Biblical Prophets - Bible Study Online

Now we come at a point in this account that is very sad and a valuable lesson to be learned.

We are now told of a false prophet that lived in Beth-el, who sons had seen everything that the man of God had did at the altar.

They went back and told there father everything that had happened.

Upon hearing these things the false prophet, had asked which way did the prophet go?

His sons then pointed to the road that the prophet had taken.

The false prophet then saddled up his donkey and rode after him. He then found this man of God sitting under an oak tree, and asked him if he was the man of God that came from Judah?

The man of God replied and told him that yes, he was indeed that man. So then the false prophet had ask him to come home with him and dine at his house.

Then once again the man of God had to refuse the invite for they went against God's original instructions.

But then the false prophet lied to the man of God by stating that he too was a man of God, and that an angel had told him to bring the prophet back to his house and give him bread and water to drink. But like I stated before, he was lying.

So the man of God decided to go against the instructions that God had given him personally and went back with the false prophet and dined at his house.

Now while they were eating, the word of the Lord came to the old prophet and this is what He said:

After the man of God had heard this, he finished eating and drinking and then the old prophet saddle up his donkey and sent the man of God on his way.

Now while the man of God was traveling back on the donkey, a lion had jumped out and attacked and killed the prophet from Judah.

Now the lion did not attack the donkey. The Bible also states that the lion did not eat on the prophet from Judah body.

Now I point this out because although the prophet had to suffer death, he was not brutally mauled by the lion, for the lion did not ravage the man body.

Now word had gotten back to the false prophet who had lied to the man of God in the first place. So when the false prophet had heard about the man of God being killed.

He had his sons to saddle up his donkey and he went out to retrieve the body.

Now the false prophet and his sons took the body back to the city of Beth-el and thy mourned over him and called him brother. Then the false prophet had told his sons to bury the man of God in his tomb.

He further instructed his sons that when he dies, for them to bury his body in the same tomb, and place it as close to the prophet bones as possible.

Now some people may think that this death was totally unfair to the man of God. Well if you look at it in a natural sense I would have to agree.

But, did you know what happen in (2 Kings 23:17?) Well remember the prophesy that this man of God gave, that concerned Josiah (1 Kings 13: 2-3?)

Well, over 300 years later we find that the man this prophet named in his prophesy, was standing before the tomb he was buried in.

Josiah had already started tearing apart everything Jeroboam had built to the idol gods.

He then came across the man of God tomb, and while looking at it, he had asked his lieutenants that were around him, what was this tomb he was looking at?

Then the lieutenants answered that this is the tomb of the prophet who came from Judah and had pronounced the very things you have done against the altar of Beth-el.

Upon hearing this, king Josiah had gave the order for the men to not disturb the prophet bones.

So everything was destroyed from all the houses that were on high places to all the synagogues that were built unto Satan.

Everything was destroyed just like the prophesy the man of God had told. But his tomb was not disturb when all others were.

So what seem to be unfair at the beginning was more than made up in complete honor as the prophesy had passed.