A Kingdom Divided
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2/4/26 Big Picture Pt. 37 Divided Monarchy
Recap:
Recap:
Rise of Solomon—Kingdom Established:
TEMPLE-BUILDING PROJECT
GLORIOUS TEMPLE for a GLORIOUS GOD
KINGDOM @ PEACE ALL AROUND…
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D.Q.: What was the significance of Solomon’s rise to the throne? GOD’S FULFILLMENT of DAVIDIC COVENANT-PROMISE.
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Left Off:
BLESSED TIME…
Problem: IT WOULDN’T LAST…
SOME CRACKS in FOUNDATION:
MARRIAGE ALLIANCE W/ PHARAOH’S DAUGHTER
SPENT LONGER on PALACE-BUILDING THAN TEMPLE-BUILDING...
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Transition: TONIGHT—WE’LL SEE WHERE THINGS WENT OFF the RAILS…
LOOK @ ACCOUNT in KINGS…
1 KINGS 11-12… TONIGHT.
READ: 11:1-8
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Text:
Text:
1 Kings 11 (Solomon’s Folly)
1 Kings 11 (Solomon’s Folly)
Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 2 from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. 3 He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. 4 For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6 So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done. 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. 8 And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.
DAMPER—ON TEMPLE-BUILDING PROJECT!
RULE WENT to HIS HEAD—ACCUMULATING 1000 WOMEN! — EVEN MORE FOREIGN WOMEN.
Forbidden: (Kingly Stipulations)
Deuteronomy 17:17 (ESV)📜
17 And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.
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ALSO FORBIDDEN for ALL ISRAELITES…
Deuteronomy 7:3–4 (ESV)📜
3 You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,
4 for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
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EVEN MORE—GOD CHARGED SOLOMON to WALK in FAITHFULNESS...
1 Kings 9:4–5 (ESV)📜
4 And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules,
5 then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’
SOLOMON KNEW BETTER
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CONSEQUENCE: HEART TURNED AWAY
NOT “WHOLLY TRUE” — UNDIVIDED.
Recap: ASA (LIVESTREAM) SAME HB WORD.
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Exhort: GOD HAS NEVER WANTED to SHARE HIS PEOPLE W/ OTHER LOVERS…
Ref: HOSEA—MORNING READING!
WE MUST KEEP OUR HEARTS UNDIVIDED—LIVING FOR HIM ALONE.
Ill.: IMAGINE BUYING NICE GIFT for SPOUSE & THEY SHARE YOU W/ OTHERS!
TEMPLE = NOT SO SPECIAL WHEN HIGH PLACES MADE for CHEMOSH & the REST...
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Transition: TROUBLE on HORIZON…
Read: v9-13
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The Lord Raises Adversaries
The Lord Raises Adversaries
9 And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice 10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the Lord commanded. 11 Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant. 12 Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. 13 However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.”
REMEMBER—GOD VISITED SOLOMON TWICE—YET SOLOMON TURNED AWAY from HIM!
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CONSIDER HOW KIND YAHWEH WAS to SOLOMON:
KINGDOM BY GRACE
WISDOM
RICHES
HONOR
ETC.
NOT ENOUGH to SECURE ALLEGIANCE?!
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Promised Judgment:
KINGDOM TORN
COMING in DAYS of SON
(v13) SURE COVENANTAL HOPE— NOT TAKEN COMPLETELY.
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Transition: CONSEQUENCE—ADVERSARIES RAISED UP…
3X ADVERSARIES TOTAL
LOOK @ FIRST
READ: V14-22
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Hadad the Edomite (v14-22)
Hadad the Edomite (v14-22)
14 And the Lord raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was of the royal house in Edom. 15 For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he struck down every male in Edom 16 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom). 17 But Hadad fled to Egypt, together with certain Edomites of his father’s servants, Hadad still being a little child. 18 They set out from Midian and came to Paran and took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him an allowance of food and gave him land. 19 And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. 20 And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house. And Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh. 21 But when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.” 22 But Pharaoh said to him, “What have you lacked with me that you are now seeking to go to your own country?” And he said to him, “Only let me depart.”
PROBLEMS W/ EDOMITES (SOUTHEAST)
D.Q.: BY WHOSE COMMAND? — GOD (v14)
GOD SOVEREIGN OVER the NATIONS—TURNS the KINGS HEART LIKE STREAMS of WATER…
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Transition: A 2ND ADVERSARY:
Read: v23-25
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Rezon—Syrian (v23-25)
Rezon—Syrian (v23-25)
23 God also raised up as an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer king of Zobah. 24 And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, after the killing by David. And they went to Damascus and lived there and made him king in Damascus. 25 He was an adversary of Israel all the days of Solomon, doing harm as Hadad did. And he loathed Israel and reigned over Syria.
ANOTHER ADVERSARY— SYRIANS (NORTH-EAST)
D.Q.: AGAIN—WHO RAISED UP this GUY? — GOD (v23)
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Conclusion: NOW SOLOMON HAS PROBLEMS (NORTH & SOUTH)
Background: FORMERLY—NATION WAS at PEACE!!
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Exhort: PROSPERITY = GREAT THREAT to SPIRITUALITY…
SOLOMON TOOK PEACE for GRANTED—SO GOD TOOK his PEACE AWAY!
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Transition: FINAL ADVERSARY—FROM WITHIN:
READ: v26-28
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Jeroboam (v26-28)
Jeroboam (v26-28)
26 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king. 27 And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father. 28 The man Jeroboam was very able, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious he gave him charge over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.
JEROBOAM = PROBLEM
FORMERLY IN CHARGE of FORCED LABOR…
Background on Millo: SOME SORT of “TERRACED EARTHWORK” — PART of a RETAINING WALL of SORTS in JERUSALEM
JEROBOAM APPARENTLY REBELLED THEN to SOME EXTENT?
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Transition: FIGHTING CAUSES JEROBOAM to FLEE??
TURN of EVENTS:
READ: v29-33
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Ahijah Prophesies Jeroboam’s Kingship (v29-33)
Ahijah Prophesies Jeroboam’s Kingship (v29-33)
29 And at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had dressed himself in a new garment, and the two of them were alone in the open country. 30 Then Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces. 31 And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and will give you ten tribes 32 (but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel), 33 because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.
NEW PROPHET— PROMISES KINGDOM to JEROBOAM
10 PIECES (TRIBES) to JEROBOAM
1 to SOLOMON’S SON
Clarification: MISSING TRIBE—COULD BE LEVI, or BENJAMIN (WHERE JERUSALEM WAS)
**GIST is SAME** KINGDOM = GOING to SPLIT—MOSTLY FOLLOWING JEROBOAM...
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Takeaway: CONSISTENTLY—CAUSE for SPLIT = ATTRIBUTED to SIN of WORSHIPING OTHER gods...
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Transition: IN MIDST of JUDGMENT—THERE’S HOPE:
READ: v34-40
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Mixed w/ Mercy (v34-40)
Mixed w/ Mercy (v34-40)
34 Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes. 35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand and will give it to you, ten tribes. 36 Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name. 37 And I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel. 38 And if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you. 39 And I will afflict the offspring of David because of this, but not forever.’ ” 40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
1ST THING—SOLOMON WOULDN’T LOSE KINGDOM—DAYS of HIS SON
2ND THING—ONE TRIBE REMAINS W/ DAVID’S DESCENDANTS…
Exhort: LAMP in JERUSALEM — SOMETIMES DIM,, BUT ENDURING— BECAUSE GOD = FAITHFUL!
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(v38) CONDITION to JEROBOAM: THINGS GOOD if YOU REMAIN FAITHFUL!
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(v39) FUTURE HOPE— AFFLICTION WOULDN’T REMAIN FOREVER...
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(v40) PROBLEM: SOLOMON HEARS—SEEKS to KILL JEROBOAM— HE FLEES.
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Transition: SEE the END of SOLOMON’S REIGN…
READ: v41-43
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Solomon’s Death (v41-43)
Solomon’s Death (v41-43)
41 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon? 42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. 43 And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
SOLOMON = GREAT EXAMPLE of STARTING WELL & FINISHING BAD…
KINGDOM NOW TRANSFERRED to REHOBOAM…
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Transition: SEE HOW THAT GOES:
READ: 12:1-5
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1 Kings 12: Rehoboam’s Folly
1 Kings 12: Rehoboam’s Folly
12:1 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. 2 And as soon as Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt. 3 And they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehoboam, 4 “Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you.” 5 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then come again to me.” So the people went away.
CENTRAL CITY GATHERING— NEW KING…
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Request: LOOKING FOR EASIER KING
Background: SOLOMON DIDN’T “ACTUALLY” BUILD TEMPLE—HE COMMISSIONED IT!
TEMPLE = GOOD THING...
BUT PEOPLE DESIRED REST…
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Transition: HE SAYS GIVE HIM THREE DAYS—THEN THEY’LL SEE…
READ: (v6-11)
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Rehoboam Seeks Counsel (v6-11)
Rehoboam Seeks Counsel (v6-11)
6 Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?” 7 And they said to him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.” 8 But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him. 9 And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?” 10 And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,’ thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s thighs. 11 And now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’ ”
REHOBOAM SEEKS COUNSEL—GOOD THING.
Proverbs 11:14 (ESV)📜
14 Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
TRUE—AS LONG as YOUR COUNSELORS ARE WISE!
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2 Groups:
OLDER MEN—SOLOMON’S PEERS—LIGHTEN the LOAD
YOUNGER MEN—REHOBOAM’S PEERS—MAKE IT HEAVIER.
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REHOBOAM DIDN’T WANT to SERVE BUT BE SERVED
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Transition: WE’LL SEE HOW THIS TURNS OUT...
READ: v12-15
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Rehoboam Answers the People (v12-15)
Rehoboam Answers the People (v12-15)
12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, “Come to me again the third day.” 13 And the king answered the people harshly, and forsaking the counsel that the old men had given him, 14 he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.” 15 So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the Lord that he might fulfill his word, which the Lord spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
FASCINATING TOPIC: DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY & HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY…
D.Q.: WHOSE FAULT WAS THIS? REHOBOAM—HE’S a BLOCKHEAD!
D.Q.: WHOSE PURPOSE WAS IT? YAHWEH’S.
GOD FULFILLED HIS WORD THROUGH FOOLISH KING.
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Transition: We’ll SEE THAT WORD FULFILLED:
READ: v16-20
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The Kingdom Divided
The Kingdom Divided
16 And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, “What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David.” So Israel went to their tents. 17 But Rehoboam reigned over the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah. 18 Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam hurried to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem. 19 So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day. 20 And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Judah only.
ISRAEL RESPONDS W/ REBELLION.
MAKE JEROBOAM KING OVER NORTH
***See P.P. Pic for GEOGRAPHY***
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Big Picture: DIVIDED MONARCHY—IMPORTANT TIME…
WILL REMAIN SEPARATE UNTIL CONQUEST (ASSYRIA & BABYLON)
**SEE MORE a BIT LATER ON**
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Transition: REHOBOAM ISN’T THRILLED W/ KINGDOM SPLIT...
Read: v21-24
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Rehoboam Tries to Consolidate Power (v21-24)
Rehoboam Tries to Consolidate Power (v21-24)
21 When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. 22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God: 23 “Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, 24 ‘Thus says the Lord, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives the people of Israel. Every man return to his home, for this thing is from me.’ ” So they listened to the word of the Lord and went home again, according to the word of the Lord.
CONSEQUENCES = TOUGH—BUT IT WAS GOD’S WILL…
Another Prophet: Shemaiah— SAYS LEAVE THEM GO…
(v24) THIS THING is FROM ME…
=> WE DON’T LIKE CONSEQUENCES,, BUT SOMETIMES THEY’RE IRREVOCABLE…
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Transition: TEXT WILL CLOSE— W/ LOOK @ NORTH…
Read: v25-33
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Jeroboam’s Golden Calves
Jeroboam’s Golden Calves
25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And he went out from there and built Penuel. 26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will turn back to the house of David. 27 If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.” 28 So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.” 29 And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. 30 Then this thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one. 31 He also made temples on high places and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites. 32 And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made. 33 He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar to make offerings.
FOLLY of JEROBOAM…
(v26-27) HE WAS FEARFUL of THE PEOPLE TURNING BACK to REHOBOAM…
D.Q.: WHY WAS THAT FEAR UNMERITED? KINGDOM SPLIT WAS GOD’S WORK—HE PROMISED JEROBOAM the NORTH!
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UNFORTUNATELY—MORE FOOLISH COUNSEL— IDOLS ARE SET UP in DAN (NORTH) & BETHEL (SOUTH)
Background: LIKE AARON—GOLDEN CALF— The high god of the Canaanite pantheon, El, is frequently called “the bull” in ancient texts from Ugarit in Syria, and his son Baal-Hadad (the biblical Baal) is himself also represented as a bull. [1]
LIKE SOLOMON—PRODUCT of CULTURE—NOT DIVINE DECREE…
ALL MANMADE RELIGION—HIS OWN PLANS & SETUP...
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Lasting Effects/Big Picture:
Lasting Effects/Big Picture:
Takeaway: TODAY’S TEXT INTRODUCED — DIVIDED KINGDOM—very important, tumultuous time.
GOD CONSISTENTLY SHOWCASES HIS FAITHFULNESS to KEEP HIS PROMISE (BLESSING & CURSE)
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***SEE P.P. PIC***
WICKED KINGS in ISRAEL— ENDS in ASSYRIAN EXILE in 722 B.C.
50/50 in Judah… ENDS in BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY in 586 B.C....
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Conclusion: CONSISTENT SHORTCOMING of EARTHLY KINGS...
REMIND US WHY WE NEED a HEAVENLY ONE…
JESUS CHRIST = the SON of DAVID,,
REIGNING on the THRONE
—THE ONE WE NEED. WHOSE KINGDOM WILL NEVER END!
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Takeaways/Application:
Takeaways/Application:
1. GOD DESIRES to REIGN SUPREME in the HEARTS of HIS PEOPLE.
Tragic Irony: Proverbs 4:23 (ESV)
23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.📜
IS YOUR HEART UNDIVIDED?
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2. ACTIONS CAN HAVE CONSEQUENCES…
EVEN FORGIVEN SIN CAN HAVE LASTING CONSEQUENCES...
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3. GOD is FAITHFUL to HIS PROMISE…
DESPITE SOLOMON’S REBELLION
DESPITE REHOBOAM’S FOLLY
DAVIDIC KING STILL ENTHRONED...
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Conclusion:
NO HUMAN REBELLION or FOOLISHNESS CAN UNDO GOD’S PLANS!
THE SON of DAVID REIGNS on HIGH
& WITH THIS… WE CAN HAVE HOPE
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Closing Questions/Thoughts???
!! Close in Prayer!!
