Walt Disney seemed
to be fascinated with evil women---evil queens, step-mothers and witches, i.e.
Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, The Little
Mermaid, but there were evil queens in the Bible.
Have
an evil ruler? Dealing with terrorists or Jihad? Call the Navy Seals or
the Men of Valor. In the Bible, the prophet anointed Jehu to take care of
the evil rulers, Ahab and Jezebel, King
Joram, and Ahaziah, king of Judah. I have a hard time
understanding parts of the Bible until I watched this movie recently, “Men of
Valor.” I did not really care for the movie violence very much, but it
does help me understand that to take out terrorists, or an evil ruler in this
world, we need our Navy Seals or men of Valor and God had his men of valor.
David
sort of reminds me of the Indian savages as far as how many scalps did you get
today honey? For the princess hand, Micah, he had to get fifty
Philistines foreskins. Come and look at my trophies on the wall----I
don’t think I would be hanging up those foreskin trophies!
David and his men went out and killed
two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented the full
number to the king so that he might become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul
gave him his daughter Michal in marriage. 1 Samuel 18:27
Saul
was not making good his promise (word) to give the person who slayed Goliath
his daughter, but it may be that Saul forgot where he came from (his humble
abode) and despised that David was a shepherd boy. Actually, I am not
surprised that Saul did not keep his word. I heard a long time ago, if we
don’t keep our word than we will fail to be able to understand how God keeps
his word and we see that Saul had much difficulty in keeping God’s commands or
his word as his commander and chief, besides failing to keep his own word.
And the men of
Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to
defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches
and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel.”
1 Samuel 17:25
I
am so glad they have changed over to dog tag recognition system instead of the
foreskin or scalps. I ordered the last series of Battlestar Galactic
DVD’s, and they gave me some dog tags. They used to brag in the series
about Cylon kills on their X-wing fighter planes. I would brag about
killing demons, since I am in a spiritual warfare, but I don’t think sending
them into a pig, actually gets rid of them.
Paul
and Jesus are my example of the demon fighters. Paul casted out a spirit
of divination – which was giving her master’s much gain from her predicting the
future. She had a real gift of fortune telling, but it was not from God.
I would suggest that you not go to a fortune teller (even just for fun) because
you can bring the enemy’s oppression on your life. Paul casted the
familiar spirit out when he was annoyed. Gee, what a great example of
doing something positive when he was annoyed/exasperated! I was so
annoyed at my daughter for locking me out in the cold of my house when she had
one of my keys, I started driving and picked up this girl walking on the side
of the road in the dark who could use a ride. I thought I would use my
anger in a “constructive” way rather than a destructive way. It was
because I could not reach her by cell phone and I did not know where she was
for about an hour while I was waiting outside my house.
This girl followed Paul and the rest of
us, shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who are
telling you the way to be saved." She kept this up for many days.
Finally Paul became so troubled (exasperated) that he turned around and
said to the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out
of her!" At that moment the spirit left her. Acts 16:17-18
The first wicked queen was
Jezebel. Such a ferrous king was anointed to take care of the Jezebel
problem that when Elisha told his protégée to go anoint him – he said to open
the door and then run (run as fast as you can).
2 King 9: 1-3:
And
Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him,
“Then take the flask of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Thus
says the Lord: “I have anointed
you king over Israel.” ’ Then open the door and flee, and do not delay.”
We
might imagine that Elisha gave this prophet this duty as a class assignment.
And he poured the oil on his head, and said to him,
“Thus says the Lord God of
Israel: ‘I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel. You shall strike
down the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My
servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezebel. For the
whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab all the males in
Israel, both bond and free. So I will make the house of Ahab like the house of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah. The
dogs shall eat Jezebel on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and there
shall be none to bury her.’ ” And he opened the door and fled.
I like to watch the history
channel about how the soldiers had to walk for miles and by the time they
reached the battle they were all worn out from marching with the heavy
armor. Now they just parachute to the location by helicopter or planes,
but Jehu had a chariot and reputation by the way he drove his chariot!
(So the watchman reported, saying, “He went up to them and is not coming back;
and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for
he drives furiously!”)
Now
when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she put paint on
her eyes and adorned her head, and looked through a window. Then, as Jehu
entered at the gate, she said, “Is it peace, Zimri, murderer of your
master?” And he looked up at the window, and said, “Who is on my side?
Who?” So two or three eunuchs looked out at him. Then he said, “Throw
her down.” So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered on
the wall and on the horses; and he trampled her underfoot. And when he had gone
in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “Go now, see to this accursed woman, and
bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.” So they went to bury her, but they
found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
Therefore they came back and told him. And he said, “This is the word of
the Lord, which He spoke by His
servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel
dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel; and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as
refuse on the surface of the field, in the plot at Jezreel, so that they shall
not say, “Here lies Jezebel.” ’ ”
(21-24) Jehu kills King Joram; (27-29) Jehu also
kills Ahaziah, king of Judah.
The next evil
queen was Herodias. It says that she nursed a grudge against John the
Baptist since he told her that living with her husband’s brother was
wrong. (Mark 6:19-28). From nursing the grudge, she visioned John’s
head on a platter and eventually got it. John the Baptist had a prophet’s
ministry and so did Elijah. I’m not sure what happened to Herodias, but
we know what happened to Herod:
On
the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and
delivered a public address to the people. They shouted, "This is the voice
of a god, not of a man." Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to
God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
Acts 12:21-23
Those with a
prophet’s ministry may be called upon by God to “call a person out on their
sin” like Nathan to David, or anoint someone to fulfill a certain calling in
their life. It’s not usually a popular calling. God does have
prophets today and I’ll go more into their role in the future, it’s a little
bit different.
It
was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to
be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, Their responsibility is to
equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ.
Ephesians 4:11-12
While
they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set
apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."
So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent
them off. Acts 13:2-3
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