I'd like to invite your attention to the book.
First of all, a First Kings chapter, 16, we'll have two
passages that were read for our text this morning, first of
which First Kings chapter, 16 and will begin reading in verse
29 And in the 30th and 8th year of Asa, king of Judah began
Ahab, the son of Omri to Reign Over Israel and Ahab.
The son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria, 20, and two
years and Ahab. The son of Omri did evil in the
sight of the Lord above all that were before him.
And it came to pass as it had been a light thing for him to
walk in the sins of jeroboam, the son of nebat that he took to
wife Abell the daughter of f bail King of the zidonians and
went and served Baal and worshipped him and he reared up
an altar for bail in the house of Baal, which he had built in
Samaria and Ahab made a Grove and Ahab.
Did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the
kings of Israel that were before him.
The second passage is found in First Kings, chapter 22, and
we'll begin reading there in verse 41, First Kings chapter
22, beginning in verse 41. And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa.
Began to Reign Over Judah. In the fourth year of Ahab, king
of Israel. Jehoshaphat was 30 and 5 years
old. When he began to Reign and he
reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name was a zuba, the daughter of she'll
high and he walked in all the ways of Asa his father.
He turned, not aside from it doing that, which was right in
the eyes of the Lord. Nevertheless, the high places
that were taken Away were not taken away for the people
offered and burnt off in sense. Yet on high places and
Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
Now, the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat and his might that
he showed and how he Ward are not written art thou they
written excuse me. Are they not written in the book
of The Chronicles of the kings of Judah and the remnant of the
sodomites which remained in the days of his father Asa.
Took out of the land barring my mistakes correctly, read reads,
those passages of scripture, that will introduce three kings
for us in our study this morning, one of which is Asa and
ASA. As we have on the board, rain
for 41 years, and ASA reigned over Judah and he was considered
a good King. What we're going to find out
though is even though that he was a good King, he made
mistakes like you and I sometimes make mistakes when we
look to our own wisdom and our own might and our own knowledge.
Sometimes we take matters into our own hands.
ASA is a perfect example of how we ought not to do that.
Secondly his son, Jehoshaphat rain, 25 years also over Judah
and he too was a good King. And finally Ahab, the one that
we know quite well, I'm sure the one that married Jezebel an evil
King that reigned over Israel for 22 years.
We'll talk. These three kings and some
specific things that we can learn from their lives from the
from our history. You know, when the Bible says
that the things that were written aforetime were written
for our learning sometimes. When I put together these
studies from the Old Testament, by way of History, sometimes I
don't know how much detail that I should put in regarding each
King and so forth and so on. And so I really don't want us to
get lost in all the little details of their life.
What I want to be able to do is to leave here and learn
something about the good points of Asa.
The good point, It's of Jehoshaphat and also their
negative points. And secondly, when the Bible
says that regarding Ahab that he provoked, God to anger, more
than all the kings of Israel, what was it about him?
And what were the things that he did that made him so corrupt and
so evil. So that we can leave this place
and learn something from these stories.
First of all, regarding ASA with the Bible, would record that ASA
was truly a righteous man. And because of that Judah
enjoyed peace for the first 10 years of his Reign ASA.
Used this good this time for good Advantage as well.
For example, he reformed Judah by destroying the idols which
had been built during the years of Rhea boehm and abide Jam.
He also commanded the people of Judah to serve God.
You know, just as a historical aside, it's amazing to me that
within 20 years, following the death of King.
King Solomon and only 60 years after the death of David.
The greatest King that Israel had ever known.
It's interesting to me that every single Town Bar.
None, in Judah had its own high place where incense was burned
and offerings were made to false gods.
That is a picture of what can happen.
When error, enters the picture notice, 20 years, following the
death of the Wisest man that ever lived save Jesus Christ and
60 years after the death of the greatest.
King that Israel ever knew that there were high places in every
city in Judah where they offered and burnt incense to false gods
ASA, destroyed, all of those. And as a result, the kingdom
enjoyed peaceful times, the scripture says also that the
faithful people that were still living in Israel.
They Saw that God was with Judah.
And what they began to do is they began to migrate south and
the scripture says that large members from Israel joined ASA
and his kingdom at this point in time.
So the population of the two kingdoms is much closer in size
than at the beginning. You remember at the very
beginning when they were split between ten and two tribes, you
have Israel, having a greater population in the Kingdom that
small Kingdom and you have quite a Smaller number in, Judah to
the South. But because that there were
still people in Israel, regardless of all of the
evilness and the wickedness of the kings that reigned over
Israel, there were still people in Israel that had a good heart
and wanted to serve God acceptably there were still
people in Israel that were perceptive enough to see that
God was with Judah and they wanted to be among God's people,
they wanted to be where God was and then I wanted to do that
which was right. So they began to migrate south
and now you have the two kingdoms which were once
lopsided in size much more similar in size.
Now after 10 years of Peace time, the calm was finally
broken by the invasion of a fearsome Army led by zura the
kushite or also the Ethiopians. You know what's interesting
about this if there's a picture Of armies that are going against
one. Another that are picture of
David and Goliath is certainly, would be this.
You have, the might you have the power, you have the experience
to have the knowledge. You have all of that of the
Ethiopians or the cushion sheets, and they're going to
invade led by zura Judah. And you have little old Jutsu
there and here it is. The Bible says that they go to
take their stand against the could shites against those
Mighty Ethiopians now in Interesting.
It's interesting what ASA decides to do.
ASA does, the only thing he can do ASA?
Did what we just did a moment ago?
ASA, found himself desperate in ASA.
Prayed, the Bible says that he said these words, Lord, there is
none as one translation, renders it.
There's one tree, there's no one like you to help the weak
against the mighty we are counting on you.
And in your name, we have come out against this vast Army, o
Jehovah, you are God. But notice what he says, he says
do not let men Prevail against you.
Who. The heart of Asa was still on
what God wanted desperate times sometimes, cause for us to take
stock in the things that are going on around us.
Sometimes, we try to exhaust all of our own wisdom and knowledge,
and the wisdom and knowledge of all of our peers.
But listen, we need in Desperate Times to do the only thing
that's going to do us some good and that is to do what ASA does
and ASA. Pours, his heart out to God with
the Bible says that Aid that God gave ASA and his army, a great
Victory. The Kush sites were destroyed in
great numbers and they were crushed before the Lord and his
forces shortly after these events, the prophet Azariah
comes to ASA with a message from God.
And this is what he said. He says, listen to me ASA and
all Judah and Benjamin. The Lord has been with you
because you have been faithful if you continue to seek God, he
will be with you. But if you turn away from God,
God he will turn away from you. You know, this is the same exact
message that God through Samuel told Saul.
This is exactly the same message that God through the prophet
told David it's the exact same message that God through a
prophet told Solomon. Nothing has changed.
You want to taste something, sometimes in this life?
Now, listen to me. I want to say something,
encouraging to you. Sometimes in this life, God's
people grow discouraged. Sometimes we just get
discouraged. You know, I realize that we have
a strong number of folks that are here this morning.
We do we have a strong number. That's a member of this
congregation. We have some of our folks that
are visiting, other places. Some are ill and so forth.
But if you took every single one of us and you put us in this
building at the same time though, we would have a greater
size crowd than we do today. It's quite small in comparison
to numbers that are found in the religious world and in the world
itself. And sometimes God's people can
grow discouraged when it seems as though our efforts go, don't
go to fruition. Let me just say this though, the
promise is still the same, God will never leave our side.
If we never leave God, you know, when we talk about grow, Great
and Mighty Men of old like Samson.
You know, God was with Sampson on every single time, every
single thing, every single challenge, when it appeared,
that he was standing alone. God was with him and God blessed
him with Mighty strength and all of that and courage and Valor.
But there came a day when he left God.
And the Bible says that he knew not that the devil was that the
Lord was departed from him. The point is this God leaves us
when we leave him, it doesn't make any difference.
How sad the circumstances. Look, hold tight of your faith
and hang on, because it's long as we never leave the Lord, he
will never leave our side. That's exactly what the prophet
was. Telling ASA if you stand by me.
If your people stand by me, I will stand by you, but if you
depart from from me, I will depart from you.
When does God leave us only when we leave God?
You know, there was about 14 years of Peace after this
particular event in history, after that battle of the
Ethiopians. But you know, Ace does a human
being. He showed great faith when it
came to this battle, he prays to God, when it came to this
battle, he 100% realized he's in Dire Straits and he needs God,
14 years of Peace happen. From this point down to this
point when Basia a little King over.
Real rain for a short time. He also was a wicked evil King
and while he was raining, he decides that he's going to go
and attack Judah. You know, I don't know why in
the Bible, doesn't say just says the facts, but I don't know why
that ASA didn't just trust in God, again, why didn't he do
that? This time?
He does something else. In fact, the Bible says, instead
of thinking about God and asking God for God's help, he seeks
after another king Assyrian King and he makes a deal with him on
the side. And he tells this Syrian King,
he says, basically, as I paraphrase, I'll give you silver
and gold from the temple. Treasures, if you will go down
and attack cities of the north and west of a Sea of Galilee, if
you'll do that. Now, the reason that that
happened was, and the reason that he contacted a Syrian King
was Bay Asha, he got tired of all of those people leaving
Israel going down into Judah and he wanted to figure out a way to
stop it, so he decides, he takes all these building.
Isles and he decides to build a fort between Israel and Judah to
stop, the migration of people of going south Instead of trusting
in God ASA contacts, been. Hey Dad a Syrian King and he
says you attack the cities in the north and you attack the
cities and the west of the Sea of Galilee when he does.
The Bible says that though that bay Asha has to go and defend
himself. So what does he do?
He takes all of his men and he leaves the fort on the scene,
then comes a say in his man and he steals all of their
buildings. Adding materials and he takes
those building materials and he takes it back to fortify his own
cities, you know, I would imagine if you're talking about
war and you're talking about from a fleshly standpoint, I
would imagine you're talking about people that would admire
what ASA did, but God did not admire him at all.
In fact, the Bible says that he sent a prophet to him and told
him this he says, because you did not trust in me because you
trusted in a Ian King, instead of me you have War now, from now
on Can you imagine that he was living in 14 years of peace?
Before that there was ten years of Peace, one little battle that
he wins. You're talking about 24 years of
Peace time and now the profit comes to him and says because
you didn't trust in God and you sought after a Syrian King,
You've Got War now from now on Ace of so angry at the property.
Throws him in prison. He's going to have battles now
now, interesting, this was a righteous man.
This was a good King, that messed up.
There was another time to that. God was displeased with Asa.
The Bible says that at some point in time, as he was
elderly. I believe it was in the 38th
year of his Reign, I don't know. All there is to know about it
but the scripture says he had disease feet.
Now, I can just imagine what disease feet were.
We can think about all manner of things, you know, my father was
a diabetic and he had problems with his feet and had to have
toes removed and so on, sometimes people can have all
manner of things wrong with their feet and so forth.
I don't know what was wrong with him.
All I know is the Bible says that he had diseas'd feet.
What does he do? What did he do that?
Made God. So angry and God, so displeased,
simply this He sought help of the Physicians only and not God
at all. You know, a minute ago we prayed
for sister, Claire red. Now, we believe in prayer.
tomorrow Lord willing all goes well, she will go into surgery
and have hip replaced All the praying in the world with
nothing else to be done is not going to remove that old hip and
put the new one in. You need a doctor for that.
I do believe that God uses means to.
And when we pray to God, for someone to get better, that's
been sick, we pray that whatever means you choose, whatever it
is. I want to do a man that thought
he said this to me one time he says you can't be a man of faith
and believe in doctors. How absurd is that?
In fact, he said this, he says the doctors and the
pharmaceutical companies are from the devil and the
university and not from God. This is what he said to, he
said, they're all in it together.
I said how, so he said it all begins with the farmer.
The farmer, puts it in the ground, and all of a sudden, the
crops come up, then they have pesticides that have to come in.
So the plane sweep in and they bomb the the crops out with
these pesticides, chemicals, designed to specifically, make
you, and I sick on purpose, then what's going to happen, we grow
up, we eat this stuff. We get sick, we go to the
doctor, doctor makes a whole lot of money.
They're all in it together. Doc sure sends us to the
pharmacy and the pharmaceutical companies, give us medicine.
They get the most amount of money and they're all in it
together. I'll tell you what folks, if I
get sick or if Tanner gets sick or Taylor.
Or Tina. We're going to the doctor
praying, the whole way. God uses means to we pray.
For the doctors that they'll make the right judgments.
We pray for the doctors that they'll make the right
decisions. We pray for those that are in
that are caring for our loved ones when they're sick.
What was the matter then? With what he did?
He went to the doctor. What was wrong is the Bible says
he ignored God in doing. So he took God completely out of
the picture and he trusted in the It's only and God was not
pleased. Is a truly was a righteous King
and God bless Judah in his day, yet he was rebuked on occasion,
for not relying upon God as he should have.
He didn't turn away from God to serve Idols, but he did not rely
on him in all the circumstances in his life, like he should have
done you. And I can learn lessons from
this story, the story of Asa, we can learn lessons because
sometimes we do that, too. Sometimes things look dire some
Sometimes things look difficult. What do we do?
We fret about those things? We worry about those things, we
talked to each other about those things and we failed to talk to
the one that can help. We fail to speak to God, the
only one. That can help.
Somebody said, one time, that prayer is like a well Who's some
people stand draw and drink? And others stand and die of
thirst. You got to dip it in the well.
The Bible says, you have not because you ask not unclaimed.
Promises are like uncashed checks.
We pray to God for everything. We pray to God with for
everything that we have, we rely upon God, for whatever.
Means he chooses to help us. And then we roll up our sleeves
and do our part. That's how we get through this.
I'm going to say something we can get through anything in the
world. If we have God and each other,
that is truly a fact, ASA rain, for 41 years, he died.
And he was buried. The Bible says, in the city of
David, the people came and burned an enormous quantity of
spices and Blended perfumes in his honor.
This was truly a great man in the people loved him because of
his service and Devotion to God. So then on the scene, now comes
another king, his son, by the name of Jehoshaphat, his Reign
was 25 years. He also was considered a good
King. He was truly a righteous man to
he followed in the ways of his father ASA.
He continued the reforms that his father had begun.
He removed the male shrine. Prostitutes or the King James
version says he removed the sodomites that had reappeared in
the land during his father's last year's.
What was the problem? The problem was the people were
not completely and thoroughly devoted to God.
That sounds familiar. Sometimes we as God's people
aren't truly thoroughly and completely devoted to God.
When Jehoshaphat was on the throne, he recognized that fact
he recognized that people were not totally devoted to God.
There does come a time though when we have to rise up and walk
little, Claire was born not long ago, it's cute.
We're sitting there and her mother is holding her and caring
for her and we'll walk out of this building carrying her.
That's all natural. We like all that because that's
the way it needs to be, but there comes a time when she has
to rise up and walk on her own. There comes a time when you have
to make the determine resolve, I'm going to be devoted to God
for the rest of my life. I'm going to be a member of the
Lord's church and I'm not going to fall and I'm not going to
give up and I'm not going to quit.
In fact, I don't have any other plans for the rest of my life
than to be a Christian. I think we have to make that
determined resolve in our life. The question is, how is somebody
today? Truly devoted to God.
How do we demonstrate that sometimes?
People would say well it's how it's when you talk about God in
a favorable way or it's when you feel good in your heart, about
spiritual things, these are wonderful things.
And these are byproducts, that's true.
But the way that we demonstrate our devotedness to God is in our
service. To God.
That's how we demonstrate. How we are devoted to God?
By our attendance of services by our study of God's word by are
visiting, the Sick by our encouraging one another by us
growing in the faith. There were three things that
Jehoshaphat did. That was noteworthy one.
He strengthened his kingdom. Edom was under the control of
Judah. At this time in the Bible says
that a deputy administered, the territory of Edom for
Jehoshaphat Jehoshaphat stationed, his troops and
Garrison's throughout the land of Judah and in certain cities
of Ephraim, which ASA had taken from Israel.
But the main point was, this Jehoshaphat sought the Lord
instead of bail. So, God strengthened his hand
and he brought him riches and he brought Honor and he brought him
all of those things in abundance.
You know, because that's not what he was after.
Remember when Solomon prayed Solomon oh Solomon was led away,
we'll touch on that in just a moment, just briefly.
But before Solomon's heart was pulled away.
When Solomon looked to the job of being King.
When Solomon look to all the things that he was going to do
now and be the successor of his father, he felt himself to be a
rather small man in comparison to the task at hand.
So what he prayed for not riches, not honor, not power,
not might not popularity, not an easy life, he prays for wisdom,
he wants to be able to have the wisdom and the knowledge to
lead. God's people people better and
to live his life as the king and serve God's people better.
And God says, not only am I going to give you that but
because you didn't ask for riches and honor and all of
that, I'm going to give you that too.
I'm going to bless you, your to be wealthy.
You'd be the wealthiest man around.
The same was true with Jehoshaphat.
God blessed him monetarily because spiritually, he was
doing that which was, right. Secondly, Jehoshaphat sends out
princes and Levites and Priests. He realized that Judah was not
serving the lord Faithfully that they were ignorant of God.
You know, I really believe this today and talking about Society,
I really believe that we are living in a Bible.
Illiterate Society, we live in a society where people are more
drawn to a doctor's name with all the titles after it in
society. Now is what I'm talking about.
Then we are in society about what the grand old book.
Has to say, there was a time though and days gone by when
people that he didn't even have the truth, they at least made an
Attempt to study or know about God's word.
But today we live in a Bible. Illiterate Society, is this
anything new? It's nothing new.
We can go all the way back to the kingdom of Judah.
When Jehoshaphat was on the throne and he recognized a few
things one, he noticed that God's people were not poor
people in Judah were not devoted to God, then he realized why
they were illiterate. They were ignorant of God, so he
sends princes and Levites to teach the people the law.
I'm going to tell you something folks, when we're making bad
decisions and wrong decisions, we need to turn back to the word
of God and have that burn deep within us.
They went out and they taught among all cities of Judah.
This was done in only the third year of his Reign and thirdly
Jehoshaphat grew in power. God gave Jehoshaphat peace.
His neighbor's, the Philistines and the Arabians.
Brought him, great gifts. You know, this is a far cry from
the time when under the judges, the period of the judges.
For example, when Samson was living and he was judging and he
judged Israel, the Bible says, all of those years he had to
fight against the Philistines, David King, David.
As I already mentioned the greatest King Israel ever knew
the most charismatic personality in all, maybe all of the Old
Testament, scriptures, the great singer of Israel, the greatest
poet, the world ever knew All of that, the greatest military
strategist that they ever knew and David had to fight against
the Philistines during his entire reign.
Look what God's doing now God is rewarding righteousness and
faithfulness with peace with peace among enemies and these
enemies of God's people that were once horrible fighting and
warring against God were bringing gifts to Jehoshaphat
when he was on the throne. His army grew exceedingly,
Mighty also notice he had at his disposal, an army of 1 million
160,000 besides those on Garrison Duty.
And the reason for it is because God was on his side, it had
nothing to do with his own power, his own might or his
experience. It was because God was on his
side more on Jehoshaphat in just a minute.
But next, let's skip to Ahab. You know, the Bible uses the
strongest language to condemn the actions of Ahab, according
to the text one of the worst things that he ever did was to
marry Jezebel the daughter of f bail the king of the sidonians,
the ACT would result in severe misery, for both Israel and
Judah as well. Urged on by his Pagan wife,
Jezebel Ahab makes Baal worship the official religion in Israel,
He also made an asscher a pole and had a temple built for bail
in Samaria because of all this. That's why the God said that
that Ahab, provoked him to anger more than all the kings of
Israel that were before him historical note here.
Jezebel as I mentioned, just a moment ago being the daughter of
f bail the king of the sidonians the names Jezebel and F bail
include the name of the false god Baal in them.
That gives the first indication of how bad this marriage was for
Ahab. Beyond that Jezebel was another
one of the foreign wives that a king of Israel married.
And of course, the law of Moses repeatedly forbade such
marriages You know it's just like we're Solomon the wisest
man that the world ever knew the wisest man in the land, 700
wives, 300 concubines and guess what?
Not one, not one was among God's people, every single one of them
was foreign that had Idol gods and so forth.
You want to talk about strength and power and might Solomon was
a, was a strength. Was a strong man.
He was a strong man in so many ways of Very wise, man, made a
made a poor choice. Got tells me this to that.
God can bless us with wisdom, but we have to apply the wisdom.
He certainly didn't apply the wisdom regarding his wives and
what happened. The Bible says that those women,
those wives turned his heart, from the Lord and turned his
heart away. That's what happens when we have
associations and relationships outside the body of Christ.
Need to be careful about that, but I wouldn't notice the
difference though between Baal worship and calf worship.
We speak about calf worship. When we talk about jeroboam, we
talk about all of those other things that we spoke about in
times past what makes Ahab worse.
Regarding the worship of Baal. What is the worship of Baal?
What did they actually do? Who was this?
God? Well, there's a difference
between Baal worship and calf worship.
Both, though did include Idols Baal worship though was worse in
its consequences because the rituals involved in the worship
were far more degrading bail. Get this and asherah, we're gods
of fertility. So, the sin of fornication was
part of their ritual In Worship. The priest and the priestesses
were male and female prostitutes.
The morals of the people would plummet to the very depths when
they would turn to Baal worship now, calf worship on the other
hand, now it was wrong and God did not accept it.
But golden calves were theoretically, representative of
God. They still had their priests
whose function was to offer animals on the altar.
They still had their feast days and special occasions.
It's similar to those found in the law of Moses, but God did
not accept the worship of golden calves either, but the worship
was not as destructive to the moles of the people that were
involved. This is but a small picture of
the kind of King that Ahab was. I told you I was going to
mention Jehoshaphat again. Now, we're going to tie together
a very poor choice so far. We're finding good things being
spoken about Jehoshaphat and wise things.
Spoken about this King all of a sudden now as these kingdoms
were about were closer in size and terms of its population, you
have Jehoshaphat on the throne and Judah.
You have Ahab on the throne over Israel and even though that they
didn't have a whole lot of active Wars and battle between
them on this particular occasion of History, we find that Ahab
and Jehoshaphat form a bond of peace.
They form a bond of peace. This is the first time since the
Kingdom's, had separated That official peace was to be made
between them, even though there was very little open Warfare at
first glance, this would seem to be a good move for the
Kingdom's. We would think that any time
that you're going to have a time of Peace, wouldn't that be
great? No, not at all.
It was not. Look at the contrast between
these two little kingdoms one. None of the kings that Judah had
up until this point. We're extremely Wicked.
In fact, none of the kings of Judah had ever tried to
discourage faithfulness of those who wanted to worship God
correctly, even when they were doing that, which was not
correct, you know, even when there were kings that
sought-after idols and did things that were wrong in Judah.
They never tried to keep someone else from doing that which was
right. you know, I taste, you know, I thought about I thought
about what happens when we make a decision about our own soul.
When it affects everybody else. I think about the father that
leaves the church and then one by one, the rest of his family
due to I think of how sad that is.
You know, I would imagine that if a person wants to go to hell,
I would imagine I guess person has that, right?
I can't fathom that but I guess the poor person has that, right?
It's their choice. But the problem is the far
reaches of our decisions, go way beyond that.
I have to make the right decisions in my life so that my
kids do the same thing. They're going to follow in my
example, one day they really are.
It was different with Ahab because not only did Ahab bring
in Baal worship and I told you how disgusting it was and
morally corrupted. It was he makes it the official
religion and demands that the people would honor it.
That's different. No wonder, he provoked God to
anger more than anyone. Israel had gone down spiritually
from the day it began. When we look at these two
kingdoms, jeroboam right off the bat, son of nebat.
The Bible says, right off the bat, what does he do?
Brings in Golden calves brings in incense to burn on the
altars. He appoints.
Any Vagabond that would to be a priest of a high places, they
went down, spiritually from day one.
But it was different for Judah. The kingdom of Judah was
prospering because Asa and Jehoshaphat had had sought to
bring people closer to God and God rewarded them.
Ahab, not only allows Baal Worship in the land makes the
official religion. Any contact between Judah and
Israel could only prove to be a corrupting influence to Judah.
And that's exactly what happened, you know, one of the
great Mysteries and Bible History is, how could you host a
fat one of the greatest and best Kings and ever reigned over
Judah, would Ally himself with Ahab.
The very worst king of all. We don't know.
Well, as it was so often the case, the Treaty of Peace was
sealed with the marriage of Jehoshaphat son, jehoram and
ahab's daughter athaliah. Well, during this period of
time, God strove mightily to bring Israel back to his side.
And it was during The Darkest Hours of Israel.
The Darkest Hours they had ever seen as a nation that to Great
prophets, come on the scene. One of them is Elijah and the
other is Elijah, you know, much of the next times.
And the next events that we read about about Ahab the king over
Israel is in dealings with these two prophets.
You know there are profits in the scriptures like Elijah and
Elisha we've noticed other prophets in our Bible Old
Testament narratives and so forth these were prophets but
they were not what we would consider literary prophets a
literary profit is simply that That it is a prophet that has
writings that bear their names. For example, there are 17 of
those in the Old Testament. There are five that are
considered Major Prophets and 12 that are considered Minor
Prophets. The Major Prophets are Isaiah.
Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel and Daniel the Minor Prophets
are Hosea. Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah, Micah
Nahum habakkuk Zephaniah, haggai and Zechariah.
I am Malachi. Those are the 17 prophets that
were considered literary prophets.
They had writings bearing their names.
The major prophets were those that had longer writings the
Minor Prophets had shorter writings, but these were two
prophets that were in the grand scheme of things regarding God's
plan of trying to bring Israel back to him these prophets, come
on the scene and miracles come to And that's the next thing
we're going to talk about is some of the history and some of
the events that transpired with these prophets regarding Israel
and King Ahab. We thank you for listening to
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