There had been drought, there had been famine and there had been ample opportunity for Ahab and for everyone who had forsaken the Lord to reflect. Now it was time for God’s servant to go head to head with the prophets of Baal (the leaders of the false religions the nation had turned to), and let the people of Israel see that only the living God was real and true. The numbers do not make reassuring reading: eight hundred and fifty to one (verse 19), but
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