Picture it: Israel 2,900 some odd years ago. King Ahab Queen Jezebel are ruling the land, worshipping Baal and Ashera. They sponsor hundreds and hundreds of false prophets, leading the masses astray with their seductive and destructive lies. The true prophets -- those charged with speaking truth -- have been banned, threatened, and killed. Those left are forced to hide.
Along comes Elijah. He's been chosen by God to bring a Great Awakening. He confronts the king and challenges his prophets to a public duel: your prophets and gods against my One God. The god who answers with fire from heaven is the True God.
The false prophets do everything that they can think of and nothing happens. Elijah goes next.
At the usual time for offering the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet walked up to the altar and prayed, “O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, prove today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant. Prove that I have done all this at your command. O Lord, answer me! Answer me so these people will know that you, O Lord, are God and that you have brought them back to yourself.”
Immediately the fire of the Lord flashed down from heaven and burned up the young bull, the wood, the stones, and the dust. It even licked up all the water in the trench! And when all the people saw it, they fell face down on the ground and cried out, “The Lord—he is God! Yes, the Lord is God!” Then Elijah commanded, “Seize all the prophets of Baal. Don’t let a single one escape!” So the people seized them all, and Elijah took them down to the Kishon Valley and killed them there.
1 Kings 18:36-40 NLT
Next, after waiting for 3 years without a drop of rain, there came a great storm.
Are we living in the days of Elijah? Is the time coming when the masses will be awakened and turn against those who were misleading them and turn to the True God? Q says yes. Lord, let it be.
It feels like we're living in a culmination of all the biblical timelines. Egypt and Moses. Noah and the way the world was then. The days of Elijah. It's all wrapped up into one these days it seems.
Yes, it seems like it. Is it a sign of the end, or is there a new Renaissance and Reformation coming?