u ( 4 ) m a d e I s r a e l sin. whom he should have corrected, (5) provoked Je- hovah whom he should have placated. His progeny was doomed and his career two years, and was cut down m a two Ug vea s° * * * * *
through their t h r o a t ," Psa 115 -M 7 They can not help if Vou worship - they can not hurt if you destroTthem o7r social idols, < < vanities, " are lusts ' mon- P JaCe ' P°™ r - P 1 " « ' plays dances, cards, pipes, cups, etc., etc. There Is
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er, but he himself was ready for harv- est in " s e v en days in T i r z a h" v. 15, but long enough to get his record in the Book, 16:20. Zimri was a murderer, but unwittingly God's executioner of the doomed house of Baasha, vs. 12, 13. He became a suicide yet again, executed the sentence of God. , He compassed his own death, as does every sinner; he 3 g lighted also his everlasting burning, vv. 18, 19. What can ,you do with a Judge who makes a man his own accuser, Rom. ¿:l-, his own sheriff, his own execu- tioner, and the builder of his own eter- nal fire. Men are not sent to hell, they go there. 4. Omri next went forth to w a s the heaviest crop so far. He did Worse than all ,before h i m ," v. ¿5. He made a wise selection for a guying the hill of Shemer he built thereon Samaria, infamous as the seat of a wicked kingdom, famous^as the home of the Good Samaritan. Its site was almost impregnable, but what citadel can stand without God for its voked the Lord to anger with their Í r ü n ^ e r x ° m n l 8 r a . e I pr °" capital
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^ A h a b f l o w e d Nadab, Baasha, Elah, Zimri, Baasha, Omri. Asa out- reigned all but the latter These all " s l e pt with their f a t h e r s" who, if we bed-fellows, destined to very troubled slumbers, and to a dread awakening They say men make their beds and mast K v l1 above all betore T h l s is the way of sin—worse' and worse. Like Ezekiel's river it is at " t h e ankles," " t h e knees " " t h e. loins,"- Eze. 47:1-5, and then it is wa- ters to drown in. 3. He was not eon- i tent with Jeroboam's calves. He went over the borders for the most vile and vicious Syrian abomination. He yoked J up with a wicked companion, and linked hiirself with the synonym of feminine infamy Jezebel! They drew the chariot o f B a a l a t d Estarte, male and female • deities of all that is imaginable of the lusts, meannesses and cruelty of the Baal and Ashtoreth, Ahab and Jezebel, demons out of the flesh and demons in it. They built a house for B a a l , adorned it With the emblems of his worship, served him with all their h l m - ' ' flesh. i j. :„ 0 2 - u r i i. ' » t h e m ; -¡„¿„o yS t M ™ 7 t h e 8 0 n S ' w e r e «"desirable
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to kindle it. The false gods are called Because they are nothing. hearts, if they had any. We shall hear There is no help in them, " E y e s have .of them again. Whatsoever a man or they, but they see not, noses have they, people sow they reap. The full harvest but they smell not, neither speak they was not, and is not yet. Pith and Pivot- T. C. H. We are studying the history of the two Kingdoms, and seeing them in contrast and comparison. Israel is before us with her wicked Kings. We are viewing the Kingdom through the eyes of God as He records her condition. Human historians neVer faithfully depict the real estate of affairs. We look at our great nation and we see it as Daniel saw the head of gold in the great national Col- vanities.
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