comforts them. A prominent example of this teaching is found in Exodus 33:19 where, after the golden calf disaster, God speaks to Moses on Mount Sinai and promises, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence.”2 The goodness of God is nothing less than all of the qualities of the living God, the character of God himself powerfully present for Moses in a moment of crisis. Paralleling this display of God’s goodness was the prophet Elijah’s