Some Obvious Stupidity

do you mind if i paraphrase a story from the bible?
of course you don't.
1 Kings 22 is pretty much about Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.
He was a pretty good guy. Unlike a lot of kings in the old testament, God didn't have any reasons to strike him dead.
Anyway, Jehoshaphat one day went down to visit the king of Israel, Ahab.
Ahab, unlike Jehoshaphat, wasn't really a good king.
You know how 4,000 years ago, kings used to have like, this council of advisers, that was mainly these crazy mystics and soothseers and whatnot?
Ahab had a bunch of those. In fact, he had about 400 prophets that weren't from God.
They were just a bunch of guys who made "prophesies"... in quotes like that.
not prophesies. "Prophesies". big difference.

Anyhow, when Jehoshaphat went down to see Ahab, Ahab kinda wanted to attack Ramoth Gilead.
I'll start quoting here, so you don't get bored.
22:4 "So he asked Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to fight against Ramoth Gilead?"
Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses." But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, "First seek the counsel of the Lord."

It was at this point here that Ahab asked his 400 "prophets" if he should attack Ramoth Gilead. They answered that he should- enthusiastically, because he would win.
Jehoshaphat didn't really want to listen to fake prophets, though.
verse 7: "But Jehoshaphat asked, "Is there not a prophet of the Lord here whom we can inquire of?"
The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, "There is still one man through whom we can inquire of the Lord, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah."
"The king should not say that," Jehoshaphat replied. So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, "Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once."

Well, to make a long story short, Micaiah told Ahab that if he went to attack Ramoth Gilead, the people of Israel would be "scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd" (vs. 17)
Of course, Ahab didn't listen to the guy, and ended up dying in the battle.
Jehoshaphat lived on.

Let's go over that again.
(1) King of Israel wants to attack some people
(2) King of Israel's fake prophets tell him he'll win
(3) Actual prophet, WHO THE KING KNEW WAS AN ACTUAL PROPHET tells him otherwise
(4) King listens to the guys that he pays to tell him what he wants to hear
(5) King dies.
(6) I laugh.

What. A. Retard.
"I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad."
So instead he listens to the people who tell him nice things about him.
Like, if there's a guy who's a prophet, and he tells you stuff that you don't want to hear, you probably shouldn't not listen to him, just because he's telling you stuff that doesn't make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, right?
right.

Likewise, when God tells us things we don't wanna hear, we're not supposed to plug our ears and sing catchy pop songs.
Instead, when God tells us we're being a moron, we listen to him and stop being a moron.
Unlike Ahab.
who died.
from an arrow wound.

I don’t want to be a moron. Join me?

[and for the record, Micaiah is an awesome name. even though its essentially Micah with an extra syllable.]