September 2024

READ: Rom. 11:2-7 … Go, return on your way … anoint Hazael …  Also … anoint Jehu …. as king … And Elisha …  as prophet in your place. …  Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him. – […]

READ: Ex. 33:12-23 … but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.     – 1 Kin. 19:11-14 Just as with Moses on Horeb, the LORD answers Elijah with a manifestation. He wants to show Elijah Who He is, highlighting the attributes He deems necessary for Elijah. The

READ: 1 Pet. 4:12-19 … “What are you doing here, Elijah?” So he said, … for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant … I alone am left; and they seek to take my life. – 1 Kin. 19:9,10 The LORD calls Elijah to account. “What are you doing here, Elijah?” This highlights that

READ: Isa. 40:25-31 … So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God.     – 1 Kin. 19:5b-8 Elijah asks the LORD to be relieved of all earthly tasks and to be allowed to die.

READ: 1 Kin. 19:4,5a: … and said, “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!“ … Elijah sits under a broom tree and prays to die. He says, “It is enough! Take my life now, LORD…” Some interpreters seek to understand this request of Elijah. The weary

READ: 1 Kin. 18:41-19:4 And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life … – 1 Kin. 19:3 Elijah’s prayers are exemplified in Scripture as prayers that unleash unimaginable powers. However, the prayer in 1 Kin. 19:4 does not fit this pattern. Here we see a broken Elijah, a weary prophet, a

READ: 1 Cor. 5:1-13 And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let one of them escape!” So they seized them … – 1 Kin. 18:40  The people see the impressive, scorching fire without any doubt as a response from God. They may also have experienced their own salvation with great

READ: 2 Chron. 6:12-14, 26-29, 36-7:5 Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The LORD,

READ: 1 Kin.  18:33-37: … LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word. Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that You are the

READ: Rev. 21:9-17 And Elijah took twelve stones … Then with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD. – 1 Kin. 18:31,32 Elijah takes “twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob” for the altar. This is noteworthy because this occurs in the northern