| NOTE FROM BROTHER STEVE |
"I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away." I Kings 19:10
There are so many thoughts and so many questions racing through my mind as I
reflect on the slayings of Officers Paudert and Evans, and the shootings of
Sheriff Busby and Deputy Wren. Rather than attempt to cover all the questions
and thoughts, I want to share a story from the Bible that addresses our response
to the evil we encounter in our world.
The prophet Elijah was the voice of God standing in opposition to an evil that
had invaded the people of Israel. The evil was manifest particularly in the person
of Queen Jezebel, the foreign bride of King Ahab. Jezebel had brought into
Israel her prophets of Baal, and they were not respecters of the sacredness of
life. Her prophets practiced the sacrifice of children, as well as other
degradations of humankind God called Elijah to speak and to act in the midst of
this chaos, and so Elijah arranged a confrontation with eh prophets of Baal atop
Mt. Carmel. In this setting the ways and the values and the power of false
prophets and of Baal were proven false, and God was seen to be God, and to
prophets of Baal were destroyed by the people of Israel.
When Queen Jezebel heard of what Elijah had done, how he had stood against
her evil
Brother Steve
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