Elijah and the Prophets of Baal
In 1 Kings 18, While Jezebel was killing off the Lord’s prophets, this person had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two caves.
Who is Obadiah
What is the name of Jonah's father?
Who is Amittai (1The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai)
In 1 Kings: 18, where is it that Elijah told King Ahab to have the people of Israel to meet him?
Where is Mount Carmel
What was the mission that God gave Jonah, and what was Jonah's response?
2“ Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”
3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.
Elijah had developed his relationship with God over time and knew that he could trust God to take care of him, even going up against King Ahab and the prophets of Baal. God had taken care of Elijah during the drought - how was it that God fed Elijah during the drought? (Hint: 1 Kings 17)
5 So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
How long was Jonah inside the belly of the big fish?
17 Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
How many prophets of Baal was Elijah up against at Mt. Carmel?
22 Then Elijah said to them, “I am the only one of the Lord’s prophets left, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets.
Sometimes when we are doing work for God, we fall into the trap of thinking that WE are the ones making things happen, and that it is our job to get people to accept God's gift to them.
When you read Jonah's prayer to God in Jonah 2, what do you notice at the end of the prayer, which is Jonah's revelation (big understanding), before God allows Jonah to be "vomited" onto dry land?
8“ Those who cling to worthless idols
turn away from God’s love for them.
9 But I, with shouts of grateful praise,
will sacrifice to you.
What I have vowed I will make good.
I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the Lord.’ ”
What happened for the first time in years after Elijah had defeated the prophets of Baal at Mt. Carmel?
41 And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.” 42 So Ahab went off to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees.
43 “Go and look toward the sea,” he told his servant. And he went up and looked.
“There is nothing there,” he said.
Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”
44 The seventh time the servant reported, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.”
So Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’ ”
45 Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain started falling and Ahab rode off to Jezreel. 46 The power of the Lord came on Elijah and, tucking his cloak into his belt, he ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.
What was it that kept God from destroying the people of Ninevah?
6 When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust. 7 This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh:
“By the decree of the king and his nobles:
Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink. 8 But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. 9 Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”
10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.