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Introducción
I Reyes 18:21 – Y acercándose Elías a todo el pueblo, dijo: ¿Hasta cuándo claudicaréis vosotros entre dos pensamientos?
Si Jehová es Dios, seguidle; y si Baal, id en pos de él.
Y el pueblo no respondió palabra.
Y acercándose Elías a todo el pueblo, dijo: ¿Hasta cuándo claudicaréis vosotros entre dos pensamientos?
Si Jehová es Dios, seguidle; y si Baal, id en pos de él.
Y el pueblo no respondió palabra.
Y acercándose Elías a todo el pueblo, dijo: ¿Hasta cuándo claudicaréis vosotros entre dos pensamientos?
Si Jehová es Dios, seguidle; y si Baal, id en pos de él.
Y el pueblo no respondió palabra.
– And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions?
if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.
And the people answered him not a word.
Reina Valera Revisada (1960).
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Miami: Sociedades Bı́blicas Unidas.
Reina Valera Revisada (1960).
(1998).
(1 Ki 18:21–22).
Miami: Sociedades Bı́blicas Unidas.
21 Y acercándose Elías a todo el pueblo, dijo: ¿Hasta cuándo claudicaréis vosotros entre dos pensamientos?
Si Jehová es Dios, seguidle; y si Baal, id en pos de él.
Y el pueblo no respondió palabra.
It is from this verse that the title of this study of Elijah’s life comes from—If the Lord Be God.
This lesson will focus on this call to action by Elijah—If the Lord be God, follow Him.
Sticky Statement: If the Lord be God, follow Him.
1 Reyes 18 — Verse-by-Verse
1 Reyes 18 — Verse-by-Verse
Verse 1
Verse 1
We learn from verse 1 that Elijah has been in hiding at either the brook Cherith or in Zarephath for over 3 years.
tells us that the period between Elijah’s pronunciation of judgment and the lifting of the judgment was 3-1/2 years.
God tells Elijah to go to Ahab and tell him that rain is coming.
Verses 2-3
By this point, there is a sever famine in the land and something needed to be done.
Ahab calls for Obadiah, the governor of his house.
Obadiah was basically the chief servant in the house of Ahab.
This is not the minor prophet, Obadiah.
Verse 3 tells us that he “feared the Lord greatly.”
Here, in the house of the most wicked king that Israel has ever had, stands a god fearing man.
He, unlike many other followers of Jehovah chose to stay behind.
Like Elijah, his name means something.
Obadiah means servant of Jehovah.
Even in the midst of a wicked society, God raised up a man to do His work and save His people.
He would be a like a Joseph or a Daniel.
A man that could be trusted, one who had ingenuity and in whom Ahab had great confidence.
Like Elijah, his name means something.
Obadiah means servant of Jehovah.
Even in the midst of a wicked society, God raised up a man to do His work and save His people.
He would be a like a Joseph or a Daniel.
A man that could be trusted, one who had ingenuity and in whom Ahab had great confidence.
Verses 5-16
At this point, the famine is so severe, Ahab determines he needs to do something himself in order to save what remaining horses and mules they had.
He went one direction and sent Obadiah in the other direction.
This is where Elijah returns.
In verses 7-16, Obadiah meets Elijah.
Read 7-16
Obadiah meets Elijah and bows down out of reverence.
Elijah commands Obadiah to go tell Ahab that “Elijah is here.”
Obadiah fears that if he returns to Ahab that by the time they return, the Spirit of the Lord will have taken Elijah elsewhere and Ahab would have Obadiah killed.
Obadiah ensures that Elijah knows his commitment to the Lord by recounting what he had done with the 100 prophets of the Lord in verse 13.
Elijah assures Obadiah that that he will be there by using a different name for the Lord.
He calls Him the Lord of Hosts.
In other words, he is the Lord of the armies.
This title gives Obadiah assurance “in God’s ability to handle the physical and spiritual situation in Israel.”[1]
For Elijah, this assurance must have grown out of his experiences at Cherith and Zarephath.
Verses 17-19
Read verses 17-18
Elijah makes it very clear why the judgment upon Israel had come and whose fault it was.
In verse 18 we see Baalim—this is the plural of Baal.
“The plural “Baals” refers to local idols of Baal (cf.
Jud.
2:11) sometimes with differing names (e.g., Baal-Berith [local God of central Canaan around Shechem], Jud.
8:33; Baal-Zebub [Philistine city of Ekron], , , ).
This was the real issue and the root cause of all the trouble in Israel, spiritual as well as physical.”[2]
This idolatry needs to be stopped.
Israel needs to be reminded who the one true God is.
So Elijah issues a challenge.
To Ahab, this agreement sounds as if it’s in His favor.
It’s one prophet against 450.
The four hundred prophets of the groves were Jezebel’s prophets of Ashteroth—the female counterpart of Baal.
Verses 20-24
Ahab agrees and calls on Israel to gather at Mt. Carmel.
Maybe you’re thinking, why Mt.
Carmel?
I’m glad you asked.
“It would be a fitting site since it lay between Israel and Phoenicia, the lands of the deities in question.
Also Mount Carmel was regarded by the Phoenicians as the sacred dwelling place of Baal.
No doubt Ahab was highly pleased with this suggested site for the contest because it would have given the Baal prophets a definite advantage; but this did not worry Elijah.
It was also a geographically prominent location and thus a fit setting for Elijah’s contest.
“It would be a fitting site since it lay between Israel and Phoenicia, the lands of the deities in question.
Also Mount Carmel was regarded by the Phoenicians as the sacred dwelling place of Baal.
No doubt Ahab was highly pleased with this suggested site for the contest because it would have given the Baal prophets a definite advantage; but this did not worry Elijah.
It was also a geographically prominent location and thus a fit setting for Elijah’s contest.
“Baal was supposedly a fertility god, the one who sent rain, caused the crops to grow, and provided food for his people.
He was the one who supposedly sent fire (lightning) from heaven.
The three-and-one-half-year drought and famine had been a great embarrassment to the worshipers of Baal.
It seemed as if Elijah and his God rather than Baal were in control of the fertility of Israel.
So Elijah’s test to Baal’s followers seemed like a good opportunity to vindicate their god and they readily agreed to it.”
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Note about Mt.
Carmel
More about Mt.
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