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How did prophet Elijah fight against false religion at Mount Carmel?

      

Describe how prophet Elijah fought against false religion at Mount Carmel.

  

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Maurice
- After King Ahab son of Omri married Jezebel the daughter of Elbaal, they purely relied on Baal prophets, thus endangering the prophets of Yahweh, who they had neglected.

- It was during this period when the prophets of God raced hostility that God sent Prophet Elijah. Elijah willingly accepted the instruction of God to go and meet King Ahab.
- On the ?rst sight, Ahab referred to Elijah as a trouble maker of Israel This was because of the drought that Elijah had pronounced as God's judgment due to Israel's unfaithfulness.
- The drought lasted for three and a half years. It was to serve as a lesson to the Israelites.
- Elijah requested the King to gather all Israel together, including the 450 Baal prophets to a contest at Mount Carmel: the vineyard of the Lord. The main purpose of the contest was to know who is God.
- The two parties: Baal prophets and Elijah were to contest, thereby offering a sacri?ce of a bull to their respective God. The God who could answer by ?re was to be worshiped.
- Ahab therefore summoned all the people, including the prophets of Baal to Mount Carmel The prophets of Baal were given a bull, which they prepared and then called upon the name of their god.
- They prayed, shouted and danced around the altar, yet there was no response.
Elijah mocked them and asked them to pray much louder. He told them that maybe their god was occupied, busy, on a business trip or he is asleep.
- The Baal prophets prayed, cut themselves with knives until they bled, but Baal remained mute and gave no response.
- Elijah then summoned the people to move closer as he repaired the abandoned altar of Yahweh with much courage.
- He setup twelve memorial stones to represent each of the twelve tribes of Israel. He placed the sacri?ce on the altar and asked the people to pour water on it. He prayed to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to prove that he was the living God.
- Fire descended and consumed the sacri?ce and everything around it.
- The people threw themselves on the ground and worshiped the Lord as the true Yahweh.
- Elijah killed the prophets of Baal He announced the coming of a storm cloud and rain began falling in torrents.

maurice.mutuku answered the question on July 7, 2017 at 11:44


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