Competing Voices – 1 Kings 20 & 22

1 Kings 20 & 22

We live in a world of competing voices, and in one sense since the Garden onward human beings have been given a choice, hear and heed the Word of the Creator or heed the voice of our own desires or the voice of Satan. Ahab is a man who is often confronted with competing voices and given the chance of who he will listen to. Now we see the Conclusion of First Kings – not a great climax, basically a report of the decline and folly of the kingdoms. At the end of this narrative Israel needs a better King and Prophet. And so do we! This Prophet-King is Jesus, and He is the Word of God made flesh.