God’s Word Always Comes True - False Teachers Prove It - 2 Kings 6-10

 2 Kings 10:10-11 (ESV)

Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the LORD has done what he said by his servant Elijah.” So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him none remaining.

To understand the above two verses we have to have a brief history lesson regarding Ahab and his evil wife, Jezebel.   For years they controlled the kingdom of Israel.   Ahab was the king, but it appeared as though he was but a puppet with Jezebel pulling the strings.    Their evilness was deep.  They established the false worship of a god named Baal.   When Elijah had a show down with them on the mountain and killed the priest of Baal, Jezebel sought Elijah’s life.  That was the beginning of the end of Elijah’s ministry and the beginning of the start of Elisha’s ministry.   Elisha then prophesies that all of Arab’s descendants and Jezebel will be destroyed by God.    To accomplish this task, God raises up Jehu to be the king.  He takes down all of Ahab’s descendants and all of the new priest of Baal and Jezebel herself.   That brings us to the above verses.   Jehu understood his purpose in the hand of God.  He was to fulfill the words that Elijah has spoken years ago about Ahab and his wickedness.   Elijah prophesied, Elisha directed Jehu’s rise to power and Jehu carried out the end of the Ahab’s wickedness.   Those who doubt the fidelity of God’s Word will one day be ended by the completion of God’s Word.  Ahab, Jezebel and all the prophets of Baal probably scoffed about Elijah’s prophecy.  Even though it hung over their heads they rejected it and thought it would never happen.  It did!

In our day there is much the same. In fact in the first century church we read from Peter’s words that people scoffed about Jesus’ return:

2 Peter 3:3-7 (ESV)

knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

Men will always scoff at the validity of God’s Word.  But, as they scoff, they actually fulfill God’s Word.   Their rejection of truth becomes the proof of truth.   Beware that God’s Word will come to fruition.  It may not be in the timing we see, but it will always find its end in completion.