Tomorrow About This Time
2 Kings 6:24-33 (NKJV)
Syria Besieges Samaria in Famine
24 And it happened after this that Ben-Hadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria. 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria; and indeed they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a [a]kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.
26 Then, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
27 And he said, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?” 28 Then the king said to her, “What is troubling you?”
And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”
30 Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes; and as he passed by on the wall, the people looked, and there underneath he had sackcloth on his body. 31 Then he said, “God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today!”
32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent someone to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?” 33 And while he was still talking with them, there was the messenger, coming down to him; and then the king said, “Surely this calamity is from the Lord; why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”
2 Kings 7:1-2 (NKJV)
The Syrians Flee
7 Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord: ‘Tomorrow about this time a [a]seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.’ ”
2 So an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, “Look, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?”
And he said, “In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”
When you need help, when only God can help, this is where Samaria found itself. Israel had left its covenant with God. Thus, the hand of God was removed, and Samaria is besieged.
Ben-Hadad king of Syria gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria: Though the kindness of Elisha and the king of Israel changed the heart of the Syrian raiders, it did not change the heart of the king of Syria. He launched a large, full-scale attack against his neighbor in the South.
He used the common method of attack in those days against secure walled cities: He besieged Samaria. A siege was intended to surround a city, prevent all business and trade from entering or leaving the city, and to eventually starve the population into surrender.
There was a great famine in Samaria: The siege strategy successfully starved Samaria. The famine was so bad that a donkey’s head or dove droppings became so expensive that only the rich could afford them.
Wiseman says that dove droppings are better translated as carob beans, and that five shekels of silver were more than a month’s wages for a laborer.
Psalm 91:1-8 (NKJV)
Safety of Abiding in the Presence of God
91 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in Him I will trust.”
3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the [a]fowler
And from the perilous pestilence.
4 He shall cover you with His feathers,
And under His wings you shall take refuge;
His truth shall be your shield and [b]buckler.
5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
And ten thousand at your right hand;
But it shall not come near you.
8 Only with your eyes shall you look,
And see the reward of the wicked.
Elijah was God’s man; the word of the Lord was in him. God didn’t send the famine in Samaria, the broken covenant brought it! When you backslide on God do you think he should just keep blessing you? You walked away from him.
Serve the Lord faithfully, I promise the devil will always take you back.
When you break covenant with God the Anointing will cease, that oil will dry up, and the curse will come,
The devil brings his shackles to again bind you, no one serves the devil out of loyalty, all his servants are shackled and become his slaves.
The devil loves to find churches that have the anointing working in them, he looks to make churches trophies of his accomplishments.
Loose your Word life, loose your worship life, loose your prayer life, loose the covenant life, your giving life, and you find yourself besieged by the devil. Loose fellowship with God and you loose fellowship with church. One day you find yourself not even wanting to go to church.
It’s not God who left you, but you left him
This man of God hears a word, for two days I have heard the words repeated in my ear, for two days I have dreamed the words