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THE OTHER SIDE of "THE DAYS of ELIJAH" - by ChristAnderson

on Friday 18 April 2008byezette

I don't know what to say...but I feel like DANCING! I honestly believe this article will

be CONFORMATION to most of you! I am more than overwhelmed after reading

this...what an AWESOME GOD WE SERVE! May it blesses you as it blessed me!

Once again it is conformation that WE ARE NOT CRAZY, that GOD IS INDEED

GOD...able to LEAD and KEEP us in the palm of His hand; that God is indeed busy

with a BRAND NEW THING...AND THAT WE ARE A PART OF IT!!! What

excitement...what JOY!

Have a beautiful day in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Your sister in Christ

Ezette

THE OTHER SIDE of "THE DAYS of ELIJAH"-by Chris Anderson.

Something doesn't add up."These are the days of Elijah," we've heard it sung.

"These are the days of Elijah," we've heard it preached.

"These are the days of Elijah," we've heard it prophesied.

But then I look around. "Where is the Lord God of Elijah?" I ask. Howis it that for all this singing, preaching and prophesying about "Elijah,"

there's next to nothing to be seen of the real spirit of Elijah in the

land? There are some pretenders banging a few tinkling cymbals

claiming to represent "Elijah. " But where is the true spirit of Elijah-confronting kings, calling down fire, raising the dead to life?

As I mused on this-which I have often-the Lord used some writings of

a respected prophetic mentor (long since gone to paradise) to remind

me of the "other side" of the days of Elijah.It's true that every time we hear the name "Elijah" we immediatelyenvision all the miraculous feats that marked his ministry. So this is

naturally what we have been expecting in fulfillment of these

prophecies. But when we read the entire story of Elijah, we see that

there was more to his arrival than the obvious. Of special interest is

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the part of the tale from I Kings 17:2-5:

The word of the Lord came to Elijah: "Go away from here, turn

eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, east of the Jordan.

You may drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens tosupply you with food there." So he went and did according to the word

of the Lord.

This "hiding away" of Elijah is of great significance. It comes from the

very opening of the account of his ministry, long before a singlemiracle or power-confrontation is ever recorded. The context is this:

Elijah arrives on the scene to make a declaration of drought to

king Ahab, and no sooner does he appear than he "disappears."

He has come, and yet he just as quickly is "gone." He knows

where he is. But nobody else does.This "other" part of the story of Elijah-the "hidden" part-can go a long

way to encourage those of us who have been hearing and believing inthe manifestation of the end time Elijah spirit, only to see everything

but! Let's try to put some perspective on this. In the process, we'll seethat the days of Elijah are indeed here after all as predicted.

For decades, people with Elijah-class hearts have been sitting

in the backs of churches ruled by Ahabs and Jezebels. Despitetheir best efforts to remain at peace and to hope for repentanceand change, they have been eventually precipitated by theSpirit into confrontations where they have ended having to

declare the departure of God's glory ("Ichabod") to the leaders

of these ministries. This emergence and precipitation ofbelievers to such declarations is in fact the first fulfillment of

the prophecies of the return of the days of Elijah.Note more carefully the declarations and their effect. These "Elijah"

believers and their declarations have not made the headlines of

the Christian tabloids. Usually they are known only within the churchthey've been led into confronting. And their departures are often a

hush-hush affair. But their story has been multiplied thousand-fold

throughout the body of Christ. Warning after warning and

declaration after declaration of the departure of the Spirit hasbeen made by Elijahs to Ahab pastors and leaders of ministries

of all sizes.

When translated into prophetic terms, the essence of these

declarations is that "there will be no more rain"in this church. Again,this has been prophesied multiplied times over in thousands of

churches by innumerable Elijahs of all kinds-young ones, old ones;

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when we will indeed be released to confront the Ahab churches

and the godless society they have allowed to fester under their

watch. There will be a culture wide Mount Carmel showdown. There

will be some kind of repentance, false prophets will be slain, and thetrue rain will indeed fall that has been prophesied. (Don't ask me when

or how). Meanwhile however, other things will still happen before this:

1) The Elijah movement will still be fed and watered by the Spirit in

hiding. We will still find spiritual nourishment and can pass it on to oneanother, despite the surrounding famine.

2) The "prophets of Baal" serving a false "culture-intoxicated Jesus"

will still keep "rain dancing" in the theater churches, singing

meaningless songs about "revival" that they don't really understand

and ultimately don't really want. Such rain dancing will manifest itselfin earnest at the Mt. Carmel confrontation to come.

3) Before all this happens, the Elijahs will be paired with a "widowpeople" in "Zarephath" where together they will be mutually supplied

by the Lord (the "meal" of the Word and "oil" of the Spirit will not failhere) until the confrontation back in "Israel" is ready. Zarephath was

outside of Israel. This means that the present hidden Elijah

movement will make some kind of Spirit-directed encounterand form some kind of alliance with a divinely "prepared" yetequally unknowledgeable people outside the church as weknow it. Watch for this. [WOW...believe you me, I am definitely

watching!]

~SOURCE: firstloveministry.com

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