Who will entice Ahab?

  

1 Kings 22:20-28

 

August 9, 2021

 

 

 ^“And the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another.   Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’  And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’   Now therefore behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the Lord has declared disaster for you.”

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “How did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?”   And Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.”   And the king of Israel said, “Seize Micaiah, and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son, and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in prison and feed him meager rations of bread and water, until I come in peace.”  And Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Hear, all you peoples!”

The above is what God told Micaiah his prophet to tell Ahab.  The king had many a person put in prison or killed for much less, yet Micaiah comes across as being fearless.  Could it be as simple as he feared God more than he feared the king?  All the king could do was take his life, but when one is like an Ahab with little fear of God it and eternal punishment in the place God calls hell.  

 

Do you understand the ramification of what Micaiah is saying in this verse; “If you return in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me?” And he said, “Hear, all you peoples!”

If Ahab returned Micaiah was not a prophet of God but a false, prophet and was to be put to death.  That brings up a question for each of us to ponder, are we willing to put our life on the line for the promise and word of God?

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice