Mount Caramel

11 December, 2013

     This is where Elijah called down fire from God when Jezebel's 450 prophets could 
not get the god of Baal to listen to them.  He climbed this nearly 2000 foot 
mountain seven times to rebuild the altar and called down fire from Heaven to 
prove that God is real to the Israelites, even digging a deep moat of water, and drenching

the sacrifice and wood in water before asking God to consume it.  I wish I could travel 

through a vortex in time to hear Elijah make fun of their gods who could not "hear" them or 

when he taunted that "maybe they were sleeping," or "on vacation," or even "using the bath-

room," as the prophets of Baal did everything they could to get them to rain fire down from 

Heaven.

     After that Elijah ran all the way to Jezreel with Ahab hot on his heels, and he beat 

the pants off him!  This man might have been the first superhero!!!  As usual, it was raining

cats and dogs, so we didn't get out of the bus.  Thus, the crummy pictures.