THE COMING OF REVIVAL

This is a spiritual event and only those who are spiritually alert will cry to God until it breaks upon their people like the morning and as rain upon the earth that prepares it for planting and harvesting.

Prophets like Habakkuk, Elijah, etc stood in the gap in their time for this revival. Habakkuk cried in his time for revival, both for his time and for all time. Elijah on his part, rose with zeal for the Lord's house and confronted ungodliness, backsliding, and idolatry in his time and there is a call to all God's children to awake from sleep and fight in the spirit of truth until this revival is returned in our lives, homes and churches, restoring God's people back to his worship.

THE PROPHETIC EVENT- I KINGS 17-19

The emergence of Elijah: Elijah marked a new era for the nation of Israel. He was raised by God when the sin of the Israelites got to  the height of apostasy. The people's rebellion against God and His instituted way of worship led by king Jeroboam began the sinking process of the northern kingdom of Israel. They committed the sin of idolatry, which is moral and spiritual decay and corruption.

This became very severe in the time of Ahab, who committed more atrocities in the sight of God than any of the kings before him. The sins of Jeroboam seemed little compared to that of Ahab as the later married Jezebel, the princess of a heathen king and came along with her god called Baal, which was more terrible in the sight of God than the idol Jeroboam introduced. Jeroboam built an altar for the god he served, but Ahab built both an altar and a temple for the god of Baal, and made Bethel the headquarter of Baal worship and the capital city.

Ahab did so much evil to provoke God more than all the kings before him. He had four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal prophesying for him; while his heathen wife had four hundred prophets of Baal prophesying for her, making it a total of eight hundred and fifty prophets of Baal.

Also, Jezebel gained more and more power in the kingdom of Israel and began to execute God's true prophets; out of which Obediah, Ahab's palace official was able to hide one hundred true prophets secretly an fed them with bread and water until the emergence of Elijah- I Kings 18:1-15.