It's wonderful to serve the Lord Yeshua, Jesus,
here on Mount Carmel in these last days.
We're seeing Jews and Arabs come to the
Lord.
In fact, I've studied the prophet Elijah and
his life and written a book, The Elijah
Legacy, and I believe that the prophet Elijah
and his life have tremendous, profound, and prophetic
significances for us in the last days in
the body of Messiah.
In fact, the Old Testament even ends with,
Behold, before the great and terrible day of
the Lord, I will send you the prophet
Elijah, and he will turn the hearts of
the fathers to the children, the hearts of
the children to the fathers, lest I come
and strike the earth with a curse.
I believe much of the earth is cursed
because we don't have spiritual fathers and mothers
in the body of Messiah.
I want to talk to you for a
few minutes about the days of Elijah and
how they're similar to our days.
In the days of Elijah, there was terrible
gloom and darkness and apostasy in northern Israel
where Elijah would emerge.
There were seven terrible kings all in a
row, and each one seemed to get worse
than the last.
And the worst of all, the scriptures say,
was Ahab.
Ahab not only led the people astray, but
he went to Sidon, which was in those
days, we would say it was the New
Age demonic capital of the Middle East, and
he took Etbaal, the priest there, the demonic
leader of this cultist religion to Baal.
He took his daughter Jezebel and married her.
Not only that, he brought her back to
Israel, and he built a temple to Baal.
He built altars to Baal, and he began
to serve and worship Baal and led all
the children of Israel, many of them except
the remnant that was hiding in caves, to
worship this false god Baal.
Baal means owner.
It means possession.
Baal was the god, the Canaanite head god
of fertility and sex and rain and wind
and sun and power.
And so all over the high places of
Israel, these shrines were put up, temples were
built, altars were built, and the men of
Israel who should have been worshipping the god
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were led astray,
and terrible things were done on the high
places, including Mount Carmel.
There were temple prostitution, there was homosexuality, children
were taken from their mothers and put into
these metal images of Baal where they were
burned to death as a sacrifice to Baal
as the mothers screamed.
And all through northern Israel, there was this
kind of reign of terror as Jezebel was
hunting down the false, the true prophets and
trying to find them and actually killing them.
In the midst of this, she ordained 450
false prophets.
It seemed like there was no hope.
It seemed like that things were so terrible,
the government had endorsed all this idolatry.
And today, we look at ourselves today, and
what do we see in Israel, in America,
in the nations, government endorsed idolatry.
We think, how could it be so, people
be so terrible that they would sacrifice children?
Well, the abortion epidemic in the world, in
Israel, in America, and throughout Europe and other
places, a saline solution abortion, a mother's baby
is punctured through her own, through the mother's
stomach with a needle full of salt.
The baby explodes.
They take out the body parts and they
throw it in the bag.
So the days of Elijah, the days of
Ahab are with us today, and I believe
God has a message for his church and
the body of Messiah about the days of
Elijah.
Now, the Torah was very, very clear.
The children of Israel had been called, the
chosen people, to come into the land of
Canaan and destroy all the altars of the
heathen worship that had gone on there.
They were supposed to destroy them, they were
supposed to tear them down, and they were
supposed to set up altars to the God
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Yahweh, Jehovah.
And so they were ordered to do that,
and instead, many of the children of Israel
came in and got pulled into and sucked
into this false religion that was in the
land.
And God then began to have a problem
with what was going on in Israel.
And so he looked around, he was looking
for what to do about this.
His eyes are always scanning to and fro
throughout the earth to find someone whose heart
is loyal to him.
He found someone like Gideon.
Gideon actually tore down the altar to Baal.
You know the story in Judges 8 and
Judges 9.
He tore down that altar, the Holy Spirit
came upon him, the dew of God, the
fire of God, the rain of God.
And with his 300, they brought a revival
up here to northern Israel where I live
in Galilee many years before the times of
Elijah.
So there had been people, there had been
a remnant of Jewish believers who got a
hold of God and would not be pulled
into all the mixture of Baalism.
Now you look at the church today.
There's so much mixture.
We travel around the world.
We see various things.
We hear various things.
We get things on the Internet.
Homosexuality, which was rampant in Baalism.
Now there are great denominations that are ordaining
homosexual priests.
It's all right to have sex, we're told.
It's on the Internet, believers arguing what's wrong
with sexual immorality.
I mean, have they read the Bible?
And so here, all of this mixture of
Baal, not only Baal worship is in America,
in the government or in the nations where
you see laws being made for homosexual marriages
and all the rest of the things that
are going on, but it's actually crept into
the church.
So the days of Elijah, they're with us
today.
Now God has an answer.
As gloomy as it looks, as dark as
it looked then, it seemed like there was
no hope.
Jezebel was on a rampage.
It was a reign of terror.
Prophets, the true prophets of God, the real
preachers were hiding in caves.
And as these things were happening, she seduced
not only her husband, but the whole nation.
You see, a weak man with a strong
woman can always be a major problem.
Ahab is mixture man.
He didn't walk the walk the way he
should have.
He knew all about the God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob.
He knew about the Torah.
He knew about the prophets.
And yet, all of this mess came into
Israel, but God had an answer.
The answer was a man.
It always is, or a woman.
This man's name was Elijah.
Jehovah is my God.
God found him a man.
A man that was sold out for God.
A man that hadn't been pulled into all
the sexual immorality.
That hadn't been pulled into all the compromise.
A man that was focused on the true
God, the one true God, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob.
God is always looking for somebody like that.
Here on Mount Carmel, we have an Elisha
generation, we call them, of young leaders that
we've been training.
And we have been teaching them that they
need to walk like Elijah.
Elijah was a man with a nature like
you and me.
He wasn't some superhuman angel or something like
some rabbis will tell us.
He was a man who was dead to
himself and was on fire for God.
And God found him to stand against all
the idolatry that had come into Israel.
He's looking for people like that all over
the nations.
Are you one of them?
Is the Lord saying to you, I want
all your heart, so that I can use
you like the prophet Elijah in the last
days, and be part of this end time
Elijah remnant?
I hope so.