Ahab and Jezebel are gunning for him from then on, but he still just walks right into Ahab's backyard to tell him that the Lord's going to kill him and feed his blood to dogs. He wins and kills them all, natch (18:40). When Jezebel hires a bunch of priests to officiate over her sleazy Baal worship, he challenges all 850 of them to basically a wizard's duel by himself. With powers like these, it's not surprising that he don't take no flapdoodle from nobody. In the next book, instead of succumbing to the circle of life, he rides either (A) a whirlwind, (B) a chariot of fire, or (C) both-straight up to heaven (2nd Kings 2:11). Not only does he raise a kid from the dead (17:17-22), but he's also one of only a handful characters in the whole Bible that never dies. He can even somehow manipulate matter, presumably on a molecular level, to create endless supplies of food (17:13-16). He survives an earthquake/fire/windstorm without a scratch on him (19:11-13). Oh, and he's basically a nigh omnipotent elemental mage.Įlijah has some kind of connection to the natural world and its constituents. But he's also humble (19:4), compassionate (17:20-21), devout (his name means " My God is Yahweh"), prophetic (21:20-21), and attuned with nature (18:41-46). If Moses fills the Obi-Wan Kenobi/Elrond/Dumbledore role, then Elijah is the Yoda/Gandalf/Snape character. Other than maybe Moses, nobody else compares when it comes to power, cantankerousness, and (strangely) holiness. His story is so larger-than-life, it doesn't even all fit into 1st Kings, so we'll have to stray a bit into 2nd Kings to tell it. In our opinion, he's one of the coolest figures in all of Bible-dom. Then one day, a wizard with a feral look in his eye rode into town on the road from Gilead, trailing a storm that would topple the despicable regime of Ahab and Jezebel forever. Without heavenly guidance, their people were led into idolatry and wickedness. They led their people to worship heathen gods, and murdered any prophet of the Lord that they could get their hands on. Once upon a time in a faraway kingdom, there lived an evil queen named Jezebel and her childish husband, Ahab.
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