I will enter the battle in disguise, but you wear your royal robes

 1 Kings 22:29-40

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will enter the battle in disguise, but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.

Now the king of Aram had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight with anyone, small or great, except the king of Israel.” When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they thought, “Surely this is the king of Israel.” So they turned to attack him, but when Jehoshaphat cried out, the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel and stopped pursuing him.

But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the sections of his armor. The king told his chariot driver, “Wheel around and get me out of the fighting. I’ve been wounded.” All day long the battle raged, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. The blood from his wound ran onto the floor of the chariot, and that evening he died.

They washed the chariot at a pool in Samaria (where the prostitutes bathed), and the dogs licked up his blood, as the word of the Lord had declared.

Ahab cannot cheat death by being disguised and he dies in battle at Ramoth-Gilead, cast of the Jordan, as God had said. (for true and false prophets)

Why?

NO one can escape the destiny the Lord has defined.  

Ahab disguised himself hoping the enemy go to kill king Jehoshaphat and asked him to wear his royal robe. This is a very strange strategy in battle.

Even in this arrangement someone draws his bow at random and hit the king of Israel. This is the word of the Lord come truth. And it distinguishes the true and false prophets.

How dramatic result happened, our God is great and beyond our imagination, God has given Ahab many chances to repent, to turn to the Lord. But he chose his own way.

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出於神的必定成就，怎麼聰明，小技巧，都躲不掉。按照人的想法一定成功，最聰明的亞哈栽在一個最笨的士兵手上。以為自己可以避開神的旨意嗎？

亞哈死有喪身之地因為戰車要洗，在外面洗，所以狗會舔亞哈的血，這些預言都成就了！讓我們無比放心，也讓神的敵人害怕。連這麼微小的事情，都是神在掌權！

亞哈在北國也有一些建設，但是這些在主裏都沒有價值。離了主做的事沒有價值。敬畏神即使是小事，一點小錢，寡婦的一點麵都留下恩典，神的紀念。

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How?

Be aware of the word of the Lord, humble myself, and let my heart calm down to listen to the word of the Lord.