Who has required these things at your hands? 12The Spirit of the Lord may carry you to some other place after I leave. Now in their experiment observe. 34Then he said, Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the meat and on the wood. Then Elijah said, Do it again, and they did it again. The people, as the jury, gave in their verdict upon the trial, and they are all agreed in it; the case is so plain that they need not go from the bar to consider of their verdict or consult about it: They fell on their faces, and all, as one man, said, "Jehovah, he is the God, and not Baal; we are convinced and satisfied of it: Jehovah, he is the God" (1 Kings 18:39; 1 Kings 18:39), whence, one would think, they should have inferred, "If he be the God, he shall be our God, and we will serve him only," as Joshua 24:24. Excerpted from "Practicing the King's Economy: Honoring Jesus in How We Work, Earn, Spend, Save, and Give," by Michael Rhodes, Robby Holt and Brian Fikkert. By this time there was no food in Samaria. Joseph and Daniel were preferred because there were none so fit as they for the places they were preferred to. Elijah, in answer to him, [1.] The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD , saying, Stand in the gate of the LORD 's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD , all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD . 30Then Elijah said to all the people, Now come to me. So they gathered around him, and Elijah rebuilt the altar of the Lord, which had been torn down. They allow the proposal to be fair and unexceptionable "God has often answered by fire; if Baal cannot do so, let him be cast out for a usurper." What occasion for addition to that which is perfect? Elijah, like himself, boldly returned the charge upon the king, and proved it upon him, that he was the troubler of Israel,1 Kings 18:18; 1 Kings 18:18. There he would be alone. 39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. If Baal really is a god, maybe he is thinking, or busy, or traveling! From Genesis to Revelation, we see that one of our Creator Kings primary qualities is his lavish generosity. [3.] II. Like madmen they cut themselves in pieces with knives and lancets (1 Kings 18:28; 1 Kings 18:28) for vexation that they were not . And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. 24You prophets of Baal, pray to your god, and I will pray to the Lord. And will a nation change their god?" I. V. The return of the mercy of rain, at the word of Elijah, 1 Kings 18:41-46. The execution he did upon the prophets of Baal, 1 Kings 18:40. Ahab had made diligent search for him (1 Kings 18:10; 1 Kings 18:10), had offered rewards to any one that would discover him, sent spies into every tribe and lordship of his own dominions, as some understand it, or, as others, into all the neighbouring nations and kingdoms that were in alliance with him; and, when they denied that they knew any thing of him, he would not believe them unless they swore it, and, as should seem, promised likewise upon oath that, if ever they found him among them, they would discover him and deliver him up. Three years and a half's famine would not bring them back to God. For less than $5/mo. [4.] Elijah, doubtless, had a special commission from God to put it to this test, otherwise he would have tempted God and affronted religion; but the case was extraordinary, and the judgment upon it would be of use, not only then, but in all ages. Is it really you, master?, 8Yes, Elijah answered. This will, by no means, justify those who ridicule the worshippers of God in Christ because the worship is not performed just in their way. Wasnt killing too severe a punishment for the prophets of Baal? (2.) II. Clarify Those that slighted and hated his counsels would gladly be beholden to him for his prayers. "I love Jesus and it is the honor of my life to get to portray him," he said. Great blessings often arise from small beginnings, and showers of plenty from a cloud of a span long. Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. They worshipped God to please the prophets, but worshipped Baal to please Jezebel and curry favour at court. Baal and his prophets were confounded. Their heart is divided (Hosea 10:2), whereas God will have all or none. Share They just added Baal worship to their insurance policy. According to one ancient Canaanite myth, the father of Baal slashes his chest, arms, and back upon learning of his son's death. Bread and water were now scarce commodities, yet Obadiah will find a competence of both for God's prophets, to keep them alive for service hereafter, though now they were laid aside. St. Joseph New Catholic Version New Testament: Pocket Edition - Slightly Imperfect, St. Joseph New Catholic Version New Testament: Pocket Edition. [1.] Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. The Contemporary Parallel New Testament with KJV, NIV, NKJV, NASB, and more! Then let them put the meat on the wood, but they are not to set fire to it. Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. (3.) The king and court were all for Baal; so was the body of the people. Let it for ever be looked upon as a point adjudged against all pretenders (for it was carried, upon a full hearing, against one of the most daring and threatening competitors that ever the God of Israel was affronted by) that Jehovah, he is God, God alone. When we give, we reflect the image of our giving God. He did not think it enough to fear God himself, but, having wealth and power wherewith to do it, he thought himself obliged to assist and countenance others that feared God; nor did he think his being kind to them would excuse him from being good himself, but he did both, he both feared God greatly himself and patronised those that feared him likewise. Elijah first surrendered, or rather discovered, himself to Obadiah. Showdown on the mount From Pretty Statues to Silver and Gold: Jesus or Mammon? (2.) hear us, O Baal! a. Observe his character: He feared the Lord greatly (1 Kings 18:3; 1 Kings 18:3), was not only a good man, but zealously and eminently good; his great place put a lustre upon his goodness, and gave him great opportunities of doing good; and he feared the Lord from his youth (1 Kings 18:12; 1 Kings 18:12), he began betimes to be religious and had continued long. 25:3146). English Revised Version As he had shown the tenderness of a father to the sons of the prophets, so he showed the reverence of a son to this father of the prophets; and by this made it appear that he did indeed fear God greatly, that he did honour to one that was his extraordinary ambassador and had a great interest in heaven. His interview with Obadiah, one of Ahab's servants, by whom he sends notice to Ahab of his coming, 1 Kings 18:2-16. April 28 2020 What is the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal? 34 And he said, Do it the second time. By this time there was no food in Samaria. First, the Lord was the true God and men were to worship Him. There was a heavy rain: Gods word through Elijah was proved true. 27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. Then the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah; and he girded up his loins and ran ahead of Ahab: This was an obviously supernaturally empowered 14-mile cross-country run. I would have healed Israel, but they would not be healed. Does the devil have power to make us sick? But there was no voice. Now if, upon trial, it appears that Baal is that one infinite omnipotent Being, that one supreme Lord and all-sufficient benefactor, you ought to renounce Jehovah and cleave to Baal only: but, if Jehovah be that one God, Baal is a cheat, and you must have no more to do with him." Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. Money becomes a spiritual power that too often uses us rather than the other way around. He tells Elijah what great search Ahab had made for him and how much his heart was upon it to find him out, 1 Kings 18:10; 1 Kings 18:10. 20So Ahab called all the Israelites and those prophets to Mount Carmel. The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them: You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page. The priests and the Levites had all gone to Judah and Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 11:13; 2 Chronicles 11:14), but, instead of them, God raised up these prophets, who read and expounded the law in private meetings, or in the families that retained their integrity, for we read not of any synagogues at this time; they had not the spirit of prophecy as Elijah, nor did they offer sacrifice, or burn incense, but taught people to live well, and keep close to the God of Israel. Share (Obadiah was a true follower of the Lord. Now God made those who said they were Jews and were not, but were of the synagogue of Satan, to come, and, in effect, to worship at his feet, and to know that God had loved him,Revelation 3:9. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. You and your fathers family have made all this trouble by not obeying the Lords commands. 6:9). And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. 28 And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them. Get the BEST VALUE in digital Bible study as you prepare for Easter. 27At noon Elijah began to make fun of them. But, since Ahab invites him not to ride with him, he will run before him (1 Kings 18:46; 1 Kings 18:46) as one of his footmen, that he may not seem to be lifted up with the great honour God had put upon him or to abate in his civil respect to his prince, though he reproved him faithfully. 5. Article Images Copyright , The Real Reason Israel Worshiped Baal (It Wasn't Just a Pretty Statue), Michael Rhodes, Robby Holt, and Brian Fikkert. Report And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down. III. April 2018. See 2 Kings 2:16. Even Christ and his apostles were thus misrepresented, Acts 17:6. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. Their perishing thus is the using, as the apostle speaks of them (Colossians 3:22), was to intimate the utter abolition of them after a little while, Hebrews 8:13. Obadiah feared God greatly; Ahab had sold himself to work wickedness; and both discovered their character by the manner of their address to the prophet. Ahab is the Achan, the troubler, who follows Baalim, those accursed things. If we, in sincerity, offer our hearts to God, he will, by his grace, kindle a holy fire in them. (4.) 36At the time for the evening sacrifice, the prophet Elijah went near the altar. They explore six key biblical themes of worship, community, work, equity, creation care, and rest to dig into what the Gospel means for how we use our resources. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain. This he calls (1 Kings 18:21; 1 Kings 18:21) halting between two opinions, or thoughts. Has the book of Amos been fulfilled or is it a reference to end times? Let it go on therefore to a trial. Practicing the King's Economy: Honoring Jesus in How We Work, Earn, Spend, Save, and Give, California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. In the book of Acts, we read a most interesting and revealing number. His new conquest will be lost if he do not look about him quickly." 43Then Elijah said to his servant, Go and look toward the sea.. Baal promised the rains, so God sent a drought at the word of his prophet (see 1 Kings 17:1). 45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. He also brought them food and water.) The God therefore that has power to pardon sin, and to signify it by consuming the sin-offering, must needs be the God that can relieve us against the calamity. God's cause is so incontestably just that it needs not fear to have the evidences of its equity searched into and weighed. He causeth vapours to ascend, and maketh lightnings for the rain; for this rain he did both. If I go tell King Ahab you are here, and he comes and doesnt find you, he will kill me! Community answers are sorted based on votes. 4. Then Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley, where he killed them. It was strange that so wicked a man as Ahab would prefer him to it and continue him in it; certainly it was because he was a man of celebrated honesty, industry, and ingenuity, and one in whom he could repose a confidence, whose eyes he could trust as much as his own, as appears here, 1 Kings 18:5; 1 Kings 18:5. Note, It has been the lot of the best and most useful men to be called and counted the troublers of the land, and to be run down as public grievances. Had it been true that he was the troubler of Israel, Ahab, as king, would have been bound to animadvert upon him. Elijah's Trial of the False Prophets; the Destruction of Baal's Prophets. They thought to trim the matter, and play on both sides, as the Samaritans, 2 Kings 17:33. [2.] There he set himself, as it were, upon his watch-tower, like the prophet, Habakkuk 2:1. Leviticus 19:28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. A fight to the finish. Moses's altar and Solomon's were consecrated by the fire from heaven; but this was destroyed, because no more to be used. When they saw the fire consume both the burnt offering and the entire altar, they answered, " The Lord, He is God; the Lord, He is God " (1 Kings 18:39). And the people answered him not a word. Deserters must not look for God's favour till they return to their allegiance. But his corruptions got the better of his convictions, and he was glad to get clear of him, as Felix of Paul, when he dismissed him, and adjourned his conference with him to a more convenient season. They could say nothing to justify themselves, and they would say nothing to condemn themselves, but, as people confounded, let him say what he would. Ahab's care was not to lose all the beasts, many being already lost; but he took no care about his soul, not to lose that; he took a deal of pains to seek grass, but none to seek the favour of God, fencing against the effect, but not enquiring how to remove the cause. Stop for a moment. Obadiah therefore could with a good conscience enjoy the place, and therefore would not decline it, nor give it up, though he foresaw he could not do the good he desired to do in it. During all that time some of them prayed, while others of them prophesied, sang hymns, perhaps to the praise of Baal, or rather encouraged those that were praying to proceed, telling them that Baal would answer them at last; but there was no answer, nor any that regarded. Meanwhile, in the midst of Baal country, God made oil and flour overflow for Elijah and his newfound friends (vv. A good answer provides new insight and perspective. Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. 46The Lord gave his power to Elijah, who tightened his clothes around him and ran ahead of King Ahab all the way to Jezreel. Pursuant to this order we have here, I. Ahab and the people expected that Elijah would, in this solemn assembly, bless the land, and pray for rain; but he had other work to do first. Prophets should be called seers, and shepherds, and watchmen, and ministers, rather than lords, as those that mind duty more than dominion. We left the prophet Elijah wrapt up in obscurity. But it is strange to find such an eminently good man governor of Ahab's house, an office of great honour, power, and trust. Vote Up Twelve barrels of water (probably sea-water, for the sea was near, and so much fresh water in this time of drought was too precious for him to be so prodigal of it), thrice four, he poured upon his sacrifice, to prevent the suspicion of any fire under (for, if there had been any, this would have put it out), and to make the expected miracle the more illustrious. 3. And he said, Do it the third time. Compare Psalms 135:7. They got their sacrifices ready; and we may well imagine what a noise 450 men made, when they cried as one man, and with all their might, O Baal! The land of Judah lay close to the land of Israel, yet we find no complaint there of the want of rain; for Judah yet ruled with God, and was faithful with the saints and prophets (Hosea 11:12), by which distinction Israel might plainly have seen the ground of God's controversy, when God caused it to rain upon one city and not upon another (Amos 4:7; Amos 4:8); but they blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts, and would not see. I. Elijah reproved the people for mixing the worship of God and the worship of Baal together. Our idols never stop consuming and destroying that which we hold most dear. It should seem, he made this diligent search for him, not so much that he might punish him for what he had done in denouncing the judgment as that he might oblige him to undo it again, by recalling the sentence, because he had said it should be according to his word, having such an opinion of him as men foolishly conceive of witches (that, if they can but compel them to bless that which they have bewitched, it will be well again), or such as the king of Moab had of Balaam. Mention is made of God's calling their father Jacob by the name of Israel, a prince with God (1 Kings 18:31; 1 Kings 18:31), to shame his degenerate seed, who worshipped a god which they saw could not hear nor answer them, and to encourage the prophet who was now to wrestle with God as Jacob did; he also shall be a prince with God. Providence ordered it so, that Ahab might, with his own eyes, see how bad the consequences of this judgment were, that so he might be the better inclined to hearken to Elijah, who would direct him into the only way to put an end to it. (The Lord changed Jacobs name to Israel.) And now, 1. 28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. (5.) Once we remember that the Jews saw idolatry as the ultimate sin that put one outside the community of faith, we can hear the full force of Pauls words. He is there in the presence of Ahab, the 450 prophets of Baal, 400 prophets of the groves and a company of people from all Israel. Some, we hope, had their hearts thus turned back, but the generality of them were convinced only, not converted, yielded to the truth of God, that he is the God, but consented not to his covenant, that he should be theirs. He writes that the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil that has led some to wander from the faith and pierce themselves with many griefs (v. 10). In Pauls opinion, love of money wounds the worshiper, woos them away from the faith, and wells up in all sorts of other evils. (2.) He put himself into a strange posture. Turn them again to the Lord God of hosts, from whom they have revolted, and all will be well quickly; this must be Elijah's doing. The sad state of Israel at this time, upon two accounts:--. The Character of Obadiah; Elijah's Interview with Obadiah. Deuteronomy 14:1 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. He thought Elijah was not in good earnest when he bade him tell Ahab where he was, but intended only to expose the impotency of his malice; for he knew Ahab was not worthy to receive any kindness from the prophet and it was not fit that the prophet should receive any mischief from him. Nothing creates more trouble to a land than the impiety and profaneness of princes and their families. Note, Those who profess religion should study to recommend themselves to the esteem even of those that are without by their integrity, fidelity, and application to business. 0 responses All answers are REVIEWED and MODERATED. The battle for their hearts took place in part on the battlefield of their bank accounts. I brought them food and water. Elijah told him to go and look again. Why did the prophets of Baal cut themselves? 31He took twelve stones, one stone for each of the twelve tribes, the number of Jacobs sons. 3. Elijah allows it to them (1 Kings 18:25; 1 Kings 18:25), gives them the lead for their greater confusion; only, knowing that the working of Satan is with lying wonders, he takes care to prevent a fraud: Be sure to put no fire under. It was strange that so good a man as Obadiah would accept of preferment in a court so addicted to idolatry and all manner of wickedness. At the end of the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit had . Through Elijah, God declared that Baal couldnt deliver the goods and his people couldnt have it both ways. Probably on that mountain they had an eminent high place, where formerly the pure worship of God had been kept up as well as it could be any where but at Jerusalem. Please ensure your answer MEETS all our guidelines. Elijah might have looked for rain seventy times seven times, and not have seen it, if he had not thus begun his work at the right end. Why did Elijah kill the prophets of Baal? But this was not all; to complete the miracle, the fire consumed the stones of the altar, and the very dust, to show that it was no ordinary fire, and perhaps to intimate that, though God accepted this occasional sacrifice from this altar, yet for the future they ought to demolish all the altars on their high places, and, for their constant sacrifices, make use of that at Jerusalem only. 5Ahab said to Obadiah, Lets check every spring and valley in the land. What he said we are not told; but, 1. He sent fire from heaven. Nederlandstalige Bijbelstudies door Stan Marinussen, Copyright - Enduring Word       |      . 40Then Elijah said, Capture the prophets of Baal! Does the Bible encourage the practice of Lent? New Century Version (NCV). 40 And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. 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