Pastor Steve showed the progression of evil expanding its influence by showing us the Bible’s commentary on Ahab’s father, Omri. In I Kings 16:25, the Bible says, “But Omri did evil in the eyes of the LORD and sinned more than all those before him.” Omri’s son went further and the Bible says in I Kings 16:30, “Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the LORD than any of those before him.” In other words, the situation was bad.
It helps one’s mind get around evil by agreeing to a good definition. The definition that helped me the most was this: “Evil is NOT doing the right thing.” When evil grows in volume, it means that one is finding more and more ways to NOT do the right thing!
There are several paragraphs in the Bible that could serve as a list of evil, but I will point you to one of them. In 2 Timothy 3:1-5 we read, “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.”
Is this the same Ahad as in Ahab he Arab? I don’t believe so. The Ahab about whom Pastor Steve spoke was not an Arab. He was an Israelite which is to say he was a Jew.
-David Corts
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