Beware of willful sin!

 SPIRITUAL LESSONS ABOUT THE TERRIBLE END OF END...

Ahab, the worst king of Israel should have been faithful to the Eternal, but he turned away from the same sins of his father and ancestors, having as a consequence of them: death not only physical, but possibly eternal... Ahab besides maintaining idolatry in Israel, he associated with Jezebel by marrying her, a symbol of prostitution and lust. These, Persecuted the prophet Elijah and killed many other prophets of the Eternal.

There were at that time as today, false teachers, false prophets who always prophesied in favor of the king's decisions not thus contradicting him, they did not really seek to know what the Eternal wanted to say about a particular decision, whether personal or in relation to the kingdom. It was customary to consult the Eternal, through the prophets to know: if they should fight against a certain kingdom or not, if they would be successful or not!

On one occasion at a meeting on war decisions, Jehoshaphat, king of Judah asked if there was any prophet of the Eternal there to consult. Ahab answers: yes! Micaiah, however, the king annoyed him because, he always prophesied “against”, that is, “against his will”, the king's arrogance and haughtiness prevailed. Micaiah had the firm decision to say, only what the Eternal commanded, nothing more. He was still induced to lie but he remained firm and was still assaulted for telling the truth...

On this occasion, Micaiah mocks

 and answer to Ahab like the false prophets: Go and you will be successful. Ahab counters because he realizes the deception and irony, because deep down, Ahab knew that he was not walking in the paths of the Eternal to Please Him, therefore, he could only lose and suffer defeats because of his sins.

This is where Micaiah DESCRIBES THE SPIRITUAL SCENE HE SAW AND WHICH CAN REPEAT WITH US if we deliberately walk in our sins...

Before the Eternal the spiritual world is revealed: Where the Eternal asks: 20 And the Lord said, Who will induce Ahab, that he may ascend and fall in Ramoth-gilead? And one said it this way and the other another.

21 Then a spirit went out, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will lead him. And the Lord said to him: With what?

22 And he said, I will go out, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt induce him, and still prevail; go out and do this.

 The demons clearly hint at what to do to destroy Ahab and the Eternal allowed it! Because? Because when we walk in our sins, Satan has liberality to act against us, we are spiritually vulnerable. Willful sins are far worse than unintentional sins... Satan goes to the Eternal as he did Job and incites ways to punish the sinner and grind him into wheat or sift him as Jesus once spoke to Peter...

The salary of sin is death! And that's what Ahab found...

Let us watch at all times...

It's a lesson for all of us...

And Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah; and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.

And Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all that were before him.

And it came to pass (as if it were little to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat) that he still took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

And he raised an altar to Baal in the house of Baal which he had built in Samaria.

Ahab also made an idol; so that Ahab did far more to irritate the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

 1 Kings 16:29-33

1 Kings 22:1-54

1 And they were quiet for three years, there being no war between Syria and Israel.

2 But in the third year it came to pass that Jehoshaphat king of Judah came down to meet the king of Israel.

3 And the king of Israel said to his servants, Know ye not that Ramoth-gilead is ours, and we are quiet, not taking it from the hand of the king of Syria?

4 Then he asked Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to the battle to Ramoth Gilead? And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, I will be like thee, and my people like thy people, and my horses like thy horses.

5 Jehoshaphat said moreover to the king of Israel, I pray thee, inquire this day the word of the LORD.

6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets to nearly four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go to battle against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I forsake from going? And they said, Go up, for the Lord will deliver her into the king's hand.

7 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not yet a prophet of the Lord that we may inquire of?

8 Then said the king of Israel unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we can inquire of the LORD; but I hate him, because he never prophesies from me what is good, but only what is evil; this is Micaiah, son of Inlah. And Jehoshaphat said, Let the king not speak thus.

9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Bring me quickly Micaiah the son of Inlah.

10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat each on his throne, clothed in royal garments, in the square, at the entrance to the gate of Samaria; ; and all the prophets prophesied in his presence.

11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD: With these thou shalt smite the Syrians, until they are consumed.

12 And all the prophets prophesied thus, saying, Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and thou shalt triumph, for the LORD will deliver it into the king's hand.

13 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, You see here that the words of the prophets with one voice foretell good things for the king; so let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak well.

14 But Micaiah said, As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, I will speak.

15 And when he came to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, will we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or will we forsake from going? And he said unto him, Go up, and thou shalt be successful; for the Lord will deliver her into the king's hand.

16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall I conjure thee, that thou speakest unto me only the truth in the name of the LORD?

17 Then he said, I saw all Israel scattered in the mountains, like sheep without a shepherd; and the Lord said, These have no lord; make everyone at peace for their home.

18 Then the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not say unto thee, that he shall never prophesy from me what is good, but only what is evil?

19 Then he said, Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

20 And the LORD said, Who will lead Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said it this way and the other another.

21 Then a spirit went out, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will lead him. And the Lord said to him: With what?

22 And he said, I will go out, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt induce him, and still prevail; go out and do this.

23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.

24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came, and struck Micaiah in the jaw, and said, Whence came the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak to thee?

25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see it in that day, when thou shalt go in from chamber to chamber to hide thyself.

26 Then said the king of Israel, Take Micaiah, and bring him again to Ammon, the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son.

27 And ye shall say, Thus saith the king: Place this man in the house of prison, and sustain him with the bread of anguish, and with the water of bitterness, until I come in peace.

28 And Micaiah said, If thou return in peace, the LORD hath not spoken for me. He said more: Listen, all peoples!

29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.

30 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but you wear your clothes. He disguised himself, therefore, the king of Israel, and entered the battle.

31 And the king of Syria had given command to the chariot captains, which were thirty and two, saying, Ye shall fight neither with small nor with great, but only with the king of Israel.

32 It came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely this is the king of Israel. And they came to him, to fight with him; but Jehoshaphat cried out.

33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw that he was not the king of Israel, that they did not follow him.

34 Then a man strung the bow, and cast at random, and smote the king of Israel between the buckles and the breastplates; then he said to his carter: Turn around, and take me out of the army, for I am grievously wounded.

35 And the battle increased in that day, and the king was supported in the chariot before the Syrians; but he died in the afternoon; and blood from the wound ran to the back of the car.

36 And after the sun went down a shouting session through the army, saying, Every one to his city, and every one to his land!

37 And the king died, and they brought him to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.

38 And when the chariot was washed in the pool of Samaria, the dogs licked its blood (now the harlots washed themselves there), according to the word which the Lord had spoken.

39 As for the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the house of ivory which he built, is it not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

42 And Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and twenty-five years he reigned in Jerusalem; and was the name of his mother Azuba, daughter of Sili.

43 And he walked in all the ways of his father Asa, he did not depart from them, doing that which was right in the sight of the Lord.

44 Yet the high places were not removed; still the people sacrificed and burned incense on high places.

45 And Jehoshaphat was at peace with the king of Israel.

46 As for the rest of the deeds of Jehoshaphat, and the power he showed, and how he fought, is it not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

47 He also drove out of the land the remnant of the Sodomites, who were left in the days of their father Asa.

48 So there was no king in Edom, but a viceroy.

49 And Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for the gold; but they were not, because the ships broke down at Eziom-Geber.

50 Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said unto Jehoshaphat, My servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat wouldn't.

51 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David his father; and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.

52 And Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; and he reigned two years over Israel.

53 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord; for he walked in the way of his father, and also in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.

54 And he served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked the wrath of the Lord God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

Revelation 21:8

But the cowards, the traitors, those who commit disgusting sins, the murderers, the immoral, those who practice witchcraft, those who worship idols and all liars, the place of these people is the lake where fire and brimstone burns, which is the second death.

Everything I've described is corroborated by the passage below.

1 Peter 5:8

8 Be alert and watchful. The Devil, your enemy, walks around like a lion, roaring and looking for someone to devour.

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