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Famine in Samaria - The Book of 2 Kings · Bible in a Year with Jack Graham

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  Speaker 1: Let us pray. And the king said unto her, What
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  Speaker 1: aileth thee? Then she answered, This woman said unto me,
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  Speaker 1: Give thy son, that we may eat him today, and
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  Speaker 1: we will eat my son tomorrow. 2 Kings 6.28 Heavenly Father,
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  Speaker 1: when difficult moments arise, keep my heart and my mind
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  Speaker 1: steadfast on you. I will not lose focus on what
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  Speaker 1: is important, but instead I will keep my heart and
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  Speaker 1: my thoughts centered on you and your word. I will
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  Speaker 1: not allow the drought of this world to cause me
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  Speaker 1: to compromise my beliefs and devour the promise that you
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  Speaker 1: to cause me to harm others in my life simply
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  Speaker 1: because I'm upset or I don't have the answers I desire. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: open my life up and bless me with supernatural abundance
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  Speaker 1: and provision, like you did for the lepers in 2
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  Speaker 1: Kings 6.24-7.20. As you do, give me the access to
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  Speaker 1: tell others where your blessings are flowing, so that they
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  Speaker 3: Famine in Samaria In our last story, we saw Elisha
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  Speaker 3: avoid the wrath of the armies of Aram. The Lord
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  Speaker 3: confused them and lured them into a trap by blinding
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  Speaker 3: them to the identity of Elisha. He led them into
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  Speaker 3: the capital of Israel, where they were at the mercy
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  Speaker 3: of the king's army. However, instead of killing them, they
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  Speaker 3: showed mercy. As a result, Aram and Israel lived at
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  Speaker 3: peace with one another. Now we hear about one of
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  Speaker 3: the darkest stories in Israel's history. A story of a
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  Speaker 3: famine so harsh that people were forced into the greatest
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  Speaker 3: sin anyone could commit. Yet even in this, moments of
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  Speaker 3: redemption are awaiting Israel. Inspired by the book of 2 Kings.
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  Speaker 2: This is Jack Graham with today's episode of the Bible
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  Speaker 2: in a Year podcast. In the last reading, we heard
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  Speaker 2: how God blinded the soldiers of Aram who had surrounded
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  Speaker 2: Elisha the prophet. Elisha had seen God's army, his angel
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  Speaker 2: army there to protect him and had not wavered in
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  Speaker 2: his faith despite the enemy at his doorstep. We then
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  Speaker 2: saw how God worked through Elisha to bring peace between
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  Speaker 2: Israel and Aram, as the Israelis showed mercy and kindness
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  Speaker 2: to the enemy and did not kill even when doing
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  Speaker 2: so would have been very easy and within their rights.
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  Speaker 2: Today we'll turn to an event that's truly hard to understand,
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  Speaker 2: a famine so intense and a people so desperate that
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  Speaker 2: they turn to unspeakable acts and commit grievous sin in
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  Speaker 2: a desperate attempt to stay alive. So let's listen now
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  Speaker 2: to this reading from God's Word.
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  Speaker 3: Israel enjoyed a brief moment of peace and prosperity. Conflict
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  Speaker 3: with the Arameans had ceased, and all seemed well. However,
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  Speaker 3: evil lurked in the darkness beyond the borders of Israel. Ben-Hadad,
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  Speaker 3: the king of Syria, had planned a deadly insurgence on Samaria,
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  Speaker 3: the capital of Israel. The shining jewel of a once
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  Speaker 3: prosperous nation crumbled under the boot of Syria's vast army.
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  Speaker 3: Women were taken as prostitutes and slaves, men were murdered
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  Speaker 3: on the battlefield, and children were left without homes. Even worse,
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  Speaker 3: the armies of Syria made its home less than a
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  Speaker 3: hundred miles away to raid Israel again and again. As
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  Speaker 3: a result, Samaria fell into a famine unlike any in
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  Speaker 3: its history. Samaria wept like a broken and dying orphan.
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  Speaker 3: Hunger lingered like a dull blade lodged in someone's stomach.
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  Speaker 3: Even the king himself walked the city streets with pain
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  Speaker 3: and hunger. Food became so scarce that a donkey's head
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  Speaker 3: sold for over 80 shekels of silver. Dove's dung was
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  Speaker 3: sold as food for five shekels. The children of Israel
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  Speaker 3: were driven to madness, too hungry and thirsty to think
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  Speaker 3: rationally or selflessly. With the hunger came chaos. One morning
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  Speaker 3: the king was walking among the city near the border wall.
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  Speaker 3: His lungs filled up with dust and his lips were
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  Speaker 3: parched from lack of water. He looked at his people.
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  Speaker 3: The pain of seeing them die slowly was greater than
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  Speaker 3: the hunger pains in his stomach. To make matters worse,
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  Speaker 3: there was no way to defend against Syrian attack since
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  Speaker 3: his soldiers were starved. He would have cried, but his
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  Speaker 3: body was devoid of water. He could not spare a
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  Speaker 3: single tear. The king leaned against the wall and surveyed
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  Speaker 3: his broken kingdom. As he was stumbling through the city,
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  Speaker 3: he heard a shout. Help, my lord! The king turned
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  Speaker 3: to see a woman. The woman looked as if she
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  Speaker 3: was once very beautiful. However, hunger took away her color.
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  Speaker 3: Her once dark and healthy hair was thin and gray.
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  Speaker 3: Her eyes reflected great pain and sorrow. She was, in
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  Speaker 3: many ways, a perfect image of the state of Israel.
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  Speaker 3: The king shook his head in despair. How could I
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  Speaker 3: help you? If the Lord has not helped us, how
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  Speaker 3: on earth could I possibly aid you? The king's voice
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  Speaker 3: choked up. He felt helpless. His people needed him, and
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  Speaker 3: he could do nothing but despair alongside them. He looked
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  Speaker 3: up at her. She looked completely broken. Her thin frame
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  Speaker 3: was trembling in its place. Her frail face looked up
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  Speaker 3: at the king with longing and helplessness. The king sighed.
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  Speaker 3: What is your need? he asked. We ate him, she said.
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  Speaker 3: There was a pause for a moment. The king's heart
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  Speaker 3: grew heavier as she watched the woman crumble with grief.
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  Speaker 3: My neighbor and I agreed to eat our sons, our babies.
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  Speaker 3: The words seemed almost like a cruel joke, but the
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  Speaker 3: woman spoke with complete seriousness. We agreed to eat my
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  Speaker 3: son yesterday and her son today. So we boiled my
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  Speaker 3: child and ate him. and now the woman and her
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  Speaker 3: boy are nowhere to be found. The darkness of her
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  Speaker 3: words shrouded the king in sorrow. Righteous anger welled up
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  Speaker 3: inside him. His fist pressed against the wall, and he
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  Speaker 3: tore his clothes. He did not blame the woman for
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  Speaker 3: what she did, nor did he blame the other woman
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  Speaker 3: for leaving with her son to save him. The king
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  Speaker 3: blamed only one man for all this suffering. He blamed
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  Speaker 3: the man of God. He blamed Elisha. May God put
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  Speaker 3: me to death if I do not have Elisha's head
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  Speaker 3: falling from his shoulders by the end of the day.
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  Speaker 3: So the king sent out his commander to Elisha to
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  Speaker 3: lure him in so he might be murdered. Elisha sat
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  Speaker 3: in his home surrounded by the elders of Israel. The
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  Speaker 3: men were standing beside a fire. No food, no wine,
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  Speaker 3: no water. Before the commander approached the house, Elisha spoke
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  Speaker 3: to the elders quietly. The king has dispatched a murderer
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  Speaker 3: to slay me. When he comes, shut the door and
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  Speaker 3: hold it against him. His master will not be far behind.
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  Speaker 3: As he was speaking, a knocking was heard from the
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  Speaker 3: front of the house. The king's commander was behind the door,
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  Speaker 3: doing his best to seem harmless and well-intentioned. He heard
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  Speaker 3: no response from the house, so he knocked again.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing.
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  Speaker 3: After waiting for a long while, he tried to enter
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  Speaker 3: the home to no avail. The commander was angry now
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  Speaker 3: and yelled through the door, This plague is from the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: Why should I wait on him any longer for help?
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  Speaker 3: His outburst confirmed Elisha's theory. People blamed God and him
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  Speaker 3: for their troubles. In reality, it was the Syrians. But
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  Speaker 3: any time discomfort or pain was experienced, people believed it
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  Speaker 3: must have been the spiteful playing of an angry God.
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  Speaker 3: Elisha approached the door and spoke calmly through it. Hear
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  Speaker 3: the word of God. Tomorrow at about this time, flour, barley,
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  Speaker 3: and gold will flow through the gate of Samaria. Ha!
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  Speaker 3: the captain explained. Has the Lord finally made windows in
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  Speaker 3: heaven to see our plight and send favors?
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  Speaker 2: He asked.
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  Speaker 3: His words were spiteful and filled with cynicism. Hear me,
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  Speaker 3: Elisha said again. You shall see it all with your
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  Speaker 3: own eyes, but you will taste none of it yourself.
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  Speaker 3: With those words, the commander left, filled with doubt, frustration,
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  Speaker 3: and hunger. Meanwhile, at the edge of the gate of Samaria,
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  Speaker 3: there were four lepers resting in the shade of the
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  Speaker 3: mighty wall. Not only were their bodies outwardly wasting away
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  Speaker 3: from their disease, but their inward parts were being consumed
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  Speaker 3: by hunger. Lepers were not allowed in the city for
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  Speaker 3: fear of the disease spreading, so they were doomed to
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  Speaker 3: rot outside the gates. One of them looked to the
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  Speaker 3: distance beyond Israel. Pillars of smoke could be seen where
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  Speaker 3: the Syrian camp was. Why are we just sitting here
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  Speaker 3: until our inevitable deaths, he said. If we stay, we
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  Speaker 3: die of hunger. If you go into the city, we
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  Speaker 3: die of hunger or stoning. He sighed and looked back
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  Speaker 3: at the horizon. But if we go to the Syrian camp,
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  Speaker 3: maybe they will have pity on us and give us food.
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  Speaker 3: Or they will just kill us. and we'll die, leaving
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  Speaker 3: us no worse off than we were before. The plan
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  Speaker 3: seemed rational, so the four lepers limped their way towards
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  Speaker 3: the Syrian camp. It was twilight and darkness had just
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  Speaker 3: begun to cover the empty skies. The lepers drew closer
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  Speaker 3: to the camp, expecting bonfires and torches to illuminate the path. Instead,
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  Speaker 3: all they saw was darkness. Coals were burning off the
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  Speaker 3: last of their heat and pits. Food, weapons, and supplies
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  Speaker 3: were thrown around as if they had been dropped in
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  Speaker 3: a hurry. The camp itself was completely empty of any Syrians.
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  Speaker 3: As it turned out, earlier that day the Lord had
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  Speaker 3: sent a confusing wind to rush through the canyons beyond
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  Speaker 3: the Syrian camp. Thundrous noises burst through the valley beside them,
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  Speaker 3: giving the illusion of a great army approaching. Out of
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  Speaker 3: fear of ambush, the Syrians left in a hurry, leaving
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  Speaker 3: all their plunders, horses, food, and tents behind. The lepers
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  Speaker 3: could barely contain their excitement. They immediately filled their bellies
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  Speaker 3: with food, wine, and water. They ransacked the camp for
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  Speaker 3: all valuables, gold, silver, and flour. All of the sudden,
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  Speaker 3: these four forgotten lepers were the richest men in Israel.
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  Speaker 3: They took the mules and packed them with flour, barley, gold,
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  Speaker 3: and water. Then they hid them for themselves. As they
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  Speaker 3: were unpacking the mules, a gentle nudge of God's Spirit
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  Speaker 3: came upon them. All of the sudden, their eyes were
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  Speaker 3: opened to what they were doing.' This isn't right,' they said.'
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  Speaker 3: We ought to share this good news with the king,
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  Speaker 3: so all can enjoy this blessing.' It was still dark,
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  Speaker 3: but the lepers wasted no time. They ran towards the
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  Speaker 3: gatekeeper and told him everything. He ran to the king
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  Speaker 3: and woke him up. When the king heard of this,
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  Speaker 3: he leapt to his feet in excitement. However, a rush
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  Speaker 3: of skepticism followed. How do we know this isn't a trap?
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  Speaker 3: he asked himself. So the king sent two horsemen to
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  Speaker 3: scout the area and make sure the Syrians had truly left.
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  Speaker 3: On their travels, they saw remnants of Syrian clothing, weapons,
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  Speaker 3: and jewelry. proof that they had left in haste. So
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  Speaker 3: all the people were given permission to storm the Syrian
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  Speaker 3: camp and finally find food. Silently and subtly, the Lord
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  Speaker 3: provided for the needs of his people. The people were
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  Speaker 3: ravenous and rejoiced in the taste of fresh food for
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  Speaker 3: the first time in months. They returned to Samaria with
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  Speaker 3: the spoils. The crowd was so large that they posed
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  Speaker 3: a danger to the city gates. So the king appointed
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  Speaker 3: his commander to oversee the gates. He stood at attention
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  Speaker 3: and watched the tidal wave of people approaching with flour
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  Speaker 3: and barley. The commander's heart sank as he remembered the
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  Speaker 3: words of Elisha. Hear the word of God. Tomorrow at
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  Speaker 3: about this time, flour, barley, and gold will flow through
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  Speaker 3: the gate of Samaria. The words echoed in his mind
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  Speaker 3: as he watched the people approach with more flour, barley,
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  Speaker 3: and gold than he had seen in his life. But
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  Speaker 3: then he remembered what Elisha said afterwards. You shall see
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  Speaker 3: it all with your own eyes, but you will taste
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  Speaker 3: none of it yourself. As those words resonated in his memory,
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  Speaker 3: the sea of people crashed upon the city gates. The
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  Speaker 3: commander did his best to stop them, but he was
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  Speaker 3: knocked over and trampled to death.
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  Speaker 2: As we open today's scripture, the peace Israel had enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: for a time has been shattered by the Syrian king
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  Speaker 2: and his armies. They invaded Israel's capital city, Samaria, and
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  Speaker 2: slaughtered men, enslaved women, and left countless orphans. It was
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  Speaker 2: truly the darkest of times in the kingdom, but things
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  Speaker 2: were only going to get worse. The Syrians set up
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  Speaker 2: an outpost nearby that allowed them to come back again
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  Speaker 2: and again to attack, pillage, and kill. Samaria was plunged
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  Speaker 2: into severe famine that even the most unpalatable foods like
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  Speaker 2: donkey heads and dove dung were worth their weight in silver.
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  Speaker 2: One day, as the king walked along the wall of
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  Speaker 2: the city, a woman cried to him for help. Though
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  Speaker 2: he could not help her, he asked what her trouble was.
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  Speaker 2: Her answer revealed that desperation was so high that some
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  Speaker 2: had turned to an unthinkable evil. This woman told the
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  Speaker 2: king that she and another woman had agreed to boil
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  Speaker 2: their babies and eat them. She had gone first, killing
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  Speaker 2: her own child and consuming him with the other woman.
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  Speaker 2: But now the other woman had hidden her child, refusing
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  Speaker 2: to hold up to her end of the agreement. Life
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  Speaker 2: has now lost all value in the face of such
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  Speaker 2: need and oppression. It's such a sad commentary on the
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  Speaker 2: state of Samaria that mothers were sacrificing their own babies
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  Speaker 2: so that they could continue to live. This woman's story
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  Speaker 2: was too much for the king. He tore his clothes
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  Speaker 2: in anger and mourning. He had every reason to be
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  Speaker 2: angry and filled with sorrow, but what happened next revealed
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  Speaker 2: how misdirected his anger was. He vowed to kill Elisha,
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  Speaker 2: God's prophet, that very day. He was sure it was
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  Speaker 2: Elisha's fault that all of this was happening. In effect,
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  Speaker 2: he was blaming God for these circumstances. Elisha was just
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  Speaker 2: the closest target. So he sent his commander to bring
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  Speaker 2: Elisha out of his home and murder him. When the
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  Speaker 2: commander could not get Elisha to come out, He grew frustrated,
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  Speaker 2: and in his frustration revealed that, just like the king,
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  Speaker 2: he blamed God for what was going on. We read
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  Speaker 2: his words in 2 Kings 6.33. The messenger came down
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  Speaker 2: to him and said, The trouble is from the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Why should I wait for the Lord any longer? Before
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  Speaker 2: we judge the king and his commander too harshly, we
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  Speaker 2: might want to think and consider how we are often
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  Speaker 2: guilty of blaming God for other things. When things aren't
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  Speaker 2: going our way, or if Life is in disarray or
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  Speaker 2: some tragedy that we cannot explain has come upon us.
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  Speaker 2: Do we turn to God for help and wait on
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  Speaker 2: him and trust in him? Or do we blame our problems,
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  Speaker 2: our troubles, our struggles, or accuse him in ways that
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  Speaker 2: are unconscionable? God had not caused this trouble. It was
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  Speaker 2: the Syrian army, the enemy, who had attacked and taken Samaria.
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  Speaker 2: God was not the source.
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  Speaker 1: Of their trouble.
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  Speaker 2: But as Elisha was about to tell them, God would
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  Speaker 2: be the source of their rescue. He told the commander
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  Speaker 2: that the very next day, food would come through the
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  Speaker 2: gates of Samaria. Barley, flour, and even gold would enter
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  Speaker 2: the gates. The commander scoffed at this promise. He wasn't
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  Speaker 2: just being doubtful, he was being unbelieving. And his lack
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  Speaker 2: of faith or no faith was going to cost him.
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  Speaker 2: Elisha told him that what he said was true and
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  Speaker 2: that the commander would see it with his own eyes
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  Speaker 2: but never taste it for himself. And just as Elisha
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  Speaker 2: the prophet said, God provided. Four lepers who lived outside
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  Speaker 2: the walls ventured into the Syrian camp. They supposed that
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  Speaker 2: they would either receive food or a swift death, and
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  Speaker 2: either would be welcomed outcomes. But as they entered the camp,
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  Speaker 2: they found it empty. God had sent a mighty wind
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  Speaker 2: and a thunderous noise to strike fear and confusion into
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  Speaker 2: the enemy, and they had all fled, leaving behind what? flour, barley,
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  Speaker 2: and gold. The four men initially planned to keep it
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  Speaker 2: all to themselves, but God moved in them and they
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  Speaker 2: ran to Samaria to tell the king. And just as
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  Speaker 2: God had promised to Elisha, the next day, barley, flour,
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  Speaker 2: gold entered the gates of the city. Rescue had come
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  Speaker 2: in the most unlikely and supernatural of ways. This was
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  Speaker 2: the work of God. The commander at the gate saw
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  Speaker 2: it all, but in a sudden rush of people, that
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  Speaker 2: man was trampled underfoot and died. We may never know
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  Speaker 2: or understand why bad things happen to us. It's an
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  Speaker 2: ancient question, isn't it? Why do bad things happen to people?
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  Speaker 2: Why is there suffering? Why are there tragedies in life?
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  Speaker 2: We've wrestled with these kinds of questions for thousands of years.
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  Speaker 2: But here's what we know. We know that God loves us,
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  Speaker 2: that God is working always in our behalf to those
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  Speaker 2: of us who know and love him. Romans 8, 28
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  Speaker 2: in the New Testament says, for we know that God
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  Speaker 2: is working all things together for the good to those
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  Speaker 2: who love the Lord and who are called according to
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  Speaker 2: his purpose. Yes, God is good. He does good. And
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  Speaker 2: he's working all things together for good to those who
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  Speaker 2: trust in him. Dear God, we thank you for your
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  Speaker 2: word to us today. It's a very hard story to read,
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  Speaker 2: and we admit that we don't often understand the reason
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  Speaker 2: for tragedy and pain. We can't understand why a woman
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  Speaker 2: would take the life of a precious child. But we
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  Speaker 2: thank you that always you are there for us with
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  Speaker 2: mercy and grace to provide for us and our needs,
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  Speaker 2: that you are working all things together for our good
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  Speaker 2: and your glory. Help us to believe in you, even
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  Speaker 2: when we don't see our way through, that we look
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  Speaker 2: to you. In Jesus' name, amen. Thank you for listening
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