IN the meantime Elijah ran off to Samaria and talked to Jezebel. Oh, and it starts raining.īecause the rain probably slowed down Ahab’s chariot and got it stuck in the mud. That’s when Elijah thinks “Oh crud, what did I just do?” and he takes off running too. Then Elijah prays and a column of fire consumes the whole altar, right there: BOOM altar destroyed.Įlijah turns to the Israelites and says “destroy the false prophets,” and the Israelites kill all those false prophets and King Ahab takes off running. So much that it’s filled the trench he dug around the altar. My kids laugh every time we’ve told this story.įinally, Elijah gets started and has them pile up the offering and then pour 12 buckets of water on it. And they did! At this point I picture Elijah trying not too hard to laugh at them, then he asks if maybe their God is sleeping and it just goes downhill from there. This is where we get into my sense of humor comments.Įlijah graciously let the prophets of Ball go first in lighting their fire, but they were not successful, so he asked if maybe, just maybe their god didn’t hear, so maybe they should shout louder. As a side note, I’ve always thought the description of how Elijah prayed for the boy sounded rather like CPR.įinally, God told Elijah it was time to confront King Ahab and all of the false prophets. She loses faith (I think most of us Moms would at that point), and says “ Why did you save us for my son to die?” Elijah went upstairs and prayed to God for wisdom and the boy was healed. This continues on for quite some time until one day her son becomes ill. God sent Elijah up to the widow in Zarephath and there he asks her for some bread, and she answers, “I was going to make the last of our flour and oil into a loaf of bread for my son and me to eat, and then lay down to die.”Įlijah tells her it will be well, and they are able to eat their meal, yet the flour and oil are not gone. Our ravens are represented here by owls…. There he was fed by ravens every morning and evening for the next year or so until the brook dried up. God called Elijah to confront King Ahab (Yes, Ahab is represented by our Dumbledore from the Harry Potter set) about his sin, in particular, worshipping and sacrificing to Baal and told him “There will be no rain until God says so unless you repent.” King Ahab didn’t take too kindly to this, so Elijah ran for his life to the wilderness for his life. We spent a happy hour or so decorating our dolls, my kids lamented the dwindling number of dolls, and I made a note to order more dolls soon. My kids wanted to decorate peg dolls to act out the story, so our desires coincided, this time. We read through the story and I wanted to replicate how I did the Elijah lesson with my Sunday School class a few years ago. This story comes in after we learned about the kings of Northern Israel (and what a terrible example they were). Oh wait, I don’t want to teach my kids that (though they picked up on it very well). Sarcastic answer: We can learn how to mouth off to our enemies. Well, you’ll see when you hear the WHOLE Elijah lesson. This story is one of them, and boy does my Sunday School class appreciate that sense of humor in this Elijah lesson. Yes, I think there are a lot of places in the Bible you can see God’s sense of humor. I think we’d get along very well, and I have to admit I like his sense of humor. There are certain Bible figures I really resonate with, and Elijah is one of them.
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