AHAB

Ahab was the king of Israel. He was the most wicked king in the
Northern Kingdom.
Ahab's did evil in the sight of the LOrd.He cintued to walk in the ways of
Jeroboam wife Jezebel was the ruler of his house.
Ahab served and worshipped Baal.The Lord spoke to Elijah and told hito
present himself to Ahab.
King Ahab and Obadiah were out searching for grass instead of seeking
for God.
King Ahab is described in the Bible as walking "in the sins of Jeroboam,"
a king of Israel who built and worshipped two golden calves, and built
notorious "high places" for worship, to keep Israelites from going to the
house of the Lord in Jerusalem after the kingdoms of Israel and Judah
were divided. In Samaria, the capitol city of Israel, Ahab builds a temple
for Baal. He also erects an image of Baal's consort Asherah. Jezebel
persecutes the prophets of the Lord, while the prophets of Baal and of
Asherah, eight hundred and fifty in all, "eat at Jezebel's table" (I Kings
18:4,13,19). Moreover, Ahab's and Jezebel's daughter Athaliah marries
King Jehoram of Judah, where Baalism is then also promoted (II Kings
8:18).
As if to show Ahab and Jezebel who really controls the rain, the Lord God
of Israel or the storm god Baal, the Lord's prophet Elijah tells Ahab,
"There shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word"
(I Kings 17:1).
Jezebel's willfulness is further displayed in the matter of Naboth's
vineyard (I Kings 21:1-29). Ahab sulks like a spoiled brat, refusing to eat,
when Naboth the Jezreelite won't sell him his vineyard. Ahab wants the
vineyard, which is next door to his palace in Jezreel, for a vegetable
garden. Jezebel tells the pouting Ahab, "Do you not govern Israel?" She
tells him to eat, for "I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite"
(RSV). Jezebel sends orders in Ahab's name to the elders and nobles of
Jezreel to have Naboth tried for blasphemy, based on false witnesses. After
Naboth is found guilty and stoned to death, Jezebel tells Ahab to go take
possession of the vineyard. Ahab does so, but who should show up but
Elijah, who quotes the Lord to the king: "Hast thou killed, and also taken
possession?" For this provocation, the Lord tells Ahab through Elijah, "I
shall bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity." "In the place
where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even
thine." As for Jezebel, "The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel"
(I Kings 21:19-23).
When Ahab, at war with Syria, is mortally wounded in battle while
disguised as a common soldier, he is propped up in his chariot till he dies.
His blood is then washed from the chariot, and as prophesied the dogs lick
it up (I Kings 22:29-38).
Judah, Ahab's and Jezebel's daughter Athaliah, on hearing that her son
King Ahaziah is dead, has all of her grandsons slain (so she thinks) and
assumes the throne herself, becoming the only woman ever to hold sole
royal power in either Israel or Judah. She rules for six years. But one
grandson still lives, hidden away by an aunt, whose husband leads a revolt,
and Athaliah is put to the sword. She is succeeded by Joash, the seven-
year-old grandson (II Kings 11:1-21).
As for Jezebel, she still lives on as a synonym for a wicked woman. The
New Testament book of Revelation complains of a "Jezebel," calling
herself a prophetess, who leads people in the church at Thyatira "to
commit fornication." Christ "will cast her into a (sick)bed," says Saint
John, "and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation,
except they repent their deeds" (Rev. 2:20-22).
i EXPERIENCED AN aHAB/jEZEBEL MINISTRY.