When Solomon died in 930 BC, the kingdom appeared to be in good
shape outwardly yet because of the idolatry introduced in his
last days, the seeds of Kingdom disintegration had already been
sown even. So the speed with which the
Glorious Kingdom shattered, and the devastating spiritual
political, and economic consequences of that event are
somewhat, shocking, and certainly sad Ray boehm.
The son of Solomon was 41 at the time that hit that his father
dies his succession to the throne does not seem to have
been questioned in Judah, but the northern tribes however,
insisted on their right to ratify the coronation of the new
king and all Israel. Meaning the northern tribes
assembled at Chic. Mm, the most important city in
Ephraim. They had concrete plans of
rebelled. They did not have concrete plans
of rebellion at this time. But they're going to come before
the king and they're going to cast out various demands and see
exactly what Rhea boehm was going to say.
Now I'm jumping ahead in our narrative just a little bit but
you remember that Rhea boehm tells them to go away for three
days and he's going to think about it in order to come and
respond as he wants to or as he chooses to do.
So the question that's before us and this is really briefly.
Now, concerning the reign of King Solomon.
What is it? That makes the wisest man.
And in the world turn his heart away from following God.
Now, think about it like this to do.
You remember when we studied the life of David?
All of those chapters many chapters in The Bible.
In fact, I'm told that over 60 chapters in the Bible are
devoted to the life of King David.
So we learned a whole lot about King David in a year and in a
lifespan of only 70 years. One thing about King, David was
King, David must have been tempted.
Every day of his life because of the violence in the land, you
remember as a young man, he stood against and fought against
the Philistine giant. David lived in a time of War,
David also lived in a time when he knew that he was going to be
God's anointed and he would replace King Saul on the throne.
He knew that King Saul wanted him dead and he fled from King
Saul, because he knew in his heart, it would be wrong to
fight against or strike out. against the anointed of God,
even though God had rejected Saul and his reign Now, David
lived in a time of War, a time of restlessness and Solomon,
reigned in a time of Peace. Not only that Solomon was given
the things that he asked for Solomon asked for wisdom and God
gave him. Wisdom Supernatural, wisdom, you
remember that? God says to him.
He says in chapter 3, a first king.
This is one of the two times that the Lord through a dream
appears directly to King Solomon.
He does so indirectly, including the indirect times, either
through a prophet or an angel, he appears before him for total
times to indirectly and to very directly.
And you remember, when he asked him, what it is that you want
from me? He says, I want to have the
wisdom and the knowledge and the proper heart that I might better
Serve the People of God. God says, because you didn't ask
for wealth. I'm giving it to you because you
didn't ask for honor. I'm giving you that to and there
was a Conditioned, upon one more promise.
And that was if you serve me all the days of your life, if your
heart does not turn from me. If you follow me with all your
heart and there's that description there, this happens
over and over again. If you serve me with all your
heart, like who, like your father, David did, I will
increase your days that was a conditional promise to King
Solomon. Do you remember back in the book
of Deuteronomy? With the Bible, says concerning
a king then. Were three things that a king
was not to do, he was not to use his position of being a king and
remember this to God already said I'm going to bless you with
riches. You're going to be the richest
man around. But one of the things that a
king was not to do was to increase wealth unto himself,
using the position of being a king.
He was not to increase horses unto himself using his position
of being a king. And the third thing, he was not
to increase wives because of his position of being a king.
And the Bible says, Solomon does not listen to that Solomon uses
his position of being a king, and he goes out into all the
other kingdoms and It's women from other kingdoms, that
worship, Idol gods and false gods.
And he had 700 wives and 300 concubines, which were secondary
wives and, you know, of all those thousand women.
There's not one passage that indicates that he ever chose a
woman from God's people. Not once he didn't choose one
woman among God's people. You remember what God said about
that, he says, don't do it. Because if you do, they're going
to turn your heart away from following me.
I'll tell you something, folks. I don't care if he was the
wisest man in the world. You make that choice in every
single day, you are faced. You you bring on all of these
women from all these kingdoms, these prominent women and so
forth. These princesses the Bible says
700 of them increasing his renown.
And the Bible says, when Solomon had an opportunity to do that,
which is right and serve God with all of his heart.
The Bible says these women, these wives turned, his heart
from following God, You know what's amazing to me?
It's amazing to me. When we studied about David,
David commits, a horrible sin. And then he tries to cover it up
and he's guilty of murder. He's guilty of all manner of
things. He sins, he sins and with a
terrible consequence and after he is dead, the Bible still
pictures. God, speaking of him as one that
followed me with all his heart, That tells me that a person can
make a mistake and still follow God with all of his heart that
was different than Solomon. We find that Solomon's heart was
turned and his heart was changed.
Well, God, had enough chapter 11 beginning verse 9 and the Lord
was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned away from
following the Lord, God of Israel, which had appeared unto
him twice. He commands him concerning this
thing that he should not go after other gods and be kept and
keep that which the Lord commanded wherefore.
The Lord said unto Solomon for as much as this thing is done a
V and you have not kept my Covenant, you have not kept my
statutes which I've commanded Thee.
I am going to Rend the Kingdom from you.
I'm going to take it away. And the Bible says, and I'm
going to give it to thy servant, notwithstanding in the days, I
will not do it in the day, in your day for your father, David
sake, but I will rent it out of the hand of thy son howbeit.
I will not render way all the kingdom, but will give One Tribe
to thy son for David. My servant sake, and for
Jerusalem's sake, which I have chosen notice.
He says, because you have disobeyed Obeyed me.
I'm going to divide the kingdom. I'm going to I'm going to Rend
the kingdom but he says I'm not going to do it in your lifetime
for whose sake. You know, this is kind of a
picture of what David does for Jonathan.
He extends kindness to mephibosheth, not from a gibbet
Chef sake or because of his goodness, but for Jonathan's
sake, in like manner, the Bible says God forgives us, not for
our sake but for the one that was righteous.
Who was that? Jesus Christ.
So God, forgives us. Our sins for Christ's sake.
And so God says I'm going to render Kingdom, but I'm not
going to do it in your lifetime. It'll be in the lifetime of your
son that I will divide it and I'm going to do it for gut for
David's sake and for the Bible, says Jerusalem's sake.
And so here we have it that this is that jeroboam is going to be
the king of the northern tribes and you can imagine how it would
be for Solomon, being the King when he finds this out, the only
thing he feels in his heart is I got to kill it.
It. And so he sets out to kill
jeroboam the son of nebat and you know what's interesting is
the Bible says that jeroboam goes to Egypt and he's in
hiding. Now you remember just a moment
ago, when I said David never retaliated against King Saul
because he knew that would be wrong to retaliate or strike out
against the anointed of God. I don't know if at this
particular time jeroboams heart was still good and respected.
God, I don't know. I don't know at this time if he
flees into Egypt, not the stand against Sullivan because he knew
that Solomon was God's anointed or whether he was just afraid.
I don't know. But the Bible says he goes to
Egypt. And he stays in Egypt until
Solomon dies. Remember, when I mentioned a
moment ago in our introduction, When I said the third thing that
God promised Solomon was a conditional promise.
There was a conditional promise to Solomon and that was, I'm
going to lengthen your days. If you never depart from me, if
you serve me with all your heart, you know, when David died
at the age of 70, he'll back in Bible times that's not a very
long life. You know, three score and ten,
two days with the Bible teaches and so forth and and some get
more by reason of strength and some get less, but on the
average and so forth. But you're talking about in
Bible days when there were those individuals that lived for quite
some time further than 70 years and the Bible pictures David at
70 as a decrepit old man. So when God says, I'm going to
increase your day As Solomon, son of David, when I'm going to
increase your days you wouldn't I don't know. 80 90 100.
Solomon died at the age of 60. When God gives a promise that's
conditional upon his condition and conditional upon his
precept. If you do not keep the
condition, you will not get the promise.
If there's ever a picture in the Bible of how that works for you.
And I today, that's a great example.
If you want the promises of God that are conditional promises.
If we want a home in heaven, that's a condition on what
serving God, all the days of our life.
If we don't, we don't get the promised King Solomon, the
wisest man in the world learned that firsthand.
And so Solomon now is dead and verse 43 of the that chapter
actually. This read 42 and 43 the sums up
his Reign and the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem
over all Israel. This is Judah and Israel before
the divided Kingdom. All Israel were come the Chic.
All Israel was 40 years and so Woman slept with his father's
and was buried in the city of David.
His father, Andrei of boehm, his son, reigned in his stead.
Now, Ray boehm, goes to Sheikh, mm, for all Israel were come the
she come to make him king. And the Bible says that the
people come before Ray of boehm and jeroboam is summoned in
Egypt, Solomon now is dead. So jeroboam is summoned from
Egypt to come and I kind of picture him to be sort of like
the In on the matter. And all the people are standing
there. And here comes, what seems to be
a very reasonable request. The people come to him and the
people say, if you will lighten the burden and you will lighten
the heavy yoke, that your father Solomon placed on us, we're
going to follow you and we're going to serve you all the days
of your life. Now, let's back up a little bit
historically. You remember the 20 years of the
building projects of King Solomon?
You know, during the time of the building projects you can't
build anything, anybody that's in construction knows this.
You can't build anything if you don't have Labor and so there
was much forced labor back then too.
There was a heavy yoke and a heavy burden placed upon the
people of God at that time during the time of the reign of
King Solomon. But now the building projects
are over with so quite reasonable.
Now they can come to real Bowman.
Say, look, it's over. And now the building projects
are done, if you just lighten up a little bit we're going to
serve you all the days of our life.
You know. No doubt is talking about
lightning. The tax burden to lightening the
burden of Taxation that was placed on the People by his
father Solomon. Now they said this though, they
said if you will, if you will lighten the load, we will serve
you. Now you remember that Rhea bomb
says, and it seems like real bomb is doing his very First
thing his very first decision is King, it seems as though that he
is, he is doing the right things that he is using wisdom.
He wasn't going to just come out and just give an answer right
then. And there he knew, he had to
think about it for a little while.
So he tells the people go away for three days and I'm going to
make the decision before you get back.
What a Solomon do Solomon speaks to the older men.
Men that no doubt he respected over the years that his father
reigned as King over all Israel being Solomon, no doubt.
These were men that he is known for his entire life, as older
wiser men. And he comes to hit them and he
says, what is it that you think I ought to do?
now, what's interesting is I just made a phrase set of phrase
there and it's very significant. He says to the older.
What do you think? That I ought to do.
That's the first thing more on that in just a second.
They said, well, I'll tell you if you just lighten the load, if
you lighten up a little bit and went in the King James version,
I didn't read other translations.
But in the King James version, when it says that if you will
serve the people It's not meaning that a king actually
serves the people because the king doesn't serve.
The people the people serve the king but what its meaning is
serve their interests. Well by ruling well and lighten
up a little bit. In other words rare bomb you
need to have a little bit of humility here.
A little bit of humility could have gone a long way in the
reign of this King. Now.
He disregards, what the older men say and he comes to the
younger man that had grown up side-by-side with him.
The Bible says man that he young men that he has always known in
his life. And guess what?
He says, different language. What is it that you recommend
that we do regarding this matter?
What do you recommend that? We do aligning himself with the
wisdom of the younger man. You know what?
This is a picture of. You know it seems as though
sometimes I'm picking on young people.
If it sounds is that if I am doing that, that I'm picking on
me too because anybody that's ever been young falls into this
category, you seek after the advice of someone that's older
that's wiser. That knows a whole lot more than
you do. And that all begins, by the way,
with your mother and your father, and your mother and Your
father in the home, give you greater advice than anybody
could in the world of all these young peers, running around and
in and out, interacting in our lives.
What do we do though? What we do sometimes is we
disregard the good advice. We disregard the wisdom of our
parents or the wisdom of older folks.
And we seek after the wisdom of younger people, you know why?
Because we know that younger people are going to tell us
really what we want to hear. you know what these young men said,
Now the older said well be humble, Serve the People.
Well, lighten the burden. There's no reason to have it.
Lighten the load and they'll serve you.
They'll follow you all the days of your life.
Sounds like great advice, doesn't it?
The younger man says, absolutely not you.
Lay it to them. You not only are not going to
remove the burden, but you're going to increase it.
And then you say to the people, if you think Solomon was bad,
you haven't seen as they say, Say in the common vernacular,
you ain't seen nothing yet. You haven't seen a thing,
concerning how I'm going to be now.
And then they recommend that he used this proverbial phrase, my
little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
You know what that means? That's a real fancy way of
saying this, my father's strength is weaker than my
weakness and my weakness is greater than my A father's
strength, one more thing, you know, what else?
They said, they said you go to them and you say that, my
father, my father, chastise you with whips, but I'm going to
chastise you, with scorpions. Scholars are divided on whether
this is literal or figurative. But a whip is a lash by
definition. A scorpion, is a knotted
Scourge. So whether or not this was
literal or figurative, it really doesn't, it really doesn't
matter. The point being is this, when
they came to request from Rhea bone that he lightened the load
that Solomon placed on him. He says, No in fact, I'm going
to increase it. I'm going to lay it down on you
and I'm going to be worse than my father has ever been to you.
Now, that looks like to me that, that's the foolish thing to do.
We look at this and we think, man, how in the world all he had
to do was listen to the older folks.
I want you to notice, please. Verse 15.
Wherefore the king, hearkened not unto the people, why?
For the cause was from the Lord, that he might perform his
saying, which the Lord spake by a Hydra the shilin night unto
jeroboam the son of nebat, if that's not a picture folks of
how God does deal in the Affairs of man, if that is not a picture
of how God does deal in the kingdoms of man, building up
kingdoms, and tearing them down and out.
Just go right out and say it. If that's not a perfect example
of God, dealing in the politics of the world.
I don't know. What is God?
Dealt with this man? He used his foolishness.
He used his wickedness, he used the hardness of his heart to
divide the kingdom. How do we know that?
Because the other tribe says, basically, as I've, as I
paraphrase, forget you, I'm going fine.
Who are you anyway? Who's David?
keep your little group over there, we're not following you
and they revolt I'll tell you something, folks.
I don't know how God does it. I don't know why he does it.
I don't know. The means that he uses.
I don't know any of that. I just know this that God is in
control and he has not left the kingdom to of this world that
just run all by themselves without his hand and his will
being passed down. I'll tell you something.
One time. Somebody said, I think God's a
Republican I are I heard one time.
Somebody say one time when a Democrat was elected, president
that God can't have anything to do with politics because that
President supports abortion. Why would God put into office of
baby killer? And so therefore deducing that
God does not have any dealings in the Affairs of man or in the
politics of this world, that is not true.
He used in this example, the wicked heart of a king and
incidentally, all the kings that were going to find in the
northern kingdom. Every single one of them was
evil, all of them. Only some in the southern
Kingdom were good. And guess what?
You want to give it all started off great.
You want to talk about getting started off on the wrong foot by
way of your wisdom and my wisdom.
Notice here. Bad King bad King.
God used it to divide the kingdom.
Will you remember that? There was a fellow that was
going to pick up the tribute, he was going to pick up the tribute
or the taxation from the northern kingdom and he is sent
by Rhea bomb in the Bible says they stoned him to death.
Rhea boehm Retreats and when they retreat they go back down
into Jerusalem and they get together.
Thousands of men and thousands of men are going to go and
they're going to go back and get those that have revolted away
from rabo. I'm the king.
Notice what the Lord said, the word of the Lord, this is verse
23. The word of the Lord.
Speak under a of Balaam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and
unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin and the remnant of the
people saying, thus saith the Lord, You shall not go up, don't
do that. Don't fight against them, your
brethren. The children of Israel returned,
every man to his house. For this thing is from me, they
hearkened therefore to the word of the Lord and returned and
departed, according to the word of the Lord.
Now the kingdom now is divided. David Judah and Benjamin are the
Southern Kingdom. Incidentally, I always learned
by association and maybe you have never had a problem trying
to remember in your mind. As time goes by.
When you're not thinking about this, and maybe you've had no
problems trying to remember what was North, and what was South?
This is a silly thing, but this is how I remember, I remember
it. If you write the alphabet
vertically, starting with a down here and Z, okay, I comes before
Jay north south. It's an easy way that I remember
it. The northern kingdom being the
ten tribes, and the ten tribes immediately as it seems fall
into apostasy and idol worship. Now, jeroboam now has an
opportunity you remember there was a conditional promise made
the jeroboam. It's the same conditional
promise that was made to Solomon and the same one that was made
to David and incidentally it's the same one that was made to
solve. When the people demanded a king
and they rejected Samuel and they wanted a king.
God knew all the things that he had done for his people, he knew
all that he says, but you want to King, you got him and then he
says if you serve me at and you do that which is right in mine
eyes, he would have been with Saul to but God departs from
man, when man departs from God. Example, after example, in the
Bible are those that we find that stand alone without God by
their side and God never ever, ever retreated from their side,
until they left God. And I'll tell you this to folks
if you are living your life and you are wondering if you're
being tossed to and fro and you feel like you're lost without a
Rudder, just maybe it's not because you have, it's not
because you have just, maybe it's because you have left the
side of the Lord. God leaves us.
When we leave him, jeroboam has an has a problem.
He thinks. No, wait a minute.
If three times a year, the people go back to Jerusalem.
If they go back to the temple in Jerusalem, three times a year
and they go and they perform the sacrifices and so forth.
We've got a problem, he worried about that.
He thought that the people would Revolt from him and that the
people would go and start serving Rhea Bolam in Judah, all
over again. So what does he do?
He's thinking and I've got to do something.
So he puts together different altars and so forth.
And temples one in in Bethel and one in Dan.
Dan was to the Northerners part and Bethel was not very far away
from Judah toward the southern part but it was not in
Jerusalem. And then, he makes calves golden
calves. When the people question he
says, oh anyway, wait X is 32 It's almost like the people
forgot how that story ended. But he says these were the gods
that brought you out of Egypt. These were the gods that brought
you out and we know in Exodus 32 that had a very bad ending, you
know, the people come to are and they said, people said to Aaron,
where's Moses? We don't know where he is.
We need God's before us, he says, bring the Gold Member
arens reply to Moses. I don't know.
And you know how the people are the naughtiness of their heart,
the Mischief of their heart, they brought me their gold
through in and out came a calf Don't know what happens their
fault. Remember that Okay.
God was infuriated and so it was Moses.
God was mad here to idol, worship began.
And secondly, to he sells them on the fact that convenience is
also a reason to not have to go back to Jerusalem ever again.
He doesn't care about them all. He cares about is that they
don't leave his Reign and that's it.
Well, you know, it's interesting lie up until this point in time,
the tribe of Levi is not mentioned at all.
But when this happens, there's going to be some that are not
going to go along with what Rhea bomb is doing.
Notice if you will in second Chronicles chapter 11 and
beginning in verse 13 and the priests and the Levites that
were in all Israel resorting to him out of their coasts, for the
Levites left, their suburbs, and their possession, and came the
Judah and Jerusalem forger for jeroboam and his sons had cast
them off from I'm executing the priests office under the Lord
and He ordained him priest for the high places and for that and
for devils, and for calves, which he had made.
And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set
their hearts to seek the Lord, God of Israel came to Jerusalem
to sacrifice unto the Lord God of their fathers.
So they strengthen the kingdom of Judah and made rabo.
I'm the son of Solomon, strong three years and for three years,
they walked in the The way of David and Solomon.
Also having a proper priesthood from the tribe of Levi.
Levi now is separated from the northern tribes and because of
that, because of that for three years, they served God in an
acceptable fashion. Will you remember that?
Jeroboam is Val, burning incense on the altars jeroboam is going
out and he's seeking out any Vagabond that would get anybody
didn't, I didn't matter who you are.
If you want to be a priest of the high place you got it, I
will appoint you to be that man of all the unwise things, he
possibly could have done and I'll go through chapter 13.
Now very, very quickly. You most of you.
If not all have heard my sermon on the man of God nameless
profit. I'll just briefly touch on.
A couple high points as we Breeze through chapter 13, there
was a prophet from Judah and sometimes it's confusing to
remember who is who, when I talk about the man of God being from
Jude, and I talked about the old Prophet from the from Bethel.
So I'll just talk about the profit from Bethel, and I'm
going to talk about the profit from Judah.
The profit from Judah is sent by God.
He is the man of God and he has no name described in Chapter 13.
He is to go and prophesy against the Altar and that Dead Man's
Bones were going to be burned on the altar.
It was a prediction that a man when a man named Josiah, a good
King. By the way, going forward, I
think it's in the second Kings. Chapter 23, I believe we're
going to find that. That's exactly what happened in
the 18th year of the reign of Josiah.
I a good King over the southern Kingdom.
He predicts a prediction that's going to happen. 340 years
later, he says Dead Man's Bones are going to be burned on thee.
This man from Judah, this prophet of God, he speaks to the
altar. He doesn't say anything to this
man. Jeroboam the son of nebat says
nothing. This man is burning incense on
the altar with an outstretched hand.
And with that hand, he is all of a Sudden listening to what this
man from Judah has to say. He's so infuriated, he takes the
very same hand and he says, sees him.
And when he does, the Bible says his hand Withers, and it's so
much so that it was extreme stiffness and he could not bring
his arm back into himself and all of a sudden we've got the
attention of jeroboam son of nebat, don't we?
He says this to the man from Judah in treat.
Now, the face of thy God and pray for me that my Hand would
be restored. He does.
He gets his hand restored. Jeroboams has come back to my
house. The man from Judas is no, God
says, don't have any more dealings with all any of you
idolaters don't have anything further to do with you props, I
guess the author and get out and when I leave I got to leave in a
different way that it came, so he takes off.
Back in Bethel. There was a prophet in Bethel
and old prophet. He finds out from his sons about
all the things that happened, he gets on a donkey and he goes out
and he finds him. Seize him under an oak.
He said, are you the man from Judy?
So yes. I am he says oh this is great.
He says you're supposed to tell me all about it.
He says no. He says, God told me.
No God said, no God says have no further dealings with any of you
and leave a different way than you came, but this old Prophet
from Bethel. He says, an angel of the Lord
came to me. See, I'm a prophet to an angel.
The Lord came to me and said the plans have changed your supposed
to come back. Tell me the whole thing.
It's okay. Plans are changed.
It was okay, now for this man from Judah, he accepts what he
said, but the Bible says that the man from Bethel lied.
The old Prophet lied, he goes back, there he is.
Now at his house, he is eating and drinking.
God is mad an angel of the Lord speaks to the prophet, the old
Prophet from Bethel and tells him because he disobeyed me, he
will not be buried in the Sepulchre of his father's.
So you can Just imagine this old Prophet from Bethel.
How, he must feel the sinking feeling in his heart.
Puts him on a donkey and off, he goes when he goes and when he's
heading down the road, God produces a lion, a lion reaches
up, pulls him off the back, kills him.
And then drags his carcass out in the middle of the road and
picture this for all those that would pass by.
You got a man laying there in the middle of the road.
You've got a donkey standing guard like this.
You've got a lion over here standing guard like this, the
dog. he's not afraid of The Lion and the lion won't eat the
carcass and the lion won't go after the Donkey You think
that's significant? I do.
If God didn't have a hand in that, there's no way that's
going to happen. C word had to get back word, had
to get back to Bethel and it does when the old Prophet from
Bethel, finds out he says, oh, it's the man of God, he goes out
and gets him. He put him on his donkey, brings
him back, he buries him in his own grave.
And verse 31 of chapter 13 through verse 34 and we've
polished up chapter 13 and it came to pass after he had buried
him that he spoke to his son. Saying, when I am dead, bury me
in the Sepulcher, where in the man of God is buried.
Lay my bones beside his bones for the saying, which he cried
by the word of the Lord, against the altar at Bethel.
And against all the houses of the high places, which are in
the cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass after this
thing, jeroboam return, not from the evil of his way.
And made the lowest of the people Priests of the high
places who ever would. He consecrated him.
He became one had become one of the priests of the high places.
And this thing became sin unto the house of jeroboam even to
cut it off and to destroy it from off the face of the Earth.
Right? After that jeroboam has a son,
and his name is abijah and this son, Is very sick.
But going back a couple chapters now, you remember a hide you who
had prophesied to jeroboam and said you're going to get when he
when he in our text we read. When he rented, the the Garment
12 pieces that take 10 you're getting 10.
Well this man's an old old man. Now jeroboams thinking about
this Shila night and he says to his wife he says go and find
this man but disguise Don't tell him that you're my wife, don't
tell him that you're jeroboams wife disguise, that you're
someone else and speak to him about our son.
The Bible says that this man this Shyla night, this prophet
of God, he is waiting now for the woman to come to him,
disguising herself as somebody else.
And as he's waiting the word of the Lord comes to him and says
incidentally jeroboams wife is coming.
She's going to try to disguise herself.
You got some news to tell her about So the Bible pictures and
old man that so old, he's blind he can't see but he hears the
footsteps of the woman. And he says, oh thou wife of
jeroboam why? Faintest thou that thou art
another woman. I have some news to tell you.
He says because jeroboam has done evil.
I am going to bring evil upon the house of jeroboam God is Not
mocked in verse 11 of chapter, 14 him that doth of jeroboam in
the city, shall the dogs eat and him that dieth in the field,
shall the fowls of the air, eat for the Lord hath spoken it.
But notice verse 12, she went there to find out exactly what
was going to happen. With the child arise there, thou
for get thee to thine own house and when thy feet enter into the
City by child shall die. Verse 14.
Moreover, the Lord shall raise him up a king over Israel, who
shall cut off the house of jeroboam that day by what.
Even now, in other words, the lineage of the kings are going
to change that's found in the next chapter in chapter 15,
beginning in verse 25 and made AB, the son of jeroboam began
hit to Reign Over Israel. In the second year of Asa, king
of Judah and reigned over. Rayul two years and he did evil
in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of his father.
And in his sin wherewith, he made Israel to sin.
And they asked her the son of a haja of the head of the House of
issachar conspired against him and bashes smote him, at give
birth on which belonged to the Philistines for nadab and all
Israel laid Siege to give birth on even in the third year of
Asa, king of Judah. Did my ashes slay him and
reigned in his Stead and I'll tell you something, folks.
God is Not mocked. Whatsoever.
A man soweth that? Shall he also reap?
It's as simple as that. We look at these men and we
thank you want to have a tiger by the tail you want.
You've got God on your side. You've got God, helping you
supernaturally, these Kings. All you've got to do is serve
him with all of your heart and they don't.
Verse 20. In.
Oh, this just go back to one other verse verse 17, and
jeroboams wife, arose, and departed and came to to tirzah.
And when she came to, the threshold of the door, the child
died now, the child is dead verse 20, and the days which
jeroboam reigned were two, and twenty years and he slept with
his father's and nadab, his son reigned in his stead, that's
going to take the place of jeroboam.
Now rabo, I'm the next verse the son of Solomon reigned in Judah,
real bone was 40 and one years Sold when he began to Reign and
he reigned 17 years in Jerusalem, the city, which with
the Lord chose out of the tribes of Israel.
In conclusion, the scripture says, some other things.
Now about Judah, we've been talking about all Israel and
we're talking about jeroboam making the people of Israel to
sin. What about in Judah?
We've already noticed now when the tribe of Levi goes back and
is now aligned with Judah, they have a proper priesthood and
they serve God the way David did and Sullivan did.
When those regimes as it were, were scriptural in God's eyes
and were right in God's eyes. What else happened?
All of a sudden though, in time things have changed, verse, 22
and Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord and they provoked
him to jealousy with their sins, which they had committed above
all of their hearts above all that their fathers had done.
They committed acts that were above all that their fathers had
done. Two verses down there were
sodomites among them, some translations render this male
prostitutes, look at the sin that was in the land.
They did according to the abomination of the Nations,
which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel, The
Bible says that it came to pass in the fifth year of King Rhea
boehm that Shack king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem and
notice what happened, God, used an enemy against.
What was his faithful people? He took away the Treasures of
the house of the Lord and the Treasures of the King's house,
he took away all, and he took away all the shields of gold
which Solomon had made. You know, we didn't make a very
big point about the shields of gold.
But when Solomon had 20 million dollars worth of gold in that
year and incidentally I didn't mean 20 million by today's
standards, I meant 20 million back then what I'm saying is 20
million today. If you're a football fan, you've
been looking at this free agent market and so on and players got
signed. There's a player that got signed
yesterday for a hundred million dollars.
Forty 1 million guaranteed 32 million paid over the first
eight. 18 months of that contract.
That is just insane. So when we say 20 miles is 20
million but think it's 20 million back then, I appreciate
Darryl. Got a calculator out and try to
figure out what it would be today.
I think you said it was five billion.
That's how much gold that he brought unto himself.
This was a wealthy man that was in one year he made these golden
shields. When the enemies when God
allowed an enemy to come in and and and bring back ruined to
them, they were destroyed. You know what else they had?
Then they had these bronze ones that were kind of chucked in the
chamber there. When God brings you down folks,
he brings you down. All man had to do was follow
him. Finally conclusion two more
verses and I'm through 29 30. Now the rest of the acts of real
boehm and all that he did, are they not written in the book of
The Chronicles of the kings of Judah and there was war between
Rhea boehm and jeroboam all of their days and real boehm slept
with his father's and was buried.
And his father in the city with his father in the city of David
and his mother's name was naamah, the ammonite asst and
abide Jam. His son reigned in his stead.
So that's what's next. A by Jam is going to To rein in
the stead of his father that had died.
And on the other hand, we're going to find that jeroboam that
jeroboam son. Nadab will be the king, the next
king in line on the northern kingdom.
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