A STRANGE STORY
I Kings chapter 13 tells a remarkably strange story. It is the story of a man of God and a lying prophet.
The setting is the early days following the division of God’s people into the Northern Kingdom (called Israel) led by King Jeroboam and the Southern Kingdom (called Judah) led by King Rehoboam, Solomon’s son.
One of the first things Jeroboam had done after breaking away from Judah was to establish rival worship centers. Bethel and Dan were set up in the North to give Israel a Temple mirroring the one in Jerusalem. The big problem was these northern “temples” were pagan in nature. Continue reading