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Golden calf worship in place. The Prophecy – The Altar at Bethel 920 B.C.
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Golden calf worship in place
The Prophecy – The Altar at Bethel 920 B.C. • NIV 1 Kings 13:2 [A man of God] cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD: "O altar, altar! This is what the LORD says: 'A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who now make offerings here, and human bones will be burned on you.'"
The Prophecy - 920 B.C. • 3 That same day the man of God gave a sign: "This is the sign the LORD has declared: The altar will be split apart and the ashes on it will be poured out."
Seize Him! • Hand shrivels. • Altar split apart and ashes pour out. • King Jeroboam repents in part to get • hand restored.
The Lying Prophet • A prophet lies to the “man of God”. • The man of God is to told by God to go straight home. • The lying prophet gets him to go to his house. • The man of God is killed by a lion and buried at Bethel. • Why?
The Anti-christ • Lying prophets destroy RIGHTEOUSNESS! • BEWARE! • NIV 2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
Lying prophets destroy the Righteous • NIV 1 John 2:18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us. • NIV Revelation 13:11 Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon.