ELIJAH

FACTS ABOUT ELIJAH

• Elijah means "My God is yah(weh)" .
• Elijah stood up boldly for God in a time when idolatry had swept his land .
• Elijah was a prophet and a wonder-worker in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of Ahab.
• Baal was the Canaanite god responsible for rain,thunder,dew,and lightning .

ELIJAH

• God told him to flee out of Israel to a hiding place by the brook (Chorath) where he will be fed by ravens .
• After more than three years of the drought and famine , God tells Elijah to return to Ahad and announce the end of the drought .
• On the way Elijah meets Obadiah the head of Ahad's household .
• Obadiah has hidden a hundred prophets of the God of Israel when Ahad and Jezebel had been killing them .
• Elijah sends him back to announce his return to Israel .

There is not much known or said about Elijah's background or beginning.

ELIJAH'S MIRACLES

• He shut rain from heaven for three years .
• Oil multiplied , and the grain increased daily for the widow woman .
• The widow's son rose from the dead .
• The parting of the Jordan .
• Fire from heaven came to the soaked alter .

ELIJAH GOES UP TO HEAVEN

• Horses and chariots of fire came to get Elijah .
• Elijah goes up in a whirlwind .
• Elisha picks up the mantle that fell from Elijah
• And Elisha goes back and stands by the Jordan

THE END