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Faith in the Face of Apostasy: The Gospel according to Elijah & Elisha is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this helpful volume, Raymond B. Dillard explains the stories of Elijah and Elisha in the context of redemptive history. As prophets of God, Elijah and Elisha sought to restore God’s covenant with his wayward people. They pointed forward to a better prophet to come who would satisfy the terms of the covenant despite Israel’s covenant breaking. In the power and spirit of Elijah, John the Baptist...

his servants “not many … [who] were wise by human standards, not many … [who] were influential, not many [who] were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are” (1 Cor. 1:26–28). Elijah’s great qualification for serving God at his moment in history was the same as that other servant
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