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I'm Taylor.

And I'm Tyler.

This is Book of Mormon Central's Come Follow Me Insights. Today, 1 Kings chapter 17 through 19.

Now before we jump into these great stories of Elijah, the Tishbite, this prophet up in the

kingdom of Israel, we need to go back a few chapters to

especially one chapter, and that's First King's Chapter 12, because this particular chapter

really sets the stage for what you keep bringing up, Taylor, throughout these episodes,

is kind of this overarching feeling of the Lord God

of Israel wanting to make this connection with the people. I want to be your God, you'll be my

people, and he keeps trying to make that connection, and the people keep rejecting him. Well,

chapter 12 is where that

really is a game changer for the whole rest of the Old Testament.

Really important chapter. We'll map it out here in just a minute. We have this overarching

theme in the scriptures. I'm going to follow up on what Tyler said. We sometimes get stuck

in the weeds in the scriptures, we get lost in stories, or we have our favorite stories,

which can be very, very powerful to us, and yet we often miss why the Bible is preserved. It was

about revealing God to his people and showing the consequences of a trustworthy God

and what happens when people trust him or not.

And we heard a couple of lessons ago what happened when the people chose not to have

God as a king, they wanted an earthly king.

And God said, okay, I'm going to allow you to do that, but I'll tell you what's going to happen.

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