Upon This Rock (5): This Thing Is from Me

Previous article in this series: January 15, 2012, p. 188. This thing is from me (I Kings 12:24). So said the Lord through the prophet Shemaiah concerning the division of the kingdom. And then, through the prophet Hosea, these words: "They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not" (Hosea 8:4). A contradiction, it would appear: God did it…and God did not do it. The two prophets, however, though they speak concerning the same history, view it from different...