2 Chronicles 18

June 21, 2022

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2 Chronicles 18 (NIV)

Micaiah Prophesies Against Ahab
1 Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honor, and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage. 2 Some years later he went down to see Ahab in Samaria. Ahab slaughtered many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him and urged him to attack Ramoth Gilead. 3 Ahab king of Israel asked Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me against Ramoth Gilead?”
Jehoshaphat replied, “I am as you are, and my people as your people; we will join you in the war.” 4 But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “First seek the counsel of the Lord.”.........Continue Reading

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  1. Roman’s chapter 3. What an argument Paul
    Addresses. That no one including Jews are righteous before God by obeying the law. No wonder the Jews followed Paul to take his life. Jews and gentiles alike. Yikes!! Using psalm 14. Drives his point home. There is no one righteous. No one is innocent. My father died in 1980 and I remember saying to myself. I’m going to be the best I can and follow the Ten Commandments so I can be where my father went. I struggled with that statement. I remember thinking it was weak. Not enough. And It was to much pressure. That made me ask the question then why did Jesus die if I could get to heaven by just obeying 10 commandments How much power is there in Paul’s following statements We are all justified freely by grace through the redemption that came by Jesus Christ. There is no statement more powerful and freeing than that. Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  2. I love this account of Ahab going to the prophets because it is something we do all the time. We say we want advice from people but are actually just seeking confirmation of what we want to hear. He did not want the truth he wanted the answer that suited him.
    “but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad.”
    Ahab is like a classic 7 year old fighting against the fact that adults are giving him direction to keep him safe but still wants to be allowed to jump off the couch!
    But we all do this from time to time when the truth hurts or is difficult we want better answers but God’s direction is always for our protection and best interest even when it is difficult and unfortunately Ahab learned this lesson the hard way!

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  3. King Ahab wanted him to join forces. He said yes but Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “First seek the counsel of the Lord.”Talk about wolves in sheep’s clothing. Micaiah was the only one that truly heard from the lord to prophesy. The King was really angry. The Lord had planted the wrong word into the kings prophets. It happened just as Micaiah said.

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  4. The events concerning Micaiah and the deceiving spirit are very interesting. Is it really “deceiving” if the fake prophets tell Ahab what he wants to hear? Micaiah is hated by the king because he doesn’t tell him what he wants to hear. Ahab wants to believe the lie the “prophets” are telling him and the Lord does not get in the way. I think we need to be careful to make sure we are not just acting on something we “want to hear”.

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  5. How often one bad decision leads to another. Ahab (and even more so his wife Jezebel) was notorious for evil and opposing the things of God (remember with Elijah and Ahab killing the prophets of God). So it is not very wise to come in connection with them through marriage…imagine what their daughter would be like. So now there is a tendency to be influenced in the wrong direction. Now kudos to Jehoshaphat for making Ahab seek a prophet of God and for Jeho to have the discernment to know the other prophets weren’t speaking for God. Even in situations we shouldn’t be in, there are opportunities for us to shine. And you just got to love how Micaiah addresses the king. He is certainly not afraid to speak for God, but starts off (most likely sarcastically) saying he should go to battle. Even Ahab notices he is not being forthright. But now at this point it is foolish for either king to go in battle, but how selfish of Ahab to set Jehoshaphat up…and how foolish of him to think a costume will protect him from the will of God. It just goes to show us that God’s will will be done…and when He says your time is over…it is over….

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    1. It really is a fitting way for this evil king to die. He thought he could avoid God’s will his whole life…but that only goes so far….

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  7. All I could think of was this verse from 2 Timothy 4: “For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.”

    We may hear what we want to hear, but that doesn’t make it true.

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