Emphasis Preaching Journal

There are parallels with Elijah's getting into trouble with the government, for example, Ahab, and then passing through wind, earthquake, fire, and then having God speak to him in the stillness, and the early church's trouble with the government, for example, Rome, and the Pentecost experience which emboldened them. Elijah felt that he was the only one left, when there were 7,000 left (verse 18).