Are You Serious? (Lesson 3)

Exploring God’s Judgment

2 Kings 9:30-37 NASB

(30)  When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out the window.

(31)  As Jehu entered the gate, she said, "Is it well, Zimri, your master's murderer?"

(32)  Then he lifted up his face to the window and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" And two or three officials looked down at him.

(33)  He said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down, and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her under foot.

(34)  When he came in, he ate and drank; and he said, "See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king's daughter."

(35)  They went to bury her, but they found nothing more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.

(36)  Therefore they returned and told him. And he said, "This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 'In the property of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel;

(37)  and the corpse of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field in the property of Jezreel, so they cannot say, "This is Jezebel."'"

You cannot run from God’s Judgement.

This week, we continue to explore the extent of God’s Judgment.  When Jezebel designed her scheme take Naboth’s land for Ahab, Elijah told her that the dogs would eat her flesh.  Now we see in these verses that Jehu comes for her and persuades her own guards to throw her from the balcony.

As she lay dead on the ground, Jehu goes in to eat.  He then tells his men that she is a King’s Daughter and sends them out to get her and to bury her.  When they go out, they find that God had executed his judgment to the letter.  The dogs had indeed eaten her and the only thing left was her skull, feet and hands.

Jezebel faced judgement like she did everything else in life, with arrogance and pride.  The Bible teaches that we have all sinned and come short of the glory of God.  It is only through the blood of Jesus we are saved.  If we fail to accept Jesus, we will certainly face God’s Judgement.  You cannot run from God’s Judgement.