The Bible Study Podcast, episode 179.

Today, the Bible Study podcast starts a new study on the prophet Elijah.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

Sorry, this episode's getting out a little late, but I'm starting a new study, and it took me a little longer to figure out what to do.

So we're going to be talking for a little bit about the Prophet Elijah, or possibly the

prophets Elijah and Elijah, but I will decide that later on. If you wanted to study the Prophet

Elijah, you may notice that you can't flip to the book

in the prophets called Elijah, because Elijah only shows up in the narrative books, so particularly

in kings or in kings and chronicles, which are parallel sections. They're written about the

same period of time. And Elijah is a prophet who

doesn't have his own books. So despite the fact that he was a major prophet, major in the sense

of being an important prophet, he isn't a major prophet in the sense that he is in the books

of the major prophets. Isaiah and Jeremiah, for instance, are major prophets because their books are longer.

When I say he is a major prophet, you may remember that when Jesus goes through the

transfiguration, Moses and Elijah show up, sort of representing the law and the prophets.

And so Elijah is one of the major prophets of the Old Testament, but again, he doesn't

have his own book. So we'll find him in particular. We're going to be looking at the section

from Kings. And so right in the middle of First Kings, in First Kings 17, we get this prophet

who shows up. And so Elijah is introduced this way. Now Elijah, the Tishbite from Tishbe in Gilead said to Ahab,

As the Lord the God of Israel lives, whom I serve, there will be neither due nor reign in the next few years except at my word.

Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah.

Leave here, turn eastward, and hide in the

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