Book 1 Kings 17: 1 Elijah

My prophet is Elijah. He lived in Gilead, a region on the east side of the Jordan. This region was east of the Jordan River, but now modern day Jordan. Elijah had a deep faith in God and was chosen by God to warn King Ahab, the king of Israel, that he and his people must repent or God will send a famine. This warning is illustrated in Matthew 12:34-35 where God says, “You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart. The good man out of his good treasure brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of his evil treasure forth what is evil.” Which basically mean you can’t do good if you believe anything other than good, so all the people worshipping Baal can’t do good. In 1 Kings 17:1 Elijah tells Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” King Ahab had a wife named Jezebel who did not believe in God and when heard the warning wanted to kill Elijah. God warned Elijah to go to a city where a woman would give him food and water. Elijah met the widowed woman and her son. He asked

Seeing all the idolatry and sin made God call for Elijah. In 1 Kings 18:39 it says, “Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said,’The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!’” This means that one man changed four hundred and fifty wicked priests, which gave the people who believed in God hope. In Luke 1:16-17 an angel says, “And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. He will also go before Him [Jesus] in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make a ready a people prepared for the Lord” This tells the people that the wicked will go back to God through the spirit and power of