Second Alliance

But Satan was to test him again. This time he joined himself with "Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly." Again it was an alliance with one who went not in the ways of his father, David. This time the activities were different; they joined to build ships. The building of ships was not wrong, but the joining with Ahaziah was. It was the case of a good thing, but a wrong person.
Is it not true in these days that often the work being done is good, but the association is wrong? Although the work in itself was good, yet it could not be prospered because of the wrong alliance. So it turned out that the ships were broken and they were not able to go to Tarshish. Although Jehoshaphat had escaped after the first alliance, he was not allowed to escape after the second. God stopped his course. May his failures in thus joining with the wicked be guides to us in this dispensation to keep us from displeasing our God and Father by similar wicked alliances.
J.T. Armet