W. Robert Godfrey
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2,522 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 31 Jul
W. Robert Godfrey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And we're told in 1 Kings 16 that Ahab was an idolater, a polluter of the name of God.
a betrayer of the name of God.
Ahab was guilty of following the sin of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which meant he was guilty of violating the second commandment, claiming to worship the true God, but worshiping the true God falsely.
That's the sin of the second commandment.
That's the sin that Jeroboam had committed when he left the house of David, when he left the temple of God in Jerusalem and headed north to Samaria to build his own temple, to establish his own priesthood, to introduce his own sacrifices.
And he was an idolater, a betrayer of God.
But that was not enough for Ahab.
He had married a pagan woman, Jezebel, who had brought with her to Samaria her pagan gods, Baal and the Asherah.
And Ahab, as if it was not enough to violate the second commandment, had to violate the first commandment and built a temple to Baal and a temple to the Asherah and went in and worshipped.
Now, you have to bear in mind, he was a good guy.
He was making peace between religions.
He hadn't deserted the Lord.
He still worshipped the Lord.
but he had to honor his wife and worship her gods too.
How narrow-minded of you to be critical.
This is the situation to which the Lord sent Elijah.
And Elijah is saying to Ahab, it doesn't matter how successful you are in every area of your life besides worship.
If you have failed in your worship of the Lord,
You have failed in your most essential calling, and God has come to judge you.
My word is to bring judgment upon you, and the judgment is this, there'll be no rain in Israel for three and a half years.
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