{"id":62549,"date":"2019-09-08T07:06:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T04:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=62549"},"modified":"2023-04-02T12:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T09:25:30","slug":"what-is-remembered-and-what-is-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/what-is-remembered-and-what-is-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Remembered And What Is Forgotten?"},"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":[444,436,792,685],"acf":{"old_id":"62549","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33992,"related_cahpter":"301","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"As the immediacies of politics fades, the truly important issues abide\u00a0","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the passing of King Solomon and the division of the unified kingdom into the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah, history takes a pivotal turn. No longer are the entire 12 tribes a unity, however tenuous. Now \u2013 occasionally allies, often competitors or even enemies \u2013 the two neighboring nations confront the challenge that addressed the Children of Israel from the start: can we remain true to the covenant linking our people and God even when we possess power and wealth? Can we prioritize our values and aspirations above short-term self-interest and entangling alliances? Can we hold to what makes our spiritual voice distinctive and precious, or will we succumb to what is alluring, popular, or easy?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Linked to these pervasive background challenges (challenges that both the northern and southern kingdoms will fail in turn) is a related challenge: what remains significant over time is not necessarily what commands immediate attention day to day. History tends to recall and cherish by a different yardstick than does the gossip columnist or the stock market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regarding the ancient kings, the Bible warns us upfront. In the case of Jeroboam, we are treated to an extensive description of spiritual and moral backsliding. We are told how he does not pursue the pathways pleasing to God, but instead reverts to the pagan practices \u2013 ritual and ethical \u2013 of the Canaanites that had surrounded and assaulted ancient Israel. There\u2019s even a prophet, Ahiyah (Hebrew for \u201cGod is my sibling\u201d) who translates the news into what it signifies, \u201cYou have acted worse than all those who preceded you \u2026 [God] will uproot Israel because of the sins that Jeroboam committed and led Israel to commit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What about his statecraft? His battles? His buildings and civic improvements? Alliances? Taxes? All the \u201cnormal\u201d policies and achievements of a State? That gets relegated to a footnote: \u201cThe other events of Jeroboam\u2019s reign, how he fought and how he ruled, are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No one remembers Jeroboam for the things he would have been known for in his own day. He is remembered for the disastrous immorality and the spiritual dereliction he introduced into Israel\u2019s public life, one which ultimately would undermine and consume any other achievements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While others are distracted by the glitter of current events, power grabs, the pursuit of wealth, Biblical history bids us keep our gaze focused beneath the surface, at what is truly abiding. The flash of pomp fades and is forgotten, but the bedrock of justice, compassion, and faith \u2013 these, and these alone, abide.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":62550,"id":62550,"title":"1kings14-old newpaper","filename":"1kings14-old-newpaper.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1kings14-old-newpaper.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/what-is-remembered-and-what-is-forgotten\/1kings14-old-newpaper\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"1kings14-old-newpaper","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":62549,"date":"2019-09-08 04:05:55","modified":"2019-09-08 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