The Provocation of God

The people provoked God. They consistently, like this is a, this isn't like I poked the bear once. This is over a very long period of time. So there's provocation happening here. And it's not that they did something and then God flipped out for a very long time. He set these up from the beginning. Jeroboam the first founder of the Northern kingdom. It's too much for you people to go down to Jerusalem to worship Yahweh at the temple. You might say I, I feel like you provoked that snake. That's why you, why? What's been happening here?