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The saints prepare to rule, part 22

The year 2016 was a presidential election year in the USA, and the candidates chosen from the two main parties were Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. There had been much prophecy from gifted prophets in America that Donald Trump would win the election, even though the official polls and the mainstream news media claimed that Hillary was far more popular.

As for me, I saw Trump as a Jehu, who, in 2 Kings 9:6-10 was anointed to be the king and to destroy the house of Ahab.

The Death of King Ahab

King Ahab himself had already died in battle at the hands of Naaman, the Syrian (or Aramean). Josephus tells us,

“…when they sought to kill Ahab alone, but could not find him, there was a young nobleman belonging to king Ben-hadad, whose name was Naaman; he drew his bow against the enemy and wounded the king through his breastplate in his lungs. Upon this, Ahab resolved not to make his mischance known to his army, lest they should run away; but he bid the driver of his chariot to turn it back and carry him out of the battle, because he was sorely and mortally wounded. However, he sat in his chariot and endured the pain till sunset, and then he fainted away and died.” (Antiquities of the Jews, VIII, xv, 5)

The biblical account is found in 1 Kings 22:34-37, but Scripture does not tell us the name of the man who actually killed Ahab. Yet we read that Naaman “was a great man with his master and highly respected, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram” (2 Kings 5:1). So it is clear that Naaman’s feat gave victory to the Syrians.

This is the same Naaman who became a leper and was healed by following the instructions of Elisha in 2 Kings 5. After the battle in which he had killed Ahab, Naaman had taken captive a 12-year-old girl to give to his wife as a servant. When Naaman was stricken with leprosy soon after the battle, the girl suggested that he should go to the prophet in Israel to be healed.

No doubt there is a deeper lesson in this which is not stated in Scripture. Is it just a coincidence that Naaman would become a leper shortly after killing Ahab? It appears that Naaman was judged for killing an anointed king in Israel, but that God also showed him the way to be healed.

Perhaps this was because he killed Ahab inadvertently with a “random” arrow 1 Kings 22:34), since Ahab had disguised himself. Secondly, the fact was that God had already sentenced Ahab to death through the word of the prophet Micaiah (1 Kings 22:20). If Ahab had returned in victory, the prophet most likely would have been executed as a false prophet (1 Kings 22:26-28).

Recall also how David refused to kill Saul, when given an opportunity, saying in 1 Samuel 24:10, “I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.” It seems certain that Naaman was stricken with leprosy because he killed the Lord’s anointed one, even though Ahab—like Saul—was a wicked king.

The Death of Jezebel

Ahab’s son, Ahaziah, then reigned for two years (1 Kings 22:51), but the real power lay with his mother, Jezebel. Elisha then directed “one of the sons of the prophets” (2 Kings 9:1) to anoint Jehu, the military commander in Israel, and to instruct him to destroy the whole house of Ahab, including Jezebel (2 Kings 9:10).

Jehu immediately carried out the task, and the watchmen in Samaria knew it was him because “he drives furiously” (2 Kings 9:20). This says something of Jehu’s personality, which seems also to apply to Donald Trump. In 2007, the prophet, Kim Clement, prophesied of a man anointed to become president, who would have “hot blood.”

https://redreporttoday.com/index.php/2019/oracle-who-foresaw-trumps-kim-clement-foresaw-trumps-election-has-3-incredible-predictions-walls-of-protection/

Jehu told Jezebel’s servants to “throw her down” (2 Kings 9:33) from the window, and so she was trampled by the horses and eaten by the dogs (2 Kings 9:35, 36). This became a prophetic pattern for the overthrow of the great harlot in Revelation, who too was eaten by the beast (Revelation 17:16).

The House of Ahab Destroyed

Jehu then killed all the sons of Ahab, for we read in 2 Kings 10:11,

¹¹ So Jehu killed all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men and his acquaintances and his priests, until he left him without a survivor.

Jehu then pretended to worship Baal as a ruse to gather all of Ahab’s prophets and priests to a great festival (2 Kings 10:18, 19, 20), where they were all killed. Nonetheless, Jehu did not destroy the golden calves, for we read in 2 Kings 10:31,

³¹ But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel sin.

Jehu had an opportunity to deliver Israel from the spiritual power of the golden calves that had been built by Jeroboam, but he failed to do so. Ultimately, Israel was exiled to Assyria, where the people continued to be dominated by the spirit of the golden calves. Recall that we were led in 2001 to overthrow the golden calves as part of the “Ephraim” work to set America free.

The second half of this work, the “Manasseh” work, was accomplished many years later in November 2021.

Bill Clinton and King Ahab

Bill and Hillary Clinton were America’s prophetic types representing Ahab and Jezebel. I already wrote about this extensively earlier. President Bill Clinton was a wicked president, but he also humbled himself in 1998, much as King Ahab had done in 1 Kings 21:29. However, he did not truly repent, for he did not return Naboth’s vineyard which he had stolen with the help of Jezebel. Nonetheless, God gave him credit for humbling himself, and thus the judgment upon Israel was postponed for three years (1 Kings 22:1).

Bill Clinton attended the White House prayer breakfast on September 11, 1998 and humbled himself. He even referred to Psalm 51:17,

¹⁷ The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

So Clinton said in his speech,

I have asked all for their forgiveness. But I believe that to be forgiven, more than sorrow is required. At least two more things: First, genuine repentance, a determination to change and to repair breaches of my own making. I have repented.

Second, what my Bible calls a broken spirit. An understanding that I must have God's help to be the person that I want to be. A willingness to give the very forgiveness I seek.

A renunciation of the pride and the anger, which cloud judgment, lead people to excuse and compare and to blame and complain. Now, what does all this mean for me and for us?

First, I will instruct my lawyers to mount a vigorous defense using all available, appropriate arguments. But legal language must not obscure the fact that I have done wrong.

Second, I will continue on the path of repentance seeking pastoral support and those of other -- and that of other caring people so that they can hold me accountable for my own commitment.

Third, I will intensify my efforts to lead our country and the world toward peace and freedom, prosperity and harmony. And in the hope that with a broken spirit and a still strong heart, I can be used for greater good for we have many blessings and many challenges and so much work to do.

https://us.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/09/11/transcripts/clinton.prayer.html

The problem was that his repentance was limited to the Monica Lewinsky affair, and he continued to practice wickedness in other ways, things that were much worse than what he actually confessed. For example, he continued to worship Baal by supporting abortion “rights.” I will not try to list all of the things for which he ought to have repented or the policies that he should have opposed. It is enough to know that, like King Ahab, he did not “continue on the path of repentance,” as he promised.

Nonetheless, God gave America a three-year delay of judgment, which ended September 11, 2001 with the Twin Towers demolition. America then entered into its “war on terror,” just as King Ahab, three years after his humbling, had made war on Syria in 1 Kings 22:1.

Earlier in the year 2001, Bill Clinton’s political career ended with the inauguration of President George Bush. We understood then that King Ahab had “died” and that we had entered into the “Jezebel” phase of government, led by Hillary Clinton. The rise of Jehu (Trump) would occur 15 years later, ending Jezebel’s political career.