What is the message of Elijah?
The Elijah message calls people back to the commandments
of the Most High. The Elijah message concerns every soul on earth, especially believers living in the closing days of this
age.
The Elijah message calls people to obey the commandments
of Yahweh the Almighty God of Israel: particularly those commandments which relate to sexual conduct and pagan festivals.
The Physical Plane
On the physical plane they are Yahweh's commandments relating to adultery,
fornication, prostitution, homosexuality, incest and rape.
The Spiritual Plane
On the spiritual plane they are Yahweh's commandments relating to His weekly
and annual Sabbath days.
When accused by king Ahab of being a trouble-maker, Elijah's answered as
follows:
1 Kings 18: 17: And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said
unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
18: And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's
house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalam.
Baalim is Hebrew plural for Baal the god of nature and fertility. I quote
from the Westminster Dictionary of the Bible, article 'Baal.' (emphasis mine)
"... Baal worship apparently had its origin in the belief that every tract
of ground owed its productivity to a supernatural being, or baal, that dwelt there. The farmers probably thought that from
the Baalim, or fertility gods, of various regions came the increase of crops, fruit and cattle...The worship of Baal was accompanied
with lascivious rites (1 Kings 14:24), the sacrifice of children in the fire by parents (Jer.19:5), and kissing the image
(1 Kings 19:18; Hos 13:2). Baal was often associated with the goddess Astoreth (Judg.2:13), and in the vicinity of his altar
there was often an Asherah (Judg.6:30; 1 Kings 16:32-33,R.V.)"
Of the goddess Astoreth the same dictionary says:
"... She was the goddess of sexual love, maternity and fertility. Prostitution
as a religious rite in the service of this goddess under various names is widely attested. The identification of 'Ashtart
with Aphrodite is evidence of her sexual character."
Elijah's spoke out against the worship of Baal and Ashtoreth. He fearlessly
condemned sexual sin and the worship of nature and pointed to Yahweh the CREATOR of the mighty universe: the one and only
God who, in the final analysis, controls the fertility of the earth and the womb. Over and over again Elijah taught that obedience
to Yahweh's commandments was the only acceptable route to fertility and that man's sexual conduct must be governed by divine
law, not by human desire. Why, even the widow burst out:
1 Kings 17: 18: And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee,
O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
When Elijah called for a three and a half year drought, he was, in fact,
demonstrating to Israel that his God YAH was the only true God: and that it was on Yah's authority that all productivity depended.
He alone can give meaningful increase in basket and womb, and this blessing comes in direct response to faith and obedience.
This is the message of the Bible. This is the Elijah Message. The world is fast approaching a state that existed in the days
of Elijah. Sexual perversion is now the norm. Fornication, Adultery and Homosexuality are openly advocated by the many modern
priests and priestesses. Sin has become fashionable! But don't be deluded: these sins are simply a sophisticated 20th century
version of Baal and Ashtoreth worship! What is even more tragic is that the collapse of sexual standards is reflected in the
church's rejection of Yahweh's weekly and annual Sabbath days which are the divinely appointed memorials of the Creation.
The keeping of Easter (Ashtaroth's fertility festival) and Christmas (The
birthday of the Sun god) are high level examples of Astaroth and Baal worship!
To preach the Elijah message in these days requires
faith and courage; because it will upset millions: especially the religious authorities who disregard the Almighty's Sabbath
days. Like the ancient priests and priestesses of Baal and Ashtaroth, they detest the Elijah message. It troubles them.
It angers them. They would rather hear smooth words which keep clear of sexual sin and Sabbath-breaking: those low and high
level sins which are currently sweeping the earth. But the Most High is not mocked. His judgements will - yea already have
- begun to take effect.
2 Peter 2: 4: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them
down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
5: And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher
of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6: And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them
with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
7: And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing,
vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9: The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to
reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness,
and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11: Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing
accusation against them before the Lord.
12: But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed,
speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13: And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count
it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they
feast with you;
14: Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling
unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15: Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the
way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.
Those who proclaim the Elijah message do not fight human beings. Oh no!
our enemy is not men, but error!
Ephesians 6: 12: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Our battle is against sin, not people. Like Elijah we must speak out against
sin:
The low level sins of the flesh: fornication, adultery, prostitution, homosexuality,
incest and rape.
The high level sins of the spirit: unbelief, paganism, commercialism in
the churches and Sabbath breaking.
The Power of Truth
Elijah taught the Truth: and he backed it up with breath-taking power.
He even raised the dead!
1 Kings 17: 21: And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and
cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.
22: And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came
into him again, and he revived.
23: And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber
into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
24: And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man
of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth
So, what in summary is The Elijah Message? Fear Yahweh
and keep His commandments!
