Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.”
1 Kings 20:21
God is not enamored with any earthly human power. Elijah can boldly confront the wicked king Ahab, confident that God’s judgement will fall on both Ahab and Jezebel as well as their descendents because God has had enough of their wicked activity and decreed their fall. God rules over all the actions of all the powerful people of all the earth whether that power is political, military, economic, religious, or academic. Nobody can hide from God’s rule.
Elijah could not be harmed by any who hated what God had to say since God was using Elijah to bring notice of God’s judgment. And his last message to Ahab is brutally clear: Ahab had shamelessly prostituted himself to evil. And the king would reap public, shameful, humiliating judgment at the hand of God. He would die a bloody cowardly death. Jezebel would die a violent death. All of Ahab’s children after him would end their lives in humiliating defeat. And God would do this. His decree by Elijah would stand.
God is in control. He will do as He wills. He will judge sin. He will protect His people. He will bring justice on the earth. And just as surely as He did so in ancient Israel, He will always do so.
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