A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                                   THE RUNAWAY PROPHET PART XII

"I, Elijah, the prophet of God, know that it is time for action.... I have just told the people to get two bulls ready..... The prophets of Baal can choose one of the bulls.... They can then get it ready to be sacrificed.... But they are not to set fire to their sacrifice... Instead they are to ask their god to burn up their sacrifice.... I will take the other bull.... And I will place that cut up bull on my altar on top of the wood.... I will not set fire to my sacrifice either.... But I will call out to my God to send fire down from heaven,".... Please read the typed out attachment when the prophet Elijah tells the people to get two bulls ready to be sacrificed....


             ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                                   THE RUNAWAY PROPHET PART XII

Elijah tells the people to get two bulls ready to be sacrificed. One bull is to be sacrificed by the prophets of Baal and the other is to be sacrificed by him as you can read in I Kings 18:23-24

"Get two bulls for us. Let them choose one for themselves and let them cut it into pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. Then you call on the name of your god and I will call on the same of the Lord. The god who answers by fire - He is God." Then all the people said, "What you say is good."

The time for the sacrifice has come. The false prophets of Baal are to call out to their god and Elijah is to call out to his God. The people respond by saying what Elijah has proposed is good.