He Stood Up for Pure Worship/Elijah - A Climatic Test

 The Baal prophets proceeded to set up their sacrifice and call on their god.  "O Baal, answer us!" They cried again and again. They kept at it as the minutes and then the hours passed by. "But there was no voice, and there was no one answering," the Bible says, at noon Elijah began to mock them, assert sarcastically that Baal must be too busy to answer them, that he was relieving himself in the privy, or that he was napping and someone needed to wake him up.  "Call at the top of your voice," Elijah urged those charlatans. Clearly, he saw this Baal worship as ridiculous fakery, and he wanted God's people   to see it for the fraud that it was. - 1 KINGS 18:26, 27.

In response, the Baal priests became even more frenzied, "calling at the top of their voice and cutting themselves according to their custom with daggers and with lances, until they caused blood to flow out upon them."  All to no avail!  "There was no voice, and there was no one answering, and there was no paying of attention." (1 Kings 18:18, 29) Indeed, there was no Baal. He was invention designed by Satan to lure people away from Jehovah.  The truth is, choosing any master other than Jehovah leads to disappointment, even shame.  - Read PSALM 25:3; 115:4-8. 

Next time: He Stood Up for True Worship/Elijah - The Answer

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