26 00:01:28,700 --> 00:01:33,100 And in the world turn his heart away from following God. 27 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,600 Now, think about it like this to do. 28 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:37,700 You remember when we studied the life of David? 29 00:01:37,700 --> 00:01:40,400 All of those chapters many chapters in The Bible. 30 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:44,700 In fact, I'm told that over 60 chapters in the Bible are 31 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:47,600 devoted to the life of King David. 32 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,500 So we learned a whole lot about King David in a year and in a 33 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:56,800 lifespan of only 70 years. One thing about King, David was 34 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:58,400 King, David must have been tempted. 35 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,200 Every day of his life because of the violence in the land, you 36 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,300 remember as a young man, he stood against and fought against 37 00:02:05,300 --> 00:02:10,500 the Philistine giant. David lived in a time of War, 38 00:02:10,699 --> 00:02:14,600 David also lived in a time when he knew that he was going to be 39 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,400 God's anointed and he would replace King Saul on the throne. 40 00:02:18,700 --> 00:02:22,900 He knew that King Saul wanted him dead and he fled from King 41 00:02:22,900 --> 00:02:26,700 Saul, because he knew in his heart, it would be wrong to 42 00:02:26,700 --> 00:02:30,400 fight against or strike out. against the anointed of God, 43 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:37,000 even though God had rejected Saul and his reign Now, David 44 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:42,500 lived in a time of War, a time of restlessness and Solomon, 45 00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:46,900 reigned in a time of Peace. Not only that Solomon was given 46 00:02:46,900 --> 00:02:51,600 the things that he asked for Solomon asked for wisdom and God 47 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:55,000 gave him. Wisdom Supernatural, wisdom, you 48 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:56,600 remember that? God says to him. 49 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,800 He says in chapter 3, a first king. 50 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,300 This is one of the two times that the Lord through a dream 51 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:06,000 appears directly to King Solomon. 52 00:03:06,100 --> 00:03:09,900 He does so indirectly, including the indirect times, either 53 00:03:09,900 --> 00:03:14,200 through a prophet or an angel, he appears before him for total 54 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:18,700 times to indirectly and to very directly. 55 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:21,300 And you remember, when he asked him, what it is that you want 56 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:23,200 from me? He says, I want to have the 57 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,500 wisdom and the knowledge and the proper heart that I might better 58 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:29,700 Serve the People of God. God says, because you didn't ask 59 00:03:29,700 --> 00:03:32,000 for wealth. I'm giving it to you because you 60 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,700 didn't ask for honor. I'm giving you that to and there 61 00:03:35,700 --> 00:03:38,600 was a Conditioned, upon one more promise. 62 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:45,000 And that was if you serve me all the days of your life, if your 63 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,100 heart does not turn from me. If you follow me with all your 64 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:51,400 heart and there's that description there, this happens 65 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,000 over and over again. If you serve me with all your 66 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 heart, like who, like your father, David did, I will 67 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,100 increase your days that was a conditional promise to King 68 00:04:03,100 --> 00:04:05,500 Solomon. Do you remember back in the book 69 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:08,000 of Deuteronomy? With the Bible, says concerning 70 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 a king then. Were three things that a king 71 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,400 was not to do, he was not to use his position of being a king and 72 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,500 remember this to God already said I'm going to bless you with 73 00:04:19,500 --> 00:04:21,500 riches. You're going to be the richest 74 00:04:21,500 --> 00:04:24,900 man around. But one of the things that a 75 00:04:24,900 --> 00:04:28,500 king was not to do was to increase wealth unto himself, 76 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:30,400 using the position of being a king. 77 00:04:30,500 --> 00:04:34,700 He was not to increase horses unto himself using his position 78 00:04:34,700 --> 00:04:37,800 of being a king. And the third thing, he was not 79 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:42,800 to increase wives because of his position of being a king. 80 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:48,000 And the Bible says, Solomon does not listen to that Solomon uses 81 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,000 his position of being a king, and he goes out into all the 82 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,600 other kingdoms and It's women from other kingdoms, that 83 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,400 worship, Idol gods and false gods. 84 00:04:58,500 --> 00:05:03,700 And he had 700 wives and 300 concubines, which were secondary 85 00:05:03,700 --> 00:05:06,400 wives and, you know, of all those thousand women. 86 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,900 There's not one passage that indicates that he ever chose a 87 00:05:09,907 --> 00:05:15,100 woman from God's people. Not once he didn't choose one 88 00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:20,000 woman among God's people. You remember what God said about 89 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:27,000 that, he says, don't do it. Because if you do, they're going 90 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,700 to turn your heart away from following me. 91 00:05:31,300 --> 00:05:33,300 I'll tell you something, folks. I don't care if he was the 92 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:37,100 wisest man in the world. You make that choice in every 93 00:05:37,100 --> 00:05:40,800 single day, you are faced. You you bring on all of these 94 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,700 women from all these kingdoms, these prominent women and so 95 00:05:43,700 --> 00:05:46,300 forth. These princesses the Bible says 96 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:50,300 700 of them increasing his renown. 97 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,700 And the Bible says, when Solomon had an opportunity to do that, 98 00:05:54,700 --> 00:05:57,300 which is right and serve God with all of his heart. 99 00:05:58,100 --> 00:06:02,500 The Bible says these women, these wives turned, his heart 100 00:06:02,700 --> 00:06:08,100 from following God, You know what's amazing to me? 101 00:06:09,100 --> 00:06:11,400 It's amazing to me. When we studied about David, 102 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:15,800 David commits, a horrible sin. And then he tries to cover it up 103 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,700 and he's guilty of murder. He's guilty of all manner of 104 00:06:19,700 --> 00:06:22,500 things. He sins, he sins and with a 105 00:06:22,508 --> 00:06:28,000 terrible consequence and after he is dead, the Bible still 106 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,900 pictures. God, speaking of him as one that 107 00:06:30,900 --> 00:06:35,400 followed me with all his heart, That tells me that a person can 108 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:40,400 make a mistake and still follow God with all of his heart that 109 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:45,200 was different than Solomon. We find that Solomon's heart was 110 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,500 turned and his heart was changed. 111 00:06:49,500 --> 00:06:55,700 Well, God, had enough chapter 11 beginning verse 9 and the Lord 112 00:06:55,700 --> 00:06:58,800 was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned away from 113 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,100 following the Lord, God of Israel, which had appeared unto 114 00:07:01,100 --> 00:07:03,900 him twice. He commands him concerning this 115 00:07:03,900 --> 00:07:06,900 thing that he should not go after other gods and be kept and 116 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:09,100 keep that which the Lord commanded wherefore. 117 00:07:09,100 --> 00:07:11,700 The Lord said unto Solomon for as much as this thing is done a 118 00:07:11,707 --> 00:07:15,000 V and you have not kept my Covenant, you have not kept my 119 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,900 statutes which I've commanded Thee. 120 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:21,200 I am going to Rend the Kingdom from you. 121 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:24,800 I'm going to take it away. And the Bible says, and I'm 122 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:29,100 going to give it to thy servant, notwithstanding in the days, I 123 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:33,200 will not do it in the day, in your day for your father, David 124 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:37,500 sake, but I will rent it out of the hand of thy son howbeit. 125 00:07:37,500 --> 00:07:41,200 I will not render way all the kingdom, but will give One Tribe 126 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,200 to thy son for David. My servant sake, and for 127 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,400 Jerusalem's sake, which I have chosen notice. 128 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,100 He says, because you have disobeyed Obeyed me. 129 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:54,100 I'm going to divide the kingdom. I'm going to I'm going to Rend 130 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:59,100 the kingdom but he says I'm not going to do it in your lifetime 131 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:02,700 for whose sake. You know, this is kind of a 132 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:06,200 picture of what David does for Jonathan. 133 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,700 He extends kindness to mephibosheth, not from a gibbet 134 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:15,600 Chef sake or because of his goodness, but for Jonathan's 135 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:20,100 sake, in like manner, the Bible says God forgives us, not for 136 00:08:20,100 --> 00:08:22,500 our sake but for the one that was righteous. 137 00:08:22,500 --> 00:08:24,600 Who was that? Jesus Christ. 138 00:08:24,700 --> 00:08:29,400 So God, forgives us. Our sins for Christ's sake. 139 00:08:30,900 --> 00:08:33,700 And so God says I'm going to render Kingdom, but I'm not 140 00:08:33,700 --> 00:08:36,299 going to do it in your lifetime. It'll be in the lifetime of your 141 00:08:36,299 --> 00:08:40,200 son that I will divide it and I'm going to do it for gut for 142 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:45,600 David's sake and for the Bible, says Jerusalem's sake. 143 00:08:46,300 --> 00:08:50,400 And so here we have it that this is that jeroboam is going to be 144 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:54,500 the king of the northern tribes and you can imagine how it would 145 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:57,800 be for Solomon, being the King when he finds this out, the only 146 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:00,500 thing he feels in his heart is I got to kill it. 147 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:03,000 It. And so he sets out to kill 148 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,700 jeroboam the son of nebat and you know what's interesting is 149 00:09:06,700 --> 00:09:10,400 the Bible says that jeroboam goes to Egypt and he's in 150 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,100 hiding. Now you remember just a moment 151 00:09:13,100 --> 00:09:17,000 ago, when I said David never retaliated against King Saul 152 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,300 because he knew that would be wrong to retaliate or strike out 153 00:09:20,300 --> 00:09:23,400 against the anointed of God. I don't know if at this 154 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:28,200 particular time jeroboams heart was still good and respected. 155 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,200 God, I don't know. I don't know at this time if he 156 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,700 flees into Egypt, not the stand against Sullivan because he knew 157 00:09:34,700 --> 00:09:38,500 that Solomon was God's anointed or whether he was just afraid. 158 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:41,100 I don't know. But the Bible says he goes to 159 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:44,200 Egypt. And he stays in Egypt until 160 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:49,400 Solomon dies. Remember, when I mentioned a 161 00:09:49,408 --> 00:09:53,700 moment ago in our introduction, When I said the third thing that 162 00:09:53,700 --> 00:09:58,400 God promised Solomon was a conditional promise. 163 00:09:59,700 --> 00:10:04,300 There was a conditional promise to Solomon and that was, I'm 164 00:10:04,300 --> 00:10:09,600 going to lengthen your days. If you never depart from me, if 165 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,500 you serve me with all your heart, you know, when David died 166 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:16,700 at the age of 70, he'll back in Bible times that's not a very 167 00:10:16,700 --> 00:10:19,000 long life. You know, three score and ten, 168 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,100 two days with the Bible teaches and so forth and and some get 169 00:10:22,100 --> 00:10:24,700 more by reason of strength and some get less, but on the 170 00:10:24,700 --> 00:10:27,300 average and so forth. But you're talking about in 171 00:10:27,300 --> 00:10:30,700 Bible days when there were those individuals that lived for quite 172 00:10:30,700 --> 00:10:35,500 some time further than 70 years and the Bible pictures David at 173 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:41,200 70 as a decrepit old man. So when God says, I'm going to 174 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,600 increase your day As Solomon, son of David, when I'm going to 175 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,000 increase your days you wouldn't I don't know. 80 90 100. 176 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:54,500 Solomon died at the age of 60. When God gives a promise that's 177 00:10:54,500 --> 00:10:58,700 conditional upon his condition and conditional upon his 178 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:01,700 precept. If you do not keep the 179 00:11:01,700 --> 00:11:04,800 condition, you will not get the promise. 180 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,500 If there's ever a picture in the Bible of how that works for you. 181 00:11:09,500 --> 00:11:11,600 And I today, that's a great example. 182 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:16,000 If you want the promises of God that are conditional promises. 183 00:11:16,100 --> 00:11:19,200 If we want a home in heaven, that's a condition on what 184 00:11:19,300 --> 00:11:21,400 serving God, all the days of our life. 185 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:27,400 If we don't, we don't get the promised King Solomon, the 186 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:30,800 wisest man in the world learned that firsthand. 187 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:36,600 And so Solomon now is dead and verse 43 of the that chapter 188 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,500 actually. This read 42 and 43 the sums up 189 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:42,900 his Reign and the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem 190 00:11:42,900 --> 00:11:46,800 over all Israel. This is Judah and Israel before 191 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,600 the divided Kingdom. All Israel were come the Chic. 192 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,300 All Israel was 40 years and so Woman slept with his father's 193 00:11:55,300 --> 00:11:56,800 and was buried in the city of David. 194 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:00,500 His father, Andrei of boehm, his son, reigned in his stead. 195 00:12:00,500 --> 00:12:05,400 Now, Ray boehm, goes to Sheikh, mm, for all Israel were come the 196 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,400 she come to make him king. And the Bible says that the 197 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:13,700 people come before Ray of boehm and jeroboam is summoned in 198 00:12:13,700 --> 00:12:19,000 Egypt, Solomon now is dead. So jeroboam is summoned from 199 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,900 Egypt to come and I kind of picture him to be sort of like 200 00:12:22,900 --> 00:12:27,000 the In on the matter. And all the people are standing 201 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 there. And here comes, what seems to be 202 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,500 a very reasonable request. The people come to him and the 203 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:38,300 people say, if you will lighten the burden and you will lighten 204 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:42,600 the heavy yoke, that your father Solomon placed on us, we're 205 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:46,000 going to follow you and we're going to serve you all the days 206 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:50,000 of your life. Now, let's back up a little bit 207 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,700 historically. You remember the 20 years of the 208 00:12:53,700 --> 00:12:56,500 building projects of King Solomon? 209 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,400 You know, during the time of the building projects you can't 210 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,100 build anything, anybody that's in construction knows this. 211 00:13:03,300 --> 00:13:06,600 You can't build anything if you don't have Labor and so there 212 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,600 was much forced labor back then too. 213 00:13:09,900 --> 00:13:14,000 There was a heavy yoke and a heavy burden placed upon the 214 00:13:14,100 --> 00:13:18,100 people of God at that time during the time of the reign of 215 00:13:18,100 --> 00:13:21,900 King Solomon. But now the building projects 216 00:13:21,900 --> 00:13:24,100 are over with so quite reasonable. 217 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,100 Now they can come to real Bowman. 218 00:13:26,100 --> 00:13:28,700 Say, look, it's over. And now the building projects 219 00:13:28,700 --> 00:13:32,600 are done, if you just lighten up a little bit we're going to 220 00:13:32,608 --> 00:13:34,600 serve you all the days of our life. 221 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:36,500 You know. No doubt is talking about 222 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:39,600 lightning. The tax burden to lightening the 223 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:43,900 burden of Taxation that was placed on the People by his 224 00:13:43,900 --> 00:13:49,500 father Solomon. Now they said this though, they 225 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:53,100 said if you will, if you will lighten the load, we will serve 226 00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:54,600 you. Now you remember that Rhea bomb 227 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,900 says, and it seems like real bomb is doing his very First 228 00:13:57,900 --> 00:14:01,900 thing his very first decision is King, it seems as though that he 229 00:14:01,900 --> 00:14:05,900 is, he is doing the right things that he is using wisdom. 230 00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:09,500 He wasn't going to just come out and just give an answer right 231 00:14:09,500 --> 00:14:10,600 then. And there he knew, he had to 232 00:14:10,608 --> 00:14:12,700 think about it for a little while. 233 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,500 So he tells the people go away for three days and I'm going to 234 00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:18,600 make the decision before you get back. 235 00:14:18,700 --> 00:14:22,500 What a Solomon do Solomon speaks to the older men. 236 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,100 Men that no doubt he respected over the years that his father 237 00:14:26,100 --> 00:14:30,600 reigned as King over all Israel being Solomon, no doubt. 238 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:34,300 These were men that he is known for his entire life, as older 239 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:37,100 wiser men. And he comes to hit them and he 240 00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:39,900 says, what is it that you think I ought to do? 241 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:46,100 now, what's interesting is I just made a phrase set of phrase 242 00:14:46,100 --> 00:14:51,300 there and it's very significant. He says to the older. 243 00:14:52,300 --> 00:14:57,300 What do you think? That I ought to do. 244 00:14:58,100 --> 00:15:01,000 That's the first thing more on that in just a second. 245 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:06,500 They said, well, I'll tell you if you just lighten the load, if 246 00:15:06,500 --> 00:15:09,800 you lighten up a little bit and went in the King James version, 247 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:11,200 I didn't read other translations. 248 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:15,400 But in the King James version, when it says that if you will 249 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:19,800 serve the people It's not meaning that a king actually 250 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,200 serves the people because the king doesn't serve. 251 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,900 The people the people serve the king but what its meaning is 252 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,500 serve their interests. Well by ruling well and lighten 253 00:15:29,500 --> 00:15:31,800 up a little bit. In other words rare bomb you 254 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,000 need to have a little bit of humility here. 255 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,800 A little bit of humility could have gone a long way in the 256 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,800 reign of this King. Now. 257 00:15:42,300 --> 00:15:45,100 He disregards, what the older men say and he comes to the 258 00:15:45,100 --> 00:15:48,300 younger man that had grown up side-by-side with him. 259 00:15:48,300 --> 00:15:51,600 The Bible says man that he young men that he has always known in 260 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:53,900 his life. And guess what? 261 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:58,200 He says, different language. What is it that you recommend 262 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:02,000 that we do regarding this matter? 263 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:07,500 What do you recommend that? We do aligning himself with the 264 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:10,800 wisdom of the younger man. You know what? 265 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:13,800 This is a picture of. You know it seems as though 266 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:15,600 sometimes I'm picking on young people. 267 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:18,900 If it sounds is that if I am doing that, that I'm picking on 268 00:16:18,900 --> 00:16:21,800 me too because anybody that's ever been young falls into this 269 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:25,300 category, you seek after the advice of someone that's older 270 00:16:25,300 --> 00:16:27,900 that's wiser. That knows a whole lot more than 271 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:30,200 you do. And that all begins, by the way, 272 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,600 with your mother and your father, and your mother and Your 273 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,900 father in the home, give you greater advice than anybody 274 00:16:35,900 --> 00:16:40,500 could in the world of all these young peers, running around and 275 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:42,600 in and out, interacting in our lives. 276 00:16:43,300 --> 00:16:46,500 What do we do though? What we do sometimes is we 277 00:16:46,500 --> 00:16:51,100 disregard the good advice. We disregard the wisdom of our 278 00:16:51,100 --> 00:16:54,700 parents or the wisdom of older folks. 279 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,800 And we seek after the wisdom of younger people, you know why? 280 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,200 Because we know that younger people are going to tell us 281 00:17:03,300 --> 00:17:08,700 really what we want to hear. you know what these young men said, 282 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,200 Now the older said well be humble, Serve the People. 283 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,800 Well, lighten the burden. There's no reason to have it. 284 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,200 Lighten the load and they'll serve you. 285 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,200 They'll follow you all the days of your life. 286 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:23,500 Sounds like great advice, doesn't it? 287 00:17:24,300 --> 00:17:26,599 The younger man says, absolutely not you. 288 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:30,600 Lay it to them. You not only are not going to 289 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:34,400 remove the burden, but you're going to increase it. 290 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,700 And then you say to the people, if you think Solomon was bad, 291 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:41,700 you haven't seen as they say, Say in the common vernacular, 292 00:17:41,700 --> 00:17:44,900 you ain't seen nothing yet. You haven't seen a thing, 293 00:17:44,900 --> 00:17:47,200 concerning how I'm going to be now. 294 00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:52,000 And then they recommend that he used this proverbial phrase, my 295 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:57,000 little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. 296 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,300 You know what that means? That's a real fancy way of 297 00:17:59,300 --> 00:18:05,700 saying this, my father's strength is weaker than my 298 00:18:05,700 --> 00:18:11,000 weakness and my weakness is greater than my A father's 299 00:18:11,100 --> 00:18:13,700 strength, one more thing, you know, what else? 300 00:18:13,700 --> 00:18:18,200 They said, they said you go to them and you say that, my 301 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:23,800 father, my father, chastise you with whips, but I'm going to 302 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:29,300 chastise you, with scorpions. Scholars are divided on whether 303 00:18:29,300 --> 00:18:34,900 this is literal or figurative. But a whip is a lash by 304 00:18:34,900 --> 00:18:38,700 definition. A scorpion, is a knotted 305 00:18:38,700 --> 00:18:41,400 Scourge. So whether or not this was 306 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,500 literal or figurative, it really doesn't, it really doesn't 307 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:46,700 matter. The point being is this, when 308 00:18:46,700 --> 00:18:49,500 they came to request from Rhea bone that he lightened the load 309 00:18:49,500 --> 00:18:51,800 that Solomon placed on him. He says, No in fact, I'm going 310 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,000 to increase it. I'm going to lay it down on you 311 00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:57,400 and I'm going to be worse than my father has ever been to you. 312 00:18:58,100 --> 00:19:03,400 Now, that looks like to me that, that's the foolish thing to do. 313 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:06,800 We look at this and we think, man, how in the world all he had 314 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:08,700 to do was listen to the older folks. 315 00:19:10,100 --> 00:19:14,100 I want you to notice, please. Verse 15. 316 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:20,300 Wherefore the king, hearkened not unto the people, why? 317 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:26,000 For the cause was from the Lord, that he might perform his 318 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:30,300 saying, which the Lord spake by a Hydra the shilin night unto 319 00:19:30,300 --> 00:19:35,500 jeroboam the son of nebat, if that's not a picture folks of 320 00:19:35,500 --> 00:19:39,400 how God does deal in the Affairs of man, if that is not a picture 321 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:43,100 of how God does deal in the kingdoms of man, building up 322 00:19:43,100 --> 00:19:45,200 kingdoms, and tearing them down and out. 323 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,000 Just go right out and say it. If that's not a perfect example 324 00:19:49,100 --> 00:19:52,100 of God, dealing in the politics of the world. 325 00:19:52,100 --> 00:19:54,700 I don't know. What is God? 326 00:19:54,700 --> 00:19:58,100 Dealt with this man? He used his foolishness. 327 00:19:58,100 --> 00:20:02,100 He used his wickedness, he used the hardness of his heart to 328 00:20:02,100 --> 00:20:04,600 divide the kingdom. How do we know that? 329 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:07,900 Because the other tribe says, basically, as I've, as I 330 00:20:07,900 --> 00:20:11,800 paraphrase, forget you, I'm going fine. 331 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,000 Who are you anyway? Who's David? 332 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:18,500 keep your little group over there, we're not following you 333 00:20:19,300 --> 00:20:22,900 and they revolt I'll tell you something, folks. 334 00:20:22,900 --> 00:20:26,600 I don't know how God does it. I don't know why he does it. 335 00:20:27,100 --> 00:20:28,900 I don't know. The means that he uses. 336 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:33,600 I don't know any of that. I just know this that God is in 337 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:37,400 control and he has not left the kingdom to of this world that 338 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,800 just run all by themselves without his hand and his will 339 00:20:42,100 --> 00:20:45,700 being passed down. I'll tell you something. 340 00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:49,000 One time. Somebody said, I think God's a 341 00:20:49,008 --> 00:20:54,000 Republican I are I heard one time. 342 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,800 Somebody say one time when a Democrat was elected, president 343 00:20:58,700 --> 00:21:00,900 that God can't have anything to do with politics because that 344 00:21:00,900 --> 00:21:05,400 President supports abortion. Why would God put into office of 345 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:09,700 baby killer? And so therefore deducing that 346 00:21:09,700 --> 00:21:13,000 God does not have any dealings in the Affairs of man or in the 347 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,200 politics of this world, that is not true. 348 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:19,300 He used in this example, the wicked heart of a king and 349 00:21:19,300 --> 00:21:22,700 incidentally, all the kings that were going to find in the 350 00:21:22,700 --> 00:21:27,000 northern kingdom. Every single one of them was 351 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:32,600 evil, all of them. Only some in the southern 352 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,800 Kingdom were good. And guess what? 353 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:37,500 You want to give it all started off great. 354 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:40,100 You want to talk about getting started off on the wrong foot by 355 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:41,900 way of your wisdom and my wisdom. 356 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,200 Notice here. Bad King bad King. 357 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:50,200 God used it to divide the kingdom. 358 00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:52,300 Will you remember that? There was a fellow that was 359 00:21:52,300 --> 00:21:55,600 going to pick up the tribute, he was going to pick up the tribute 360 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,300 or the taxation from the northern kingdom and he is sent 361 00:21:59,300 --> 00:22:02,400 by Rhea bomb in the Bible says they stoned him to death. 362 00:22:03,900 --> 00:22:07,000 Rhea boehm Retreats and when they retreat they go back down 363 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,900 into Jerusalem and they get together. 364 00:22:08,900 --> 00:22:12,500 Thousands of men and thousands of men are going to go and 365 00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:15,300 they're going to go back and get those that have revolted away 366 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:16,800 from rabo. I'm the king. 367 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,600 Notice what the Lord said, the word of the Lord, this is verse 368 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,000 23. The word of the Lord. 369 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,000 Speak under a of Balaam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and 370 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,700 unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin and the remnant of the 371 00:22:34,700 --> 00:22:39,100 people saying, thus saith the Lord, You shall not go up, don't 372 00:22:39,100 --> 00:22:41,700 do that. Don't fight against them, your 373 00:22:41,700 --> 00:22:44,000 brethren. The children of Israel returned, 374 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:48,900 every man to his house. For this thing is from me, they 375 00:22:48,900 --> 00:22:51,600 hearkened therefore to the word of the Lord and returned and 376 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,900 departed, according to the word of the Lord. 377 00:22:55,300 --> 00:22:59,700 Now the kingdom now is divided. David Judah and Benjamin are the 378 00:22:59,700 --> 00:23:02,000 Southern Kingdom. Incidentally, I always learned 379 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,700 by association and maybe you have never had a problem trying 380 00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:07,900 to remember in your mind. As time goes by. 381 00:23:07,900 --> 00:23:10,500 When you're not thinking about this, and maybe you've had no 382 00:23:10,500 --> 00:23:13,300 problems trying to remember what was North, and what was South? 383 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,600 This is a silly thing, but this is how I remember, I remember 384 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,500 it. If you write the alphabet 385 00:23:19,100 --> 00:23:24,800 vertically, starting with a down here and Z, okay, I comes before 386 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:29,500 Jay north south. It's an easy way that I remember 387 00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:31,400 it. The northern kingdom being the 388 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:36,200 ten tribes, and the ten tribes immediately as it seems fall 389 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:40,900 into apostasy and idol worship. Now, jeroboam now has an 390 00:23:40,900 --> 00:23:44,000 opportunity you remember there was a conditional promise made 391 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,400 the jeroboam. It's the same conditional 392 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,400 promise that was made to Solomon and the same one that was made 393 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:54,200 to David and incidentally it's the same one that was made to 394 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,900 solve. When the people demanded a king 395 00:23:59,100 --> 00:24:01,900 and they rejected Samuel and they wanted a king. 396 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,800 God knew all the things that he had done for his people, he knew 397 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,600 all that he says, but you want to King, you got him and then he 398 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:13,600 says if you serve me at and you do that which is right in mine 399 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:18,200 eyes, he would have been with Saul to but God departs from 400 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:23,900 man, when man departs from God. Example, after example, in the 401 00:24:23,900 --> 00:24:27,600 Bible are those that we find that stand alone without God by 402 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:32,300 their side and God never ever, ever retreated from their side, 403 00:24:32,300 --> 00:24:36,200 until they left God. And I'll tell you this to folks 404 00:24:36,500 --> 00:24:39,400 if you are living your life and you are wondering if you're 405 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,600 being tossed to and fro and you feel like you're lost without a 406 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,800 Rudder, just maybe it's not because you have, it's not 407 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:50,200 because you have just, maybe it's because you have left the 408 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:54,100 side of the Lord. God leaves us. 409 00:24:55,300 --> 00:24:59,900 When we leave him, jeroboam has an has a problem. 410 00:25:00,700 --> 00:25:01,700 He thinks. No, wait a minute. 411 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:05,000 If three times a year, the people go back to Jerusalem. 412 00:25:05,300 --> 00:25:08,600 If they go back to the temple in Jerusalem, three times a year 413 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,700 and they go and they perform the sacrifices and so forth. 414 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,300 We've got a problem, he worried about that. 415 00:25:15,300 --> 00:25:18,300 He thought that the people would Revolt from him and that the 416 00:25:18,300 --> 00:25:22,600 people would go and start serving Rhea Bolam in Judah, all 417 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:24,400 over again. So what does he do? 418 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,400 He's thinking and I've got to do something. 419 00:25:26,500 --> 00:25:29,700 So he puts together different altars and so forth. 420 00:25:29,700 --> 00:25:32,900 And temples one in in Bethel and one in Dan. 421 00:25:32,900 --> 00:25:36,600 Dan was to the Northerners part and Bethel was not very far away 422 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:40,300 from Judah toward the southern part but it was not in 423 00:25:40,300 --> 00:25:44,400 Jerusalem. And then, he makes calves golden 424 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,500 calves. When the people question he 425 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:53,500 says, oh anyway, wait X is 32 It's almost like the people 426 00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:58,000 forgot how that story ended. But he says these were the gods 427 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:03,100 that brought you out of Egypt. These were the gods that brought 428 00:26:03,100 --> 00:26:08,100 you out and we know in Exodus 32 that had a very bad ending, you 429 00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:10,900 know, the people come to are and they said, people said to Aaron, 430 00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:13,000 where's Moses? We don't know where he is. 431 00:26:13,700 --> 00:26:17,000 We need God's before us, he says, bring the Gold Member 432 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,600 arens reply to Moses. I don't know. 433 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,700 And you know how the people are the naughtiness of their heart, 434 00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:22,400 the Mischief of their heart, they brought me their gold 435 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,000 through in and out came a calf Don't know what happens their 436 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,200 fault. Remember that Okay. 437 00:26:29,300 --> 00:26:31,500 God was infuriated and so it was Moses. 438 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,800 God was mad here to idol, worship began. 439 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:41,500 And secondly, to he sells them on the fact that convenience is 440 00:26:41,500 --> 00:26:46,500 also a reason to not have to go back to Jerusalem ever again. 441 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,100 He doesn't care about them all. He cares about is that they 442 00:26:52,100 --> 00:26:55,200 don't leave his Reign and that's it. 443 00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:00,200 Well, you know, it's interesting lie up until this point in time, 444 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,300 the tribe of Levi is not mentioned at all. 445 00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:08,000 But when this happens, there's going to be some that are not 446 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,300 going to go along with what Rhea bomb is doing. 447 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,200 Notice if you will in second Chronicles chapter 11 and 448 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,800 beginning in verse 13 and the priests and the Levites that 449 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:25,400 were in all Israel resorting to him out of their coasts, for the 450 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,000 Levites left, their suburbs, and their possession, and came the 451 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:34,500 Judah and Jerusalem forger for jeroboam and his sons had cast 452 00:27:34,500 --> 00:27:38,100 them off from I'm executing the priests office under the Lord 453 00:27:38,100 --> 00:27:41,800 and He ordained him priest for the high places and for that and 454 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,300 for devils, and for calves, which he had made. 455 00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:49,000 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set 456 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,900 their hearts to seek the Lord, God of Israel came to Jerusalem 457 00:27:53,100 --> 00:27:55,900 to sacrifice unto the Lord God of their fathers. 458 00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:59,900 So they strengthen the kingdom of Judah and made rabo. 459 00:27:59,900 --> 00:28:04,500 I'm the son of Solomon, strong three years and for three years, 460 00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:07,900 they walked in the The way of David and Solomon. 461 00:28:07,900 --> 00:28:11,500 Also having a proper priesthood from the tribe of Levi. 462 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:17,800 Levi now is separated from the northern tribes and because of 463 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:22,500 that, because of that for three years, they served God in an 464 00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:26,100 acceptable fashion. Will you remember that? 465 00:28:26,100 --> 00:28:31,600 Jeroboam is Val, burning incense on the altars jeroboam is going 466 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,300 out and he's seeking out any Vagabond that would get anybody 467 00:28:35,300 --> 00:28:36,700 didn't, I didn't matter who you are. 468 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,500 If you want to be a priest of the high place you got it, I 469 00:28:39,500 --> 00:28:43,900 will appoint you to be that man of all the unwise things, he 470 00:28:43,900 --> 00:28:46,900 possibly could have done and I'll go through chapter 13. 471 00:28:46,900 --> 00:28:49,900 Now very, very quickly. You most of you. 472 00:28:49,908 --> 00:28:53,200 If not all have heard my sermon on the man of God nameless 473 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,100 profit. I'll just briefly touch on. 474 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,700 A couple high points as we Breeze through chapter 13, there 475 00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:03,600 was a prophet from Judah and sometimes it's confusing to 476 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,900 remember who is who, when I talk about the man of God being from 477 00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:11,100 Jude, and I talked about the old Prophet from the from Bethel. 478 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,400 So I'll just talk about the profit from Bethel, and I'm 479 00:29:13,408 --> 00:29:16,600 going to talk about the profit from Judah. 480 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:19,700 The profit from Judah is sent by God. 481 00:29:19,700 --> 00:29:23,400 He is the man of God and he has no name described in Chapter 13. 482 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:28,200 He is to go and prophesy against the Altar and that Dead Man's 483 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,300 Bones were going to be burned on the altar. 484 00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:35,600 It was a prediction that a man when a man named Josiah, a good 485 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,100 King. By the way, going forward, I 486 00:29:38,108 --> 00:29:42,100 think it's in the second Kings. Chapter 23, I believe we're 487 00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:44,000 going to find that. That's exactly what happened in 488 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,300 the 18th year of the reign of Josiah. 489 00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:51,000 I a good King over the southern Kingdom. 490 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:56,800 He predicts a prediction that's going to happen. 340 years 491 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:01,700 later, he says Dead Man's Bones are going to be burned on thee. 492 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,100 This man from Judah, this prophet of God, he speaks to the 493 00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:07,700 altar. He doesn't say anything to this 494 00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:10,500 man. Jeroboam the son of nebat says 495 00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:13,000 nothing. This man is burning incense on 496 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,100 the altar with an outstretched hand. 497 00:30:15,100 --> 00:30:18,600 And with that hand, he is all of a Sudden listening to what this 498 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:23,100 man from Judah has to say. He's so infuriated, he takes the 499 00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:25,800 very same hand and he says, sees him. 500 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,900 And when he does, the Bible says his hand Withers, and it's so 501 00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:33,600 much so that it was extreme stiffness and he could not bring 502 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:38,000 his arm back into himself and all of a sudden we've got the 503 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,000 attention of jeroboam son of nebat, don't we? 504 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,300 He says this to the man from Judah in treat. 505 00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:47,800 Now, the face of thy God and pray for me that my Hand would 506 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:49,500 be restored. He does. 507 00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:52,800 He gets his hand restored. Jeroboams has come back to my 508 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:57,000 house. The man from Judas is no, God 509 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,400 says, don't have any more dealings with all any of you 510 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,300 idolaters don't have anything further to do with you props, I 511 00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:05,800 guess the author and get out and when I leave I got to leave in a 512 00:31:05,808 --> 00:31:08,700 different way that it came, so he takes off. 513 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,800 Back in Bethel. There was a prophet in Bethel 514 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,900 and old prophet. He finds out from his sons about 515 00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:21,700 all the things that happened, he gets on a donkey and he goes out 516 00:31:21,700 --> 00:31:23,900 and he finds him. Seize him under an oak. 517 00:31:23,900 --> 00:31:25,000 He said, are you the man from Judy? 518 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,800 So yes. I am he says oh this is great. 519 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,800 He says you're supposed to tell me all about it. 520 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:31,900 He says no. He says, God told me. 521 00:31:31,900 --> 00:31:35,700 No God said, no God says have no further dealings with any of you 522 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:40,300 and leave a different way than you came, but this old Prophet 523 00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:43,400 from Bethel. He says, an angel of the Lord 524 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,700 came to me. See, I'm a prophet to an angel. 525 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,100 The Lord came to me and said the plans have changed your supposed 526 00:31:48,100 --> 00:31:49,500 to come back. Tell me the whole thing. 527 00:31:49,500 --> 00:31:51,300 It's okay. Plans are changed. 528 00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:55,500 It was okay, now for this man from Judah, he accepts what he 529 00:31:55,500 --> 00:31:59,300 said, but the Bible says that the man from Bethel lied. 530 00:31:59,300 --> 00:32:02,200 The old Prophet lied, he goes back, there he is. 531 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,700 Now at his house, he is eating and drinking. 532 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,400 God is mad an angel of the Lord speaks to the prophet, the old 533 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,600 Prophet from Bethel and tells him because he disobeyed me, he 534 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,000 will not be buried in the Sepulchre of his father's. 535 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,200 So you can Just imagine this old Prophet from Bethel. 536 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,000 How, he must feel the sinking feeling in his heart. 537 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,900 Puts him on a donkey and off, he goes when he goes and when he's 538 00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:28,800 heading down the road, God produces a lion, a lion reaches 539 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,900 up, pulls him off the back, kills him. 540 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,200 And then drags his carcass out in the middle of the road and 541 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,900 picture this for all those that would pass by. 542 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,800 You got a man laying there in the middle of the road. 543 00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:42,100 You've got a donkey standing guard like this. 544 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,300 You've got a lion over here standing guard like this, the 545 00:32:45,300 --> 00:32:48,700 dog. he's not afraid of The Lion and the lion won't eat the 546 00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:52,600 carcass and the lion won't go after the Donkey You think 547 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:53,900 that's significant? I do. 548 00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:57,100 If God didn't have a hand in that, there's no way that's 549 00:32:57,100 --> 00:33:01,900 going to happen. C word had to get back word, had 550 00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:05,800 to get back to Bethel and it does when the old Prophet from 551 00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:08,200 Bethel, finds out he says, oh, it's the man of God, he goes out 552 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:09,900 and gets him. He put him on his donkey, brings 553 00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:12,600 him back, he buries him in his own grave. 554 00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:19,600 And verse 31 of chapter 13 through verse 34 and we've 555 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:24,100 polished up chapter 13 and it came to pass after he had buried 556 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:28,200 him that he spoke to his son. Saying, when I am dead, bury me 557 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,400 in the Sepulcher, where in the man of God is buried. 558 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,800 Lay my bones beside his bones for the saying, which he cried 559 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,000 by the word of the Lord, against the altar at Bethel. 560 00:33:36,100 --> 00:33:38,500 And against all the houses of the high places, which are in 561 00:33:38,500 --> 00:33:42,300 the cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass after this 562 00:33:42,300 --> 00:33:45,100 thing, jeroboam return, not from the evil of his way. 563 00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:47,700 And made the lowest of the people Priests of the high 564 00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:51,500 places who ever would. He consecrated him. 565 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,200 He became one had become one of the priests of the high places. 566 00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:59,400 And this thing became sin unto the house of jeroboam even to 567 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,700 cut it off and to destroy it from off the face of the Earth. 568 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,100 Right? After that jeroboam has a son, 569 00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:11,900 and his name is abijah and this son, Is very sick. 570 00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:20,600 But going back a couple chapters now, you remember a hide you who 571 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:24,900 had prophesied to jeroboam and said you're going to get when he 572 00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:28,300 when he in our text we read. When he rented, the the Garment 573 00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:30,500 12 pieces that take 10 you're getting 10. 574 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:36,000 Well this man's an old old man. Now jeroboams thinking about 575 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:41,199 this Shila night and he says to his wife he says go and find 576 00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:45,600 this man but disguise Don't tell him that you're my wife, don't 577 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,900 tell him that you're jeroboams wife disguise, that you're 578 00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:50,900 someone else and speak to him about our son. 579 00:34:51,500 --> 00:34:54,699 The Bible says that this man this Shyla night, this prophet 580 00:34:54,699 --> 00:34:58,800 of God, he is waiting now for the woman to come to him, 581 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,100 disguising herself as somebody else. 582 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,600 And as he's waiting the word of the Lord comes to him and says 583 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:07,600 incidentally jeroboams wife is coming. 584 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,400 She's going to try to disguise herself. 585 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:14,100 You got some news to tell her about So the Bible pictures and 586 00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:20,600 old man that so old, he's blind he can't see but he hears the 587 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:26,400 footsteps of the woman. And he says, oh thou wife of 588 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,800 jeroboam why? Faintest thou that thou art 589 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:34,200 another woman. I have some news to tell you. 590 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,800 He says because jeroboam has done evil. 591 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:46,500 I am going to bring evil upon the house of jeroboam God is Not 592 00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:52,700 mocked in verse 11 of chapter, 14 him that doth of jeroboam in 593 00:35:52,700 --> 00:35:56,700 the city, shall the dogs eat and him that dieth in the field, 594 00:35:56,700 --> 00:36:00,400 shall the fowls of the air, eat for the Lord hath spoken it. 595 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,000 But notice verse 12, she went there to find out exactly what 596 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:08,100 was going to happen. With the child arise there, thou 597 00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:11,600 for get thee to thine own house and when thy feet enter into the 598 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:18,000 City by child shall die. Verse 14. 599 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,500 Moreover, the Lord shall raise him up a king over Israel, who 600 00:36:22,500 --> 00:36:26,600 shall cut off the house of jeroboam that day by what. 601 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:30,800 Even now, in other words, the lineage of the kings are going 602 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:35,500 to change that's found in the next chapter in chapter 15, 603 00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:40,500 beginning in verse 25 and made AB, the son of jeroboam began 604 00:36:40,500 --> 00:36:44,800 hit to Reign Over Israel. In the second year of Asa, king 605 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:49,000 of Judah and reigned over. Rayul two years and he did evil 606 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,800 in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of his father. 607 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,900 And in his sin wherewith, he made Israel to sin. 608 00:36:55,100 --> 00:36:59,100 And they asked her the son of a haja of the head of the House of 609 00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:03,500 issachar conspired against him and bashes smote him, at give 610 00:37:03,500 --> 00:37:07,500 birth on which belonged to the Philistines for nadab and all 611 00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:11,200 Israel laid Siege to give birth on even in the third year of 612 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,300 Asa, king of Judah. Did my ashes slay him and 613 00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:18,800 reigned in his Stead and I'll tell you something, folks. 614 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,500 God is Not mocked. Whatsoever. 615 00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:25,800 A man soweth that? Shall he also reap? 616 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:30,600 It's as simple as that. We look at these men and we 617 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,000 thank you want to have a tiger by the tail you want. 618 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:38,000 You've got God on your side. You've got God, helping you 619 00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:43,400 supernaturally, these Kings. All you've got to do is serve 620 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,000 him with all of your heart and they don't. 621 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:52,800 Verse 20. In. 622 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,600 Oh, this just go back to one other verse verse 17, and 623 00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:00,100 jeroboams wife, arose, and departed and came to to tirzah. 624 00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:02,900 And when she came to, the threshold of the door, the child 625 00:38:02,900 --> 00:38:06,400 died now, the child is dead verse 20, and the days which 626 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,600 jeroboam reigned were two, and twenty years and he slept with 627 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:13,800 his father's and nadab, his son reigned in his stead, that's 628 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,900 going to take the place of jeroboam. 629 00:38:15,900 --> 00:38:20,100 Now rabo, I'm the next verse the son of Solomon reigned in Judah, 630 00:38:20,300 --> 00:38:23,800 real bone was 40 and one years Sold when he began to Reign and 631 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:27,000 he reigned 17 years in Jerusalem, the city, which with 632 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,200 the Lord chose out of the tribes of Israel. 633 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,700 In conclusion, the scripture says, some other things. 634 00:38:33,700 --> 00:38:36,700 Now about Judah, we've been talking about all Israel and 635 00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:39,700 we're talking about jeroboam making the people of Israel to 636 00:38:39,700 --> 00:38:41,900 sin. What about in Judah? 637 00:38:41,900 --> 00:38:45,800 We've already noticed now when the tribe of Levi goes back and 638 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,200 is now aligned with Judah, they have a proper priesthood and 639 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,100 they serve God the way David did and Sullivan did. 640 00:38:52,500 --> 00:38:57,200 When those regimes as it were, were scriptural in God's eyes 641 00:38:57,300 --> 00:39:00,500 and were right in God's eyes. What else happened? 642 00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:05,400 All of a sudden though, in time things have changed, verse, 22 643 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,000 and Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord and they provoked 644 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,700 him to jealousy with their sins, which they had committed above 645 00:39:12,700 --> 00:39:18,100 all of their hearts above all that their fathers had done. 646 00:39:19,500 --> 00:39:23,100 They committed acts that were above all that their fathers had 647 00:39:23,100 --> 00:39:25,700 done. Two verses down there were 648 00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:29,800 sodomites among them, some translations render this male 649 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,900 prostitutes, look at the sin that was in the land. 650 00:39:34,700 --> 00:39:37,000 They did according to the abomination of the Nations, 651 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:41,300 which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel, The 652 00:39:41,300 --> 00:39:45,500 Bible says that it came to pass in the fifth year of King Rhea 653 00:39:45,500 --> 00:39:48,900 boehm that Shack king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem and 654 00:39:48,900 --> 00:39:52,400 notice what happened, God, used an enemy against. 655 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,100 What was his faithful people? He took away the Treasures of 656 00:39:56,100 --> 00:39:59,900 the house of the Lord and the Treasures of the King's house, 657 00:40:00,100 --> 00:40:04,300 he took away all, and he took away all the shields of gold 658 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,000 which Solomon had made. You know, we didn't make a very 659 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,100 big point about the shields of gold. 660 00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:14,400 But when Solomon had 20 million dollars worth of gold in that 661 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:18,200 year and incidentally I didn't mean 20 million by today's 662 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:23,900 standards, I meant 20 million back then what I'm saying is 20 663 00:40:23,900 --> 00:40:27,700 million today. If you're a football fan, you've 664 00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:30,900 been looking at this free agent market and so on and players got 665 00:40:30,900 --> 00:40:32,200 signed. There's a player that got signed 666 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,500 yesterday for a hundred million dollars. 667 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:39,300 Forty 1 million guaranteed 32 million paid over the first 668 00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:42,200 eight. 18 months of that contract. 669 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:47,300 That is just insane. So when we say 20 miles is 20 670 00:40:47,300 --> 00:40:51,000 million but think it's 20 million back then, I appreciate 671 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,700 Darryl. Got a calculator out and try to 672 00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:54,100 figure out what it would be today. 673 00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:57,100 I think you said it was five billion. 674 00:40:58,700 --> 00:41:01,700 That's how much gold that he brought unto himself. 675 00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:07,800 This was a wealthy man that was in one year he made these golden 676 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:11,200 shields. When the enemies when God 677 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,800 allowed an enemy to come in and and and bring back ruined to 678 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,100 them, they were destroyed. You know what else they had? 679 00:41:17,100 --> 00:41:19,400 Then they had these bronze ones that were kind of chucked in the 680 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:23,300 chamber there. When God brings you down folks, 681 00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:28,100 he brings you down. All man had to do was follow 682 00:41:28,100 --> 00:41:30,300 him. Finally conclusion two more 683 00:41:30,300 --> 00:41:35,500 verses and I'm through 29 30. Now the rest of the acts of real 684 00:41:35,500 --> 00:41:39,000 boehm and all that he did, are they not written in the book of 685 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,700 The Chronicles of the kings of Judah and there was war between 686 00:41:42,700 --> 00:41:48,300 Rhea boehm and jeroboam all of their days and real boehm slept 687 00:41:48,300 --> 00:41:49,900 with his father's and was buried. 688 00:41:50,300 --> 00:41:54,000 And his father in the city with his father in the city of David 689 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,800 and his mother's name was naamah, the ammonite asst and 690 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,900 abide Jam. His son reigned in his stead. 691 00:42:00,900 --> 00:42:04,200 So that's what's next. A by Jam is going to To rein in 692 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,100 the stead of his father that had died. 693 00:42:06,100 --> 00:42:09,300 And on the other hand, we're going to find that jeroboam that 694 00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:12,100 jeroboam son. 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