As you teach your kids this week, emphasize that only God-the one true God-has power to help His people and to save them. The prophets could not deny that the God of Elijah is the one true God, and God sent a great rain to end the drought. He called to God, and God sent fire from heaven. The prophets of Baal called and cried and cut themselves, but Baal did not answer.Įlijah poured water on and around his altar. Each group prepared a bull on an altar and called on its deity to send fire from heaven. He faced off against the prophets of Baal. They couldn’t do both.Įlijah set up a challenge to prove who is the one true God. Elijah challenged the people to choose: Follow God or follow Baal. When God was ready to send rain on the earth, Elijah appeared to Ahab and instructed him to gather the Israelites and the prophets of the false gods at Mount Carmel. For Ahab, a man who worshiped Baal-the false Canaanite god of rain and fertility-the drought sent a strong message about the one true God. God prevented rain in the land for three years. In 1 Kings 17, Elijah told Ahab that a drought was coming. God chose Elijah to get Ahab’s attention. God wanted His people to be faithful to Him, but King Ahab led them away from God. In fact, “Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him” (1 Kings 16:33).
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