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Elijah doesn't just confront Ahab, but he also destroys the false prophets/priests of Baal and calls out the crowds' weakness. Elijah meets these people on Mount Carmel and asks them, "How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, follow him." But the crowds didn't answer him with even a single word. They were not bold enough to live for the Lord, nor were they bold enough to live for Baal. They would wait to see who would win this contest of offerings. 



Elijah fully trusted in God, and God decidedly revealed himself as the one true God. That day would be the end of those false and idolatrous priests and prophets. Though the crowds would say, "The Lord he is God," they would not hold to that confession and would be in denial of God soon enough.


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Elijah really is one of the coolest characters in the Biblical narrative. He does some amazing things. But we need to remember that we don't have a different Spirit than the one Elijah had. Elijah wasn't cool and didn't do amazing things because he was somehow more religious or better than us. The Holy Spirit empowered every God-glorifying thing Elijah did. We know that as followers of Christ, the Holy Spirit has sealed us and that the same power that raised Jesus from the dead is at work in us. We, too, can do amazing God-glorifying things with our lives. We must quit settling for mediocrity and remember that we have been raised to walk in new life, filled with the fullness of the Spirit. 



Also of note in this chapter is that Elijah blessed a Gentile and not a Jew during the time of famine. Jesus would reference this in his first recorded sermon in Luke 4, and through that, would absolutely enrage the Jewish crowds. Jesus points out that this widow, a Gentile woman, was blessed rather than the numerous Jewish widows. He will further point out that under the leadership of Elisha (we will look at this in a couple of days), a Gentile leper was healed rather than the numerous Jewish lepers. Jesus is making the point to his audience that the Jews will reject God's purpose for them and the truth of Jesus as the savior, but that the Gentiles will believe.


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I won't pretend everyone enjoys the timeline of the Kings as much as I do. It must have been 1996 or '97 when I first outlined the kings of the Old Testament. I had ambitions then of memorizing them in their order and being able to recite the length of time they reigned and how their reigns came to an end. I never did that, but I have outlined the kings several more times. Each time, I have gleaned more than before. But what is it YOU really need to know?



Saul was the first king. He was of the tribe of Benjamin and the king the people expected. Saul reigned over all of Israel. David was the second king of the tribe of Judah. He was the king God chose. He was the forerunner of Christ. David also reigned over the entire unified kingdom. Solomon, the son of David, rejected God but reigned over the whole kingdom. In the days of Rehoboam, son of Solomon, the kingdom was divided. As I said yesterday, the northern kingdom would never serve God, but the southern kingdom would go back and forth. The northern kingdom fell about 133 years before the southern kingdom. Israel fell to Assyria and Judah to Babylon. This happened because the people rejected God as king in 1 Samuel 8. 


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Rehoboam was the son of Solomon, son of David. Solomon had departed from his father David's ways and rejected God. God had declared that he would remove the kingdom from Solomon, but not in his days. So, in the days of Rehoboam, the once unified kingdom of Israel was divided to become the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah. From this point forward, in the Bible, the terms primarily used for the southern kingdom are Judah and Jerusalem. The terms for the northern kingdom will be Israel, Samaria, and Ephraim. 



The first act of Jeroboam, king of Israel, was to make two idols for the people to serve. He declared the same thing Aaron did at the base of Mount Sinai: " Behold your gods who brought you up out of Egypt." The new king easily led the people astray, which shouldn't surprise us. The Hebrew people had not been walking with God faithfully since they left Egypt. 



Rehoboam and Jeroboam rebelled against God and turned their nations against God. The northern kingdom will never have a king who serves the Lord, but Judah will have kings who seek God about fifty percent of the time. 


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Chapters 38-41 of Job have to be some of my absolute favorites in the Bible. The rebuke Job received here is one I've felt, on some level, more than once in my life. After Job had whined and the four friends had spoken, it was time for God to break his silence.



"Job, you have so much understanding; you must have been there when I laid the foundation of the earth. You must know its measurements. Was it you who shut in the ocean and made a boundary for its waves? Or did you lead forth all the stars? Certainly, you command the dawn. You know the deep places of the sea, right? Do you know where the gates of death are? Speak up since you are so wise. Where is the dwelling place of light and dark? You were born then, and the number of your days is SO GREAT (insert sarcasm here). Do you water the earth? Have you fed the wild beasts? Do the ravens cry out to you for food? Can you take the Leviathan by his nose? Can you destroy the wicked and bring them to nothing? Can you clothe yourself with majesty, glory, and splendor? Answer me."


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