Elijah

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1 Kings 17:1–7, “And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.”

One of penalty clauses of the contract that the Lord made with Israel when they went into the Promised Land was that the Lord would stop the rain from coming. The Promised Land was a fruitful land as long as Israel obeyed the Lord. We know from James 5:17, (“Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.”) that Isaiah was a godly man who was concerned about the sinful state of the nation under Ahab. He asked the Lord to invoke the penalty clauses of the contact so that Israel would be restored to the Lord. Elijah came from Gilead, part of which is called Golan today. The Lord answered Elijah’s prayer and brought a long drought to Israel. In order to keep Isaiah alive, the Lord sent him to a small stream on the eastern side of the Jordan River. The stream was called Cherith and there ravens brought Elijah food every morning and every evening. However, the stream dried up because there was no rain.