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A time of worship. Elijah a Prophet of God calls together a time of reckoning as Ahab the king of Israel took Israel deeper and deeper away from the Lord and from worshiping the One True God! Elijah commands Ahab to summon the people from all over Israel and to meet him on Mount Carmel. (1 Kings 18:19) He asks him to bring the fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel’s table. Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. (v20) This showdown was intense. Elijah will not only make a spectacle of the prophets but will very methodically begin to give honor to God in front of the entire assembly. Israel had failed to serve the God who delivered them from Egypt. The God who revealed himself to repeatedly. Look how the Lord uses Elijah to call their attention to the past and to the present. Elijah says to the people “come to me.” He begins to repair the altar of the Lord which had been torn down. (v30) E