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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
2 Kings 9:16-29
Jehu is an astute man, and full of energy. His plan is no sooner worked out than it is carried into execution. Followed by a loyal band, he drives his chariot to his destination at Jezreel. We think, as we see him, of the Horseman, followed by the armies of heaven, going out to accomplish the judgment of "the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God". His Name is "The Word of God", and also "The King of kings and Lord of lords": in other words, Christ Himself. Then the time of grace will have come to an an end (Revelation 19:11-16)
"Is it peace?" asks Joram anxiously through his messengers and then again when he came face to face with the one sent to dispense justice upon him. Now what does the Bible say? "There is no peace . . . to the wicked" (Isaiah 57:21). On the contrary, "when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them" (1 Thessalonians 5:3). The moment has come for the ungodly king to render account. Grace had often been preached to him through Elisha. But the king remained deaf to his words. "Treason!" he cries. "Retribution!" he should rather have said, for it is the hand of God which pierces him to the heart and causes his body to be cast into this very field of Naboth where, in accordance with the infallible prophecy, the end of the bloodstained house of Ahab had come to pass.
