God’s Justice: 2 Kings 9:14-29

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work on the weekends.

Yeah, So anyway, I feel like I work through the

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Yes, you don't get away, right. Your friends are like,

we're free for the weekend. You're like, I'm not.

I'm free Friday and Saturday.

Right, that's correct, that's correct. So, hey, we have entered

in to a segment where it is Friday, and so

most people may expect, they might expect or anticipate everybody's favorite,

everybody's favorite segment, which is what made Chris, which I'm

not sure that's true, but you keep on saying it.

Thank you, thank you, thank you Chris for being angry

on your behalf.

See that is why I know you're not telling the truth.

So you just you think it's your favorite segment.

It's everybody's favorite.

So here we go. So we are.

I walked into a meeting the other day. Yes, it

was a church business meeting. A meeting, yep, And I

had two different couples call me over and say, hey, tonight,

ask what made Chris mad this week? From state? They

wanted me to ask it.

Really? Yes, is that true?

That's true? Wow, two different couples.

Yep, that's funny.

So they love it, love it.

That's okay. Whatever. So here's what we're gonna do. We're

gonna switch it up today, and so we are going

to ask this segment what made Jeff mad this week?

Well, you know, I don't get mad very often.

That's not true at all. You just don't express it

because you're wiser than me.

No, I get I get mad. I get mad all

the time, and I'm not wiser than you. So I

have one. I have one today So you remember last

week I told you I had a morning miracle, Yes,

where I drove into the office all the way from

my not to the office to the studio, all the

way from my house all the way to the studio.

It's almost like ten miles. Yeah, and I passed so

many lights and I never hit a red light the

whole way, just like a morning miracle. That's how you

know it's gonna be a good day.

Yes, right, I remember that we were You were so happy.

Well, dude, I'm telling you today, Yes, what are the

chances coming into the studio. It almost happened again?

Almost all most Oh, let me guess the one light

made you mad?

So no, I'm going to confess. Oh, you're mad at

a person on one of the on one of the lights,

I kind of rolled towards the light, like I realized,

ooh it's red, it's red.

Yeah.

So I just let off the gas. Yeah, I didn't

hit my brakes or anything. I just let out the

gas and pasted and so I didn't have to hit

my brain and it was gonna turn green, that's right.

But this is snowy today. We got a couple inches

of snow in Michigan. And that's normal Michigan people. Two

or three inches of snow, it's like nothing, right, we

got to have like seven or eight inches before we start. Ooh,

this is really bad, right right. So I am surrounded

by full wheel drive pickup tips. I'm driving a GMC Denali, yes, right,

full wheel drive. Yes, I'm fine.

I have a.

Chevy next to me, Silverado, full wheel drive. He's fine. Yes,

I've got a Chevy and a GMC in front of me. Fine.

So I move out. I realized it's about to turn red.

I move out into an empty lane. Yes, about to

turn green. That's right, about to turn green. I I

move out into the empty lane. I let off my

brakes and I'm just kind of coasting towards it. That way,

I don't have to hit my brakes, and then it's

going to be a perfect day. It was the last light,

and akia no, A guy in a Ford F one

point fifty cut me off and hit his brakes hard.

He had no reason. And so I we've we've made

a couple of bold declarations. I'm not sure Ford drivers

can go to heaven. Wow, this is oh, that's I'm

not positive. I don't have proof in the Bible.

Yet that made Jeff mad. People like that, Hey, listen,

that's right. When I get mad, I don't. I don't

necessarily question people's eternity.

Dude, your trucks supposedly full will drive too, It's correct

if you're not. If you're afraid to drive it, get

out and push it right right or park it for

crying out loud, But don't get in the way of

a GMC wow. Full will drive because I'm not afraid

to drive right right right. And then to cut me off, Oh,

you can hit your brakes. He was already in line.

Everybody was stopped right, everybody was stopping. So he went

from a parked lane, he.

Went from a stop lane, pulled out. I mean cut

me off. I had to slam on my brakes in

the snow. Yeah, right, So he just decided he wanted

to be first, apparently, and he wanted to make me stop.

Yeah.

And then I'm telling you, as soon as I touched

my brakes, bang, it goes green.

And then you thought he ruined it. Today is going

to be a bad It was.

It was the light right here, just just around the

corner from I made it all the way here, and

then a guy in a Ford. Of course it was

a Ford. Of course it was of course it was

a Ford. He makes any American.

Vehicle, but if I did, if it was, it'd be

if it was a Toyota. Yeah, you totally make fun

of it. Yeah, Tacoma, Tacoma.

Yeah, there you go, you can make fun of it.

Yeah, but not Ford. Man, I like for I like

my GMC better. But guess what, It's not about the forward,

It's about the guy.

That's that's the issue, right, Well, he just makes bad

choices that you can tell that guy. You can tell

you he's that guy.

Actually, we would not want to go to the movies

with that guy, right, we would hang out with.

That guy, that's right. So anyways, that's what I'm mad

about today is those people who ruin your streak for

no reason. Yes, he had no motivated reason. And then

when it turned green, it was like he couldn't find

the accelerator because he.

Just said break he's.

No, no, he's driving a full draft truck. But there's

snow on the ground, right, he couldn't find his accelerator. Literally,

twenty five cars on our right just keep passing us.

As on the right people.

Yes, I know, just just just push it a little,

it'll go. Oh my goodness, it'll go. Yeah, it's the

one I'm yelling. It's the one on the right. Yeah.

So yeah.

Anyway, Well, jeff thank you, Thank you on behalf of

It's not just me. Everybody else who wishes that their

light streak could keep going, could keep going. Thank you

for getting mad.

Everybody who wishes that people would drive their vehicles right right,

just drive it. That's all you have to do. That's it.

Yeah. If you if you own a four wheel drive

and you can't drive in two inches of snow, you're right.

And I'm not saying he should have been doing seventy right,

he could have been close to speed limit right, Nope,

can't do it. He couldn't stay in line the whole

nine years, the whole nine years. Everything about that experience

was bad and it made me mad, and it happened

right here on the corner.

Terrible, yes, terrible.

That's it I meant for you, Jeffy, Thank you, Chris,

thank you, Chris Well.

Thank you for enlightening us. And by the way, it

felt good to be on the other side of this.

Well. I wanted to take him out. So I wanted

to I want to just like spin him out or

Something's what I was thinking, just like put like a

police car talking about people who want to take people out.

Oh Ju takes out Joram and a Hasaiah.

I have a feeling he would not have said that

if not for looking for.

A transition, wouldn't have said that.

No, I wanted to take him out in the same

way that Jay Hush you got and what is his name,

has Zaiah Haziah Isaiah. Yeah, yeah, that is so funny, dude.

Yeah, So that was our transition or terrible transitions. All right,

good job, Okay. So in Second King's chapter nine, Jay Whu,

remember he's been ordered to wipe out Ahabs.

He was annoyed as king.

Yeah, he was annoying King in order to wipe out

all of Ahab's heirs because and this was a prophecy

from twenty years ago. Twenty years prior, Elijah had said

God's gonna let you live, Ahab, but none of your

heirs will live, ensuring that Israel will never have your

family on the throne again. Right. So, so Jayhu, son

of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi, led a conspiracy against King Joram.

Now Joram had been with the army Raymonth Gilliad defending

Israel against the forces of King has Al of Aram.

But King Joram was wounded in the fighting returned to

Jezreel to recover from his wounds. So Jayhu told the

men with him, if you want me to be king,

don't let anyone leave town and go to Jezreel to

report what we've done. Then Jayhu got into a chariot

and rode to Jezreel to find King Joram, who was

lying there wounded. King a Haziah of Judah was there too,

for he had gone to visit him. The watchman on

the tower of Jezreel saw Jehu and his company approaching,

so he shouted to Joram, I see a company troops coming.

Send out a rider and ask if they are coming

in peace. King Joram ordered, so a horseman went out

to meet Jehu and said, the king wants to know

if you're coming in peace. Jehu replied, what do you

know about peace? Fall in behind me? The watchman called

out to the king, the messenger has met them, but

he's not returning. So the king sent out a second horseman,

and he rode out to them and said, the king

wants to know if you come in peace. And Jehu answered,

what do you know about peace? Fall in behind me?

The watchman exclaimed, the messenger has met them, but he

isn't returning either. It must be Jehu, son of Nimshi,

for he's driving like a madman. Quick, get my chariot ready,

King Joram commanded. Then King Joram of his Israel and

King Ahaziah of Judah rode out in their chariots to

meet Jehu, and they met him. He at the plot

of land that belonged to the Naboth of Jezreel. King

Joram demanded, do you come in peace? Jehu? Jay replied,

how can they be peace as long as the idolatry

and witchcraft your mother Jezebel are all around us. Then

King Joram turned the horses around and fled, shouting to

a Haziah, treason a Haziah. But Jehu blew, drew his

bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced

his heart and he sank down dead in his chariot.

Jayhu said to Bidkar his officer throw him into the

plot of land that belonged the Naboth of Jezreel. Remember

when you and I were riding along behind his father Ahab,

the Lord pronounced this message against him. I solemnly swear

that I will repay him here on this plot of land,

says the Lord, for the murder of Naboth and his

sons that I saw yesterday. So throw him out on

Nabo's property, just as the Lord said. When King a

Haziah Judah saw what was happening, he fled along the

road to beth Hagan. Jayhu rode after him, shouting, shoot

him too. So they a Haziah in his chariot at

the ascent of Gurr near Iblaium. He was able to

go on as far as Megiddo, but he died there.

His servants took him by chariot to Jerusalem, where they

buried him and his ancestors in the city of david. A.

Haziah had become king over Judah in the eleventh year

of the reign of Joram's son of Ah.

Well there you go, there you go, or we're not

going to read the death of Jezebel.

Do I keep reading. Oh I knew, I don't. I

stopped at twenty nine.

Okay, I guess we're stiff.

Hanger Jezebel next left hanger.

Yeah, well, I mean, it's not as if I I

didn't give give anything away.

Got already give it away. He already said that it

was gonna happen. That's right, exactly right.

You kind of want to read it.

You want to read it.

It's only a few verses, Okay.

When Jezebel the queen mother heard that Jehu had come

to Jezreel, she painted her eyelids and fixed her hair

and sat at a window. Then Jayhu entered the gate

of the palace, and she shouted at him, have you

come in piece, you murderer. You're just like Zimri who

murdered his man. Jayhu looked up and saw her at

the window and shouted, who is on my side? And

two or three eunuchs looked out at him. Throw her down,

Jayhu yelled, So they threw her out the window, and

her blood splattered against the wall on the horses. Well,

thanks for this, Chris. Jayhu trampled her body under his

horses hoofs. They're alive. Chris. Then jay Whu went into

the palace and ate and drank. Afterwards, he said, someone

go and bury this cursed woman, for she's the daughter

of a king. But when they went out to bury her,

they found only her skull, her feet. It just keeps

getting worse.

It gets worse yet.

It's when they returned and told Jaehu. He stated, this

fulfills the message from the Lord which she spoke through

his servant Elijah from Tishpa. At the plot of land

in Jezreel. Dogs will eat Jezebel's body. Her remains will

be scattered like dung on the plot of land in Jezreel,

so that no one will be able to recognize her.

Yeah, well thanks for adding that, but the prophecy appreciated.

Prophecy said, nobody's able to bear Yeah, they won't be

able to bear it. It's true.

It's just her head and skull, and call her hands

and feet.

So he actually appealed to the unus, the unus who

she's been ordering around, you know, who have witnessed her

her horrid, horrid reign, right, and all he has to

do is say, who's with me? And then they just

sort of look down and he's like, throw it down,

and they just threw it down.

It was common and still is in some of the

some kingdoms that the queen's, the princesses, the women in

the hair and would be protected by eunuchs, so they

would they would castraight young men at a certain age.

When when you castraight a young bull, that young bull

will get much bigger as a steer than he would

be than he would as a just a regular bull, right,

because his energy is going to other places. Right, So

young steers will usually get bigger once you castrate them.

And it's kind of the same concept is that at

the right time castrate young man, he would be bigger

and stronger, but without the urges. So you could trust

these guys to be bodyguard to your to your them.

Yeah yeah, so these will be big, strong, muscular men.

This is what what kind of how you're thinking. And

they're supposed to be her bodyguards and they're done with

her too, right.

Yeah. It says her blood spattered against the wall. We

read that on the horse.

Yeah we we we got that.

And then then he trampled her body under the horses hoofs.

That is rough.

It's a rough way to go.

Yeah.

And and by the way, she painted her eyelids and

did her hair right, yeah, so she so she looks,

I'm gonna go I'm gonna go up beautiful.

That's right. That's right. By the way, when Jayhu shoots

an arrow and kills Joram, Yeah, isn't it amazing how

Joram comes out himself to meet Jayhu like like it

says it says, hey, do you come in? Hey, let's

send a rider out. Well, the rider doesn't come back.

Let's send another rider out. The rider doesn't come back. Right,

So then instead of sending sending like like a battalion

of people or something like that, he himself goes out

to meet him and says, jay Who, do you come

in peace? I don't understand this. Why would he? I

guess he just trusted Jayhu. I guess that much because

he's a commander.

I guess yeah, because he was a commander. I think

that had to have been it.

Well, I guess what I'm trying to say is jay

who's as Simon, came to him a lot easier than

he probably expected.

Yeah, right, yep.

So they turned around, Oh no, they're going to flee

and then Jay was like, hey, look there they are,

and I have an arrow and I'm a good shot, right,

and he just show that's it. He's done.

So this says, King a Haziah of Judah was there, right?

Why did he kill the Judah king two? Hadn't we

determined that a Haziah was a fairly good king?

I thought that Joram was this? Send it right? Joram's

the descendant? Yeah? Well, you know what, you know me

and these names, man, I know, I mean I've already

confessed completely that, uh that my brain does not register

these names. And so you know when you especially when

you have Joram and then Jehoram. Yeah right, what's the

other name that sounds like Joran? Jehoram Jehoram j Yeah,

and the and the and they're both on the Israel.

So Joram is on Israel's Yeah, well Joseph's record, Yeah

right there you go, right, Yeah, these names that are

super similar are very confusing.

So yeah, my brain doesn't register anyways. Ja Hu kills

two kings yep, from Judah and Israel. And then he

goes and has the the Eunuchs thro Jezebel out the window. Yeah,

so when God cleans house.

Yep. Well, I mean, you know, it's uh, just like

you said before. Remember come days ago you talked about

Remember the horrible, horrible things that with with the two

mothers and their sons with the besieging of Samaria, remember

and and uh and it's it's and it's a it's

just one of those things. Uh. So any king that

got overthrown. Uh, it was very very very common in

those days that if you're in the line or lineage

of that king, they would wipe you out right. And

by the way, we saw that back with King David. Remember,

like everybody fled for their lives because once uh uh

you know, somebody took the throne and then then all

of a sudden, Remember Bestsheba was fearful for her son Solomon,

remember because she thought, oh, no, they're going to come

wipe us out immediately, because they're going to threaten our

you know, threaten the throne and everything else. Well, this

was a prophecy given by It was Elijah is Elijah

and uh twenty years before and and uh and so

here it comes, and so they must have known the prophecy.

They must have known, you know, the story and uh.

And so when he says, how can they repeace as

long as there's idolatry and witchcraft of your brother Jezebel

all around us, and it says, then King Johoram turned

the horses and fled. And so he's realizing in that moment, oh, no,

time to pay the fiddler, right, like, like, you know,

it's come do. But what's the phrase I'm looking for

is come do? Something's come do?

The roosters came home to roost.

No, there's a phrase. It's it's like paying the fiddler.

But yeah, I try not to get in your head

too much.

But but but something, something's due and uh, and it's time.

And so I think that I think in that moment

when he turned and fled, he must have immediately known

that this is the answer to the prophecy. I think

he did. I really do.

I think so too. So you have here, basically Jay

who's going on this pretty bloody coup and it's awful.

But it was his assignment.

Yeah, it was his assignment. Not because God enjoys blood, right,

this was God's way of bringing justice to evil people

that had run his nation into the ground. Led those

people to worship false gods, even after Elijah called down

lightning from heaven, fire from heaven and wiped out the

prophets of Baal that Jezebel was funding and astroith right,

eight hundred and fifty of them, they restore them. They

go get a bunch more, right, even after they saw

God do unbelievable things. Dude, I feel like I would

only need to see one of those things, right. Think

of all of the amazing things Jezebel and Ahab saw

in the lives of Elijah and Elishah.

And don't forget. Then he said the rain that hasn't

rained in three years, he was it three Yeah, he

said it's coming, and you better get in your chariot

because here it comes, right, and then it comes, So

it's not just the fire from heaven. It's then the

three year drought is announced by that profit and the

rain comes, and.

So many things like this that they saw, and yet

they continued to worship false gods and leading the people

to do horrific things. We've already talked about all the

horrific things.

Yeah, and then he.

Steals so again in twenty years. God seems pretty patient

in this doesn't he. Yeah, he seems patient and then

finally goes okay, it's time for justice. And God uses

men to do his bidding. That's what he does. And

so jay Hu doesn't wind up being a great king

himself or a good king. He's successful, but he's not

always moral. But in this situation, God uses him to

bring justice against evil, and God's justice will prevail always.

He might be patient, he might allow time to run

out for a while, but it's not that God's never

going to bring justice. It's just that sometimes he has

not yet justice. But justice is coming.

Yes, So we're going to read more about Jayhu. But

one of the things in the Life Application of Study Bible,

it says one of his weakness is mistakes. It says

he was devoted to God only to the point that

obedience served his own interests.

Right, right, So it's just he was devoted to God.

He also worshiped jere Boehme's golden calves, Yeah, which he

kind of divided. You know. This is what James says.

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways,

right right, And this this was the issue for him.

He had great potential, he had just enough recklessness in him.

What you're going to see that he would was willing

to take bold initiatives and chances, right, and so he

wound up seeing tremendous successes and he was he could

rally men to follow him, and he was powerful, but

his people could at times prosper. He did a lot

of good things like that. But then he's got this.

I'm devoted to God because I need. He used God

like a good luck charm, that's what he did. But

then he also kept Jerrebouem's golden calves because it was

a politically expedient. He didn't want to offend everybody. And

so you're like, oh, man, he could have been. He

could have He could have been the one to turn

the tides in northern Israel. He was close, right, but

he just didn't. When you go halfway, you really never

actually get there with God. You got to go all in.

When you go all in, that's when God changes everything

for you. And he missed it. So anyways, we'll talk

about that over the next little while.

Which, by the way, I just want to throw this

out there. I am glad that we read the Death

of Jezebel, and.

I'm sure you just want to get her out of

our lives.

Oh well, I think about it. It's like this build

up where you remember at the end of the Princess

Bribe where he goes, uh, well, who kills humper Dick?

And he goes nobody and he goes, what, why did

you even read me this story?

You remember? Outrage?

Yeah, he goes, who gets humper Dick?

No, no, he lives and he's like what.

Yeah. It's like it's like there's a part of you

that wants to see Bell, you know, just pay and

it's like and it's like, yeah, that was pretty gruesome.

But then again, it was Jezebel, right, so you know, hey,

you know, you know, I guess I guess there's a

part of me, the works part that was like good

for you.

Well, it's surprising you read these these the Bible. I mean,

this isn't the Bible. God wanted us to know that story.

Well, hey, listen, it's it's people say it's not interesting,

it's boring. It's that boring.

I'm like, you have not read the Bible, right, at

least you haven't read it with the Bible. Guys.

That's right, that's exactly right. Well, that's funny. Okay, well, hey,

that is our time together, so hopefully we will see

you Monday on the Bible Gosh