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Shooting the messenger!
Some people excel in this! They get so excited over the message that they go for the messenger’s jugular! So it was with Ahab, king of Israel. He just couldn’t stomach the fact that the Lord’s prophet Micaiah spoke a contrary word when 400 other prophets mouthed soothing words that Ahab wanted to hear, one of them, Zedekiah even going theatrical!
Perhaps a subtler lesson that we could learn from this episode is that prophecy can be bought. That there are plain prophets and that there are the prophets of the Lord and that the customers are not shy of dangling carrots even in front of the latter!
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*25 July, setting 1 January as Day 1