WHEN ELI FAILED TO FEAR THE LORD IN THE RIGHT TIME !!!
WHEN ELI FAILED TO FEAR THE LORD !!!
Samuel Machado
WHEN ELI THE PRIEST OF THE MOST HIGH GOD!
WHO MINISTERED BEFORE THE KING OF KINGS!
FAILED TO PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION!
TO THE ATTITUDES OF HIS SONS!
IT MADE A PAINFUL AND DREADFUL FUTURE!
FOR THE WHOLE HOUSEHOLD!
NEGLECTING DISCIPLINE!
IN ITS RIGHT TIME!
PRESENTING REBUKE AND CAUTION!
WHEN THE TIMES HAD PASSED!
IT DID NO GOOD!
FOR THE LORD HAD ORDAINED!
TO PUNISH THE SONS!
WITH DEATH!
THE FACT TO REMEMBER!
THE FACT TO HOLD!
THE FACT TO PREACH!
THE FACT TO TEACH!
Shalom,
Samuel Machado
JESUS LOVES YOU THE WAY YOU ARE!
Judges 6:24
Eli Confronts Hophni and Phinehas
22 Now Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, even that they lay with the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting. 23 He said to them, “Why are you doing these things? For I am hearing of your evil dealings from all these people. 24 No, my sons! Truly, it is not a good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading. 25 If one man sins against another, God will judge him, but if a man sins against the Lord, who will intercede for him?” But they did not listen to the voice of their father, because the Lord desired to kill them.
26 Now the boy Samuel was growing both in stature and favor with the Lord and also with men.
God’s Case Against the House of Eli
27 A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Did I not plainly reveal Myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house? 28 And choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be My priest, to offer upon My altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before Me? And I gave to the house of your father all the offerings made by fire by the children of Israel? 29 Why do you kick at My sacrifice and at My offering, which I have commanded in My dwelling, and honor your sons above Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel My people?’
30 “Therefore the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I surely said that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before Me forever,’ but now the Lord says, ‘Far be it from Me to do so, for those who honor Me, I will honor, and those that despise Me will be humbled. 31 The days are coming when I will cut off your authority and the strength of your father’s house, so there shall not be an old man in your house. 32 You shall see the distress of My dwelling, despite all the good which will be done for Israel. And there shall not be an elderly man in your house perpetually. 33 Yet the one I do not cut off from My altar will be spared so your eyes will not stop weeping or your soul grieving. All the increase of your house will die in their prime.
34 “ ‘This will be the sign to you which will come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: In one day, they will both die. 35 And I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest; what is in My heart and in My soul he will do it. And I will build him a sure house, and it will walk before My anointed forever. 36 But it will be that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and will say, Please attach me to one of the priestly offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.’ ”