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status This ain't no pret sound story. So as prophetic
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encrypt the signals from the shadows of the party we
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did where the TRP got secret snow parted, microphone.
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Alchemists scriptures with a twist, keep the frequency seeds in
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the midst We dropped fass like plagues revelations in the catus,
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broadcasting truth while they trapped in surveilans wisdom with a
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watchman's blade, forth what sound while your whole system faith,
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blood moons that for love echoes in the pond sasquar
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sompen through the fault lines of time. We ain't mainstream,
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we ain't just stream safer with the prophets to code
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the dreams. So with you turn in better guards to
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mind is broadcasting seeds and we break in the design.
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Then yeah, yeh yo yo, straight from the broadcast sad.
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Today on broadcasting seeds, we're walking straight into one of
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the loudest moments in the Bible. Elijah does not tiptoe
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into history. He kicks the door in points at a
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nation that has drifted into ball worship, and calls his shot.
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No rain, not a drop the sky locks up like
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a seized engine, and Israel learns what happens when you
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trade living water for false gods. The text is blunt
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about it. Elijah announces the drought except by my word
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in One King's seventeen to one, And the land goes dry.
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Here is where it gets wild, while the nation thirst.
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Elijah survives on miraculous provision, first at the brook cherit,
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then through a widow whose last handful of flowers suddenly
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turns into a bottomless pantry. Read it for yourself in
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One King seventeen two through sixteen. This is not a
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campfire tale. It's a collision between a covenant keeping god
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and a counterfeit system that promised rain and fertility but
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could not deliver. If you want the quick background on Ball,
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the name means lord or owner, and he was tied
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to storms and crops in Canaanite religion. Good summer here
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from Britannia. Israel did not just flirt with Baal. They
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built him into public life, royal policy, cultural habits, rituals,
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And when you hardwire a false god into your systems,
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you eventually pay in real life. Then comes Mount Carmel.
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This is the showdown. Elijah calls for a public test.
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Two altars, two bowls, one rule, no fire. Whichever God
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answers with fire is God. The prophets of Baal cry
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out all day, they dance, they cut themselves. The mountain
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is full of noise, and still nothing happens. Elijah steps up,
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soaks his altar with water, prays once, and fire falls
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from heaven. Not a spark, a consuming blast that eats
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the offering, the wood, the stones, the dust, and even
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the water in the trench that is one Kings eighteen
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twenty through forty, especially eighteen thirty eight. In one moment,
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the mask slips, the idol is exposed as powerless, and
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the people fall on their faces. Here's the uncomfortable part.
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Spectacle is not the same as surrender. The grip of
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ball does not vanish because a crowd gasps. Jezebel's regime
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still hunts Elijah in the very next chapter, and the
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prophet crashes in fear in the wilderness. That is one
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Kings nineteen one through four, which tells us something we
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need to know, we need right now. Cultural strongholds do
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not break only by fireworks. They break when hearts, change habits,
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change and families choose who they will fear and follow
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on Tuesday morning when no one is filming. So here's
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our angle tonight. We're gonna read Elijah. Read Elijah not
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as distant legend, but as a field manual for spiritual
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warfare in the modern world. We will trace how feis false,
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worship becomes public policy, how God dismantles propaganda with reac
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and how to keep your soul steady when the aftershock
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hits and Jezebel fires up the smear machine. We will
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talk about altars, supply chains, weather, weather warfare rumors, and
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why spiritual drought means a lot. Like the headlines, it
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will be honest, hopeful, and a little spicy. And yes,
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we will keep the humor handy, because sometimes the only
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saying response to mass delusion is truth with a grin.
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If you're new here, welcome to the tribe. If you
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have been riding with me, you know the drill. Please like,
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share and review the show on our app on your app. Sorry,
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it costs you nothing, and it helps this little outpost
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grow legs and find the people who need it. Section one,
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the slow Drift into ball How a nation forgets who
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it is so let's set the scene. Israel didn't wake
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up one morning and say, hey, let's betray God and
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worship a storm god with a shady resume. That's not
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how spiritual collapse works. It's never dramatic at the start.
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No villain monologue, no flashing neon signs that say you
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are now departing covenant territory. It happens the slow way,
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the familiar way, the way it happens the same today.
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Israel was surrounded by cultures who worshiped Ball, a deity
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marketed as the god of rain, fertility, and prosperity, and
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in a region where rain meant the difference between feast
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and famine. Ball wasn't just a religious pick. He was
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an economic strategy. Worship him and your fields will thrive.
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The promise was survival. It was convenience, a little insurance
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policy as well. Ball was the ancient equivalent of Hey,
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don't worry, the system will take care of you. All
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you have to do is comply. Then comes King Ahab,
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and the Bible does not mince words. It says Ahab
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did more to provoke the Lord to anger than all
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the kings before him. And that's first Kings sixteen thirty
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through thirty three. He marries Jezebel, a Phoenician princess whose
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family tree is rooted in ball worship, and boom. Ball
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isn't just allowed in Israel, He's the state sponsored religion.
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You've got temples built with government funds, state a proof priest,
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rituals tied to agricultural policy, festivals embedded in the national calendar.
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In other words, ball became the norm. The people didn't
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think they were rebelling. They thought they were being practical,
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the same way people say today, you don't really need God,
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just trust the experts. Spirituality is personal, so just follow
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your truth. Tradition is outdated, modern life has evolved. It
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is always the small compromises stacked over time that he
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rode identity. And here's where Elijah steps in, like a
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divine interpretation and sorry, a divine interruption. He doesn't just
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call down fire later on Mount Carmel. He starts by
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cutting off Ball's power source rain. He attacks the claim
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that ball controls the skies, and when no rain comes
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for years, Ball is exposed as a mascot god, a
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cardboard authority, a spiritual placebo. Yet the people still cling
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to him, because spiritual bondage doesn't break with evidence, it
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breaks with allegiance. This is why judgment begins with drought,
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not punishment. Recalibration a force reminder, where does your help
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really come from? Section two, The Mount Carmels showdown when
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God answers with fire. All right, now we step into
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Mount Carmel. This is not just a miracle story. This
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is a public trial. Elijah is putting the entire belief
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system of is on the stand in front of the nation.
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No private visions, no whispered revelations. This is spiritual warfare televised.
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Elijah stands alone, one prophet of Yahweh, four one hundred
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and fifty prophits a ball, plus four hundred more profits
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of asher Asherah hanging around the scene like spiritual lobbyists.
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This is in one King's eighteen and nineteen. The numbers
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are not in his favor. This if this were Vegas odds,
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nobody is betting on Elijah, period. But that's the point.
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God often chooses matchups that make no sense to human
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calculation because when he moves, there won't be confusion about
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who did it. All right, So Elijah proposed as a
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very simple test. You got two two altars, no fire.
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Whichever God answers by fire, he is the true God.
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The prophets of Ball go first, and what we see
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is one of the oldest patterns in false religion. You
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have noise, emotion, performance, self harm, desperation in that order.
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The texts say they cried out from morning until noon,
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when nothing happened. Elijah does something that makes this moment
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very human. He trash talks. He literally says, maybe your
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God is busy, maybe he's traveling, maybe he's relieving himself.
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That's one King's eighteen twenty seven. Yes, the Bible says
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that Elijah basically looked at the national religious spectacle and says,
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maybe Ball is in the bath on the bathroom break,
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you can't tell me. Scripture is boring. The profits escalate,
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They cut themselves in ritual frenzy. Blood flows. The scene
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turns chaotic, violent, tragic, but still silence. Ball does not
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answer because Ball cannot answer. Then Elijah steps up, and
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this is the flex the seals that seals the moment.
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He dumps water all over the offering, makes everything impossible,
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makes everything impossible to ignite, and in the middle of
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a drought water is valuable, so soaking the altars. Elijah saying, watch,
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how real this is? He prays once. No screaming, no incantations,
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no ritual blood letting, just trust. And fire falls from heaven.
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Not a spark, not a campfire flicker. A fire consumes
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the ball, the wood, the stones, the dust, and even
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the water in the trench one Kings eighteen thirty eight.
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This is God rewriting the narrative in real time. No theory,
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no debate. Reality speaks. Yet here's the haunting part. Even
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after seeing this, Israel doesn't permanently turn back. Because miracles
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inspire awe but they do not guarantee loyalty. Belief is
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not forged by spectacle. Belief is forged in daily alignment
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and who you listen to, who you fear, and who
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you follow when no one is watching. That's character. The
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point of Carmel wasn't just fire. It was exposure, exposure
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of ball, exposure of fear, and exposure of a nation's
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spiritual condition. And exposure is the beginning of awakening, not
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the end of it. A section three, after the fire,
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the counter attack, and the long war for the heart,
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you would think that after fire falls from heaven, after
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the nation sees Ball's profits exposed and executed. After reality
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itself steps into this onto the stage and Flames speaks
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with Flame. The story would end in victory, revival, celebration,
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Israel return to God and never looked back. But that's
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not what happens. The very next chapter opens with Jezebel, furious, humiliated,
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and dangerous, sending a message to Elijah. By this time
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tomorrow you're dead one Kings nineteen one through two, and Elijah,
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the same man who just called down fire, picks up
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and runs for his life. This part matters because this
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is what spiritual warfare really feels like. Breakthrough is following
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followed by backlash. Revelation is followed by resistance. Public victory
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is followed by private collapse. We've like to think courage
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is a constant state, but courage is usually a moment,
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and then the crash comes. Elijah goes into the wilderness
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and ask God to let him die. He does. He's exhausted,
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he feels alone. He thinks the fire didn't change anything.
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And here's the lesson. Miracles don't change hearts, relationships does.
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Public spectacle doesn't dismantle stronghold consistent obedience does Elijah wanted
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a nation to turn instantly, but spiritual transformation almost never
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works like that. And why because ball wasn't just a
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statue or a temple. Ball was their cultural identity, social expectation, economy,
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economic security, generational tradition, pure pressure, a worldview reinforced by
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daily life. You don't break that with fireworks. You break
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that with discipleship. This is why God sends Elijah not
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back to the mountain for more fire, but to mentorship.
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He tells Elijah to anoint Alisha Elisha, Elijah to anoint
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Alisha a successor, a partner, a spiritual son. One Kings
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nineteen fifteen through twenty one. Because the real war is
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not the showdown on the mountain. The real war is
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what comes after. Here is where this story hits for
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our time. We live in a world full of balls.
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No one calls them that, but they promise the same
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things control, security, identity, power, and approval. They try to
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shape how we think, how we value ourselves, that we
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what we worship, and who we fear. And the truth
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is modern Mount Carmel moments. The expose is the leaks,
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all the whistleblowers, the supernatural breakthroughs. They wake people up.
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For a moment, people gasp, but people feel it. People
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know something is wrong, But the long term shift depends
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on who teaches them next. Elijah's fire broke the lie.
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Elisha's journey carried the truth forward. If you want to
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tear down a stronghold, you don't just call down fire.
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You build altars in daily life. You build habits, you
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build memory, you build faith that lasts longer than a
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single miracle. This is not just the story of ancient Israel.
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This is a training manual for right now. All right, friends,
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let's land this plane. Elijah's story isn't just about a
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prophet yelling at the sky and calling down fire. It
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is about discernment. It is about what happens when a
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culture forgets who it is and who it belongs to.
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It's about it's about the slow creep of counterfeits, the ideas,
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the systems and habits that take the place of God
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without ever announcing themselves as replacements. And it's about what
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happens after the miracle, after the breakthrough, and after the
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moment the curtain gets pulled back. Most of us have
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had a Mount Carmel moment at some point in life,
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a moment where truth hits so hard you can't deny it,
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something supernatural or something simply undeniable. The moment when the
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world stops for tending and reality walks into the room.
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But then Jezebel moments come, the pushback, the intimidation, the
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lie that says nothing has changed. Go back to sleep.
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Here's the message Elijah's story hands us today. Fire can
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wake you up, but formation keeps you awake. Biblical faith
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is not built in the spectacle. It's built in the
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quiet choice of who you trust day by day. So
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if you're listening right now, maybe the question isn't have
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you seen fire from heaven? Maybe the question is who
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are you aligning with when the fire is gone and
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the world gets loud again, Because that answer shapes your
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life more than any moment of awe period. This is
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broadcasting seeds, and my job isn't just to entertain you