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Elijah 2


Carmel I Kings 18


We have seen the background to this period. Israel was
heading for spiritual disaster. She was selling out to
religious pluralism and the false gods of her age and the
true exclusive God Yahweh was being short- changed.
God sends his prophet Elijah - a man James tells us just
like us - who throws down the gauntlet to Israel and
declares drought for three years in the name of
Yahweh. Three years where drought is itself the only
word from the Lord.


Elijah is sent outside Israel to Sidon. There through a
series of amazing miracles he learns that God is a God
more than able for any situation.


Three years of obscurity to prepare him for this one
event here at Carmel.


Mind you it is no ordinary event.


Today is D-Day. Today the sands of the hour-glass
have run out. The clash between the rival faiths - the
rival ideologies - ‘Yahweh’ and ‘Baal’ has finally come
to a head.


Elijah’s greatness is to focus the issues into one simple
showdown. For 400 years the compromise between
Baal and Yahweh had rumbled on, ever since Israel had
entered the land. Many had learned to live with
compromise comfortably. Even devout believers.

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