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Elijah

Elijah The Prophet

Elijah was a prophet in the old testament. He was from Tishbe in Gilead. God showed his incredible power through Elijah. When famine raged throuout the land God sent Elijah to a widow who had only enough flour to make a small amount of bread, Elijah said to her go and make us some food and she did and the jar never ran out. Then her child died and she cried out and Elijah went to the child and prayed and threw himself on the poor child and prayer feverently to God to bring the child back to life and God brought the child back to life.

1Ki 17:22

Yahweh heard Elijah's prayer and the child's soul came back into his body and he revived.

The second amazing story about Elijah is when the prophets of Baal went up againt not only Elijah but God Almighty, he told then "Let to bulls be given to us as an offering to God if your god is the true god than call upon him to burn up the holocost, but if not than I will call upon The True God Yahweh, and the God that answers with fire is indeed the only true God of all. This is where it gets interesting...

Elijah alone is wating and waiting and the prophets of Baal are calling and calling, four hundred and fifty of them, calling and calling for their god to come and...

Nothing! So Elijah says, maybe you should call louder maybe your god is preoccupied or busy or has gone on a journey, or maybe he's sleeping and needs to be woken up, call louder. So they shouted louder and cut themselves up. Midday passed and still they were ranting and raving and still nothing. So Elijah said to the people come here and see the True God and His mighty power. Then:



(The following is quoted verse by verse from the free bible I give you in our downloads page)

1Ki 18:31

Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh had come, 'Israel is to be your name,' and built an altar in the name of Yahweh. Round the altar he dug a trench of a size to hold two measures of seed. He then arranged the wood, dismembered the bull, and laid it on the wood. Then he said, 'Fill four jars with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.' They did this. He said, 'Do it a second time;' they did it a second time. He said, 'Do it a third time;' they did it a third time. The water flowed round the altar until even the trench itself was full of water. At the time when the offering is presented, Elijah the prophet stepped forward. 'Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel,' he said, 'let them know today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, that I have done all these things at your command. Answer me, Yahweh, answer me, so that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God and are winning back their hearts.' Then Yahweh's fire fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and licked up the water in the trench. When all the people saw this they fell on their faces. 'Yahweh is God,' they cried, 'Yahweh is God!' Elijah said, 'Seize the prophets of Baal: do not let one of them escape.' They seized them, and Elijah took them down to the Kishon, and there he slaughtered them.



Elijah also suffered great sadness, he was tempted to doubt God's love for him, because he was always running from place to place to avoid being killed. He complained to God to please let him die. He wa so tired. But God always brought Elijah comform, with the still small voice; here is the verse I like:

1Ki 19:11

Then he was told, 'Go out and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.' For at that moment Yahweh was going by. A mighty hurricane split the mountains and shattered the rocks before Yahweh. But Yahweh was not in the hurricane. And after the hurricane, an earthquake. But Yahweh was not in the earthquake. 1Ki 19:12 And after the earthquake, fire. But Yahweh was not in the fire. And after the fire, a light murmuring sound. 1Ki 19:13 And when Elijah heard this, he covered his face with his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then a voice came to him, which said, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?'
1Ki 19:14 He replied, 'I am full of jealous zeal for Yahweh, God Sabaoth, because the Israelites have abandoned your covenant, have torn down your altars and put your prophets to the sword. I am the only one left and now they want to kill me.' 1Ki 19:15 'Go,' Yahweh said, 'go back by the same way to the desert of Damascus. You must go and anoint Hazael as king of Aram. 1Ki 19:16 You must anoint Jehu son of Nimshi as king of Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat, of Abel- Meholah, as prophet to succeed you. 1Ki 19:17 Anyone who escapes the sword of Hazael will be put to death by Jehu; and anyone who escapes the sword of Jehu will be put to death by Elisha. 1Ki 19:18 But I shall spare seven thousand in Israel; all the knees that have not bent before Baal, all the mouths that have not kissed him.'

Then after he anointed Elisha to take his place he was carried off in a chariot from heaven, leaving behind his cloak for Elisha.



Elisha was so marvelous he begged for a double portion of Elijah's spirit.

Elijaha & Elisha Pray For Us!