In the early morning on the mountain road leading to Shiloh, a middle-aged woman walked away, and a black headscarf wrapped around her face, revealing only melancholy eyes. She had a basket on her left arm, a few breads, a few pieces of pastry, and a can of honey. Her headscarf was covered with a layer of dust. The sweat mixed with dust and dirt, and the face was smeared. The mouth was half-tensioned and panting, but the legs did not listen, but the slower and slower.
Her most beloved son was ill, and the illness came suddenly, and she soon became ill, lying in bed and lingering, the body that was as strong as a calf, and shrank into a bone a few days later. She has been waiting for him like a newborn baby for a few days, but her heart is going faster than her body. Which mother can bear the sin of her own child, but she can only watch her helplessness? Always try to do everything. The husband had no choice but to let her go to Shiloh to find an old prophet named Ahijah. Only he might have a way to save his son.
Shiloh finally arrived. This small town, which was originally a remote place, was the famous town of the Prophet because of the ark of the guardian god between Eli and Samuel two hundred years ago. The woman left to ask the old man's home. It was originally located on the outskirts of the town. It was an old low stone house. The door was hidden. The woman bent over and looked inside. The house was almost a walled house with only one dry white hair. The old man sat on the bed in the back room like a dead branch. He has already heard someone slamming, but only his eyes drifted in his eyes. It turned out that he was already blind because of his age.
The woman stood by the door and was greeted with cold greetings. The old man spoke first, but it was unusually bright. It did not seem to come from the dry body: "The king of Israel, the wife of Jerobo, come in, why is this? I tried my best to disguise myself? I have been blind for many years, but the Lord has told me in advance that you are coming."
The woman was shocked and happy, and God actually cares about this matter, telling the prophet in advance, perhaps the son is really saved. She walked into the door of the house, bowed to the old man, placed the gift next to him, and told the old man about his son's condition. The old man turned a deaf ear and continued: "Twenty years ago, the Lord sent me to be a prophet, prophesying that your husband Jerobo was the king of Israel, and your husband became the king of the ten tribes of Israel."
Ahijah paused, seemingly recalling the past, and seemed to be healing the bitterness of his heart. Then he turned his head and directly prophesied to Jerobo in the palace: "The Lord said: I am ascending you from the people, Let you be the king of my children in Israel. I have taken away the kingdom from the house of David, but you have not obeyed my commandments like my servant David, and listened to me wholeheartedly, but even worse than the predecessors. I set up other gods for myself, casting my gods, leaving me behind me and causing me to be angry. So, I will blame the Jerobo family and eradicate all the men in your family. I will take your home like a manure. Burning is exhausted. Your family, those who die in the city will be eaten by the dogs, and those who die in the fields will be taken by the birds. This is what the Lord said."
The wife of Jerobo listened and was stunned. He did not expect that he was coming to hear such a bad news. She turned her mind and hoped that the elderly would let the dying son temporarily turn to safety: "Can you please rescue my ill son temporarily?"
Ahijah said, "Go home now. When you enter the city, your child will die. All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. Only he will be buried in the house of Jerobo, because the Lord saw him. Be good, and the Lord will make a king to rule Israel, and he will destroy the Jerobo family. The Lord will strike Israel and make them tremble like the reeds in the water. The Lord will give them from Him to their ancestors. The land of Camry was uprooted and scattered to the other side of the Euphrates River. This was because they made the statue of Asherah and provoked the Lord to be angry."
After listening to the wife of Jerobo, he no longer prayed, his eyes were filled with tears, sobbing and saying goodbye to Ahijah, step by step and walking back to the palace. Everything as predicted by the prophet, the news of her son's death, came after she entered the city.
In the later years of Jerobo's rule, the king of Judah was Abijah. The two sides often fought. For the last time, Yabiya led the army by 400,000 and defeated the 800,000 army of Jerobo and killed 500,000 of them. Jerobo has never recovered.
After this, Abia, the king of Judah, died, and his son Asa succeeded. Two years later, the king of Israel, Jerobo, passed away, and his son took the squad. A year later, Nadab led the army to fight with the Philistines, and the men of Basha took the opportunity to rebel, killing Nad, and he became the king of Israel. When Basha became king, he immediately killed the whole house of Jerobo, and no one took off, fulfilling the prophecy that Jehovah had said by Ahijah.
The disease of the body is sometimes the discipline of God.
Three years after King Asa of Judah became king, Israel’s Basha rebellion, killing Jerobo’s family and calling himself the king, was worse than Jerobo. Then God sent the prophet Jehu to condemn Basha: "I promoted you from the dust, and made you the king of my children, but you have repeated the mistakes of Jerobo, causing my people to fall into sin and make me angry. So I will get rid of you and your family, like the removal of the Jerobo family." Basha listened but did not agree, still do my own thing.
Asa saw the awe of God from the destruction of the Jerobo family, and his heart ignited the enthusiasm for the Lord. The young and powerful, he destroyed the pagan temples and pillars of Judah and burned the Asya goddess. Like, dispelling the temples of men and women, and focusing on the sacrifices and laws passed down by Moses, and bringing the people to sacrifice in the temple to worship the true God. Then the blessing of God came to Judah. There was no war in Asa’s ten years, and the people lived and worked in peace. Asa built a city and practiced the army, with a total of 580,000 people.
The Egyptian empire could not allow the country to be rich and powerful. So the black general sent a total of millions of Ethiopian and Libyan troops to invade Judas. The image of the Israelites was the siege of Jerusalem decades ago, looting gold and weakening Judah. Asa discovered that the million-strong army of Sheila had entered the hinterland along the western side of Israel, and it was obvious that it would push Jerusalem. Asa knows that if he waits for the great army to besieged the city, he will be sitting and waiting for him. The only chance of winning is to send troops to the enemy and fight against the enemy in the wilderness halfway.
Therefore, Asa had led the army and marched a hundred miles to the southwest. He was deployed in the Valley of the Washing Law on the east side of the border. This is a must for the enemy, and it is vulnerable to attack. The Xie La army quickly discovered the intelligence, and the self-defense army was strong and strong. Three hundred chariots were placed in front, such as a group of monsters with claws and claws, and the infantry followed closely. Asa sees the enemy and I am eager to cry out to God and say, "Lord, you can help the weaker than the mighty. Our God, Lord, help us, because we depend on you and give you The name is against this army. Lord, you are our God, don't let people outdo you."
After the prayer was finished, Asa and other enemy troops entered the valley, and the valley was silent. Only the wheels of Egypt and the infantry’s footsteps raised the dust of the sky. Asa saw the front of the Egyptian army enter its own setting point, and ordered the people to blow the attack. Horn of the horn. The sound of the horns screamed, and the arrows rained. The Egyptian soldiers fell to the ground with arrows. The war horses that died in the middle of the arrow ran across the rugged mountain roads and turned into Egyptians. The Egyptians were not allowed to move forward. They only turned and retreated, but instead they were congested with the army behind them.
Asa saw the opportunity, and ordered the horn of the assault. Hundreds of thousands of Jewish troops rushed out from the ambush points on both sides of the valley. For example, the numerous rocks that rolled down the mountain landslides rushed to the Egyptian army that was crowded together. The weapon collided with thousands of flesh, causing a screaming bass and a sharp squeak. The Egyptian army had no fighting spirit, turned around and fled, and trampled on the fallen companions. Asa took the army of Judah and pursued it. He has been chasing Gerar outside the country and beyond. The Egyptians have suffered numerous deaths and injuries. The people of Judah took advantage of the situation to capture the cities around Gerar, looting the cities, and taking away a lot of property. In the decades after this war, the Egyptians no longer pose a threat to Judah.
Asa became famous and smug, and returned to Jerusalem with the army. The people in the city welcomed each other. One of them was known as Azariah, and also greeted the army. He congratulated Asa on his voice: "Asa, all Judah. And Benjamin, please listen to me! If you obey the Lord, He will be with you. If you seek Him, He will let you find. If you turn away from Him, He will forsake you. The Israelites have been for a long time. There is no true God, no priest, no law. But you must be strong, don't be soft with your hands, because you will be rewarded for what you have done."
Asa heard it and was greatly encouraged. After returning to the city, he ordered people to eradicate the remains of the pagan gods in the country and repair the altar of the inner courtyard of the temple. Many Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeons who feared the true God in Israel, who heard the acts of Asa and the blessings of God, left Israel and went to Judah to go to Asa. Judah’s national strength is growing. Asa became a great sacrifice in the temple 15 years after he ascended the throne, slaughtering more than 7,000 heads of cattle and sheep, and re-establishing a covenant with the Lord. God greatly conserved Judah, and there was no war for twenty years.
In the twenty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, the king of Israel, Basha, passed away, and his son Elah succeeded. The next year, the generals made a counter-intention to kill Ella, and slaughtered the Basha whole family, and they became kings themselves, fulfilling the prophecy of the prophet Jehu. Only seven days after the kingdom of heart and soul, he was killed by Marshal Omri, who was urgently returned to the city from the field. For the next four years, Israel’s civil war, until Omri became king. After the eight years of Omri's reign, he built the new Samaritan and moved to the capital.
In the thirty-sixth year of King Asa’s reign, the king of Israel, Omri, was eagerly agitated by Judas, so he led the soldiers to invade the border of Judah and captured the town of Rama, the hometown of Samuel, and built a high wall along the town in an attempt to block Judah. Economic exchanges with Israel. At this time, Asa was already high, and no longer made great efforts to protect the situation. Instead, he settled on the status quo, and took out the gold and silver in the temple and the palace, and sent people to bribe the king of Aram in northern Israel, Hada (now Syria), asking him to Invading Israel in the north to solve the dilemma of being blocked by its borders.
Benjad got a bribe and attacked Israel from the north, taking up several heavy towns and a piece of land on his border. From then on, Hada was able to oppress Israel. Basha urgently withdrew from Judah to solve the northern urgency. Asa heard the news, dispatched all the troops, dismantled the wood and stone materials that Israel built in Rama, and carried them to Misba northward, along the way to the southeast of Gaba, to build a line of defense.
Asa saw that she was scheming, and that the soldiers did not have a bloody blade to achieve a strategic victory. It was so unsatisfactory that the historical officials had a little more close-up in the history books and excavated a spectacular cemetery for themselves. Such a day, Asa had nothing to do in the palace, and suddenly the prophet Hanani sought to see him. He said to Asa recently: "You are not relying on your God, the Lord, but relying on the king of Aram, so the Israeli army escapes from your eyes. Is the army of Sheila not stronger? Are they not many chariot cavalry? But because you have trusted in the Lord, the Lord has given them into your hands. The eyes of the Lord are all over the world, showing the power to help those Return to Him with all your heart. But you are doing stupid things now! From then on, the war will be with you."
Asa was counted in the public, thinking of his own name, how can he be so criticized by the unknown young man in his later years, rising to the anger of the early rise, but fearing Hanani is a prophet, he had to put him in prison. This move caused public grievances, many people appealed to plead, and Asa sent them together in prison to accompany Hanani. Such a straightforward person was punished, and things were slowly suppressed and calmed down. After this incident, Asa’s feet slowly swelled and smashed. He asked for medical advice everywhere, but he did not see any improvement.
Three years later, Asa’s foot disease became more serious, and eventually the whole foot was black and rotted everywhere, revealing white bones. Asa was miserable, but finally did not bow to God and pleaded guilty. Two years later, Asa died of illness and was buried in a gorgeous cemetery that he had dug.
Ravens and widows feeding prophets of escape
After the death of Asa, the king of Judah, his son Joshua was succeeded. He was thirty-five years old. After he became king, he became angry and sent troops to station all the strong cities of Judah, eradicating the Qiutan and Asherah in Judah. The god is dedicated to the Lord as the true God. God is with him to consolidate his throne. This is not pressed first.
But in the same period of Israel, when Joshua was enthroned, the king of Israel, Omri, had died for two years, and Ahab’s son, Ahab, succeeded him as king. His wife was the beautiful daughter of King Sidon, Jezebel. Jezebel was bent on Baal and Asherah. Ahab wanted to make his wife happy. She built the Baal Temple in Samaria, set up an altar in the temple, and set up the statue of Ashera everywhere. Jezebel was arrogant, and arrested any prophet against her by the Queen's Supreme. The territory of Israel was smoldering for a while, but the people dared to speak out.
But one of the first names was Elijah. He directly found King Ahab and warned him: "I swear by the God of Israel, the Lord of the Lord, who I serve. If I don't pray, there will be no rain in these years. The nectar is lowered."
Ahha didn't care, and there was no thought of repentance. The climate has slowly changed. The air has become dry and dry. The sky is not lit by the sun. Even the wind seems to be stagnant. The well water is dry and the people are panicking.
Jezebel was furious, and she encouraged her husband to wash the prophets of the Lord, because in her view, they not only caused a severe drought, but also refused to tell the hiding place of Elijah. These two things were greatly hurt. Her self-esteem. The prophets who were caught in the territory were arrested, and all they caught were killed on the altar of Baal for rain. Hundreds of prophets are on the altar of Baal, and there is no prophet in Israel to kill. Jezebel still did not catch Elijah, and the sky did not drop a rain.
Elijah had already crossed the Jordan River as God had commanded him, and went east to a stream called Kiri, where a man was hiding. The stream is not big, the water comes from the melting snow on the mountain, and the stream is covered by the trees by the stream. In addition to the occasional wild deer coming to drink, it seems to be a paradise. Elijah was frowning and worried, and Jezebel killed all the prophets of God, leaving only oneself to escape, but God did not do anything, and did not tell him when it was raining to solve the suffering of the people. The stream is about to stop flowing because of the drought.
The sky turned dark, and the low trees sifted the weak sunset into shattered light. A group of crows returned to the nest on time. They licked the cake and the meat, and flew to Elijah meekly, putting down the cake and meat. Then look at him. Elijah used to eat it, and went to the stream to find a otter, took the water to drink, and sat down again, looking at the sunset that was sinking immediately: "God, send these crows every day to feed I, but the water, the stream immediately stopped flowing."
In contemplation, the word of God came to him: "Go to the law of Salar in Sidon, I have commanded a widow there to support you." Elijah brows, Sidon is a foreign country, he does not know one person, how Find the widow and go there for a dozen days.
Elijah still embarked on a journey. As a prophet, God's words must be followed. A few days later, he came to the gate of the city of Salfah. He had already been dry and just saw a skinny middle-aged woman picking up firewood outside the city. She said to her, "I am an Israeli, please give I drink a little water."
Seeing the woman turned to take her own water bag, Elijah said to her again, "Please give me some more bread." The woman waited for Elijah to finish the water and said to him, "I am by you." God swears, I don't have a cake, there is only one side left in the altar in my house, and there is only one bottom in the oil bottle. I come here to pick up the wood and go back to make the cake. After eating the last meal with my son, wait. died."
In the heart of Elijah, knowing that this woman is the widow that God told him to meet, she said to her, "Don't be afraid, you will go to make the cake as you said, but you have to make a small piece of cake first." Give it to me, and then do it for you and your son, because the Lord of Israel, the Lord, said, 'Before the LORD rains, the oil in your face and the oil in the bottle will not be empty.'"
The widow looked at Elijah seriously. After a moment of contemplation, she took Elijah to her own home, and reconciled the oil and the noodles. He gave birth to a fire in the courtyard, branded a large piece of cake, and first gave it to Elijah. Then give the rest of the rest to his son, leaving only one mouth in his mouth. Elijah said to her, "Go and go to the altar to take the noodles, pour the oil out of the bottle, and make a cake with the noodles."
The woman will be suspicious, turned back to the house, first went to see the oil bottle, the bottle of oil has a small half bottle, she blinked, went to the face, there is enough flour inside to make a dinner they eat . The woman shouted happily, jumped out of the house, took the basin and re-faced the pancakes.
From then on, Elijah stayed next to the widow's house and went to the widow's house to eat the cake every day. The altar and the oil bottle left enough for the three to eat. When the days passed, the widow’s son suddenly fell ill, and soon his condition worsened and he finally died. The woman hugged her son and cried to find Elijah and said to him, "God's servant, why are you treating me like this, are you here to remind me of my sin and let my son die?"
"Give me the child," Elijah said, then took the child over and walked into the room where he lived, put it on the bed, and shouted to God: "God, why are you so sick to this woman!" She treats me so kindly, but you kill her son!"
After that, Elijah was attached to the child and prayed again: "God, please let the child come alive." So three times. Gradually the child warmed up, his limbs softened, and finally opened his eyes. Elijah took the living child out of the room and returned it to her mother. The woman burst into tears and said loudly, "Now I know that you are the servant of God, and the Lord has said through your mouth that it is true."
Soon after this, the drought was full for three years. Early in the morning, Elijah received the new revelation of God, and came out to say goodbye to the woman and the child.
He defeated 850 people but did not get the expected results.
In the past three years of drought, the land in Israel was cracked, the crops were dead, the wells were dry, and the people were forced to rely on deep wells to fight the water, but the rest of the grain gradually warned that the king of Ahab desperately brought people into the wilderness to find grass for the animals.
The Lord God revealed Elijah early to see Ahab, and Elijah said goodbye to Sidon's widow and mother, and entered Israel and met Ahab in the wild. I haven't seen it for three years. Ahha's original fat body dried up with the drought, and his face was dark and wrinkled by the sun. He didn't expect to meet Elijah in this way, and he didn't dare to make it. He saw his unwashed hair for three years, such as the hay on the ground, the dusty color of the broken clothes, and the overlapping sweat stains left a block. The white sweat of the sputum, he slammed his mouth and raised his voice and said, "Is it yours that brought disaster to Israel?"
Elijah said, "It is not me who brought disaster to Israel, but you and your father's family, because you have abandoned the commandments of the Lord to follow Baal. Now you are sending people to call all the Israeli leaders to Carmel. The mountain came to see me, bringing in the prophet of the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the wife of your wife Jezebel, and I will ask for rain there."
After Elijah turned away, he headed for the direction of Mount Carmel in the northwest.
Mount Carmel, such as a brown giant python, is on the northwestern border of Israel. It is only 20 miles from the sea. The peak is nearly two thousand feet high. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can see the sea from the west and look at Israel. There is a huge Baal altar on the top of the mountain, which is neatly tidy and has a thick charcoal in the altar. Not far away is a dying altar of the Lord, and the stone barrier collapses, and the dry grass emerges from the cracks between the stones. Because of the long drought and no rain, the low trees on the mountain are like dead branches, as if waiting for a ignited star to ignite the fire. The air, like every day of the past three years, is still standing still, fermenting the dry sun in the morning into a dull khaki, covering the desperate face of everyone on the top of the mountain.
But people did not speak, and they made a big circle, and they fixed their eyes on the prophets who stood in the middle of Elijah, Baha, and Baal. They all knew that Ahab had killed almost all the prophets of Jehovah in the past three years. But he did not seize Elijah. Now everyone is irritated by the violent temper, but he sent it to the door, not only to find Baja, but also to bring him with 850 Baal’s prophets. Is he determined to make himself a sacrifice, so that these prophets burned to the altar of Baal for rain?
Elijah looked around and sighed deeply and slowly walked over to the crowd and said, "When are you going to be two hearts? If the Lord is the true God, you should repent and follow Him. If Baal is the true God, you will follow. He, why are you standing there and looking left and right?"
Elijah saw no one to answer, and continued to say to the people: "You know that the prophet of the Lord now has only one of me, but the prophet of Baal has four hundred and fifty. Please bring us two bulls to let the Pakistani The prophet of the power first picks one and cuts it into a firewood on the altar of Baal, but don't ignite it first. I will prepare the other bull as well, and put it on the firewood of the Lord's altar, and I will not ignite."
Elijah then turned to Baha and the hundreds of prophets behind him and said, "Then you ask the name of your god. I am calling on the Lord. Whoever listened to the prayer and lowered the sacrifice on the altar, who is the true God." Do you agree with this challenge?"
A consistent voice was issued in the crowd. Bach and the prophets also nodded in agreement.
The prophets of Baal soon prepared a strong bull, and placed the meat on the altar of Baal. Although they sacrificed countless sacrifices here, they were still asking for rain for the first time. Although they were awkward in their hearts, they worshipped around the altar. Some of the leaders offered prayers, hoping that the lightning would suddenly drop and light the dry wood on the altar. But the sky is as quiet as usual. In order to break the boring situation, some prophets began to shout: "Ba Li, please answer us." Others also shouted together, and the cry of 800 people came one after another, but did not stir up a flow of wind. In desperation, they stood up again and jumped and yelled around the altar.
When an hour passed, the sun gradually rose from the east of Israel to the top of their heads. Their voices were already hoarse, the pace of beating was also heavy, and no sweat was on their heads. However, few hundred people dared to stop, I am afraid Ba Li saw that their hearts were not pious and they had to give up. The people around me lost their interest early, and they sat down, but they were so dizzy that they could only stay with them.
"You prayed louder again. Baal is your god. I am afraid that he is going to go to God at this time, or is going to be a tribute, or may be traveling? If he is taking a nap, you must be louder to wake him up."
Elijah looked at them with a fork and shouted. Some prophets listened, and when they felt awkward, they took out their daggers and machete, and cut their foreheads, chests, and limbs, and screamed and screamed. For a time, every prophet emulated, and everyone was bloody. This is one of the highest realms in their faith, which means to dedicate themselves to Baal.
The sun gradually turned to the west, the sky was still quiet, and there was no airflow. The dry wood on the altar of Baal was gradually wet by the blood of the cow. The blood clotting of the prophets in Baal was scented with sweat, and they had nothing to do, but no one dared to stop first. Everyone was desperately waiting for an excuse to stop.
"Enough, enough," Elijah said loudly, watching the prophets wandering, and then summoning the people to the altar of the Lord, leaning over and picking twelve pieces from the scattered stones, representing the twelve tribes. Set up an altar, and dug a dirt ditch along the altar, then he placed the firewood on the stone barrier and laid the beef on the firewood. The people kept their eyes on him, and Elijah stood up straight and said to the crowd: "You have poured four cans of water on this offering and firewood."
People don't understand, but they did it. Elijah said again, "You will pour again." So they did it again. Elijah asked them to pour the third time until the firewood on the altar was drenched, and the surrounding ditch was filled with blood from the beef.
The sun gradually fell, and Elijah walked alone to the altar of the Lord, and leaned out and prayed, "Abraham, Isaac, and the Lord God of Jacob, please let these people know that you are the God of Israel today, I am you. The servant, I am doing all this according to your command. O Lord, please answer me and answer me, so that everyone knows that you are the true God, so that they can change their minds."
The voice just fell, and the air stunned a deafening shackle. If the fire tongue burned the sky, the sky fell and the sky fell, and the altar of the Lord was hit. The firewood on it fired a white smoke, and then the blazing flame rose and swallowed. All the sacrifices, and then the sacrifices, burned up, and the flames were raised, the stones were burnt red, and the water in the ditch around the altar also boiled, igniting the lingering water vapor. The people had just been shocked and stunned, and they watched the fire stunned. They couldn’t help but bow down and screamed: "The Lord is God! The Lord is God!"
Elijah screamed to the crowd and said, "Hurry and seize the prophet of Baal, don't let go of one person!" The people were fooled by these false prophets for a day, and they were not angry. Now they are waking up like a dream, and they are doing it together. They lived in the four scattered, and they were firmly tied up and brought to Elijah. King Ahab was so scared that he was ashamed, but he did not dare to scream.
Elijah said to the people: "These false prophets not only bowed to the false god Baal, but also caused the entire Israeli people to abandon the true God and provoke the Lord to be angry. Now is the day when you have repented to the Lord and ask him to forgive. Let us take these fakes. The prophet was brought to the base of the river under the mountain."
Before going down the mountain, Elijah said to King Ahab: "You should eat and drink here first, wait for me to come back. Rain, it is coming."
He is not afraid of the king, but he is afraid of the wife of the king.
Elijah led the masses to kill hundreds of false prophets on the side of the Kishun River under Mount Carmel, and then let the masses go home as soon as possible, but they brought a boy and climbed again to the thousand and eight hundred feet. The top of the mountain. At this time, the setting sun will fall, and the top of the mountain will be covered with a layer of orange. On the top of the mountain, there will be only Elijah and the young boy. Elijah was kneeling at the altar of the Lord, and as the altar was still rising in the altar, his head fell between his knees and prayed silently to the Lord.
After a moment of prayer, Elijah let the boy go to the top of the cliff and look to the sea in the west. The boy quickly returned to say: "Nothing, no cloud." Elijah continued to bow down and pray, and then sent a teenager to wait and see, the teenager returned the same result. If it is seven times. The seventh time the boy came back, the voice shook a little: "I saw a cloud as big as a palm rise from the sea."
Elijah stood up and tightened his clothes, and told the boy: "You will go down the mountain to tell King Ahab and ask him to hurry back to the city of Jezreel, so as not to be blocked by heavy rain." Seeing the young boy flying away, Elijah turned back to look at the sky, and the west has already risen up to the dense clouds. If the cliffs of Wanli are coming, it seems to be dumped at any time, crushing the last sunset. In the past three years, the wind has risen for the first time, and then the dust on the mountain has been swayed. Elijah strode forward and quickly ran down the hill. The rainstorm was about to arrive. He was going back to the city of Jezreel, where he waited for the king of Baja, waiting for him to renew the law of the Lord and help him rebuild his broken homeland.
The night came early, the rain poured down, the wind wrapped in the rain, hitting Elijah in no direction, seemed to blow him down, but he drifted on the water. The night is heavy, the rain screen will be sloppy and difficult to distinguish, the rain is cold, but in his heart, the candlelight of countless hopes is lit. The pagan religion that has been raging for three years has finally been washed away by today's torrential rain. The three years of God's refinement finally allowed the king of Ahab to distinguish between true and false. The empty heart of the people for three years is finally being squandered by the Word of God.
Elijah ran a 50-mile mountain road in the rain, and entered the city of Jezre before the king of Ahab. He lived next to the king's summer palace and hurriedly sat down after the first meal of the day. After a day of physical and mental exhaustion, I was so sleepy that I was ready to summon the might of Ahab. The door suddenly slammed.
Elijah pressed the excited heartbeat, opened the door, and one came out, and then closed the door. Elijah recognized the coming, but it was the inner minister of the king of Ahab, Obadi, who was decent and fearful of the Lord. He helped Elijah and Ahab two days ago. Elijah thought that he would bring the message of Ahab, and he was about to greet, but Obadi showed it, and did not want him to speak, then lowered his voice and attached it to Elijah’s ear and said, "The king of Baha has just returned. I told the Queen of Yezbee together during the day. She heard that the prophet of Baal was killed by you, and thundered, and sent someone to tell you: 'At this time tomorrow, if I don’t let you die like my prophets. May God punish me. "I listened to it and secretly told you."
Obadiah did not dare to stay for a long time. After repeatedly warning Elijah, he hurriedly said goodbye. Elijah sat on the edge of the bed, and the ears seemed to ring a few flat cockroaches, not to be erected. The reversal of things was so fast, beyond his expectations, he mechanically opened the door, took the legs of the sorrow and rushed into the rain curtain.
The wind and the rain were more raging, and Elijah ran south, where the country of Judah was the only place where he could escape. The night is like ink, and the whole world is slumbering in the swaying wind and rain. Only Elijah flees in the stormy desert, such as the lone wolf that evades the hunters. The heavy chill in the middle of the night penetrated into his body through the rain, and he smashed his mad heart into a heavy hammer. "God can let a group of crows feed me, so that the widow's face tank can be more than enough every day, so that her son can be resurrected in the dead, so that the fire can fall from the sky, so that the rainstorm can come instantly, but can't help this vicious Jezebel. God. She killed all your prophets, and now I am alone. You have nothing to do, do you want her to kill your last prophet!"
When the rain stopped in the early hours, Elijah ran to the southernmost tip of Judah, Sheba, and thought that the king of Judah, Jehoshaphat, had a good deal with Ahab. He was afraid that the early riser would report his whereabouts and would continue to run south and run out of Judah. In the evening, he entered the depths of the desert and was exhausted. He ran more than 200 miles a day, the water was gone, and the food he had eaten last night was exhausted. The sun hangs at the end of the desert, evaporating the residual water in his body. Yeliya knew that she could no longer live and walk out of the desert. When she saw a Luoteng tree in front, she struggled to climb over, fell under the shade of the tree, looked at the sky, and prayed in her heart: "I am fed up, God. Ah, you take my life, I am dead." After all, he was so tired and extremely thirsty that he fell to the ground and passed out.
In the middle of it, someone shot him and said, "Get up and eat." Elijah was shocked. He opened his eyes and looked around. The tree was still alone. There was a piece of bread and a can of water on his head. Elijah barely ate a few mouthfuls, and when she fell asleep, she fell back and slept. I don't know how long it took, and someone buckled his shoulder and woke him up and said, "Get up and eat, or the road ahead is too far away for you." Elijah woke up, his head was already a star, sitting opposite Take one person and hand him bread and water. Although he could not see the other person's face, Elijah knew that he was an angel and knew that he would not die here, so he sat up to eat and drink.
The bread is not big, and Elijah's physical strength is magically restored. The angel does not know when it has disappeared, and there is only one Elijah in the desert. Starry sky, it seems that only a stone's throw away from Elijah, the sea surface reflected in the desert, a layer of silver halo. Elijah tightened her clothes and had a direction in her heart, and she looked at the stars and walked southwest.
He is going to Mount Sinai to pay homage to the land where God made a covenant with Israel and set foot on the top of the mountain that God had burned with great thunder and fire. After that, he had no regrets, and he could die there with peace of mind, pursuing the glory of God who was with Israel in history.