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Luke 4:25

New English Translation

But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land.

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Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.”

“Indeed, my plans are not like your plans, and my deeds are not like your deeds,

Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

On that same occasion Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.

For he says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

But who indeed are you – a mere human being – to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, “Why have you made me like this?”

In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

He did this when he revealed to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!

These two have the power to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the time they are prophesying. They have power to turn the waters to blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague whenever they want.




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