Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church

Do you remember Jezreel? Jezreel means (in Hebrew) "God will sow." But it was in Jezreel that Ahab turned a vineyard into a vegetable garden. The vineyard was a picture of Israel – the vine whom God planted in the land – the vegetable garden was a picture of Egypt. A vineyard takes years to develop, and lasts for generations. A vegetable garden may come and go, and may last for only a season. And it was here in Jezreel that Ahab and Jezebel had put Naboth to death in order to steal his vineyard (1 Kings 21). And now the son and the grandson of Ahab are gathered in the city where Ahab and Jezebel had done this wicked deed. The blood of Naboth cries to heaven for vengeance against the house of Ahab. As the martyrs cry out throughout all generations: How long, O LORD, faithful and true, until you avenge our blood! The house of Omri has demonstrated itself to be an anti-Christian dynasty. We don't usually use the word "Christian" to refer to the OT church. But "Christ" is simply the Greek word for "anointed one,