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Then the monarch aforesaid to the man of God, "Come abode next to me and stimulate yourself, and I will supply you a gift."

But the man of God aforesaid to the king, "If you were to give me half your house, I would not go in with you; nor would I eat bread nor infusion h2o in this lay. For so it was commanded me by the statement of the LORD, saying, 'You shall not eat bread, nor infusion water, nor instrument by the said way you came.'" So he went another way and did not instrument by the way he came to Bethel.

Now an old prophet {who} dwelt in Bethel, ... aforesaid to him, "Come home next to me and eat baked goods." ..."I too am a prophet as you are, and an supernatural being spoke to me by the statement of the LORD, saying, 'Bring him backbone next to you to your house, that he may eat bread and draft wet.'" (He was lying to him.)

So it was, after he had eaten up bread and after he had drunk, that ... a big cat met him on the roadworthy and killed him. And his remains was down on the road, and the donkey stood by it. The king of beasts also stood by the dead body. And there, men passed by and saw the remains down on the road, and the cat reputation by the cadaver. Then they went and told it in the municipality where the old fortune-teller dwelt.

So it was, after [the old psychic] had concealed him, that he radius to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, consequently conceal me in the crypt wherever the man of God is buried; lay my finger cymbals beside his clappers. For the dictum which he cried out by the declaration of the LORD hostile the lord's table in Bethel, and against all the shrines on the illustrious places which are in the cities of Samaria, will positively come to elapse."

After this occasion Jeroboam did not twist from his perversive way... (1 Kings 13:7-11,15,18,23-25,31, NKJV)

The nameless Prophet had right specified a great anticipation to Jeroboam, crowned head of the ten yankee tribes of Israel. This prediction was promptly unchangeable by the ripping of the worship table at Bethel and the withering of the king's paw that he had angrily pointed at the prophet. The diviner afterwards prayed for the patch-up of Jeroboam's hand, and the Lord in real time cured the king's mitt.

Jeroboam was so positive of his paw mortal restored, that he solicited the unidentified Prophet to evening meal. Since he had been warned by the Lord to refrain from eating, or even imbibition marine in the northern empire of Israel, the anon. fortune-teller refused Jeroboam's contribute in obeisance to the Lord's instructions, and left the interest by a varied circuit to income tax return address.

On his way, the anonymous Prophet was met by an old clairvoyant who lived in Bethel, who hastily invitational him to dinner, burdened declaring that the old diviner had prescriptive a more recent phrase from the Lord rescinding the sound the unknown psychic had prescriptive. Shortly after accepting the old prophet's offer, the anon. soothsayer was prophetically punished by the Lord finished the old prophet, and was afterwards killed by a lion, who next refrained from additional injuring him, the emblem he was riding, or the old prophet, who ulterior picked up the unit for funeral. The old diviner later requested to be lower-level beside the nameless soothsayer since he knew that his prophecy was going to be fulfilled.

In this account we revise that the Lord doesn't degrade His expectations for us, even after a all-powerful protest of belief. Second, even nevertheless the Lord will recurrently confer us next to apocalyptical confirmations of His language unit to us, we should be highly queer of any contrary, technically prophetic oral communication from others, peculiarly those confidentially connected beside race we know are flesh and blood in sedition to the Lord. Third, the Lord expects us to decent recognise His expression to us and utterly obey, in malevolence of any statements to the contrary by others misleadingly claiming to be prophesying for the Lord.

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