He stood alone before a king and declared, "There shall not be dew nor rain these years except at my word." He was fed by ravens, hidden in Jezebel's homeland, and blamed by everyone including the widow, the king's own servant, and Ahab himself: "Is that you, O troubler of Israel?" But the real troubler of Israel was not Elijah. It was the ones who forsook the commandments of the Lord.
In this verse-by-verse Messianic Bible study through 1 Kings 17–18 with Rabbi Jeff Zaremsky, we follow Elijah from the brook Cherith to the widow of Zarephath, to the mountaintop showdown at Carmel, all in the light of the Ten Days of Awe and Shabbat Teshuvah, the Sabbath of turning.
We discover a God who provides miraculously, a God who tests our hearts, and the God who answered by fire and turned the hearts of a nation back to Him again.
