Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him. 1 Kings 19:18. Elijah had thought that he alone in Israel was a worshiper
Elijah Before Ahab
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 Baalim. 1 Kings 18:18. Through the long years of drought and famine,
Disgraceful Monuments
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler: folly is set in great dignity. Ecclesiastes 10:5, 6. In the days of King Josiah a strange appearance could be seen
Running Ahead of God
And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him. 1 Samuel 13:8. It was not until the second year of Saul’s reign
Seven Short Years
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. Genesis 29:20. How different his [Jacob’s] arrival from that of Abraham’s messenger nearly a hundred years before!
As it was in the Days of Noah
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe
An Affluent Society
In the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking … and knew not until the flood came and took them all away. Matthew 24:38, 39. The sin of the Noatic world was intemperance, and today the