Honor ,Adversity and Time

1 Kings 2:36-46 (New King James Version)


36 Then the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and dwell there, and do not go out from there anywhere. 37 For it shall be, on the day you go out and cross the Brook Kidron, know for certain you shall surely die; your blood shall be on your own head.”



38 And Shimei said to the king, “The saying is good. As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do.” So Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.


39 Now it happened at the end of three years, that two slaves of Shimei ran away to Achish the son of Maachah, king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, “Look, your slaves are in Gath!” 40 So Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Achish at Gath to seek his slaves. And Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath. 41 And Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had come back. 42 Then the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the LORD, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain that on the day you go out and travel anywhere, you shall surely die’? And you said to me, ‘The word I have heard is good.’ 43 Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD and the commandment that I gave you?” 44 The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know, as your heart acknowledges, all the wickedness that you did to my father David; therefore the LORD will return your wickedness on your own head. 45 But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD forever.”


46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out and struck him down, and he died. Thus the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
 
 

We see above that The LORD takes Honor very seriously. This man in this scripture was given a second chance, like I was. He was blessed by the king, told to build a home. He prospered in this protection and cover. Yet because time had passed and a circumstance arose, he dishonored the goodness and The word of the king, and did exactly what he was warned not to do.

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Isaiah 42

 ¹ “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold,
      My Elect One in whom My soul delights!
      I have put My Spirit upon Him;
      He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.
       ² He will not cry out, nor raise His voice,
      Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.
       ³ A bruised reed He will not break,
      And smoking flax He will not quench;
      He will bring forth justice for truth.
       ⁴ He will not fail nor be discouraged,
      Till He has established justice in the earth;
      And the coastlands shall wait for His law.”
       ⁵ Thus says God the LORD,
      Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
      Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it,
      Who gives breath to the people on it,
      And spirit to those who walk on it:
       ⁶ “ I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness,
      And will hold Your hand;
      I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people,
      As a light to the Gentiles,
       ⁷ To open blind eyes,
      To bring out prisoners from the prison,
      Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.
       ⁸ I am the LORD, that is My name;
      And My glory I will not give to another,
      Nor My praise to carved images.
       ⁹ Behold, the former things have come to pass,
      And new things I declare;
      Before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

    ¹⁰ Sing to the LORD a new song,
      And His praise from the ends of the earth,
      You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,
      You coastlands and you inhabitants of them!
       ¹¹ Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice,
      The villages that Kedar inhabits.
      Let the inhabitants of Sela sing,
      Let them shout from the top of the mountains.
       ¹² Let them give glory to the LORD,
      And declare His praise in the coastlands.
       ¹³ The LORD shall go forth like a mighty man;
      He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war.
      He shall cry out, yes, shout aloud;
      He shall prevail against His enemies.

    ¹⁴ “ I have held My peace a long time,
      I have been still and restrained Myself.
      Now I will cry like a woman in labor,
      I will pant and gasp at once.
       ¹⁵ I will lay waste the mountains and hills,
      And dry up all their vegetation;
      I will make the rivers coastlands,
      And I will dry up the pools.
       ¹⁶ I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;
      I will lead them in paths they have not known.
      I will make darkness light before them,
      And crooked places straight.
      These things I will do for them,
      And not forsake them.
       ¹⁷ They shall be turned back,
      They shall be greatly ashamed,
      Who trust in carved images,
      Who say to the molded images,

      ‘ You are our gods.’
       ¹⁸ “ Hear, you deaf;
      And look, you blind, that you may see.
       ¹⁹ Who is blind but My servant,
      Or deaf as My messenger whom I send?
      Who is blind as he who is perfect,
      And blind as the LORD’s servant?
       ²⁰ Seeing many things, but you do not observe;
      Opening the ears, but he does not hear.”

    ²¹ The LORD is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake;
      He will exalt the law and make it honorable.
       ²² But this is a people robbed and plundered;
      All of them are snared in holes,
      And they are hidden in prison houses;
      They are for prey, and no one delivers;
      For plunder, and no one says, “Restore!”
       ²³ Who among you will give ear to this?
      Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
       ²⁴ Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers?
      Was it not the LORD,
      He against whom we have sinned?
      For they would not walk in His ways,
      Nor were they obedient to His law.
       ²⁵ Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger
      And the strength of battle;
      It has set him on fire all around,
      Yet he did not know;
      And it burned him,
      Yet he did not take it to heart.


AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pray!!!!!!!!!!!!

If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave, and require of necessity My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.