PROPHETS & KINGS: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 9

Elijah the Tishbite

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/tUAyXl8TtU4?list=PL4ByrircmXL4AIWLkRrpeoEq_A6VmA54y

As Elijah saw Israel going deeper and deeper into idolatry, his soul was distressed and his indignation aroused. Elijah.... lifting his hand toward heaven, he solemnly affirmed by the living God that the

judgments of the Most High were about to fall upon Israel. As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, he declared, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. 1 Kings 17:1
Queen Jezebel, angered over the message that had locked up the treasures of heaven, lost no time in conferring with the priests of Baal, who united with her in cursing the prophet and in defying the wrath of Jehovah.
But the warnings that might have been a savor of life unto life had proved to them a savor of death unto death. Their *pride had been wounded, their *anger had been aroused against the messengers, and now *they regarded with intense hatred the prophet Elijah.