Monday, October 10, 2016

Elijah’s Victory ON Mount Carmel

1 Kings 18:20-40

So Ahab SENT for All The Children OF Israel, and Gathered The Prophets Together ON Mount Carmel.  And Elijah CAME TO All The People, and SAID, “How Long Will YOU FALTER BETWEEN Two Opinions?  IF The LORD IS GOD, FOLLOW Him; BUT IF Baal, follow him.”  BUT The People answered Him (Elijah) NOT a word.  Then Elijah SAID TO The People, “I ALONE AM Left A Prophet OF The LORD; BUT Baal’s Prophets are Four Hundred and Fifty (450) Men.  Therefore, let Them (Baal’s Prophets) GIVE Us Two (2) bulls; and let Them CHOOSE One bull for Themselves, cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, BUT PUT NO FIRE UNDER IT; and I Will PREPARE The Other bull, and lay it on the wood, BUT PUT NO FIRE UNDER IT.   THEN, YOU (Baal’s Prophets) call on the name of your gods, and I Will CALL ON The Name OF The LORD; AND The God Who ANSWERS BY FIRE, He IS GOD.”  So All The People answered and said, “It is well spoken.”

Now Elijah SAID TO The Prophets of Baal, “CHOOSE one bull for yourselves and prepare it first, for you are many; and call on the name of your god, BUT PUT NO FIRE UNDER IT.”  So They took the bull which was given Them, and They prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from Morning even till Noon, saying, “O Baal, hear Us!”  BUT there was NO Voice; NO ONE answered.  THEN, They leaped about the altar, which They had made.  And so it was, AT Noon, that Elijah MOCKED Them and SAID, “Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is meditating, or he is busy, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened.”  So They Cried Aloud, and CUT Themselves, as was Their Custom, with knives and lances, UNTIL the blood gushed out on Them.  And when MIDDAY WAS PAST, They prophesied until The Time of The Offering of The Evening Sacrifice.  BUT there was NO Voice; NO ONE answered, NO ONE paid attention.

Then Elijah SAID TO All The People, “Come near to me.”  So, All The People came near to Him.  And He REPAIRED The ALTAR OF The LORD that was BROKEN DOWN.  And Elijah TOOK Twelve (12) Stones, According TO The Number of The Tribes of The Sons of Jacob (Israel), TO Whom The WORD OF The LORD Had COME, SAYING, “Israel Shall BE Your Name.”  THEN, WITH The (12) Stones He BUILT an ALTAR IN The Name OF The LORD (GOD Almighty); AND He MADE a Trench AROUND The ALTAR, large enough to hold Two Seahs of Seed.  And He PUT The Wood IN Order, CUT the bull in pieces, and LAID IT ON The Wood, and SAID, “FILL Four (4) Waterpots WITH Water, and POUR IT ON The Burnt Sacrifice and ON The Wood.”  THEN He SAID, “DO IT A Second Time,” and They did it a second time; and He SAID, “DO IT A Third Time,” and They did it a third time.  So, the water ran all around The ALTAR; and He also FILLED the trench with water.

And it CAME TO PASS, AT The Time of The Offering of The Evening Sacrifice, that Elijah, The Prophet CAME NEAR and SAID, “LORD GOD OF Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, LET IT BE KNOWN THIS DAY that YOU ARE GOD IN Israel AND I AM Your Servant, AND that I Have DONE All These Things AT Your WORD.  HEAR me, O LORD, HEAR me, that This People May KNOW that YOU ARE The LORD GOD, AND that YOU Have TURNED Their Hearts BACK TO YOU AGAIN.”

THEN The FIRE OF The LORD FELL AND CONSUMED The Burnt Sacrifice, AND The Wood AND The (12) Stones AND The Dust, AND IT LICKED UP The Water that was in the trench.  Now, When All The People SAW IT, They Fell ON Their Faces; and They SAID, “The LORD, He IS GOD!  The LORD, He IS GOD!”  And Elijah SAID TO Them, “SEIZE The Prophets of Baal!  Do NOT LET ONE of Them ESCAPE!”  So They SEIZED Them; and Elijah BROUGHT Them DOWN TO The Brook Kishon and EXECUTED Them THERE.

Fellow Believers, IS THIS What IT Will TAKE To Get People, TODAY, TO TURN BACK TO GOD Almighty?  Will IT Take The WAR of Gog and His Allies, Whereby GOD Almighty STEPS IN TO SAVE Israel; Will THAT BE What IT Takes?  Will IT Take The Being Caught Up Together, When Hundreds of Millions OF Believers ARE SNATCHED AWAY, BY Jesus Christ Himself, Will THAT BE What IT Takes?  Will IT Take Them ENDURING The Great Tribulation, GOD Almighty’s WRATH Being Poured Out UPON This World (Satan’s World), While Simultaneously Dealing WITH The BEAST (The Antichrist), The FALSE Prophet, The IMAGE OF The BEAST (The Antichrist), The MARK OF The BEAST (The Antichrist), The Threat of Death, and more, Will THAT BE What IT Takes?

We ARE BLESSED, because We HAVE GOD Almighty’s WORD, The Holy Bible, as a Reference for EVERYTHING GOD Almighty Has DONE.  We HAVE Jesus Christ Abiding WITHIN Us, THROUGH The Holy Spirit.  We HAVE GOD Almighty Himself WATCHING OVER Us.  We HAVE The Gospel OF Jesus Christ FLOWING THROUGH Us!  We ARE Jesus Christ’s LIGHT UPON This World (Satan’s World)!  We Have ANSWERED Our “Wake Up Call”, TO Wake Up and Accept The TRUTH!  Now it is Our TIME, TO HELP Others (Yet-To-Be-Believers) ANSWER Their Wake Up Call, BEFORE IT’s TOO LATE!  We KNOW, We Will BE IN GOD Almighty’s Immediate Presence, WITH Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit, GOD Almighty’s Holy Angels, and All The Rest OF The Children OF GOD Almighty, for Eternity, Forever.

And We KEEP These Scriptures IN MIND:

Revelation 3:10

Because YOU (Believers) have KEPT My (Jesus Christ’s) COMMAND TO Persevere, I (Jesus Christ) ALSO Will KEEP YOU (Believers) FROM The HOUR OF TRIAL, which shall COME UPON The Whole World (Satan’s World), TO TEST Those (Unbelievers) who dwell on The Earth.

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

For The LORD (Jesus Christ), Himself, Will DESCEND FROM Heaven, WITH A SHOUT, WITH The Voice of an Archangel, and WITH The TRUMPET OF GOD (GOD Almighty).  And The Dead IN Christ (Dead Believers) Will RISE First.  THEN We (Living Believers) Who ARE ALIVE and REMAIN, Shall BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER, WITH Them (The Dead IN Christ), IN The Clouds, TO MEET The LORD (Jesus Christ) IN The AIR.  And Thus We (Believers) Shall ALWAYS BE WITH The LORD (Jesus Christ).

Remember, The Being Caught Up Together May Occur IN The Next Millisecond, So, there is NO Time to waste, GET OUT There, Show YOU Care, and Share The Gospel OF Jesus Christ.  Amen.

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