Jezebel, one of the most prominent and repeated examples in the Bible representing the worst possible spiritual seduction has something which all seducers share in common: disdain for the truth. It didn’t matter that her false prophets failed and Elijah the one true prophet of God succeeded; it didn’t matter that her god failed to provide the sign which the One True God manifested; it didn’t matter that her religion was categorically proven false. Like all spiritual seducers instead of responding to God’s Word and repenting like the people did, she seeks to return everything to “normal” by killing the messenger.
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Ahab approaches Jehoshaphat on the premise that they’re brothers, that they have the same enemies and family background, and that it’s only fitting that they go out to fight the common enemy together. But when they go into battle Ahab’s true nature is revealed in that he wants Jehoshaphat, the guy with the real biblical faith, to become the focus of the attack. When good Christians make alliances with those who are Christian in name only, not only will the battle be lost, but in the process they’ve made themselves the main target of the enemy.
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Jezebel, one of the most prominent and repeated examples in the Bible representing the worst possible spiritual seduction, has something which all seducers share in common: disdain for the truth. It didn’t matter that her false prophets failed and Elijah the one true prophet of God succeeded; it didn’t matter that her god failed to provide the sign which the One True God manifested; it didn’t matter that her religion was categorically proven false. So like all spiritual seducers instead of responding to God’s Word and repenting like the people did, she seeks to return everything to “normal” by killing the messenger.
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One of the most important biblical figures which replays itself throughout the whole of history is Elijah. There is the first literal, historical person of Elijah, John the Baptist who comes in the character of Elijah to prepare the way for the Messiah, his reapppearance with Moses on the Mount of Transfiguration, and yet another who is to come in the spirit of Elijah in the Last Days as one of the two witnesses identified in Revelation 11. Whenever Scripture speaks about Elijah, the Spirit is trying to teach us something about each of these who have come in the past and is yet to come.
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Because most of us do not speak Hebrew, it’s easy for us to wonder why, for all of the false gods mentioned in the history of Israel, God seems to be more upset about Baal than any of the others. If we were Hebrew speakers, we would realized that “Baal” is the Hebrew word for “husband” and “master”. God was supposed to be Israel’s husband and master. So Baal represents the ultimate spiritual seduction, of replacing the One True God not simply with a substitute, but something that is assigned the same attributes and role as Him in the worst kind of counterfeit possible.
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As each king is introduced in the books of Kings and Chronicles we are told whether or not that king “did what was right in the sight of the Lord“. It’s an interesting unit of measurement, especially in our day and age. I cannot find any biblical example where doing what is right in the sight of the Lord can be even closely equated with the modern-day practice of being politcially correct.
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There is something which, for the past couple of centuries, has been quite common for Christians in Western countries which has rarely, if ever, existed for the whole of Christianity in all of the past twenty centuries: a voice in government. Especially in America, Christians have grown so used to having their voice heard these past 233 years that it has become ingrained in culture. Christians seem to think that things like freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to assemble, and so forth are part of their rights as Christians. But something has been changing these past few decades because the king, as it were, is not listening like he used to.
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