Fire From Heaven Elijah
10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. Elijah answered the captain, "If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men." And fire came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men.
And His greatness, they saw. At Elijah's cry, God rained fire from heaven upon the altar, and the flames not only consumed the sacrifice, but the wood, the altar and the dust around it. Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Elijah and Fire from Heaven - Faithful Fable
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah.
Again Elijah replied, If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men. And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men. Elijah's blunt response elicits a heaven sent judgment by fire upon the men! And Elijah answered and said to the commander of fifty, "If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the heavens and burn up you and your fifty." And there came down fire from the heavens and burned up him and his fifty (2Kings 1:10).
Elijah praying to God and causing fire to fall from heaven on the ...
Elijah hid his face in his mantle rather than face up to the true glory of God, the true fire from Heaven. The only other time Elijah sees the glory of God he threw away his mantle- as if he finally recognized he had been shielding himself from the real reality of it so that he could seek his own glory? The glory of God is His Name and character. Elijah and the fire from heaven is a perfect example of why obedience requires trust.
God's ways usually involve a threat to our well. Fire from Heaven: Elijah's Bold Declaration for the One True God Welcome, reader! Today, we're diving into a gripping story from the Old Testament that feels like a blockbuster movie. Imagine a lone prophet standing his ground against a multitude of false prophets, with the stakes no less than the spiritual direction of an entire nation.
ELIJAH CALLS DOWN FIRE FROM HEAVEN - Elijah & the prophets of Baal ...
Yes, this is the story of Elijah, a man of faith and. Elijah invited Ahab and the prophets of Baal to come to Mount Carmel and have a contest so that everyone would see who the real God was. The rules of the contest were that Elijah would set up an altar to worship the Lord, and the prophets of Baal would set up an altar to worship their god, Baal.
The winner would be the person who could call God from heaven and bring fire to the altar.
