And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king. Let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people!
“Do not preach”—thus they preach— “one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.”
but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”
By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery.
who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,
He says in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”
But you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
they gathered together as one to fight against Joshua and Israel.
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