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In First Kings, chapter eighteen, verse twenty-one, Elijah challenged the people to choose between following God or Baal, as in Ezekiel twenty, thirty-one, and thirty-nine. Israel believed they could worship both deities at the same time. They were guilty of a divided heart, as in Deuteronomy six, verses four through five, that tried to serve […]

In First Kings, chapter eighteen, verse eighteen, Elijah’s courageous confrontation with Ahab and with unrighteousness in Israel made him a model prophet to Israel and the most qualified person to be a prototype of the forerunner of the Lord Jesus Christ as in Malachi four, verses five to six, and Luke one, verse seventeen, respectively.

In First Kings, chapter seventeen, verse twenty-two, God restored the boy to life in answer to Elijah’s prayer. The first instance recorded here in the Bible of someone raised from the dead is in Second Kings four, verse thirty-four, and Acts twenty, verse ten, respectively. The three miracles listed in chapter seventeen strikingly manifested the

In First Kings, chapter seventeen, verse seventeen, we confront here one of the perplexing mysteries of life. At the time, God miraculously provided flour and oil, and trouble and sorrow occurred. No soul of life in the son is the expression. However, here only means that he died, as manifested in the following verses. The

In First Kings, chapter seventeen, verse fifteen, the needs and misery of a poor widow were not insignificant to God. He sent Elijah to strengthen her faith and give material blessings when she felt all was lost, as in verse twelve. The faith of the widow in God and His Word through the prophet Elijah

In First Kings, chapter seventeen, verse seven, when the brook dried up, God directed Elijah to go to a pagan territory inhabited by Baal worshipers. He provided for Elijah through a poor widow, as in verse nine. The experience further strengthened Elijah’s confidence in God’s providence. Sometimes adversity occurs even though we are not in

In First Kings, chapter seventeen, the second portion of verse one, as God’s messenger, Elijah spoke a word of judgment from the Lord against disobedient Israel. God would withhold rain for three and a half years, as in Deuteronomy eleven, thirteen through seventeen. The word of judgment also mocked Baal, for the worshipers of Baal

In First Kings, chapter seventeen, verse one, Elijah was a prophet in the northern kingdom during the reigns of Ahab and his son Ahaziah. The name Elijah represents the unshakable conviction of Elijah’s life in chapter eighteen, verses twenty-one and thirty-nine, respectively. The principal narratives about his life are found in First Kings, chapters seventeen

In First Kings, chapter sixteen, verse thirty-one, Baal was the idol that the Zidonians worshipped, which they thought to be Hercules or false gods, for this name is common to all such. And this idolatry was much worse than that of the calves: because in the calves, they worshipped the true God, but in these,

In First Kings, chapter sixteen, verse thirty, sin and evil become progressively worse during the reign of King Ahab. Jezebel, Ahab’s wife, led the way in witchcraft and idolatry so that rebellion and hardness of heart against God would try to prevail in Israel. In the face of such apostasy, God sent the mighty profit