{"id":62507,"date":"2019-09-05T14:25:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T11:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=62507"},"modified":"2023-04-02T12:07:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T09:07:25","slug":"you-cant-pull-one-over-on-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/you-cant-pull-one-over-on-god\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can\u2019t Pull One Over On God"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[501,923,506],"acf":{"old_id":"62507","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33692,"related_cahpter":"301","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The attempt leads to a portent of the \"death\" of Jeroboam's royal dynasty","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bible contains many stories in which people dress in costume in an attempt to conceal their identity. In these incidents, the objective is not merely misrepresentation but to perpetrate an act of deception (e.g. I Kings 20:35-41, II Samuel 15). In this regard, the biblical story \u2014 that of Adam and Eve hiding in the Garden of Eden \u2014 provides a poignant comparison. In that episode, the act of concealment is an attempt to outwit the all-knowing God rather than to deceive man. In his essay\u00a0 \u201cMan Sees with the Eyes, God Sees to the Heart: Camouflage in the Flight of God,\u201d Prof. Yair Zakovitch comments:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The greatest paradox transpires when mere mortals, whose vision is a human, flesh-and-blood perspective, attempt to deceive Heaven&#8230;. He who hopes to evade God under the disguise of a mask is animated by either naivety or desperation&#8230;. The paradox is readily apparent: At the very moment of hiding from God, the road leads to Him. Even the blindness of the prophet will not help the scheming king.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here, too, Jeroboam seeks to hide from the prophet and circumvent God; however, it is God who guides the prophet. Thus, no matter how Jeroboam&#8217;s wife conceals her identity, and no matter how blind the prophet may be, God will send His inexorable word to His prophet and deliver His pronouncement. In a cruel reversal, the messenger sent by the king to bring about the child&#8217;s recovery becomes an agent of God bearing a message of death: &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for you, arise, go to your house; when you enter the city, the child will die&#8221; (14:12).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeroboam&#8217;s wife is forced to endure an excruciating journey home, cognizant that her return will bring about her son&#8217;s demise. In a sinister echo of the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mofet<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the prophetic sign of the previous chapter (13:3), the very death of her child verifies Ahijah&#8217;s prophecy. Indeed, had Jeroboam heeded the first sign, the second would not have been necessary. The prophet instructs Jeroboam&#8217;s wife, &#8220;Arise, go to your house&#8221; (14:12), and the child dies &#8220;when she came to the threshold of her house&#8221; (14:17). There is a deliberate interplay here between Jeroboam&#8217;s physical house or home and his royal &#8220;house&#8221; (14:10, 13). 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