The Sin of Jeroboam

Of all my posts I have written, I think I should have started with this one.  The sin of Jeroboam is the downfall of Christians today.  But it actually started with King Solomon.  He was the son of David. In the Torah there are rules for whoever is King over Israel.  In Deuteronmy 17:14-20 is says the king was not to have many wives, that his heart should turn away and not amass horses and  massives amounts of silver or gold.  He was to write a Torah Scroll and keep it with him and read from it all the day of his life to fear Yahweh, to keep the words of the Law and keep his statutes to do them.  But Solomon did have multiple wives, he amassed horses and had massive amounts of silver and gold. In fact in 1Kings 10:14, Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold.  Because of his multiple wives the bible says that he burned incense to foreigh gods and set up high places  (1Kings 3:3) and because of that his kingdom was being ripped from him (1Kings 11:6-11) and given to his son, Rehoboam and to Jeroboam, son of Nebat.  Rehoboam was king over the Southern Kingdom (Judah, Benjamin and Levites) and Jeroboam was king over the Northern Kingdom (Rueben, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Nephtali, Gad, Asher, Simeon, Joseph-Ephraim and Manassah). The people of the Northern Kingdom complained that Solomon put a heavy yoke on them and asked for a lighter one and they would serve him.  But Rehoboam did not listen to the elders and made it worse.  In the split of the two kingdoms Jerusaleum was in the Southern Kingdom.  Jeroboam was concerned that when the Israelites make their pilgrimage for the feasts that they would not return. 1Kings 12:26-33 So he set up two gold calves, one in Bethel and one in Dan. He told the people that it was too much for them to go to Jerusalem.  It became a sin.  He made a house of high places and made priests of lowly people, which were not of Levi (2 Chron. 11:14). He also ordained a feast like unto Judah on the 15th of the eighth month, offered upon the altar and burned incense.  Now Jeroboam was warned of this by a prophet, but he turned not from his evil way.  1 Kings 13:34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut [it] off, and to destroy [it] from off the face of the earth 1 Kings 12:26, 1 Kings 14:10.  From there we are told that Yahweh will root up Israel from the land. 1Kings 14:15,16  For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger. And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin. As one King after another (2 Kings 3, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 17, and 23) clung to the sin of Jeroboam and overtime Israel eventually would be taken captive by Assryia.  And Judah, the southern kingdom, was not innocent either. Judah sinned also was taken into Babylon.  But after the punishment was over Judah repented and was able to go back.  But when the punishemnt was up for the northern kingdom they didn't repent.  In the Torah it says if you don't repent in your sin, you are punished seven times more and if you continue seven times more (Lev. 26:18-28).  The House of Israel's punishment is 390 years (Ezekiel 4:4,5) but they didn't repent so they got another times seven.  They were to be scattered even more and He would walk contrary to them, just as they walked contrary to Him.  They never returned. 

But we will. The punishment is up.  We have been redeemed by Yeshua, but we need to repent, come out of Babylon (pagan ways, holidays, church, strange woman and evil man, etc.) and (re)turn to Him. The Strange woman in Proverbs means estranged.  She has been redeemed but still walking in darkness, transgressng the Law.  He is waiting.  He is long-suffering.  Repent, for the Kingdom is near.  Turn back to Torah, keep His Sabbaths, His New Moons, and His Feasts and eat only the foods that are sanctified by the Word, also know as those that He declares clean.

As with other posts.  I hope to add more over time. 

Written by: Jana D. Pindell