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A 3 page paper that reports and discusses Elijah's messages to the kings and using two examples, demonstrates that Elijah was following along in the tradition of the prophets, which was to point out to the people they would be destroyed if they did not return to their one true God. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Elijah delivered the message, then, left, only to return years later to tell the King that he would die. This essay discusses these messages and demonstrates that Elijah was acting
as so many other prophets who delivered similar messages. The them was similar - Israel would be destroyed if the people did not turn away from their sinful ways.
Elijah appears on the scene, delivers his message and then leaves. In 1 Kings, we read: "Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the
LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word" (1 Kings 17:1). The Lord
then tells Elijah to leave that place and hide in a ravine east of Jordan (1 Kings 17:2). Some time later, the brook dried up in the ravine and the
Lord told Elijah to go to a widows home where he is taken care of and it is this widows son that Elijah subsequently raises from the dead (1 Kings
17:3-24). Again, years later, the Lord calls Elijah to once again go speak with Ahab; on his way, he meets Obadiah who has hidden prophets in caves to keep
them safe (1 Kings 18). Elijah once again confronts Ahab about the trouble he and his family have brought down on Israel (1 Kings 18). This is exactly what the
prophets all did. They either confronted the king himself or they confronted whole towns and gave Gods messages to them. The prophetic message in this case had to do with
the false gods the king and his followers were worshiping and the damage their disobedience to the one true God was bringing to them. Ahab and the Baal prophets thought
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