Topic: Elijah

Question

Is the Elijah, who comes to preach to the Jews, the real man who lived on the earth, or will he be the spirit of Elijah in some other man? Now, that’s, I—I’m afraid to say. I don’t know. See? Let me read that again. Is the Elijah, who comes to preach to the Jews (oh, yes), the real man who lived on earth, or will he be spirit of Elijah in some other man?

Answer

Now, if I could answer that correctly, I could tell you about Enoch, see. But I—I can’t do it, see. Only thing I know is, just, the Scripture says what it will be. And now it might be that the…Now, I—I’m kind of inclined…Now let me say it this way. And I hope the tape, the brethren on the tapes, wil...

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Brother Branham, the 19th chapter of…and the 18 verse, “Yet have I kept me seven thousand of Israel, seven thousand in Israel, all haven’t bowed their…bowed to Baalim, and every mouth…or—or bowed to Baal, and every…which has not kissed him, mouth who has not kissed him.” Please explain this for me, about the—about the seven hundred.

Answer

It was seven thousand. See? And that, “kissing Baal,” don’t you know…How many here was formerly Catholic? Sure. See? You kiss images. See? And, remember, in the time of Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar, when the Gentile kingdom was issued in, see; when Gentile kingdom issued in, it come in by the worship...

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My dear brother, will the Malachi 4:5 Elijah go to the wilderness, as First Kings 17 tells us the other Elijah did?

Answer

Well, I wouldn’t exactly say that he would, that he would go to the wilderness. But he’ll be this, you see, he was…Elisha and Elijah, did you notice? Most men like that are men who are away; they, they keep away from the people. They’re very odd. They don’t associate too much with people. You notic...

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Does calling someone a righteous man mean he was a man without sin?

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Now, a righteous man is not a sinless man. For you notice, he said, “Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are.” He had his ups and downs and his differences. And the Scripture of his life proves that he had his ups and downs like we do. And he had his times of wondering and his times that...

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Was Elijah an angel or an ordinary man?

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We’re speaking tonight about Elijah and making it a preview of our prayer meeting coming now. Elijah was a man…Many times when someone speaks of a man like Elijah, they would expect him to be a great angel, or, of some sort, or a sainted person that was dropped out of Heaven. But the Bible said that...

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Did Elijah call down fire from heaven on his own initiative?

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One time, it happened to be one of my managers, not Brother Baxter, but it was a man who was with us, one of the field managers. And a newspaper had made a very critical statement that was absolutely untrue. I can expect friendly criticism; but the criticism wasn’t due because it was untrue. As long...

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Did Elijah act on his own when he called down fire on Mount Carmel?

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Then let’s just stop on that Scripture, which we could take it through the Bible, through the prophets, through the ages. And there never was any person did anything without God first showing. The prophet Elijah on Mount Carmel, looked like he just went up there and got angry with the people and cal...

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Why did Elijah pray to die after bringing fire down from heaven?

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And I thought of Elijah, who went out there and set by the brook Cherith, and was fed by the ravens. And he closed the heavens that it wouldn’t rain. Then he opened up the heavens and brought down water, brought fire out of heaven the same day, and then when the inspiration left him (by the threat o...