LIFE LESSON FOR TODAY, 7/30/14

PAINTING: QUEEN JEZEBEL BEING PUNISHED BY JEHU

BY ANDREA CELESTI- 17TH CENTURY





On 7/29/14 I shared scriptures which showed how Jezebel  usurped her power as King Ahab's wife.She did many evil things.  King Ahab's down fall was that  he worshiped another  god and he allowed his wife 
to have prophets killed.  

Today, I will share what happened to King Ahab and Jezebel.  Their evil doings did come to an end!


LIFE LESSON:

THE LORD SENDS ELIJAH TO TELL KING AHAB HOW HE AND JEZEBEL WILL BE PUNISHED FOR THEIR EVIL DOINGS.

1 KING  21:18-24

¹⁸  “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who lives in Samaria. There he is, in the vineyard of Naboth,where he has gone down to take possession of it. 
¹⁹ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Have you murdered and also taken possession?”’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick your blood, even yours.”’”
²⁰ So Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?”
And he answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the Lord: ²¹   ‘Behold, I will bring calamity on you.  I will take away your posterity, and will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both bond and free. 
²² I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and made Israel sin.’ ²³ And concerning Jezebel the Lord also spoke, saying, ‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’  
²⁴ The dogs shall eat whoever belongs to Ahab and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field.”

LIFE LESSON: 

KING AHAB REPENTS AND HUMBLES HIMSELF.

1 KINGS 21: 25-29

²⁵ But there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the Lord, because Jezebel his wife stirred him up.  
²⁶ And he behaved very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
²⁷ So it was, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about mourning.
²⁸ And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
²⁹ “See how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity in his days. In the days of his son I will bring the calamity on his house.”


LIFE LESSON:

KING AHAB IS KILLED IN BATTLE


1 KINGS 22:35, 37, 39-40


 ³⁵ The battle increased that day; and the king was propped up in his chariot, facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out from the wound onto the floor of the chariot.

 ³⁷ So the king died, and was brought to Samaria. And they buried the king in Samaria. 

³⁹ Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, the ivory house which he built and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 
⁴⁰ So Ahab rested with his fathers. Then Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

 

LIFE LESSON:


MORE EXAMPLES OF JEZEBEL'S EVIL DOINGS:

2 Kings 9:22

Now it happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?”
So he answered, “What peace, as long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft are so many?”

REVELATION  2:18-20

¹⁸ “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write,
‘These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass:  
¹⁹ “I know your works, love, service, faith,^] and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first. 
 ²⁰ Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce^.   My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

LIFE LESSON:

JEZEBEL DIES A HORRIBLE DEATH. SHE IS THROWN OUT OF A WINDOW.


2 KINGS 9: 30-37

³⁰ Now when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she put paint on her eyes and adorned her head, and looked through a window.  
³¹ Then, as Jehu entered at the gate, she said, “Is it peace, Zimri, murderer of your master?”
³² And he looked up at the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” So two or three eunuchs looked out at him.  
³³ Then he said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses; and he trampled her underfoot.  
³⁴ And when he had gone in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “Go now, see to this accursed woman, and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.”
 ³⁵ So they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.  
³⁶ Therefore they came back and told him. And he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel; ³⁷ and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as refuse on the surface of the field, in the plot at Jezreel, so that they shall not say, “Here lies Jezebel.”’”