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The Abiding Gift of Prophecy

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    Elijah’s Last Message to Ahab

    Now there is written another dark chapter in the lives of Ahab and Jezebel.AGP 99.4

    “Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house…. And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.”AGP 99.5

    Naboth’s refusal to part with the inheritance that had come down to him was in obedience to the instruction the Lord had given Israel through Moses: “So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.” Numbers 36:7.AGP 99.6

    But Ahab, having no regard for God’s plans, was angered by Naboth’s refusal. He went into his house so “heavy and displeased” that “he laid him down upon his bed, and turned awayAGP 99.7

    his face, and would eat no bread.” Verse 4. When Jezebel learned of Naboth’s refusal, she assured Ahab that he should soon have the vineyard. By foul conspiracy, the queen of the nation had this good man stoned to death. And “Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.” (See 1 Kings 21:1-16.)AGP 100.1

    Then “the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it…. And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.” 1 Kings 21:17-20. Elijah then delivered to Ahab a message of doom—a message foretelling the utter destruction of the house of Ahab:AGP 100.2

    “Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, … and will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked Me to anger, and made Israel to sin. And of Jezebel also spake the Lord, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.

    “But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.” 1 Kings 21:21-26,

    This appears to have been Elijah’s last meeting with Ahab. All that he had predicted in his last terrible message came upon Ahab and Jezebel and their house.AGP 100.3

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