That Piece of History the World Wants to Hide

1 Kings 9:6-9 KJV

But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.

Man has not had the means to reverse what God said would be the fate of Israel if they turned from worshipping the true and the living God. What God told Solomon would happen if he or his sons turned to worship idols,

·         Didn’t happen immediately 

·         Didn't happen in the lifetimes of most of the offenders

but it did happen.

·         Israel was cut off from the land

·         The temple was cast from Gods sight and

·         The Jews have become a byword and derision in the world

It is historically impossible to deny the problems the people of Israel have endured. But there is one part of the prophecy everyone is still trying to deny; that is God’s participation in this trouble. If Israel has suffered the world has seen it only as a matter of unrestrained men (not unrestrained sin). No one in the world today wants to acknowledge the accuracy of the Word of God in the history of Israel because Israel is the one piece of human history that points undeniably to a

·         Living

·         Personal and

·         Interested

God. 

The God who made these promises to Solomon is alive still today. He acts in His time. Our sins may not have consequences that we recognize as immediate, but there are consequences nonetheless.

Wisdom is to fear the Lord and keep His commandments.