Bat Cave : warning signs

I had most of this Bible study written up by last week and I thought I'd do only one per week even if I had two ready but as the week progressed I kept adding to this one. I see it now as God saying not yet this isn't quite ready for you to post.

There's a line in the song Hard Way by Dc Talk and it says this. "Warning signs are like flares in the night." Sometimes we can be on a path and get that bright of a warning. I was reading Second Kings 8 and part of this chapter just blew my mind because there have been times in my life where my parents, family and friends have warned me I was making huge mistakes and going the wrong way. Look at this warning. 2 Kings 8:7-15 "Elisha went to Damascus, the capitol of Aram, where King Ben-hadad lay sick. When someone told the king that the man of God had come, the king said to Hazael, `Take a gift to the man of God. Tell him to ask the Lord will I recover from this illness?' So Hazael loaded down forty camels with the finest products of Damascus as a gift for Elisha. He went to him and and said, `Your servant Ben-hadad, the King of Aram, has sent me to ask, `Will I recover from this illness?'" This is where this passage is about to take a turn for the weird. "And Elisha replied, `Go tell him, `You will surely recover.' But actually the Lord has shown me that he will surely die!' Elisha starred at Hazael with a fixed gaze until Hazael became uneasy. Then the man of God started weeping. `What's the matter my lord?' Hazael asked him. Elisha replied, `I know the terrible things you will do to the people of Israel. You will burn their fortified cities, kill their young men with the sword, dash their children to the ground and rip open their pregnant women!' Hazael responded, `How could a nobody like me ever accomplish such great things?' Elisha answered `The Lord has shown me that you are going to be the king of Aram.' When Hazael left Elisha and went back, the King asked him. `What did Elisha tell you?' And Hazael replied, `He told me that you will surely recover.' But the next day Hazael took a blanket soaked it in water and held it over the king's face till he died. Then Hazael became the next king of Aram."

People if someone who cares about you gives you a warning listen to it and change. Hazael had every chance to change and he didn't. To take a line from Rocky 4 "I guess what I'm trying to say is, if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change." Pastor Micah once said, "All of us are just one step away from stupid." In Exodus Moses was sent multiple times by God to say let my people go and Pharaoh wouldn't listen. Hebrews 3:15 "Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion." I have one final quote for you. "Turn around bright eyes."

DC Talk - The Hard Way (Official Music Video)