How Long Between Elijah Tells Ahab No Rain Until They Meet Again
About this serial: A narrative exploring the stories behind the paintings of tardily artist Herbert Mandel every bit explained in the context of the Biblical texts they're derived from, by his son-in-police force, Jim Robidoux.
Elijah went to the beck of Cherith as directed by God. He was to beverage the brook water and consume bread and meat that the ravens would bring him at that place. Elijah needed to hide, far away from King Ahab and his Queen Jezebel. Ahab and Jezebel were the most wicked and evil rulers State of israel had e'er known. They employed 850 prophets of Baal and his espoused, Ashera, and were killing the prophets of Yahweh. After Elijah (God'south major prophet) told Ahab at that place would be no rain for years to come and not until I say then, they were determined to impale him.
When Ahab married Jezebel he created an unholy alliance with the King of Sidon, Jezebel'southward male parent. Her country worshipped Baal and Ashera and Israel was beginning to do the same. Baal was supposed to be a ascendant god that controls storms and rain. Baal and Ashera, his companion, were fertility gods.
During the third twelvemonth of the drought Yahweh told Elijah it was time to go abode. He was to prove himself to Ahab – even though Ahab had been looking everywhere far and wide, to kill him. Elijah was going to tell Ahab that rain was about to fall.
The famine from the drought was and then astringent that Male monarch Ahab was looking everywhere for grass to feed his horses and mules. If those animals all died his army would be powerless against their enemies. Elijah sent give-and-take to the king that he needed to come across him face-to-face.
Elijah challenged Ahab at their meeting to bring all the Israelites and all the prophets of Baal and Ashera (850 of them) to Mount Carmel. He lone would stand for Yahweh there, as his name meant "Yah is God."
On Mount Carmel he asks all the people, "How long will you waver betwixt 2 different opinions? If Yahweh is God, follow him; if Baal, follow him." None of the people answered him.
Next, Elijah asked for two bulls to exist sacrificed every bit burnt offerings. "Allow the Baal prophets option get-go and then make all the preparations for the burnt offering to their god. And I volition take the other bull and make all the preparations to sacrifice to Yahweh." He and then announced to anybody, "Allow no burn exist put to the woods. The truthful God will light his own cede."
As shortly as the simulated prophets had made everything ready they began to pray and trip the light fantastic and plead with their God to light his sacrifice and evidence himself. They connected hour afterward hour and even cut themselves and threw themselves on the basis. Elijah mocked them, and then it was his turn.
He then instructed the fake prophets to soak his bull and the wood and the footing with water. They poured water all over everything 3 times as Elijah directed, even filling a trench with water circling the sacrifice. Then Elijah began to pray to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and asked God to validate himself and his servant and turn the hearts of the people back to himself. Immediately fire fell from heaven and lapped upwardly everything, including the rocks, the dust and the water in the trench.
The people all said surely Yahweh is God, and they savage on their faces. Elijah and so had all the false prophets rounded up and took them down the mountain and put them to expiry.
Elijah went to Ahab and told him to go back to his palace as the flooding rain was about to offset. Ahab and Jezebel hung on to power for years to come, but on this day the people turned back to the true God and would worship Him just.
More from the Pop's Art series archives:
- In the beginning God created
- Adam and Eve: Forbidden fruit and the fall
- Cain and Abel: Good and evil come to life
- Noah Walked with God, built an ark and saved mankind and the animals
- Role 2: Noah in the grapes
- Abraham is called to sacrifice Isaac and slaughter becomes laughter
- Jacob wrestles with God
- The Bible, Illustrated: Joseph thrown into a pit
- The story of the prophet Elijah, Jezebel and King Ahab
- Jonah swallowed by a whale
- Palm Sunday: Holy week and the symbolism of the palm branch
Jim Robidoux is father of 4, lives and works in Manchester, and writes most life in The Life Section – specifically, his own. He enjoys bicycling to piece of work, urban gardening, exploring his Christian organized religion, and watching the Phillies at Billy's. And he happens to be married to Manchester Ink Link editor Carol Robidoux. He can be reached at jrmetalman@comcast.net.
Source: https://manchesterinklink.com/the-story-of-the-prophet-elijah-jezebel-and-king-ahab/
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