Author Darlene J. Conard

King Ahab had a problem with Micaiah, the prophet: he didn’t alter the truth. King Ahab didn’t like hearing the truth because it challenged his desires. This went on for quite a while until the Lord said, “Enough is enough. God gave a lying spirit the assignment it wanted: to fill the mouth of the prophets. Burning with determination, he was driven by a relentless mission to pursue the king of Syria. “You know that the land is rightfully ours,” declared King Ahab with unwavering persuasion. “What is the word of the Lord?” Jehoshaphat hesitated, feeling apprehensive about going into battle.

The narrative recounts the troubling event in which a lying spirit filled the mouth of one of Ahab’s prophets, raising questions about why the God of Truth permitted the deceitful spirit to exercise its influence. The spirit was instructed with the unsettling words, “You will influence him, and prevail also: go forth and do so.” (1 Kings 22:21-23) God put a prophet of Truth in his midst. Micaiah was put away from him because the truth bothered him. Genesis 6:3 says, … “My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh” … God will not infringe on our choices. We shouldn’t label Him as heartless, considering He has provided us with a solution, truth.  Since Ahab didn’t want the truth, he fell to his destruction.

“For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thessalonians 2: 7-12 KJV)

Ahab met his destruction because he insisted on pursuing his desires regardless of the consequences. He believed that he knew more than God, who is all-knowing and does not alter His Word.

For several days, God has impressed me to sound a trumpet about seeking the truth. We currently exist in an era marked by the creation of deceptive declarations masquerading as truth.