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Class #1 The Days of Ahab. The Days of Ahab. The Days of Ahab and the Ecclesia. The Days of Ahab The danger of those who would dismantle our heritage The Parable of Obadiah Our separation from the world and from false Christianity and our struggle to be single minded Christadelphians
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Class #1 The Days of Ahab The Days of Ahab
The Days of Ahab and the Ecclesia • The Days of Ahab • The danger of those who would dismantle our heritage • The Parable of Obadiah • Our separation from the world and from false Christianity and our struggle to be single minded Christadelphians • Elijah’s Exodus • An important lesson on how to deal with problems in the ecclesia • Naboth’s Vineyard • The vital importance of holding on to our heritage no matter what • Ahab and Jehoshaphat • The danger of naivety when dealing with others and a humbling lesson concerning building up our ecclesias
Ahab and Deuteronomy 7 • “utterly destroy them” (v2) • Curse from rebuilding Jericho in days of Ahab • “neither shall you make marriages with them” (v3) • Ahab married Jezebel • “destroy their altars” (v5) • Ahab built an altar to Baal • “cut down their groves” (v5) • Ahab built a grove to Ashteroth
Provoking God to Anger • “Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him” (1 Kings 16:33) • A Deuteronomic phrase: • Deuteronomy 4:23-25 • Deuteronomy 9:12, 18 • Deuteronomy 31:29 • Deuteronomy 32:16, 21
Ahab and Love “And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might” (Deuteronomy 6:4) Heb. ahab
Love in the Law Exodus 20:6; 21:5 Leviticus 19:18; 19:34 Numbers - never Deuteronomy 4:37, 5:10, 6:5, 7:8,9,13, 10:12,15,18,19, 11:1,13,22, 13:3, 15:16, 19:9, 21:15,15,16, 23:5, 30:6,16,20