Singlemindedness

Elijah's time is dark. Historical Israel was under the dominion of the Prince of darkness. Its king was spiritually an adulterer: the wicked Ahab. Its queen: the heathen princess Jezebel. The people: "walked in vanities". Its spiritual leaders: 450 Baal priests, while Elijah fled to the deserts and the God-fearing Obadiah hid God's prophets in companies of fifty. From the wrath of wicked doers. Certainly a sorry plight. And the worst shadow of this picture is that the peo­ple bowed...