This is the Bamel podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Villings. Today we look at the story of Elijah Liyahu and the lessons learned by one of Israel's greatest prophets.

Yes, this is a good story. You were telling me about the first time you heard this story. You can remember the first time you heard this biblical story.

Tell me more about that. Well, it was in middle school, which seems a little late, but you know, had a few wandering years there in the middle.

We tell Noah quite a few times in those early years. Noah and Jonah. They get, you know, they get to work. That's true. They get to work out.

Anyway, so I hear, I'm in my, I went to a Christian school in middle school and it was in my music class where we were going over the story.

And I'm listening to this story being told and my mind is completely blown. I'm like, how can a story of this awesome being the Bible?

Heck yeah, this is a good one. Elijah is a pretty cool dude.

Yes, he is. So a little recap, not a big long review, but we have been talking about the period that I'd call, well, it's not like this is real innovative, but the period of the kings.

This is post judges in the days when Israel had no king, if you remember the line from judges. These are the days when Israel had no king and everybody did as he pleased.

This is post judges. And, and into the period of history that I would call a period of the kings and we have a United Kingdom for a while.

We have a show who he said was a what from where? A donkey herder from the tribe of Benyameen.

Yeah, right. So we got a Benjamin who hurts donkeys and he's a type of king that the people want.

But then God turns around and gives him the kind of king that he wants and it's David who happens to be a what from where?

He's a shepherd from the tribe of Yehuda. Yeah, and he does quite, I mean, he's quite a guy. He's also, I'm not sure if I recommended this last time.

I'm not to check about Bruce Filer wrote a book where God is born and in a big portion of that book where God was born, he talked about just his own wrestling matches as a as a, as a Jew, a Jewish boy being raised learning the stories of the scriptures.

He had a lot of wrestling matches with David because he's a man after God's own heart. But boy, there's enough a lot of stories that are pretty messed up in the in the history of David.

Don't believe we recommended that. So I'll have an interday show.

All right. It's a good one. I really appreciate his thought because I've had some of the same thoughts like David is and David is David is this amazing king. We talked about it last podcast David.

David is a man after God's own heart. He does things that are counter intuitive. Everything seems upside down at the same time. David has some really screwed up stories.

But nevertheless, he is strikingly different. He pursues a different kind of justice. He wants to could do shushem. We said, he's a unique kind of guy and depending on which story we read because that's also nothing we introduced in this period of history.

We've got two. We've got one story, but we've got two sources. We had story a written from whose perspective Brent. That was Israel. Israel's perspective and it's written like what?

Like headlines like headlines. And so we've got on one hand, we've got a more real time. That's a poor choice of words, but you get the idea. A more closer to the events perspective on what's happening in this period of history.

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