3400.-A Proper Question

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 28, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 13.

3400.—A Proper Question

Is it right for a Bible teacher to ask the question, "Was it just for God to allow Elijah to kill the false prophets?" 1 Kings 18:40. How can one answer such a question?

Whether it is right to ask such a question or not depends on the motive in asking. We could imagine several theories with right motives which would at least not make wrong the question. "How can one answer such a question?" By saying simply this,—that God is always just in all that He does. Not only that, but under God we could not say for one moment that Elijah's act was wrong in ordering the destruction of the unrepentant, rebellious, licentious, soul-destroying, nation-destroying, truth-destroying priests of the most abominable, degrading idolatry in the world. They were foreign to God's inheritance, and traitors to the laws of the government of the realm.