{"id":67217,"date":"2024-03-27T11:52:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T16:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=67217"},"modified":"2024-03-27T11:52:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T16:52:20","slug":"is-god-responsible-for-ahab-doing-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-god-responsible-for-ahab-doing-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Is God Responsible for Ahab Doing Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

by Tommy Peeler<\/p>\n

Is God responsible for Ahab doing the wrong thing?<\/p>\n

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  1. Ahab is ready to go to war without inquiring of God (I Kings 22:4-5).<\/li>\n
  2. When 400 prophets tell him that he will take Ramoth-Gilead, Ahab is content, but Jehoshaphat wants to inquire of a prophet of the LORD (I Kings 22:6-7).<\/li>\n
  3. Ahab does not want to inquire of Micaiah, but Jehoshaphat insists (I Kings 22:8-9).<\/li>\n
  4. As Micaiah comes before the king, he is encouraged to speak like the other prophets (I Kings 22:13).<\/li>\n
  5. When Micaiah tells Ahab that he will die in battle, Ahab gets angry, imprisons him, and gives him small rations of bread and water (I Kings 22:17-18, 27-28). He does not heed the warning. This is particularly interesting since Ahab questioned Micaiah’s sincerity when he told him the same thing the other prophets had said (I Kings 22:12, 15-16).<\/li>\n
  6. The LORD cannot be blamed for deceiving Ahab when He reveals to Ahab that this was all a plan to deceive him and get him to die at Ramoth-Gilead (I Kings 22:19-23).<\/li>\n
  7. Ahab is concerned enough that Micaiah spoke the truth that he disguises him, but he goes to battle anyway (I Kings 22:30).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nCould Ahab have repented and listened to God? I Kings 21:17-29 clearly shows that he could have.
    \nGod is a God of truth who does not lie (Hebrews 6:18; Titus 1:2). But if there are any who are content to be deceived, He will let them be deceived (II Thessalonians 2:11-12).\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    by Tommy Peeler Is God responsible for Ahab doing the wrong thing? Ahab is ready to go to war without inquiring of God (I Kings 22:4-5). When 400 prophets tell him that he will take Ramoth-Gilead, Ahab is content, but Jehoshaphat wants to inquire of a prophet of the LORD (I Kings 22:6-7). Ahab does…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[731,793,1128,392],"class_list":["post-67217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-ahab","tag-apparent-contradictions","tag-ii-kings","tag-lying"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40130,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/god-cannot-lie\/","url_meta":{"origin":67217,"position":0},"title":"God Cannot Lie","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"September 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. 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