Sunday, August 23, 2020

When God sends lying prophets

PROF. JAMES A. DIAMOND: Discerning False Prophecy: The Story of Ahab and the Lying Spirit (TheTorah.com).
Ahab’s 400 court prophets all assure him that he will defeat Aram, but the prophet Micaiah tells him that these prophets are being enticed by a lying spirit, sent by YHWH himself, for the purpose of destroying Ahab. If Ahab had been willing to face his own position vis-a-vis God honestly, he would have known who was telling the truth.

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