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“The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram. Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet. Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu.”1 Kings 19:15-17
“Hazael is perhaps one of the most repulsive characters in Scripture.”-Edersheim“…the most warlike of all the early kings of Syria.”-Rawlinson
Tel Dan Stele
Black Obelisk (British Museum)
Balsalt Statue of Shalmaneser III
“Hazael, the son of nobody, seized the throne…”
“In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael overpowered the Israelites throughout their territory east of the Jordan in all the land of Gilead (the region of Gad, Reuben and Manasseh), from Aroer by the Arnon Gorge through Gilead to Bashan.”2 Kings 10:32-33
“Nothing had been left of the army of Jehoahaz except fifty horsemen, ten chariots and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had destroyed the rest and made them like the dust at threshing time.”2 Kings 13:7
“Son of a Somebody”
God disciplines His children…
1.…through the usage of wicked hands (8:7-8,14-15).
“Go and say to him, ‘You will certainly recover’; but the Lord has revealed to me that he will in fact die.”2 Kings 8:10 (NIV)
“Go and say, ‘You will certainly not recover’; for the Lord has revealed to me that he will in fact die.”2 Kings 8:10 (NIV footnote)
“Go and say to him, ‘You will certainly recover’; but the Lord has revealed to me that he will in fact die.”2 Kings 8:10 (NIV)
“Go and say, ‘You will certainly not recover’; for the Lord has revealed to me that he will in fact die.”2 Kings 8:10 (NIV)
“Go and say to him what you’ve made up your mind to say, ‘You will certainly recover’; but the Lord has revealed to me that he will in fact die.”2 Kings 8:10 (The Pulpit Commentary)
“Son of a Somebody”
God disciplines His children…
1.…through the usage of wicked hands (8:7-8,14-15).
2.…though it breaks His heart (8:9-13).
“Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel throughout the reign of Jehoahaz. But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion and showed concern for them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To this day he has been unwilling to destroy them or banish them from his presence.”2 Kings 13:22-23
“Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live!”Hebrews 12:7-9
The Orphan The Son/Daughter
Looks for satisfaction in “positions”
God truly satisfies your soul
Lives on a success/fail basis
Feels forgiven and totally accepted by God
Solution to failure: “Try harder”
Prayer is a first resort
“Son of a Somebody”
God disciplines His children…
1.…through the usage of wicked hands (8:7-8,14-15).
2.…though it breaks His heart (8:9-13).
3.…so that we might share in His faithful love (13:22-23).
“They say of some temporal suffering, ‘No future bliss can make up for it,’ not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.”C. S. Lewis, “The Great Divorce”
“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage…that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the blood that they’ve shed….”Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov”