Background: In the Northern Kingdom of Israel, roughly forty years after the death of Jeroboam and during the reign of Asa in Judah and Ahab in Israel, a prophet named Elijah the Tishbite came to minister to the Northern Kingdom.
Ahab is married to Jezebel, daughter of the Phoenician king (possibly done for alliance purposes to protect Israel from Syria). Ahab transitioned Israel from worshipping an apostate version of Jehovah (Jeroboam’s religion), to the worship of Baal and Ashteroth.
READ 1 Kings 16:30-33
What does it mean to “walk in
the sins of Jeroboam”?
In response to all of this, the Lord sends Elijah, a prophet from east of the Jordan River in the land of Gilead.
Elijah and the Drought
READ 1 Kings 17:1
What does this pronouncement
imply?
Why does Elijah choose drought
instead of war?
READ 1 Kings 17:2-6
What does the fact that Elijah
lives by a brook and is fed by ravens despite his possession of the sealing
power (where he could do all of the miracles of Jesus, presumably) teach us?
The Widow of Zarephath
READ 1 Kings 17:7-9
Where is the Lord sending
Elijah next?
READ 1 Kings 17:10-16
What is this widow’s backstory?
What is really happening to
the widow at this moment?
What is the opposite or
antithesis of fear?
How could she have faith such
as this?
And now we move to her
ultimate Abrahamic test, which will also provide one for Elijah…
READ 1 Kings 17:17-24
Why is this trial the widow’s
ultimate Abrahamic sacrifice?
How is this a greater test for
Elijah than the drought?
READ Lectures on Faith 6:11-12
What did the widow REALLY
learn from this experience?
Elijah versus the Priests
of Baal
After some time of drought,
the Lord tells Elijah to meet with King Ahab.
READ 1 Kings 18:17-21
What is Elijah doing?
READ 1 Kings 18:23-24
What is the challenge that
Elijah makes to Ahab and his priests?
READ 1 Kings 18:26-29
What are the priests doing?
The priests of Baal seemed to
have faith in him, so why did they fail?
Why did Elijah mock the
priests?
READ 1 Kings 18:30-35
What is Elijah doing?
READ 1 Kings 18:36-40
What is Elijah doing when he
says “I am thy servant”?
What does “the Lord, He is the
God” mean?
READ 1 Kings 18:43-45
Why does the Lord end the
drought, as Ahab does not seem to have repented?
READ 1 Kings 19:3
Why does Elijah flee for his
life from Jezebel (after the Baal incident)?
Mount Horeb
Elijah travels to Holy Mount
Horeb to be taught and the Lord comes to him and asks him what he wants.
READ 1 Kings 19:11-12
What is the Lord teaching
Elijah?
What is the secret?
Elijah’s Accent to Heaven
READ 2 Kings 2:1-2 and 11-12
What is happening to Elijah?
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