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October 29, 2016 at 8:37 am #2887

Gary

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Thank you. Yes, this story has many lessons in it. Abijah was as true as he could be to the highest sense of right at the time. He had compassion for his Israelite cousins/brethren who were attacking him. He even warned them about attacking him, that they were attacking the Lord God, and that they would not prosper. But they did not heed the warning.

Jeroboam, on the other hand, was rebellious. He rebelled against God’s plan for the Israelites. He gained power through deception. And the fact that the Israelites accepted him as their king showed where their thought was. Not a good place.

I couldn’t help but think of the parallel for us today. We prosper when we elect representatives who write laws that are consistent with God’s plan for us, and who will enforce those laws. We fail when we elect representatives who write oppressive laws and/or fail to enforce God-ordained laws. And it requires clear spiritual sense to see the difference. Apparently there was enough spiritual sense in Judah for them to prevail against the materialism, deception, and corruption that was prevalent in Israel at that time.