The Question
All Israel stood before him on Mount Carmel that fine day
As all were there awaiting if the drought would go away
Three years plus six months from the time t'was said that it would be
Elijah gathered all the folks God's glory there to see
The prophets of rebellion came in number great and strong
Three hundred fifty of these men who led the people wrong
Against this one lone prophet that the Lord declared His own
Before the broken altar that had been the Lord's twelve stones
Said he who was the prophet of the Lord to all these men
Build ye here a great altar to your demon host of sin
And if your god be god have him to send his fire down
Consume a mighty bullock and declare this as his ground
But if he's not a god at all this Baal you worship here
Then our God will reveal Himself and you might run in fear
For all folks here in number of all Israel will know
It's you who's caused the famine in the way you had them go
To follow after lawlessness iniquity and sin
To lose the very light of God they once held deep within
And lose the joy of knowing they were chosen from the rest
To be God's chosen people who by grace might stand the test
Placed here upon humanity to show that men might be
Allegiant to Almighty God and live in victory
Against the wiles of Satan and the lies that he has told
That led astray God's people from the truths they loved of old
And sure enough they offered to their god they thought was real
From morning through the afternoon until the evening meal
With chants and screams and crying even cutting themselves too
Until they saw with no avail t'was nothing they could do
But then to their amazement as the Prophet of the Lord
Prepared Him there an altar from the stones they had ignored
And laid upon the wood thereon the bullock he prepared
Their souls began to tremble in the next thing that he shared
For then he told the people as he dug a trench around
To fill four barrels waiting as he soaked it to the ground
And with one simple prayer God rained His fire down for Him
And for the rest please read the text for what was done to them
1 Kings 18:20-46; Malachi 4:5
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