“These people were to make known the Creator god of Heaven to the world. These people had been given a job to do, but they weren’t doing it.”

“These people were to make known the Creator god of Heaven to the world. These people had been given a job to do, but they weren’t doing it.” 

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Chapter 10, Page 93 –

Then Elijah appeared over the crown of the mountain. As he came down the mountain, he did not approach the king or his prophets. In fact, he ignored the king altogether. 

Instead he came near to the people. His eyes were like burning coals and his face was set like that of a stern schoolmaster. The spectators began to back away from him, but there were so many that it was difficult for the front rows to back up at all.

Elijah strode to within a few feet of the crowd and then demanded, “How long will you hesitate between two opinions?  If the Lord is God, follow Him. If Baal [is god], follow him” (I Kings 18:21).

Elijah scanned the crowd. These were the people of the Lord Most High. At least, these were the descendants of the people whom the Lord had placed at the crossroads of civilization: between Egypt and Assyria, between the north and the south, in the land through which everyone had to travel to go from one part of the known world to another.  Here in this place these people were to make known the Creator God of Heaven to the world. These people had been given a job to do, but they weren’t doing it and hadn’t been doing it for some time.

“How long will you hesitate between two opinions?” he cried out again. But no one said a word.  

Then Elijah realized that these people had forgotten. These people didn’t know what they were supposed to do. They didn’t know who they were.