Jeroboam

Here beginneth the 16th chapter of the book of 1 Kings.

And the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins, behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the heavens shall eat.

Now the rest of the acts of Baasha and what he did and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? And Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried at Tirzah, and Elah his son reigned in his place.

Moreover, the word of the Lord came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, and being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he destroyed it.

In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel and Tirzah, and he reigned two years.

But his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him.

Therefore all Israel made Amri the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.

God will decide.

God brought Jeroboam back, as we were saying for four years.

I mentioned in class this morning, going through the love chapter and how, you know, Paul said their prophecies are going to be fulfilled at some point, but love remains.

God's love remains.

Cross-reference 1 Samuel 13.14 Far from it.

He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam, which he had caused Israel to commit.

The lesson is important.

Not even divine prophecy frees a person from the obligations of morality, integrity, and loyal and obedient faith in God.

He does not lighten the load on the people, and there is a revolt, there is rebellion.

And Jeroboam takes ten tribes to the north, which are now called Israel.

And then he, Rehoboam, leads the southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin.

And what we find is that things start to deteriorate.

Worship is now made too convenient, and it begins to get polluted.

1 Kings 12, verses 25 and following.

Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there.

From there he went out and built Penuel.

For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every meal, bond or free, in Israel.

And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Basha the son of Ahijah, and the dog shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.

Then he opened the door and fled.

When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, they said to him, Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you? And he said to them, You know the fellow and his talk.

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commandment is exceedingly broad.

A reading from Hosea The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel.

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of Hordom, and have children of Hordom, for the land commits great Hordom by forsaking the Lord.

Judah and Benjamin.

Jeroboam is in the north with 10 tribes.

Second, Chronicles 13.9 says this.

Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord? Because the loyal Levites left Israel and went up, northern kingdom of Israel, they went to Jerusalem.

Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, and made for yourselves priests like the people of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, even he may become a priest of what are no gods.

So Jeroboam allowed anyone who would offer a bull and seven rams to obtain the title of a priest.

Today, anyone who simply decides to go to a specific religion seminary can receive the title of priest.

And not only that, keep that title no matter how they live their life.

And he's under the oppression of Hazel, king of Aram, and Ben-Hadad, his son.

And we learn that he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, following the sins of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit.

And he did not turn away from them.

These sins relate to the synchronistic religious practices that were introduced by Jeroboam, who was the first king of the northern kingdom.

And he was politically motivated to want to keep the people traveling to Jerusalem, down to the southern kingdom of Judah, to worship at the temple.

You know, he was worried about their loyalty that You know, if they traveled down there, then their loyalty would return to King Rehoboam, who ruled the southern tribe of Judah.

And here we observe the time loop.

And a similar story is repeated for King Jehoash.

Amen? And that became a great sin to Israel.

Right? The sin of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, is mentioned over and over again.

Why make a new religion? Why make some kind of a new commandment where God says, okay, it's okay for you.

You don't have to do what I said.

See, what he wanted was a righteous, holy people.

And you'll go online and you'll see people going on and on about keeping the Sabbath day or not eating pork or, right? Nothing about what actually gets you saved or the revelation of Jesus Christ, right? nothing about what that stuff actually means right so he's talking to ephraim and there's a word for it where a word that means the majority kind of covers the people i was studying this last night right ephraim and manasseh were the two children of joseph right if you go back to genesis And he calls them Ephraim.

Well, Ephraim was Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the first king of the northern kingdom, was in Ephraim.

Ephraim was the ruling class at this time.

And I will cut off from Ahab every male, born of free in Israel.

And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha, the son of Ahijah.

And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.

Then he opened the door and fled.

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commandment is exceedingly broad.

A reading from the book of Hosea.

The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beiri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotam, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel.

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of Wodom, and have children of Wodom, for the land commits great Wodom by forsaking the Lord.