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Ahab’s Reign and Elijah’s Ministry

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 16, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 27.

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Ahab’s Reign and Elijah’s Ministry

Ahab's reign occupies all the rest of the first book of Kings. It owes this distinction to the ministry of the great prophet Elijah. It may be that "every age thinks itself a crisis," but no one can fail to see that this was one of the veritable turning-points of Jewish history. One of the real "decisive battles of the world,"—that between the Lord and Baal,—was then fought out. No wonder that the historian felt constrained to chronicle at length the transactions of a reign so pregnant both with good and evil for the people of the Lord, and for the faith with which they had been put in trust.