The Truth and consequences about worshiping other Mighty Ones.
What we do on Earth
will need to be accounted for when man is disciplined for not listening to our Father.
When we commit wrongs
and have been forewarned, this lumps coals upon us in the coming judgment.
Lets look at a
few Truths and consequences, may they help us to make the right decisions.
Truth:
the children of Yisrael did evil in the eyes of YHWH, and served the Ba'als,
and forsook
YHWH Elohim of theirfathers, who had brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim, and went after other
mighty ones, of the mighty ones of the people
who were all around them, and they bowed down to them, and provoked YHWH.
So they forsook YHWH and served
Ba'al and the Ashtoreths. (Judges
2:11-13)
Consequences:
And the displeasure of YHWH burned against Yisrael. Therefore He gave them
into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them. And He sold them into the hands
of their enemies all around, and they were unable
to stand before their enemies any longer. Wherever
they went out, the hand of YHWH was against them for evil, as YHWH had spoken, and as YHWH had sworn to them. And they were distressed greatly. Then
YHWH raised up rulers who saved
them from the hand of those who plundered
them. However, they did not listen to their rulers
either, but went whoring after other mighty ones, and bowed down to
them. They soon turned aside from the way in
which their fathers walked, in obeying the commands of YHWH they did not do
so. And when YHWH raised
up rulers for them,
YHWH was with the ruler and saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days
of the ruler, for YHWH had compassion on their
groaning because of those who oppressed them and crushed them. And it came to be, when the ruler was dead, that they would turn
back and do more corruptly than their fathers, to
go after other mighty ones, to serve them and bow down to
them. They did not refrain from their practices and
from their stubborn way. And the displeasure
of YHWH burned against Yisrael, and He said, Because this
nation has transgressed My covenant that I commanded their fathers,
and has not obeyed My voice, I also shall no longer drive out before
them any of the nations which Yehoshua left
when he died, (Judges 2:14-22)
Truth:
And Shelomoh went after Ashtoreth the mighty one of the Tsidonians,
and after Milkom
the abomination of the Ammonites. Thus
Shelomoh did evil in the eyes of YHWH, and did not follow YHWH completely, like his
father Dawid. 7Then Shelomoh built a high place
for Kemosh the abomination
of Moab, on the hill that is east of Yerushalayim, and for
Molek the abomination of the children of Ammon. And so
he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and slaughtered
to their mighty ones. (1Kings
11:5-9)
Consequences:
Therefore YHWH was enraged with
Shelomoh, because his heart had turned away from
YHWH Elohim of Yisrael, who had appeared to him twice, and had commanded him concerning
this word, not to go after other mighty ones.
But he did not guard what YHWH had commanded. And YHWH said to Shelomoh, Because you have done this, and have not guarded My
covenant and My laws, which I have commanded you, I shall certainly tear the reign
away from you and give it to your servant. Only, I do not do it in your days, for the sake of your father Dawid. Out of the
hand of your son I shall tear it. Only, I shall not tear away all the reign
but give one tribe to your son for the sake of my servant Dawid, and for the sake
of Yerushalayim which I have chosen. (1Kings 11:5-9)
Truth:
Because they have forsaken Me, and bow themselves to Ashtoreth the mighty one
of the Tsidonians, to Kemosh the mighty
one of the Moabites, and to Milkom
the mighty one of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways to
do what is right in My eyes, and My laws and My right-rulings, as did his father Dawid. (1Kings 11:33)
Consequences:
But I do not take all the reign out of his
hand, because I have made him ruler all the
days of his life for the sake of My servant
Dawid, whom I chose because he guarded My commands and My laws. And I
shall take the reign out of his sons hand and
give it to you, the ten tribes.
And to his son I give one tribe, so that My servant Dawid shall
always have a lamp before Me in Yerushalayim, the city
which I have chosen for Myself, to put My Name there. So I take you, and
you shall reign over all that your being desires, and you shall be sovereign
over Yisrael. And it shall be, if you obey all that I command you, and shall
walk in My ways, and do what is right in My eyes, to guard My laws
and My commands, as My servant Dawid
did, then I shall be with you and build for
you a steadfast house, as I built for Dawid, and shall give Yisrael
to you. And because of this I humble the seed of Dawid,
but not forever. And Shelomoh sought to kill Yarob'am, but Yarob'am
rose up and fled to Mitsrayim, to Shishaq sovereign of Mitsrayim,
and was in Mitsrayim until the death of Shelomoh. (1Kings 11:33-41)
