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GOOD AND EVIL IN JEUU.
LESSON II, SECOND QUARTER, IN
TERNATlONAL SERIES, APRIL IL.

! LESSON ", SECONO QUAR- EhJ iN-
TERNATlONAL SERIES, APRIL IL.
Text of tho Lesson, II Kings v, 1881.
Commit Verses, 1920 Golden Text,
Il Sam. xvi, documentary by the Eov.
u. NJ. Stearps.
Compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by rcr.
mission of II. S. Hoffman, publisher, Philadol
phia
IS. "And Jehu athcred all the people to-
gether"
We find this mans name nearly forty
times in this and the preceding chapter,
and not over dozen times elsewhere. He
is evidently the Lords minister of judg-
mert upon sin and sinners, but does not APP
pear to have been true worshiper Of the
true God.
10. 81 have = great sacrifice to do Baal."
Thus said Jehu as he commanded to he
gathered together all the prophets, priests
and servants of Banl that he might destroy
them. Baal WIS the chief male deity of
the phnnicianS and Cauaanites. The word
signifies master or possessor, aud is used
fifteen times in this chapter, which is more
} often than it is found in any other chapter
in the Bible The worship of Baal meant
the forSahing Of the Only true God, the God
of Israel, and an identification with the false
religions OF the nations, and was great
provocation of Jehovah.
90 "And Jchu said, Proclaim a solemn
assembly for Baal"
His purpose is stated in the previous
verse to have been that lie might destroy
the worshipers of I}aal, but he is doing 1T
deoeitfully, ana God of truth cannot de-
ceve nor authorize deceit.
81. and Jehu sent through all Israel;
: and all the worshipers of Bual came. so
that there was not a man LETT that came
not"
{ And we read that the house OF Blal was
t full from one end to the other. Here is
a devotion worthy of better cause, but it is
/ even so to this present day.
~. Bring forth vestments for all the
I worshipers of Baal. And he brought them
y forth vestments.'
= Thus while outwardly honoring them
y and seemingly encouraging them be WAS
t robiug them for slaughter. Death, not
IS life, was before them, and it was death
+ leading to the second death The separa-
ton OF soul and body is not to be dreaded
if we are clothed with Christs righteous
. ness.
# % "Jehu and Jchonadab the son of Re
h chHb,"
a See in verse Is the greeting and union Of
!
a. story of the descendants OF Jonadab, read
it in ,Ier Xxxv, and mark the blessings Of
l. obedience.
/. search and look that there be here with
l., you none of the servants of the Lord, but
"a the worshipers Of Baal only"
" How would such proclamation affect
N the people who gather at the popular
! places OF amusement in our day.
d "a And when they went in to offer sac
ritices and burnt offerings"
Here is Jehu officiating as a priest OF
~, Baal, while at the same time he iuStr1lcts
II eighty men that on penalty of death they
- are not to allow one of those present to
a escape with his life. Compare Elijah prov
~ ing before all the people that Jehovah is
II God, as he offered sacrifice unto Him, and
q then slew the pro jhets of Baal after show
VI Ing them their folly. With Elijah all was
open and righteous. The way OF Jehu j.
not so. God commissioned him to destroy
20 I}nal but God did not commission him tc
III practice deceit or to worship Baal.
%. go i'll and Stay them; let none come
n forth"
10. This is the obcdient part, As when the
LevteS went in and out throughout tn,
camp and slew every man, his brother ano
companion and neighbor, because of theii
IL stu against God Thus will everlasting
ueSl Tl'l ION lIil!i llt pr ot!lCt VI blt
~, some day overtake all who know not Go,
ne and obey not the gospel III Tnes- i, 5, -.
Ia rs. And they brought forth the image
4. out OF the house of Batl and burned them.
Not only the idolaters but their idol
does He destroy
%. And tuey brake down the image 0
A., Bial, and brake down the house Of Baal
IT, and made it draught house unto thi
Ter day"
,a' The whole house of Satan, for he is tn
u. prince of idols and idolaters, shall yet lin
itself without the City and completed
broken down.
{. IS Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out Of L,
M rael."
ST, 1t was sore evil, and required sever
cn treatment and received it. 1t seems t
az have been Jehu's special mission to pu
away this iniquity; but he did not win l.
rael back to God, we shall see. 1t is on
ILL., thing TO put away evil, but quite auothe
~, to make people righteous.
"a 20 "Howbeit, from the sins of Jeroboar
t.. the son of Nehat, who made Israel TO sill
ooi Jehu departed not from after them
Surely, if we believed that our sins Nigh
reach to many generations, as did the sin
d.. Of this man, the most ungodly might l.
HE led 10 ponder well their ways IL Is a fea
Sol. full thing to depart from the living God {
90 lead others go to do.
y. 30 and the Lord said unto Jehu B
l. cause thou hast done we'll in cAecutin
that which is right in mine eyes.
He is commended for his thorough JUDI
, mcnt upon the house of Ahab. Contra
e. the Lack of thoroughness in Saul whe
Cd sent to destroy AmaIek Il sam. XIV, al
"es The Lord does not commend Jehu's decei
vide While lie commends the faith Of Rahab
Ing Jericho He docs not commend her deco
uEe either. lie cannot commend what
the wrong in any one. In the parable Of Il
unjust steward (Luke xvii it is not Il
Lord Jesus who commends his frauduleI
-, treatment of his master but it is his ow
ma. lord or master who considers him a shrew
tur- fellow To thus make provision Tor his fu
Tor ure.
- Thy children of the fourth gcneratir
shall sat on the throne of Israel"