this false statement then and let Elijah continue. God puts up with so much of what we say that is not true. He does not yank us from the platform or put us out of service or embarrass us before everybody. Time is on His side; He will sort us out down the road. He did so with Elijah. Later on He said, as it were, “Oh, by the way, Elijah, I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal. You are not the only one left” (see 1 Kings 19:18). You might have thought that God