?The voice of God was in the small still voice?God speaking
\nto the heart!? I don?t know how many times I?ve heard this well-intentioned interpretation.
\nIn fact, I?ve heard the metaphor used enough times on Oprah (?listen to your
\nsmall and still inner voice?) that it makes me slightly ill. Too often we see
\npeople circling key verses and making a theological playground out of the Word
\nof God.<\/p>\n
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Elijah, after being strengthened with sleep and refreshment, He had stood before the people and God in chapter 18, offering This is a serious charge and we would be wise to understand In response, heralds go out before the Lord as a procession It is a frightening thing when God stops yelling to get the Elijah was to anoint Hazael as king over Elijah was also to anoint Jehu as King of Israel. This is Lastly, Elijah is to anoint Elisha as prophet in Elijah?s As the Lord makes this fearsome proclamation, he lets Elijah The Holy Spirit, speaking through the apostle Paul would later But on what basis? Is it of works? Not at all but purely by Rather that they can be shut up in disobedience so that God may Paul gives us a bit of insight into mercy and how it?s So note this passage highlighting Elijah?s life?sweeping -r-<\/span><\/p>\n \nExtra Credit: Find out how many times Elisha raised the sword as underscored by Elijah: The Place<\/a> ?The voice of God was in the small still voice?God speaking to the heart!? I don?t know how many times I?ve heard this well-intentioned interpretation. In fact, I?ve heard the metaphor used enough times on Oprah (?listen to your small and still inner voice?) that it makes me slightly ill. Too often we see people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n of
\nthe Law was given. Horeb was the place where the children of
\nhad provoked God to wrath by rising up, making a false god and worshipping it.
\nGod prepared to wipe them out for their sin?but He showed mercy. <\/o:p><\/p>\n
\npours his heart out to the Lord and now, instead of standing on a mountain and
\npleading for
\ndevotion, he?s pleading against them. When the Lord asks ?What are you doing
\nhere, Elijah??, Elijah gives his defense.<\/p>\n
\nup a sacrifice and irrefutable proof that God is the Living God of Abraham,
\nIsaac and Jacob and what the leaders of the Jews (if not the people) decided to
\ndo was gather together and conspire to kill the Lord?s prophet. ?They have
\nforsaken Your covenant, Lord, they have torn down Your altars and killed Your
\nprophets with the sword?and now they seek my life!?<\/p>\n
\nit. They have not only ignored, but they have left behind and abandoned the
\ncovenant they made with the Living God who rescued them out of
\nThe very purpose of their redemption abandoned. They have not only abandoned
\nthe altars where they would offer sacrifice in worship and for their sins, but
\nthey have torn them down, disparaging the Lord?s provision. They then dared to
\nraise the sword and slay the forerunners of God?s warnings, slaying them to a
\nman, according to Elijah?s perception. Now they sought him, even in light of three
\nyears and six months of irrefutable proofs.<\/p>\n
\nof the majesty which was following behind. The shuddering of the earth and a
\nraging fire and the blowing wind announcing who comes behind is no small
\nsovereign but The Sovereign Lord speaking in a small still voice.<\/p>\n
\nattention of men. When God decides to speak in soft, calm tones let men beware
\nfor what does the Lord say in that small still voice? Was it sweet words of
\ncomfort? No. The Lord pronounced the most sweeping judgment that
\nhad (at that time) ever seen. <\/p>\n
\n(
\nHazael would harrow
\nbeing the very scalpel of the Sovereign God as He divvied up portions of
\nHazael would continually be a thorn in
\nside as the Lord implemented His fiery judgment. Hazael who would one be cruel in his excesses, to the point of ripping apart pregnant women and dashing children against rocks (2 Kings 8:8-15)<\/p>\n
\nthe man who would come into
\nand slay the Baal worshippers by inviting them to a feast for Baal, locking
\nthem all in a temple and burning the place down. This is the wild man who in one
\nof his many excesses slays the house of Ahab down to near extinction yet doesn’t remove certain high places. <\/p>\n
\nplace. The Lord then mandated that whoever escapes from the wrath of Hazael and
\nJehu would be put to death by Elisha. <\/p>\n
\nin on a little secret?that there are 7,000 in
\nwhich the Lord has left, which have not bowed the knees to Baal nor kissed his
\ndead lips.<\/p>\n
\nremind us of this passage. ?Has God rejected His people,? Paul will ask, ?or do
\nyou not know what the Scripture says about Elijah how he pleads with God
\nagainst
\nPaul draws a comparison to this historical reality and says that there is a
\nremnant of Jews, according to God?s gracious decision to save them.<\/p>\n
\nGod?s grace. Is it to seal up the rest of
\nand damn them all to hell? Is it to show how God only elects the few? Why have
\nthey ?been given a spirit of stupor and eyes that don?t see and ears that don?t
\nhear?? So they could receive sweeping judgment and be killed?<\/p>\n
\nshow mercy. When God made that great proclamation of judgment to Elijah we
\ndon?t see it coming into play until 2 Kings Chapters 8 and 9. During this
\ninterval of time we see the ministry of Elisha going about, God still working
\ncalling the people in His grace and mercy, illuminating lives?salvation even
\ncoming to gentiles. You see, the funny thing about mercy is that a person who
\nsays they deserve it can?t receive it?only those who realize that they need it
\ncan receive mercy. <\/p>\n
\nreceived. He was chosen to be an apostle in this tremendous ministry of grace
\neven though he was formerly a blasphemer and persecutor of Christ. But why was
\nhe shown mercy? Because of God?s sovereign choice, someone would say. But Paul
\ntells us it was because he did all this in unbelief?and God wanted to have an
\nexample of His mercy and grace for all to see. ?If Paul of Tarsus can receive
\nmercy?so can you sinners!?<\/p>\n
\njudgment announced in the small still voice and sweeping judgment not
\ninstituted for a period of time. In the interval we see Elisha working in the
\nministry of grace and mercy of God. <\/p>\n
\nGod.
1 Kings 19; Romans 11; 1 Tim 1:12-16<\/span>
\nHoreb:<\/strong> Ex. 3:1; 17; 33; Deut. 1; 4:10, 15; 5:2; 9:8; 29:1
\nHazael:<\/strong> 1 Kin. 19:15. 2 Kin. 8 ; 9:14; 10:32, 33; 12:17, 18; 13:3, 22, 24; 2 Chr. 22:5, 6.
\nJehu:<\/strong> 1 Kin. 16:1, 7, 12; 19:16, 17; 2 Kin. 9, 10; 15:12; 2 Chr. 19:2; 20:34; 22:8\n<\/p>\n
Elijah: The Proclamation<\/a>
Elijah: The Performance<\/a>
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