1 Kings 22:8 (KJV)
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
The way things turned out, I would much rather have listened to Micaiah than to all the other prophets. Ahab may have hated him, but Micaiah did not hate Ahab. Micaiah’s message from the Lord was always intended to help both the king and the people of God.
A message that is negative—a warning, a call to repentance, and, if there is no repentance, judgment—is not hate speech. It is honest, compassionate, and godly.
The hate always comes from the other side of the fence. I imagine Ahab believed that Micaiah hated him because Ahab himself hated Micaiah. I am convinced the same is true in our day. Those of the world—those who claim they do not believe in God and those who live in rebellion against what the Word of God says—only imagine that the Christian message is hate speech because they harbor such hatred toward those who preach it.
I am thankful for the Micaiahs in our world. They are few in number, mistreated by the world, disrespected by the religious elite, and hated by those they love the most. Yet they remain true to the Lord and hold back the tide of evil for the good of those who will prayerfully turn to Christ.
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The Prophet Everyone Hated: Why Truth Still Offends Today
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