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Elijah stands before the face of the living
God. The time is the ninth century B.C. and the place is northern
Israel. Unexpected and unannounced, he challenges the evil governing
power of King Ahab and his queen Jezebel for the sake of the voiceless
ones of the land. No dew of rain falls except by his hand. Fed
by ravens in the wilderness of the Wadi Cherith, Elijah is strengthened
for his journey: through Zarephath where he helps a starving widow
and brings her dead son back to life; onto the heights of Mount Carmel
where he slays the false prophets of Baal; through the wilderness for
forty days and forty nights until he reached Mt. Horeb where he meets God;
back to Samaria to denounce the Ahab and Jezebel for murder and theft; and
finally, across the Jordan with his successor Elisha to the place where a
flaming chariot and flaming horses took him up to heaven in a whirlwind. |
