{"id":4723,"date":"2023-04-27T11:44:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T16:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2023-04-27T11:44:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T16:44:03","slug":"devotional-on-1-kings-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-1-kings-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on 1 Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-tX4sioQCB5U\/XkrKwhkCnyI\/AAAAAAABDzI\/vcoO-J3HTYcPzp2udcQSR5DtxuBjA6CKgCKgBGAsYHg\/s1600\/100_4676.JPG\" width=\"1600\" height=\"901\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2015 &#8211; Wilmington, OH Thousand Trails<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nChampion of evil<br \/>\n1Kings 16: Ahab son of Omri did even more evil before God than anyone yet &#8212; a new champion in evil!<br \/>\nKings of Israel rise and fall and most die violent deaths. Zimri assassinates Elah, but only reigns seven days before he&#8217;s killed by Omri. Omri lives an &#8220;empty-headed, empty-hearted life&#8221; but does purchase a hill upon which he builds the new capital city, Samaria. It\u2019s his son Ahab who so sells out to evil that he\u2019s given the dubious title, &#8220;champion of evil.&#8221; The other kings are nothing to be proud of, but their spiritual failure is minor in comparison to his. He marries the wicked Jezebel, builds a temple for the worship of the idol Baal, and becomes an enemy to the remaining people of God. The long slide away from God and to paganism is nearly complete under Ahab&#8217;s leadership. However, God isn&#8217;t finished yet&#8230;here comes Elijah!<br \/>\nTake Away: Always remember this: no matter how dark the situation the Lord keeps his promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champion of evil 1Kings 16: Ahab son of Omri did even more evil before God than anyone yet &#8212; a new champion in evil! Kings of Israel rise and fall and most die violent deaths. Zimri assassinates Elah, but only reigns seven days before he&#8217;s killed by Omri. Omri lives an &#8220;empty-headed, empty-hearted life&#8221; but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1471,7],"tags":[35,113,301,668,996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14414,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions\/14414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}