Comments on Reading Tonight

Actually, those who missed David Shields on Wednesday could come out to University Book Store and see him read tonight.

That's right, lets rehabilitate Jezebel, worshipper of Baal, enemy of the Lord God and murderer of His prophets. She who convinces her husband, "Hey, you're king, if you want someone's land and they won't sell, buy witnesses to some crime so he'll be stoned to death, and you can take his land." She ignored the power of God as Elijah prayed to stop the rain and it stopped. She ignored the power of God when Elijah prayed that the rain might return, and it did. When God, at the prayers of Elijah sent fire down from heaven onto his altar, and Israel was so full of awe that they killed all the prophets of Baal, Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, " So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time." Most people are familiar with the saying, "Vengeance is mine, says the Lord. I will repay." And indeed he repayed Jezebel for murdering His prophets and her persistent unrepentance in the face of His evident and pre-eminent power.

In the same way, God will avenge every person you've wronged. His name is Jesus. He has told us what is right and how we ought to live, how God requires perfection, how we ought to love our neighbor and even our enemies, yet all this we fail to do. Repent, turn from going your own way, worshipping your own gods and worship Jesus or He will punish you forever for your sins in Hell, where the maggots eating your flesh will feast continually, and your body will be aflame though you perish not.