The Four Elijahs

Koot van wyk (DLitt et Phil; ThD)

Visiting Professor

Department of Liberal Arts Education

Kyungpook National University

Sangju Campus

South Korea Conjoint lecturer of Avondale College

Australia

 

I wish to touch upon four Elijahs today. It was the custom of dr. Hans La Rondelle to preach on the three Elijahs. This study will be the four. Four dates are used for them: 875 BCE; 27 CE; 1844 and today 2014. The first Elijah was the one who never died. In fact, he was so interwoven with God, just like Henoch walked with God, that he went together with God to heaven. Alive. He is a symbol of those who will be alive at the end of time and will not see death. Elijah message and life unfold dramatically on a mountain Carmel in the presence of Ahab and Jezebel and remnant people who has gone astray, embracing “god seekers” of all religions and embracing skew types of living-styles unbiased. But they faced Elijah in a stand-off on the mountain around altars set up to see who’s God or gods is going to lit the fire of the altar. It is 1 Kings 18. Truth and error looked each other in the face here and truth is not going to compromise at all. “Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench”. The God of heaven lit the altar and burnt everything and proof His existence to them. It was one of the most dramatic moments in human history of that time. It was as powerful as when God met Moses on the mountain of Sinai to give him the ten commandments. This time, He met to demonstrate to them that they did not keep the commandments with their embracement of all religions, including Baalism.   [THE REST IS IN AN ATTACHED  pdf BELOW]

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