The Great Divide

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The Great Divide
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The New King and more civil war

• Solomon tries to kill Jeroboam (1140)
• Escapes to Egypt
• Solomon is dead, eldest son is enthroned
• Rehoboam to be made king
• Jeroboam returns
• People complain about Solomons rule (12)
• Oppressive, heavy yoke
• People request that Rehoboam lighten up
• If he does the people will follow him
• Rehoboam needs time to think

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Wise Counsel

• Rehoboam seeks counsel from the elders
• Their advice lighten the load, serve the people
• Friends advice
• Stick it to them
• Show them who is boss and that you are even
  greater than your father and grand father.

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Peoples reaction

• Rebellion
• Turn away from Rehoboam and enthrone Jeroboam
  instead
• All tribes except for Judah
• God tells the prophet to tell Rehoboam not to
  fight against Israel.
• This thing is from me (1221)

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Jeroboams fear (1225)

• Jeroboam who has been called by God to be king is
  afraid his position will be taken from him.
• Freely given, freely taken away
• The philosophy of David
• Others held on too tight
• Found identity in position
• A new place to worship
• If the people go to Jerusalem to sacrifice they
  will return to Rehoboam
• Creates an imitation
• Location
• Idol
• Same old sin different day

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Stumbling block for all the people

• Golden Calves how unoriginal
• False houses of worship
• False Priest
• Not Levites
• Imitation Festivals
• Leader used imitation to control the people
• Leading them into sin?
• Does this happen today?

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Jeroboams Judgment

• Jeroboam is sick (14)
• Sends his wife to talk to the old prophet Ahijah.
• Prophet tells her the word of the Lord
• (I Kings 14 7)
• I have made you king
• But you have done what is evil in my sight
• You and your family are done

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Something to ponderWho is your favorite
character we have covered so far and why?
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The book of Kings (I II)

• Bad King
• Did what is evil in the sight of the Lord
• Was like Jeroboam
• Good King
• Did what was right in the eyes of the Lord
• Was like David

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II Kings

• Israel Captured by Assyria and the exile begins
  (II Kings 17) 722 BC
• As punishment for continual rejection of the Lord
  and his ways
• Multiple warnings
• Israel tries to strike up a deal with Assyrian
  King
• Israels king becomes a yes man for Assyrian king
• Hoshea makes side deal with Egypt and ticks off
  Assyrian King.
• Assyrians occupy and dilute Israel
• Carry off the people
• Lord sends Lions
• Assyria brings back some of the Priest
• Worship of God

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Babylonian Captivity

• Judea goes through cycle of bad kings and good
  kings (587)
• The heart of the leader heart of the followers
• King Nebuchadnezzar conquers Judah
• Carries off treasure
• Carries off people
• Replaces king
• Jehoiachins Uncle
• Changed his name

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Turn to I Kings 1415-16
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Fall of Judah

• The new Pseudo-King Zedekiah rebels
• King Nebuchadnezzar occupies Judah(25)
• Slaughtered the kings sons
• Gauged out the kings eyes
• Burnt the House of the Lord and the kings
  palace. (2413)
• Loss of land
• Loss of identity
• Loss of Gods presence
• Israel and Judah nations in exiles

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Lets back up

• The role of the prophet in pre-exilic times
• Woe
• Return to following the Lord
• Wow
• Things are going to get really bad
• But the Lord will redeem you
• Because of His faithfulness
• Viewed as outlaws
• Crazies calling for social and religious change

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Major issues

• Rejection of God
• Worship
• Statues
• Worshipping false gods
• Oppression of the people
• Rich getting richer
• Poor getting poorer

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Life Lessons From A 5 Year Old
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Introducing Elijah

• Elijah
• Reign of Ahab (1629)
• Worse than all the other kings
• Married Jezebel
• Worship baal
• Rebuilt the Walls of Jericho
• At the cost his sons lives
• Word of the Lord
• No more rain
• Yet God provided for him through the Wadi and the
  Widow
• Go to Ahab
• Foreshadowing of 184

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Troubler of Israel

• Visit to the widows house
• Miracles
• Sends a message to Ahab through Obediah (18)
• I am here and have a word for you
• Ahab wants to kill Elijah
• Ahab get ready for a show down on the top of Mt.
  Carmel
• Assemble the people
• Get your priest 450 of Baal and 400 of Asherah
• The prophetic call to return to the Lord
• Limping with two opinions

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The showdown

• Elijah against King Ahab and the 850 priests of
  false gods
• Two bulls on the alter no fire
• Call on your god to send down fire and burn the
  offering
• No answer from Baal or Asherah
• Elijah mocks them
• Elijah builds and alter
• Twelve tribes
• Trench
• Fill it with water ( a valued commodity)

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Calls on the Lord

• Elijah prays and God sends fire to consume the
  offering and everything around it.
• Seize the prophets
• The people kill them
• Drought ends
• Ahab goes home and tells his wife
• Threatens to kill Elijah and he flees
• Why?

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Between Mountains

• He was afraid and fled to the wilderness
• Fell a sleep
• Angel provided sustenance for him twice
• A meal good enough to sustain him for forty days
  and nights
• Mount Horab to meet with God
• Lord asks a question
• What are you doing here?
• I alone am left
• Go out on the mountain and I will pass by
• Windnope
• Earthquakenope
• Firelike last timenope
• In the whisperyep

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Elijah is not alone

• Obadiah's 100 hidden prophets

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Prophets Amos
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Amos

• Shepherd called by God
• Israel (northern kingdom)
• Situation
• Prosperity leads to oppression
• Only trumped by Solomon's reign
• Israel and Judah who were once oppressed now
  become oppressors.
• Nobility and Merchants
• Wealthy Ruling class

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Amos

• The Lord roars
• Pastures wither
• Mt Carmel dries up
• Surrounding Nations rebuked
• Wrath moves closer to home

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Amos

• Judgment moves closer to home (2.4)
• Judah
• Rejected law
• Repeated sin
• Israel (2.6)
• Sells the righteous
• Trample poor
• Sexual Perversion
• Arouse the Lust of Canaanite Baal
• Idolatry
• Reminder of Gods faithfulness
• Rebukes their faithlessness
• Cant hide from judgment

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Amos

• Israel rejects correction
• You only have I know (3)
• The image of Marriage Faithfulness
• Yet you are an unfaithful bride
• The Warning
• An adversary
• God uses the wicked to carry out His will
• God will spare just enough for historical evidence

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Amos

• Cows of Bashan (4.1)
• Yet You did not return (4.7-11)
• Prepare to meet your Maker (412)
• Lament
• Seek the Lord and live (5.1-15)
• Redemption amidst the Wrath
• Hatred of their worship (5.21-25)
• Heartless ritual

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Amos

• Harsh punishment
• Anger at the rich (6.4-7)
• Gods concern with poverty
• Raises up a nation as means of judgment (6.14)
• Three strikes your out (7)
• Amoss three visions

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Amos

• Conversations with God
• Prayer for mercy
• Plumb line
• I will rise against the House of Jeroboam with a
  sword. (7.9)
• Attacks on Amos (7.10-17
• Go home
• Oh yeah
• Wrath on Amaziah

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Amos

• Basket of Fruit
• See notes
• Destruction
• The end is coming
• If will not forget your deeds
• Feast into mourning
• Songs in to Lamantations
• The eyes of the Lord on the sinfuland will
  destroy them
• Restoration
• For the glory of the Lord and the promise to
  David
• Justice for the poor (9.13)
• Return fortunes and rebuild city

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Isaiah

• Prophet of Judgment, comfort and hope
• Continuing of oppression
• Worship thriving yet only in practice (Isaiah 58)

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The Book The Man The Message

• The Book (Isaiah as literature)
• Scholars believe is actually a compilation of
  prophets.
• From the school of Isaiah
• Before Exile
• During Exile
• After Exile
• Turn to page 957
• Outline of the three works

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Isaiah

• The Time period of Isaiah
• Reign of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah
• The Man (Call of Isaiah) Chapter 6
• Saw the Lord in the Temple
• Unfit
• Purified
• Sent out
• Preach to a people who would not listen
• The holy seed/stump

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Isaiah

• Second Isaiah (Exile)
• Unnamed prophet
• Compassion ch.40
• Hope
• Servant of the Lord
• Conquering ch. 45
• Suffering ch 5213-53 12
• Anointed ch. 61

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Isaiah

• Character of Yahweh
• Holy One of Israel
• Savior 1710
• Redeemer 431,14
• Supreme Ruler
• Spirit of Yahweh
• Poured out
• Rest upon
• Isaiah 611-4
• Merciful
• Ch. 65

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Messianic Prophesy

• Gospel of Isaiah
• Many prophesies about the Messiah
• Who would restore Israel
• http//biblia.com/jesusbible/isaiah2.htm

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Ezekiel

• Weird practices
• Shaving half of his body
• Cooking with animal dung
• Laying on one side for a year

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Ezekiel

• Redemption of Israel for His own glory
• 3622-3714
• New spirit
• New heart
• Land

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Ezekiel

• Dry Bones
• Life from death
• Restoration
• You shall know that I am God

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• Intro to the Psalms
  
• Psalms 1, 23, 51, 73 and 90
• Proverbs 1-4
• Ecclesiastes 1-7 12
• Song of Solomon