3/25/2023 0 Comments The bible study book stuck![]() ![]() The contestant walked over to the crowd, slowly looking us over, and lifted his voice for all to hear, Yet as the prophet advanced toward the mountain to face off with the hundreds of prophets, Elijah’s eyes of fire rested elsewhere. Baal’s king and his army of prophets stood in one corner the Lord’s prophet approached alone, taking his position in the other. The excitement was palpable as prophets and their gods prepared for war. News spread quickly the people of Israel clamored around to see the spectacle. “Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, and the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table” (1 Kings 18:18–19). “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have abandoned the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals,” Elijah replied. But here, weaponless and alone, the prophet emerged from his hiding place to challenge his pursuer, and all of his prophets, to a public showdown. Not often did the prey beckon the hunter or the fish, the fisherman. “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?” The wicked king addressed the prophet he had hunted like a deer in the forest. When I read it on my futon, it was as though I witnessed the scene unfold firsthand. How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If Yahweh is God, follow him but if Baal, then follow him. As a young college student, alone in my dorm room with a Bible I had just started reading, I came to it: Life as it was before can be no more.Įlijah’s question to the wavering people of Israel has been such a text for me. As Jacob, you grapple with them, and though you come away with a blessing, you leave with a limp.
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