JOTS FROM OLD JAKE
What goes around comes around!
Monday, Oct. 22, 2007 - 2:37 p.m.
This is a modern term which is actually scriptural. Maybe not in exact context but in lessons taught. Take for instance Ahab the King of Israel and his wife, the most, wicked Jezebel: Ahab saw a vineyard that he thought he needed more than the person who had inherited from his father and grand fathers. Ahab went and had a talk with this man, 1 Kings 21:2-3 (KJV) And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money. And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
A person would think that Ahab being the �Great King� would act mature� but not so� he went home and crawled into his bed and had his little �spoiled brat tantrum!� 1 Kings 21:4 (KJV) And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
Hmmm well now is the time to tell King Ahab to dial 1-800-waaaaanh. But to his rescue came his wicked wife, Jezebel! She told him, �now, now there baby, don�t worry, I will get it for you!� And so she did. But wait! Was it worth it?
Ole Jezzie� pulled one of her evil tactics and spread rumors about Naboth to the citizenry of renown which ended up with Naboth being stoned to death. Now the vineyard was available for King to take possession. When she told her husband/king it was available and that he should go down and take possession, which he did.
Ok that was the goes around� now the come around: The Lord called upon Elijah to go talk to Ahab who was in the vineyard in the process of possessing it. 1 Kings 21:19 (KJV) And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
Galatians 6:7 (KJV)Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
The message continues: 1 Kings 21:21-22 (KJV) Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.
The message was not over yet� How about the one who stirred up all of this evil mess� 1 Kings 21:23 (KJV) And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
It goes without saying that both of these judgments came to pass.
VERSE FOR THIS ENTRY!
Job 11:18-19 (KJV) And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety. Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
ULTERIOR WORDS OF WISDOM� OR/NOT!
It has been said that a true test of character is how we behave when we don�t know what to do!
May you be filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit!
