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years of rule brought woes and led Israel into practices
            that  GOD  loathes  as  abominations  unto  HIM.           As  a
            result, the people of Israel suffered.


            Noted  Messianic  Rabbi,  Jonathon  Cahn,  wrote  a
            remarkable  book  “Paradigm”  in  which  he  details  the
            amazing  parallels  between  recent  US  Presidents  and
            ancient Kings of Israel    [26] .  A study of I Kings, Chapters
            16-22,  reveals  the  story  of  King  Ahab  and  his  wife

            Jezebel;  they  form  a  prophetic  paradigm  for  Bill  and
            Hillary Clinton that is remarkably similar.

            It  is  noteworthy  that  GOD  viewed  Ahab’s  rule  as
            particularly evil (1 Kings 16:30 NIV), “Ahab, son of Omri,

            did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those
            before  him.”    This  scripture  goes  on  to  declare  (verse
            31): “He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins
            of Jeroboam, but he also married Jezebel,” a Phoenician
            princess  who  later  aggressively  promoted  and
            influenced idol worship in Israel. They lead Israel to bow
            down  in  worship  of  Baal.     Queen  Jezebel  exerted  so
            much influence that she was essentially a co-regent with

            King  Ahab.  Such  an  arrangement  had  never  before
            existed  in  Israel. Together,  they  drove  Israel  into  deep
            apostasy  as  characterized  by  worship  of  the  idol  god
            Baal,  including  its  attendant  “sacraments”  of  sexual
            lasciviousness  and  child  sacrifice  (a  practice  that  GOD
            explicitly repudiates as an abomination to HIM, Proverbs
            6:16-19).   It was also during his reign, that GOD placed

            Israel’s number one nemesis, Assyria, which was led by
            King  Ben  Hadad,  into  the  hands  of  King  Ahab.    But
            instead of eliminating Ben-Hadad, Ahab let him go.  In
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