Today is the 18th day of June. Welcome to the daily audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful

to be here with you today as we gather and take the next step forward.

And Happy Father's Day. Happy Father's Day to all you fathers out there today is Father's

Day here in the United States. And like I say with Mother's Day, like I realize no matter

where we live around the world, we honor our mothers and our fathers and on different

days and in different cultures for different reasons, but it's Father's Day here in the

United States. So Happy Father's Day, Father's. May you be honored today as you point your

families to our Heavenly Father. We have been working our way through the book of First

Kings, which is what we'll continue to do. And the life and times of the kings of Israel in the

north and in Judah and the south and the intermingling with the prophetic voices. So we've met Elijah.

It was famine in the land for three years. Nobody could find Elijah. King Ahab in the north is

Mary to a woman named Jezebel. The northern kingdom is fully immersed in bail worship.

Elijah shows back up. It says, Rehan is coming and then there's a showdown with the prophets of

bail. God answers with fire from heaven. Elijah tells Ahab he better get back to his home before

the Rehan's overtake him. And that's kind of where we left off. Ahab was riding his chariot back to

Jezereal and the prophet Elijah tucked in his robe and out ran the chariot and out ran Ahab

back to Jezereal. And so we pick up the story from there. We'll read from the good news translation

this week. First Kings chapter 19. King Ahab told his wife Jezebel everything that Elijah had done

and how he had put all the prophets of bail to death. She sent a message to Elijah.

May the gods strike me dead if by this time tomorrow. I don't do the same thing to you that you

did to the prophets. Elijah was afraid and fled for his life. He took his servant and went to

Beer Shiba in Judah. Leaving the servant there Elijah walked a whole day into the wilderness.

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