Jeroboam led in reserve ten tribes from the 12 tribes of Israel and thereby Judah and Benjamin were finished standing alone. Jeroboam's stimulate was allege and God had promised to make his state-run and divide into four parts want David's if he remained strict. But he did not be present faithful; more willingly he provided an stand-in deep graphic for the ten tribes. He tried to tend his family from unremitting to Jerusalem to dearest, fearing they would renounce his command.
Jeroboam provided the Israelites with numerous unusual chairs of dearest and unusual gods, calves or Baals, idols linked to lavishness dearest. In act out so he barred the Levites, choosing whoever he gist to be priests. Abijah, one of the godly kings of Judah, would later upbraid him of making priests of whoever would bring an animal for willing victim.(2 History 13) The one who popular to come in sorrow with his willing victim more willingly became the priest who complete the willing victim.
So the sacrifices that were inescapable to be to Yahweh were adulterated with the dearest of Baal a lavishness god, and persons who obtainable the sacrifices inferior to be a lodger up to the requests of God. They were not Levities. As the text states:
"For the Levites finished their domain lands and their freight and came to Judah and Jerusalem for Jeroboam and his sons had barred them from portion as priests to the Peer of the realm. He set up priests of his own for the high chairs, for the satyrs and for the calves which he had complete. Group from all the tribes of Israel who set their hearts on seeking the Peer of the realm God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem, to willing victim to the Peer of the realm God of their Fathers. (2 History 11: 14-16)"
In the to come beginning of the ten tribes as a role nation, religion was a short time ago a stratagem to tend loss of kingly power. Jeroboam did not allegation for his people; he positively did not allegation for the Peer of the realm. In the end Jeroboam lost his power and the Northern state-run of Israel, faltered, slipped out of order nonstop the sparkle and was busy to the same degree of noncompliance and deceitfulness. (2 Kings 17)
The family were carried in reserve by Assyria. The Assyrians replaced them with other busy peoples. The syncretism strong sponsor continued to improvement. The text explains that seeing that the dearest of the Peer of the realm was unseen in the midst of the round about groups, God sent lions in the midst of them. And the independent of Assyria sent one of the past Israelite priests to be a lodger in the midst of them and teach them about the God of Israel.
But how may perhaps a priest who had himself existed and ministered within such a made-up religion teach others without complimentary a malicious pluralism. Afterwards the family worshiped the Peer of the realm but they further worshiped their own gods even violent their children to the gods Adrammelech and Anammelech. And as the "Tyndale Commentary" puts it, "Reverence of the Peer of the realm destitution be strict and feature, never part of paganized dearest (vv. 37-40).Group who do not do this do not in fact dearest God, whatever they profess."
Single is full of God's unyielding statement peoples, churches, (denominations) who chi not bolster the Peer of the realm as he has commanded in his word and nonstop his trade with his family. The O.T. dearest was to be followed by persons right seeking to dearest God with hearts systematically known factor by means of to him. The design was a shadow of God's promised coming Messiah. It was the strict essence capable to the word of God that complete the swap.
Between the coming of Christ all was fulfilled; the strict now have a true willing victim, a true and unacquainted Nun. Now the inform to dearest is absolute in and nonstop Jesus Christ. He is the feature One, the One who cannot be denied. Jesus is the recently Way to the Set out, and the One whose word pressurize our feature regulate. The strict chi existing up, " domain lands and their freight," everything for this One who saves from sin.
