tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post7124827908941622282..comments2024-03-10T10:40:32.319-07:00Comments on Pyromaniacs: Why I Keep Coming Back to ElijahPhil Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649092052031518426noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-69785168703127903622010-08-22T12:12:42.845-07:002010-08-22T12:12:42.845-07:00Great article. If you do write a book you may want...Great article. If you do write a book you may want to note Elijah was taken to heaven in a whirlwind (2 Kings 2:11) not a flaming chariot of fire.Trent Cornwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01764653031106554000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-30738569241336234112007-09-06T20:17:00.000-07:002007-09-06T20:17:00.000-07:00Phil,Thanks for the shot in the arm, I needed it! ...Phil,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the shot in the arm, I needed it! I am feeling a bit low with the burdens of ministry tonight and really needed this timely reminder. Thanks for the encouraging word from the Word. This is TeamPyro at its best.<BR/><BR/>Dan,<BR/><BR/>Just wanted to let you know that I have shared many of your articles as the "article of the week" on my door.<BR/><BR/>Cent,<BR/><BR/>I really enjoyed your writings on "when to leave a church!" Very insightful.<BR/><BR/>I do not comment too often, but I am a "lurker" that feasts here daily.<BR/><BR/>HaydenHaydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01256518337951573331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-4982038260859047332007-09-06T19:12:00.000-07:002007-09-06T19:12:00.000-07:00Eli's coming....Was that Three Dog Night....A man ...Eli's coming....<BR/><BR/>Was that Three Dog Night....<BR/><BR/>A man like us, yeah....<BR/><BR/>That's one of the interesting things about the mugs of Scripture, their all like us, save One.<BR/><BR/>I like Samson. But that's a jawbone thing. Still, he was a man like us, blinded by sin yet still beholding the face of God.<BR/><BR/>Tishbyi might come from a root that means captivity. Like bookends this Elijah is heralding the captivity, the last one the emancipation....<BR/><BR/>Just a thoughtStrong Towerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13834108238546908018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-26212952597663422662007-09-06T13:00:00.000-07:002007-09-06T13:00:00.000-07:00Okay, Phil...here's a proposition. Quit your job ...Okay, Phil...here's a proposition. Quit your job working for that MacArthur guy (wink, wink), uproot your family and move to Kansas City to start a church.<BR/><BR/>Come on! You know you want to ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-2866153668760879362007-09-06T10:32:00.000-07:002007-09-06T10:32:00.000-07:00Well Sewing, you can't get much earlier than Jesus...Well Sewing, you can't get much earlier than Jesus himself...Darylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01296029404229769941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-4891504070633557922007-09-06T09:59:00.000-07:002007-09-06T09:59:00.000-07:00D'oh! Like some kind of rank source critic, I sai...D'oh! Like some kind of rank source critic, I said that Elijah's return was "interpreted by early Christians" as John the Baptist's ministry. Of course, according to Scripture, it was Jesus Himself who taught that John the Baptist's ministry was the promised return of Elijah.Stefan Ewinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05530690016594029847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-71493450456469634102007-09-06T08:38:00.000-07:002007-09-06T08:38:00.000-07:00Allow me to add my thanks for this Elijah series, ...Allow me to add my thanks for this Elijah series, Phil. I'ts been a real blessing.Darylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01296029404229769941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-37903143011885146562007-09-06T08:29:00.000-07:002007-09-06T08:29:00.000-07:00Phil, your series on Elijah has been a great bless...Phil, your series on Elijah has been a great blessing. The Lord has discipled me greatly through you, especially on the idea of daily sufficient grace. I'm so glad to learn you're going to continue teaching on him.<BR/><BR/>Of course, someone in the church "just happened" to be preparing to give a series of talks on Elijah a few weeks ago, so I was able to give him a long list of links to your series of posts, which I trust God has made useful to him through the work of the Holy Spirit.<BR/><BR/>This pastor pointed out to me, by the way, that of all the birds in creation, God used *ravens* to feed Elijah when he's in the wilderness. Ravens, who if they are anything like their corvine cousins crows and magpies, normally scavenge and hoard stuff for themselves; yet God used them to take and give food to someone else. (Speaking of folks from the Transfiguration, he also pointed out that despite striking the rock at Meribah, Moses did in a sense finally see the Promised Land, when he appeared together with Elijah on the mountain.)<BR/><BR/>Cent, I love that song. It's so catchy. I love <I>Swing Low, Sweet Chariot</I> much more. God even worked through the secular humanistic Jewish Sunday school I went to as a kid...of all the songs the choir sang, I loved <I>Swing Low</I> the most.<BR/><BR/>Also, every year, during the two Passover meals we held each year, four cups of wine would be drunk, for God's four promises in Exodus 6:6-7 ("I will bring you out..."; "I will deliver you..."; "I will redeem you..."; and "I will take you to be my people"). (The cup that Jesus used to represent the blood of His covenant was the third cup, the Cup of Redemption, or so seems to be the consensus—I'm having trouble finding a scriptural attestation.) Anyhow, there's also a fifth cup that's put out for Elijah and left undrunk, with the door left open for Elijah to enter, based on <A HREF="http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Malachi+4%3A5-6" REL="nofollow">Malachi 4:5-6</A>, according to which Elijah is expected to return before the day of the Lord (interpreted by the early Christians as John the Baptist's preceding Jesus Christ). I recall we even sang a song asking Elijah to return.<BR/><BR/>Anyhow, it's been a wonderful series of posts, and I look forward to reading much more on this singular prophet.Stefan Ewinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05530690016594029847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-39143811532091129612007-09-06T07:44:00.000-07:002007-09-06T07:44:00.000-07:00In light of Elijah, I keep seeing an imaginary mee...In light of Elijah, I keep seeing an imaginary meeting between King Brian McLaren and Phil Johnson. What does Brian say when the two run into each other?<BR/><BR/>"Have you found me, O my enemy?" <BR/><BR/>Just kidding.Solameaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09869424956571944997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-45945347987289920292007-09-06T07:13:00.000-07:002007-09-06T07:13:00.000-07:00Well, after all, these are the days of Elijah.That...Well, after all, these are the days of Elijah.<BR/><BR/>That's what the songs says.FX Turkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16798420127955373559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-74956680976724358572007-09-06T06:31:00.000-07:002007-09-06T06:31:00.000-07:00Mendelssohn's Elijah is awesome.I like the part in...Mendelssohn's Elijah is awesome.<BR/><BR/>I like the part in the Bible about what God does when Elijah is feeling sorry for himself in the cave - <BR/><BR/>1) God provides food and water<BR/>2) God shows him his power<BR/>3) God asks him a question (more than one)<BR/>4) God gives him another important assignment<BR/><BR/>This is actually a lot like what Jesus does after Peter is discouraged because he denied Jesus. (I never noticed before that Jesus did pretty much the same four things)<BR/><BR/>Trusting someone with a new or another important assignment is the best way of showing confidence in them AND it's the best way to help them to move on from feeling discouraged and sorry for themselves.Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03605999794188527973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-29954323297420772742007-09-06T06:27:00.000-07:002007-09-06T06:27:00.000-07:00If you were inclined to write a book about Elijah,...If you were inclined to write a book about Elijah, I would be inclined to run out and buy it.<BR/><BR/>I continue to REALLY like this series. Thanks. <BR/><BR/>Hey. Since you are simply teaching on Elijah, you probably won't get over 1000 comments, (some of them really self-absorbed ones), so don't feel too badly ok.candyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06088593538648596769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-44352053256911354762007-09-06T06:20:00.000-07:002007-09-06T06:20:00.000-07:00"So sad was the character both of the princes and ..."So sad was the character both of the princes and people of Israel, as described in the foregoing chapter, that one might have expected God would cast off a people that had so cast him off; but, as an evidence to the contrary, never was Israel so blessed with a good prophet as when it was so plagued with a bad king. Never was king so bold to sin as Ahab; never was prophet so bold to reprove and threaten as Elijah"...<BR/><BR/>Matthew HenryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-35586459995945609122007-09-06T06:04:00.000-07:002007-09-06T06:04:00.000-07:00Excellent and inspiring! Thanks!Excellent and inspiring! Thanks!Don Fieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09895024815386234008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-21015180049455162762007-09-06T05:36:00.000-07:002007-09-06T05:36:00.000-07:00Thanks for keeping with Elijah.Thanks for keeping with Elijah.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16625691560372353977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-12906496411168104462007-09-06T05:28:00.000-07:002007-09-06T05:28:00.000-07:00Thanks, Phil. I have actually been preaching a se...Thanks, Phil. I have actually been preaching a series on the life and times of Elijah on Sunday mornings for the last 7 weeks and have enjoyed following your posts. I personally think A.W. Pink's book on 'Elijah' published by Banner of Truth is the best out there, hands down.Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13668732997652099557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-9402206987707813552007-09-06T05:19:00.000-07:002007-09-06T05:19:00.000-07:00Elijah's life was fascinating. Another good book o...Elijah's life was fascinating. <BR/><BR/>Another good book on the topic is Elijah - by Charles SwindollBen Nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17720758092068979228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-7096673215257468502007-09-06T05:14:00.000-07:002007-09-06T05:14:00.000-07:00Thanks for opening up Elijah, Phil. He does thunde...Thanks for opening up Elijah, Phil. He does thunder onto the scene, doesn't he? First recorded words: "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand..." (1 Kings 17:1). What he goes on to say is the product of direct special revelation to which we are not privy. But still, he combines a claim of personal closeness to God, and bold standing on God's revelation, that it would be good for the pastor to be able to emulate analogically.DJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16471042180904855578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-79665917777666910382007-09-06T00:44:00.000-07:002007-09-06T00:44:00.000-07:00I saw Mendelssohn's "Elijah" as well. It was amaz...I saw Mendelssohn's "Elijah" as well. It was amazing to see Scripture honored and exclaimed in such a way.the postmortemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06374570360503910669noreply@blogger.com