1 Kings 14:9 KJV
But hast done evil above all that were before
thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to
provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
God's
accusation is that Jeroboam had cast Him behind his back.
The fact is
that this could have only literally happened to an idol. God is a spirit and is
everywhere at the same time.
- He
could not have been handled physically to be cast behind the back and if
He could have been
- He
would still have been before Jeroboam
- The metaphor was used
for the benefit of Jeroboam, to help him picture what he had done. And it
is a useful metaphor to describe the action of anyone who, once having
heard and received the Word of God, abandons it. The backslider can be
said to cast God behind his back
- That
Christian who chooses worldly things over godly living has cast God behind
his back
- The
one who knows unites with an organization like the Jehovah's Witnesses or
Mormons casts God behind his back
The weight of
this sin is seen in the consequence, the child Jeroboam enquired of died. But
his death wasn't the judgment. The judgment was that his other sons would live
and they, after defiling the name of God yet more, would then be judged.
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