By an awful exhibition of divine power, he was made aware of the divine speaker who addressed him his attention was arrested, his petulance was silenced, his heart was touched, and he was bid without delay return to the land of Israel, and prosecute the Lord's work there.

'What doest thou here, Elijah?' was a searching question addressed to one who had been called to so arduous and urgent a mission as his. In the solitude of Sinai, God appeared to instruct him. His gracious God did not lose sight of His fugitive servant, but watched over him, and, miraculously ministering to his wants, enabled him, in a better but not wholly right frame of mind, by virtue of that supernatural supply, to complete his contemplated journey. went a day's journey into the wilderness-on the way from Beer-sheba to Horeb-a wide expanse of sand hills, covered with the retem (not juniper, but broom shrubs), whose tall and spreading branches, with their white leaves, afford a very cheering and refreshing shade. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary1Ki 19:4-18. For faith comes by hearing the word of God, and miracles do but make way for it. Thus miracles in the first ages of Christianity called men’s attention to the preaching of the gospel which, as a small still voice, was the power of God to salvation to thousands and millions.” - Scott. “Elijah had perhaps expected to carry all before him, with a high hand, and with continued miracles and judgments: or he had supposed that the desired reformation was to be effected by the sanction of civil authority, or the support of the people at large whereas, having gained their attention by the famine and its gracious removal, in answer to his prayers, by calling for and obtaining fire from heaven to consume the sacrifice, and by the execution of Baal’s priests, he ought to have proceeded to instruct them with meekness and gentleness, publicly and from house to house, and to have excited others to assist him and then the Lord would have blessed that small still voice for the most important purposes, notwithstanding the persecuting rage of Ahab and Jezebel, and the general apostacy of the people. After the fire a still small voice - To intimate, that God would do his work in and for Israel in his own time, not by might or power, but by his own Spirit, ( Zechariah 4:6,) which moves with a powerful, but yet with a sweet and gentle gate. Then, when someone asks us, “Who was Elijah?” we’ll have an answer straight from the Bible.Benson Commentary 1 Kings 19:12. For a more thorough view of the prophet, we can read through 1 Kings 17-22, 2 Kings 1-2, Malachi 4:5-6, Matthew 17:1-13, John 1:21, and James 5:17. These are a few attributes of the man we know as Elijah.

And we know that Jesus fulfilled the promise of salvation beautifully.īehold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him. Elijah represented the prophets, the restoration of all things. The three together, Moses, Elijah, and Jesus, represented fulfillment of the promise of salvation.

Jesus was about to experience the jeers of many, the pain of crucifixion. Peter, John, and James witnessed this spiritual wonder.

A hushed holiness washes straight over me whenever I consider it. Imagine the view: Elijah standing alongside Moses, the two conversing with Jesus.

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