Who was Elijah in the Bible? Elijah was a prophet of Yahweh sent to the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab. Through displays of miraculous power and prophecies of hard truth, Elijah tried to call the people back from Baal worship to their covenant relationship with God. After Elijah was taken into heaven without dying, his legacy lived on, as both the prototype for the Messiah’s forerunner and an apocalyptic figure.
If we want to understand who Elijah was, we need to see him in his historical context. After the Jewish people fled slavery in Egypt and settled in the Promised Land, they eventually became a kingdom ruled by Jewish kings. The first three kings of the Jewish kingdom were Saul, then David, then Solomon. After Solomon, the kingdom split into two parts: the North (“Israel”) and the South (“Judah”). The northern half of the “Divided Kingdom” immediately veered into idol worship. The seventh king of the North, King Ahab, took idolatry to new levels. His wife Jezebel, the daughter of a Phoenician king, imported Baal worship and aggressively led the nation to reject their covenant relationship with Yahweh and follow the god Baal.
It was in the context of Ahab and Jezebel’s reign that God sent the prophet Elijah to call the people back to God.

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