Day 136 - 2 Chronicles 18-20

ONE-YEAR JOURNEY OF THE BIBLE
Day 136 - 2 Chronicles 18-20 (What Does God Think of Christians Who are Allied with the Ungodly?)
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"Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance; and by marriage he allied himself with Ahab...And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Therefore the wrath of the LORD is upon you."...After this Jehoshaphat king of Judah allied himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who acted very wickedly.  And he allied himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish, and they made the ships in Ezion Geber.  But Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, "Because you have allied yourself with Ahaziah, the LORD has destroyed your works." Then the ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish. (2 Chronicles 18:1; 19:2; 20:35-37)

Jehoshaphat is considered one of the good kings of Judah having led his people to follow God faithfully with a loyal heart.  He had one weakness, however, and that is he liked to align himself with the wicked kings of Israel, namely Ahab and Ahaziah, two of the most evil kings of Israel.  Perhaps in his mind, Jehoshaphat was hoping that he could win over those non-believing kings through his alliance with them; but as we learn from our Scripture passage for today, God was angry with him for his foolish actions.

Clearly, God in no way approves His people being allied with the wicked of this world.  Now, the Bible calls all unsaved people wicked but there is a separate group of people whom God isolates as being those whom His people must not be allied with - they are those who promote their evil deeds and lead others to follow after them in their sins.  Such were kings Ahab and Ahaziah.

How do can we know that the above is true?  Jesus called Himself a friend of sinners which was a reference to His divine purpose in coming to earth, that is, to save sinners.  Unlike Jehoshaphat, Jesus was not influenced by the sins of those whom He sought to befriend.  The exact opposite was true; Jesus influenced the wicked so that many of them repented of their sins and became His followers.  Jesus never consented even remotely with the sins of the wicked, unlike others.

Christians, make no mistake about it; we are living in the last days of apostasy when many who are naive will be led astray by Satan to compromise their beliefs for the sake of not offending the world and for the sake of being accepted by masses.  If you have no clue about what I am saying, I urge you to re-read our Scripture passage again and I pray that God would enlighten you to comprehend His Word.