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I Kings 16:29-34

Recently, there was a news report of a gentleman being attacked and while this was happening, five individuals stood around and simply watched, doing nothing to intervene. We are living in a day and age when law and order seems to be disappearing.

Psalms 11, the question is asked “when the foundations are destroyed what can the righteoud do”. It was a time of lawlessnes and David was being advised to “flee”. David’s response to this question was not to flee but to get his focus on God (v4-7).

Elijah is living in a day when YAHWEH worship was being dismantled and the worshippers were being persecuted by King Ahab. Baal worship was being endorsed and promoted by government, while Jusaism was being systematically destroyed.

J Sidlow Baxter, wrote this about Elijah: Here is the Martin Luther of old-time Israel, who singlehandedly challenged the whole priesthood of the state religion, and all the people of the realm, to the decisive test on Mount Carmel”.

We also live in a day when Christianity is being systemically dismantled by forces opposed to it’s teaching. We find that Christian are being looked upon as strange and as such are being forced into the “closet”, while deviant life styles and teachings that is anti Biblical is being accepted by society as the norm.

Elijah, we will discover, a man of prayer, was willing to step up and take a stand against the corruption of his day. Are we just as willing?
Are we willing to be like the men of Issachar (I Chron 12:22, 32), who understood the times and willing to do smething about it, by joining up with David, God’s annointed King.

We live today in dangerous times, and dangerous times demand that God’s people step up to confront the evil. Will it cost us, sure will, but we have no other choice but to OBEY God.