January 29, 2016
King Ahab's Fall
Ahab was the king of Israel in a time where kings ruled Israel and Judah. Before kings ruled these two sister nations, judges had the supreme authority. Ahab made many costly mistakes over the course of his reign. I am convinced that his greatest error was to marry Jezebel (and everything that went along with being married to Jezebel).
When you marry the wrong person, you can set a chain of events in motion that have devastating consequences. Those consequences can and usual do spill over into the lives of other people - in particular people of whom you have control over - family, friends, acquaintances, subordinates, etc.
In 1 Kings 22, we witness the accounting of Ahab's fall in battle. While seated in his chariot, Ahab was struck by an arrow at random. His blood ran out onto the chariot floor. At a pool in Samaria where the harlots bathed, someone washed his chariot and the dogs licked up his blood. Although Ahab received a proper burial in Samaria, I believe the fact that his life blood was washed in the waters of the harlots and licked up by dogs represents his legacy.
Ahab knew and witnessed firsthand the power of God and the powerlessness of the god he commanded his people to serve, Baal. Yet when his wife Jezebel angrily refused to accept what Ahab had seen with his own eyes as the way to go, Ahab allowed what Jezebel wanted to rule the day. Jezebel was buried deep in her hatred for the one true God and ultimately Ahab allowed her hatred to be the controlling influence over his life and how he ruled.
Not one of Ahab's sons or anyone in his family or his friends, acquaintances or anyone else associated with Baal in the kingdom survived with nearly every one of these individuals dying a violent bloody and merciless death. Ahab's legacy speaks for itself in this respect.
Copyright 2016 - Luke Enno
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