"Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me./And the word of theLordcame unto me, saying,/Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?" (vv.1-3)
Here we have the significance of a stumbling block in the history of Israel. It is their sin becoming obvious. In the case of the golden calf what was their sin? It became established along with their rejection of Judges appointed by God. God allowed Old Samuel to agree to their wishes and choose a king from their midst. Instead of God leading them they were led by kings both good and evil. Only when Jeroboam became the king of the Northern kingdom the people came to realize what really was taking place in their national lives. The golden calf they had repudiated once as evil became their gods.. "After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he becameoneof the priests of the high places(1 Ki.13:33)".In the next verse we are shown what it is to reject the living God for an idol. It removed even the memory of his house from the face of the earth. This we even now find happening around us where nations by making wealth above the wellbeing of the nation are made a byword for their foolishness. "And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cutitoff, and to destroyitfrom off the face of the earth(v.34).
God sent Ahijah the Shilonite to pronounce the doom for the royal house,"Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall,andhim that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone(1 Ki.14:10)".
"Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me./And the word of theLordcame unto me, saying,/Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?" (vv.1-3)
Here we have the significance of a stumbling block in the history of Israel. It is their sin becoming obvious. In the case of the golden calf what was their sin? It became established along with their rejection of Judges appointed by God. God allowed Old Samuel to agree to their wishes and choose a king from their midst. Instead of God leading them they were led by kings both good and evil. Only when Jeroboam became the king of the Northern kingdom the people came to realize what really was taking place in their national lives. The golden calf they had repudiated once as evil became their gods.. "After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he becameoneof the priests of the high places(1 Ki.13:33)".In the next verse we are shown what it is to reject the living God for an idol. It removed even the memory of his house from the face of the earth. This we even now find happening around us where nations by making wealth above the wellbeing of the nation are made a byword for their foolishness. "And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cutitoff, and to destroyitfrom off the face of the earth(v.34).
God sent Ahijah the Shilonite to pronounce the doom for the royal house,"Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall,andhim that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone(1 Ki.14:10)".
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