I Samuel 2:23-26 NKJV
a. Why do you do such things? It is an understandable question, but a needless one. It doesn’t matter why because there could be no good reason. They can’t excuse their sin; they had to be responsible for it instead.
i. Eli did about the worst thing a parent can do in trying to correct their children: just talk. All he did was whine about what they did wrong, but he never took the necessary actions to correct the problem. Parents would be better off to yell less, lecture less, and to take sensible action more often, letting the children see the consequences for their disobedience.
ii. Writing from the 17th century, John Trapp advises Eli on what he should have said: “Draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore…ye degenerate brood and sons of Belial, and not of Eli; ye brats of fathomless perdition…. It is stark stinking naught that I hear, and woe is me that I yet live to hear it; it had been better that I had died long since, or that you had been buried alive, than thus to live and stink above the ground.” 😳
b. You make the LORD’s people to transgress: Again, this was the great sin of Eli’s sons. It was bad enough that they stole and indulged their own lusts, but they also, by their corrupt behavior, made people hate worshiping God with their offerings at the tabernacle (1 Samuel 2:17), and they led women worshippers into sexual immorality.
c. If one man sins against another, God will judge him. But if a man sins against the LORD, who will intercede for him? Fortunately, 1 John 2:1 answers Eli’s question: And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. We thank God that there is someone to intercede for us when we sin against the LORD.
d. Nevertheless they did not heed the voice of their father, because the LORD desired to kill them: This striking statement may seem unfair to some. They picture Eli’s sons wanting to repent and listen to their father, but God prevented them. This is not the case at all. God judged Eli’s sons this way: He gave them exactly what they wanted. They did not want to repent, and God did not work repentance in their hearts.
i. God saw they were corrupt men and wanted to judge them. When the LORD desired to kill them, it simply meant that God desired that Eli’s sons be brought to justice.
e. And the child Samuel grew in stature, and in favor both with the LORD and men: What a contrast to the wickedness of Eli’s sons! This shows that although Eli was far from a perfect father, he was not a chronically bad father, because he essentially fathered Samuel and he grew up to be a godly man. (Guzik)
John Trapp didn’t pull any punches in his commentary and Jesus won’t either because the bible is clear.
In the second coming of Jesus, He returns as a conquering King and it won’t be any different than the judgement of Eli’s sons.
”Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.“ Revelation 19:11-16 NKJV
https://www.gotquestions.org/second-coming-Jesus-Christ.html
Eli’s sons should have repented and if you are reading this you still have time to repent for any sins that you may have committed.
Dear Heavenly Father, please forgive me for all of my sins and thank You for my Advocate, Jesus! In the name of Jesus Christ I pray, amen.
Blessings
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