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Chariots of Prophetic Fire: Studies in Elijah & Elisha is unavailable, but you can change that!

There is a marked resemblance between our time and that of Elijah and Elisha. Theirs was a time of judgment; ours is as well. But there is a deeper resemblance. Their day was an age of syncretism, of radical compromise between the worship of the Lord and Baal in worship. The two had been blended together to make one religion, so that a refusal to see the necessity for uncompromising religion...

Then the old humanistic unconcern reasserted itself, and the earlier fears gave way to an increasingly rarer memory of the earthquake, and a memory then sometimes tinged with amusement. What was Elijah doing after the miracle? He was no doubt preaching the Bible, the Torah. Nothing is more quickly tiresome and annoying to sinners than the law of God: no other gods, honoring parents, no adultery, no false witness, no theft, and so on, strictly dull subjects as compared to miracles. Also, such a religion
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