Genesis’ “begats” to Third Kings where it seems “‘wicked’ reigns ad infinitum?
In Genesis… Adam lived a hundred and thirty years and begat a son Seth… Seth begat Enos… Enos begat Cainan… “begats” forever in Genesis…
In Three Kings… Roboam’s wicked reign in Juda… Abiam’s wicked reign in Juda… Nadab’s wicked reign in Israel… Baasa’s wicked reign… Amri’s wicked reign over Israel; Achab’s wicked reign over Israel… there was a lot of wickedness in the leaders of the Old Testament.
Fortunately God interceded and applied His Own Law to make the necessary changes.
Is a second ‘parable’ in The Old Testament found in this section of Three Kings?
Remember the first ‘parable’ in The Old Testament was told by Nathan to David after he had Bethsabee’s husband Urias sent to the front of the battle where he was killed.
Day 105: OT Second Kings C6-12; War and David; Sin & God’s First Parable
This first parable of the Old Testament resulted in forgiveness.
David to Nathan the prophet: I have sinned against the Lord.
Nathan the prophet to David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt not die.
War and David; sin & God’s first parable… and now Solomon too!
In Three Kings, a man of God appears and foretells the birth of Christ in the house of David but also in doing so is warning Jeroboam to change his ways and treat the children of Israel, God’s chosen children, a little better.
A certain old prophet deceives the man of God. While not interfering with his prophecy, he tricks him into disobeying God and paying the price of his life for doing so.
This could be a parable about how deceitful people will appear to be your friend and sympathize with you with the result being your downfall. If God wants you to do something different He will tell you or minimally tell you to look for a sign through another human being.
While I am not sure for what reason or motive the certain old prophet did this other than to be lying down in the same sepulcher with a true man of God after he dies. Immortality is not achievable through pride or ego. Immortality is possible through God, His Son Jesus Christ, and The Holy Spirit in a meek and humble way by bearing whatever Cross you need to bear in your life experience.
I do know, for me, the take-away is to stay in constant prayer and communication with God The Father, Jesus Christ His Son, and The Holy Spirit for not only guidance and direction but to obtain the power behind the inspiration to power one’s self to fulfill one’s own individual prophecy.
Remember that this if The Old Testament, the time of law and only God’s love for His children in the world. The ‘covenant of law’ alone did not work so God sent His Only Son into the world to save the world which He did in Jesus’ Blood and in Jesus’ Name.
God The Father, Jesus His Son and now The Holy Spirit is present and inspiring the people of this world. So inspired by God, Jesus, and The Holy Spirit with the inspiration of other religions and spiritualties and no religion or spirituality at all… comes The Third Testament of the Splendid Spiritual Self through which we all do God’s Will.
And the rest of the words and all that was revealed through spiritual breakthroughs in life and others who inspired him, are thy not to be written in TROML Journals and culminated in The Third Testament of the Splendid Spiritual Self?
And there was war throughout our lifetimes both outside in the world and inside us between good and evil. Eventually we sleep with our mothers and fathers. There will be many memorials to Christ bearing our pursuit of eternity from the year of our birth to TROML Forever in cemeteries overlooking winding and flowing rivers.
And The Third Testament of the Splendid Spiritual Self will live on in hopes of achieving the spiritual redemption and salvation of the world through a unified means of law, love and the spirit.
Glory to God!
For this we pray, Amen.
Day 119: Reading The Bible with a TROML Perspective;
A Second Parable of the Old Testament with Visions of a Third Testament.
Read and inspired by the Old Testament, The Third Book of Kings Chapters 12-16
Bible Notes:
This Book opens with the death of King David. Solomon, his son, succeeded him. King Solomon ruled wisely, beautified Jerusalem, and built the Temple. But later he encouraged idolatry. After his death his kingdom split into two hostile sections, Israel in the North and Juda in the South.
3 Kings Chapter 12: The people ask for lighter burdens; Roboam consults old and young; Roboam refuses the people’s request; Revolt of ten tribes; God tells Roboam, not to fight the rebels; Jeroboam leads his people into idolatry.
Roboam the son of King Solomon…
Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who was yet in Egypt, a fugitive from the face of King Solomon, hearing of his death, returned out of Egypt.
Thy father (King Solomon) laid a grievous yoke upon us… of his most heavy yoke… make the yoke which thy father put upon us lighter?
What counsel do you give me?
Old men: grant their petition and they will be thy servants always…
Young men: I will add to your yoke.
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Roboam…
…but I will add to your yoke: my father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions… for the Lord was turned away from him (King Roboam), to make good his word… (behold I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give thee (Jeroboam) ten tribes…
What portion do we have in David?
And Israel revolted from the house of David (David-Solomon-Roboam), unto this day.
…and there was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Juda only.
…and the tribe of Benjamin…
House of Israel (ten tribes) vs. the House of David (one tribes); 12th tribe was Levi?
The Lord: “You shall not go up nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel…”
And Jeroboam said in his heart: Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David, if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem: and the heart of this people will turn to their lord Roboam the king of Juda, and they will kill me, and return to him.
FEAR, LACK OF TRUST IN GOD???
Jeroboam made two golden calves… and he set one in Bethel, and the other in Dan… and this thing became an occasion of sin… and he made temples in high places, and priests of the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi… which he had devised of his own heart.
3 Kings Chapter 13: Prophecy of the birth of Jesus; Jeroboam’s hand writers; Restoration of Jerobaum’s hand; The prophet from Juda returns to Bethel; God is angry with the prophet from Juda; The prophet is slain by a lion; The prophet from Juda is buried in Bethel; Jerobaum continues to sin.
A man of God:
“O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord: Behold a child shall be born to the house of David, Josais by name, and he shall immolate upon thee the priests of the high priests, who now burn incense upon thee, and he shall burn men’s bones upon thee. And he gave a sign the same day saying: This shall be the sign: that the Lord hath spoken: Behold the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.”
The word of the man of God…
King Jeroboam: “Lay hold on him.” And his hand which he stretched forth against him withered: and he was not able to draw it back again to him.
King Jeroboam to the man of God: “Entreat the face of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.” And the man of God besought the face of the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.
The Lord had commanded the man of God: “Thou shalt not eat bread nor drink water, nor return by the same way that thou camest.” So he departed by another way, and returned not by the way that he came into Bethel.
Now a certain old prophet said to the man of God: “art thou the man of God that camest from Juda?” He answered: “I am.”
The old prophet said to the man of God: “I also am a prophet kike unto thee: and an angel spoke to me in the word of the Lord, saying: “Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink water.” He deceived him, and brought him back with him: so he ate bread and drank water in his house.
Lord to the man of God: “…thy body shall not be brought into the sepulcher of thy fathers.”
And when he was gone, a lion found him in the way, and killed him, and his body was cast in the way…
The old prophet: “It is the man of God that was disobedient to the mouth of the Lord…”
And he laid the dead body in his own sepulcher.
Old prophet: “When I am dead, bury me on the sepulcher wherein the man of God is buried: lay my bones besides his bones. For assuredly the word shall come to pass which he hath foretold in the word of the Lord against the altar that is in Bethel and against all the temples of the high places, that are in the cities of Samaria.
After these words Jeroboam came not back from his wicked way: but on the contrary he made the meanest of the people priests of the high places…
And for this cause did the house of Jeroboam sin, and was cut off and destroyed from the face of the earth.
3 Kings Chapter 14: Jeroboam’s wife consults the prophet, Ahias; He foretells the ruin of Jeroboam’s family; Death of Abia, son of Jeroboam; Death of Jeroboam; Roboam’s wicked reign in Juda; Sesac pillages Jerusalem; Abiam succeeds Roboam.
At that time Abia the son of Jeroboam fell sick. And Jeroboam said to his wife: Arisee, and change thy dress, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Silo, where Ahias the prophet is… for he will tell thee what shall become of this child… but he (Ahias) could not see, for his eyes were dim by reason of his age.
And the Lord said to Ahias… thus and thus shalt thou speak to her. So when she was coming in, and made as if she were another woman… Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why dost thou feign thyself to be another?… Go, and tell Jeroboam… and thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and followed me with all his heart… and hast made thee strange gods and molten gods… therefore I will bring evils upon the house of Jeroboam… and I will sweep away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be clean… for the Lord has spoken… the child shall die… for he only of Jeroboam shall be laid in a sepulcher, because in his regard there is found a good word from the Lord the God of Israel… And the Lord God shall strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water; and he shall root up Israel out of this good land… And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who hath sinned, and made Israel to sin…
… the child died, and they buried him. And all Israel mourned for him according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahias the prophet.
And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel. And the days that Jeroboam reigned, were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers: and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
And Roboam the son of Solomon reigned in Juda: Roboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem the city, which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there.
And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed. For they also built them altars, and statures, and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree. They were also the effeminate in the land and they did according to all the abominations of the people whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.
Groves: I believe that “groves” in the true word of God are places where pagan altars and images are displayed, and heathen religious rituals are performed. It is quite clear that many times these places are located outdoors in (or near) a “grove” of trees (http://www.learnthebible.org/groves.html)
Effeminate: (of a man or boy) having traits, tastes, habits, etc., traditionally considered feminine, as softness or delicacy. (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/effeminate?s=t).
And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the king’s treasures, and carried all off; as also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Now the rest of the acts of Roboam, and all that he did, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda. And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam always. And Roboam slept with his fathers… and Abiam his son reigned in his stead.
3 Kings Chapter 15: Abiam’s wicked reign in Juda; Asa succeeds Abiam; Asa’s good reign; War between Asa and Baasa; Josaphat succeeds Asa; Nadab’s wicked reign in Israel; Baasa slays Nadab and becomes king; Baasa’s wicked reign.
Now in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam… Abiam reigned over Juda. He reigned three years in Jerusalem… And he walked in all the sins of his father… and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father… because David had done that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and had not turned aside from any thing that he commanded him, all the days of his life, except the matter of Urias the Hethite. But there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam all the time of his life.
FLASHBACK to Day 105: OT Second Kings C6-12; War and David; Sin & God’s First Parable
David saw from the roof of his house a woman washing herself, over against him: and the woman was very beautiful… that she was Bethsabee… the wife of Urias the Hethite… and David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him, and he slept with her… and she returned to her house having conceived.
David to Joan: Set ye Urias in the front of the battle, where the fight is strongest: and leave ye him that he may be wounded and die… and Urias the Hethite was killed… and Bethsabee mourned for him. And the mourning being over. David sent and brought her into his house, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son…
And this thing which David had done, was displeasing to the Lord.
David to Nathan the prophet: I have sinned against the Lord.
Nathan the prophet to David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt not die. Nevertheless, because thou hast given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, for this thing, the child that is born to thee shall surely die.
And David besought the Lord for the child: and David kept a fast, and going in by himself lay upon the ground.
And it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died. David went into the house of the Lord: and worshiped, and then he came into his own house. And David comforted Bethsabee his wife, and went in unto her, and slept with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon, and the Lord loved him… and called his name, Amiable to the Lord, because the Lord loved him
War and David; sin & God’s first parable… and now Solomon too!
END of FLASHBACK.
And the rest of the words of Abiam, and all that he did, are thy not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? And there was war between Abiam and Jeroboam. And Abiam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, reigned Asa king of Juda, and he reigned one and forty years on Jerusalem.
And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as did David his father. And he took away all the effeminate out of the land, and he removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made… but the high places he did not take away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days, and he brought in the things which his father had dedicated…
And there was war between Asa, and Baasa king of Israel all their days… Then Asa took all the silver and gold that remained in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered it into the hands of his servants; and sent them to Benadad… king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying… I desire thee to come, and break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, that he may depart from me. Benadad hearkening to king Asa, sent the captains of his army against the cities of Israel, and they smote…
But the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his strength, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet. And he slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David his father. And Josaphat his son reigned in his place.
But Hadab the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel the second year of Asa king of Juda: and he reigned over Israel two years. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his father, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin.
And Baasa the son of Ahias (the prophet?)… conspired against him (Nadab), and slew him in Gebbethon… So Baasa slew him (Nadab) in the third year of Asa king of Juda, and reigned in his place. And when he was king he cut off all the house of Jeroboam: he left not so much as one soul of his seed… Bit the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel? And there was war between Asa and Baasa, the king of Israel, all their days.
In the third year of Asa, king of Juda, Baasa the son of Ahias reigned over all Israel… four and twenty years. And he did evil before the Lord, and walked in the ways of Jeroboam, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin.
3 Kings Chapter 16: Jehu’s prophecy against Baasa; Ela succeeds Baasa as king of Israel; Zambri rebels against Ela; Zambri slays all of Baasa’s family; Zambri reigns seven days and kills himself; Amri gains the throne over Thebni; Amri builds Samaria; Amri’s wicked reign over Israel; Achab’s wicked reign over Israel; Josue’s curse fulfilled.
Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu… against Baasa, saying… Behold, I will cut down the posterity of Baasa, and the posterity of his house, and I will make thy house as the house of Jeroboam…
But the rest of the acts of Baasa and all that he did, and his battles, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel? So Baasa slept with his fathers… and Ela his son reigned in his stead. And when the word of the Lord came in the hand of Jehu, the son of Hanani the prophet, against Baasa… for this cause he (Ela?) slew him (Jehu), that is to say, Juhu the son on Hanani the prophet.
In the six and twentieth year of Asa king of Juda, Ela the son of Baasa reigned over Israel… two years. And his servant Zambri… rebelled against him: now Ela was drinking… and drunk in the house of Arsa… And Zambri rushing in, struck him and slew him in the seven and twentieth year of Asa king of Juda, and he reigned in his stead.
And when he (Zambri) was king and sat upon his throne, he slew all the house of Baasa, and he left not one thereof to piss against a wall… according to the word of the Lord, that he had spoken to Baasa in the hand of Jehu the prophet… But the rest of the acts of Ela, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
In the seven and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Zambri reigned seven days… And when they heard that Zambri had rebelled, and slain the king (Ela), all Israel made Armi their king, who was general over Israel in the camp that day… And Zambri seeing that the city was about to be taken, went into the palace and burnt himself with the king’s house: and he died in his sins, which he had sinned, doing evil before the Lord… But the rest of the acts of Zambri, and of his conspiracy and tyranny, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
In the one and thirtieth year of the Asa king of Juda, Amri reigned over Israel twelve years: in Thersa he reigned six years. And he bought the hill of Samaria of Semer… and he built upon it, and he called the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Semer, the owner of the hill.
And Amri did evil in the sight of the Lord, and acted wickedly above all that were before him… And Amri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, and Achab his son reigned in his stead.
Now Achab the son of Amri reigned in the eight and thirtieth year of Asa king of Juda… and reigned over Israel in Samaria two and twenty years… but he also took to wife Jezabel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him… and Achab did more to provoke the Lord the God of Israel, than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho… according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Josue the son of Nun.
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