1 Kings 19



1 Kings 19                                                               Book of Kings   Book of Psalms

The ten tribes had left Israel at the time, and having left the old temple, they had all turned to idolatry. Just as today. They're believing the Kenites people are the true sons of Israel, and we could say much the same thing Elijah said; but Elijah forgot the divine promise to the seed.
 
1 Kings 19:1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
  • You have to ask, who is King?
2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
 
3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.
  • Elijah didn't asked God, he just went to Judah
  • God told him to go to Jerusalem
  • He didn't asked God what to do, when Jezebel came at him
  • This is the time we need to ask God what to do.
4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
  • Elijah requested for himself that he might die
  • Elijah, being weak now he is not doing as God told him to do.
  • I can see why Elijah wanted to give us on Israel, watch the news.
5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
  • An angel touched him and said, arise and eat
  • I have commanded. Elijah miraculously fed three times:
  • (1) by ravens (1 Kings 17:6)
  • (2) by a widow (1 Kings 17:9)
  • (3) by an angel (1 Kings 19:5,6)
6 And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
  • Cake baken, and water, Elijah did eat and laid down again
  • Elijah was fed three times, by an angel
7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.
  • The angel the second time told Elijah to eat
8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
  • Forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
  • Forth = probation
  • Horeb = about 180 miles
9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
  • The Lord talking to Elijah, What doest thou here, Elijah?
10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
  • The children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant
  • Thrown down thine altars
  • Slain thy prophets with the sword
  • I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away
  • There's 7,000 of God's very elect
  • Romans 11:4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:

12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
  • Wrapped = As Moss at the bush
  • Verse 12  The LORD = a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

15 And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:
  • The Lord told Elijah go the way I told you to go.
16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.
  • Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel
  • Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room
  • Son of Nimshi =  grandson or descendant (2 Kings 9:2).
  • Elisha = El = my GOD (is) salvation.
  • 2 Kings 9:2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.

18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
  • Kissed = worshipping
  • Seven thousand,  which have not bowed unto Baal = unto Satan
  • These are God's elect that will stand for God in the last days, they will be deliver up, why?
  • God will speak through them, bringing the true word of God to All nations and people, then the end will come.
  • Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
  • Romans 11:4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
  • Twelve yoke of oxen = pair would be 24
20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?

21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.
 
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God has told us many times, do not believe what any man may teach you unless you first check them out directly from God's Word which is unchangeable.

(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
 
•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
 
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25
 
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