Elijah vs the Priests of Baal

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Elijah vs the Priests of Baal 

Elijah was the prophet in ancient Israel.  Many of the people had abandoned the worship of the Lord.  Instead many of them were worshipping an idol god called Baal.  Elijah challenged the priests of Baal... to a duel.

Elijah told them that he would prepare a sacrifice and the priests of Baal could prepare a sacrifice and they would see which sacrifice was honored. 

The priests of Baal danced and prayed and cut themselves and hollered louder as their offering just sat there.  Elijah told them to pray louder because maybe their god was asleep and they needed to wake him up.  Still, nothing ever happened to the sacrifice that was prepared by the priests of Baal.

Then Elijah had the people dig a trench around his offering.  He also had them pour lots of water on the bull that was the offering.  He even had them pour until the trench was filled up with water.  When Elijah prayed just once fire came down from heaven and consumed his offering and even licked up all the water (vaporized it) from the trench.

Afterwards He executed the evil priests of Baal.  Since these Priests of Baal were probably pushing the evil false idea that human sacrifice to Baal was good, it is obvious that they deserved their fate.

I drew this during General Conference, so I could pay better attention.  I still say that for those of us with ADD or ADHD...that if you let us draw or do something else like a simple video game during a talk or during church services...we will get more out of the talk or meeting.   The same probably goes for school.  I wish I had been more in tuned to this when I was a teacher.  I think I could have at least had the kids draw their notes.  I am sure that would have helped some of them.