"Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word. Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there. So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Then the word of the Lord came to him: Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food. So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink? As she was going to get it, he called, And bring me, please, a piece of bread. As surely as the Lord your God lives, she replied, I don’t have any bread - only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it - and die. Elijah said to her, Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land. She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah. Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing. She said to Elijah, What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son? Give me your son, Elijah replied. He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed. Then he cried out to the Lord, Lord my God, have you brought tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die? Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the Lord, Lord my God, let this boy’s life return to him! The Lord heard Elijah’s cry, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived. Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said, Look, your son is alive! Then the woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord from your mouth is the truth." I Kings 17:1-14
They selfishly and arrogantly sang to the world in this way: "These are the days of Elijah ..." like saying "Observe in amazement, we will conquer this world, get out of our way...", instead of preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. Yes, these certainly are the days of Elijah, but not the days they imagined!
The days of Elijah that follow are these and nothing else!
The brook has dried up!
God was disgusted by the church of Laodicea, represented by the 21st century church.
To those who no longer remember, these are the words addressed to the sickening church in Laodicea: “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm - neither hot nor cold - I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing. But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” Revelation 3:14-22
Where are those who falsely prophesied that the time of revival was coming, it was just at the gates?
They prophesied of their vain arrogance, of their Christianized imaginations, because in the Word of God there is no verse that states that before the return of Jesus Christ there would be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the face of the earth, if there were, Jesus Christ himself would have warned in Matthew 24. On the contrary, he warns us of the time of apostasy before his Glorious and Terrible return, which by the way, will not be preceded by any secret rapture "Because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud cry, at the voice of archangel, to the sound of God's trumpet." (I Thessalonians 4:16a) I cannot understand how secret an archangel can be shouting to the world about Christ´s return and trumpets being blown! It is, indeed, a disgusting church.
The brook has dried up!
The time for apostasy has come. And things will get worse as the persecutions, which have already started, will get worse, and very soon. But don't you worry, the false prophets lie, because when the great tribulation begins we will be caught up. "The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church," wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Was he crazy or did he have a clear vision of the end that awaits us? Was his death in vain, pointless his sufferings?
The woman, in the figure of Zarephath's widow, represents the Church of Jesus Christ, who will have to learn how to make bread to avoid starvation, using only flour and olive oil, as there will be no more readily available Bread on earth, but only hunger and hunger for the Word of God.
People will run back and forth after a few crumbs, but the Word will no longer be readily available.
The flour that is the written Word and the olive oil that is the Holy Spirit, will be the basic elements to be used from now on. The rest God withdrew! Have you ever made bread without eggs, milk, salt, yeast, etc.?
The Church will need to learn to use only these two ingredients to live from now on, until the return of the Messiah, Jesus Christ.
Those who went after the seer and gnostics evangelists, the prophets who falsely speak in the name of God, the sheep charmers, wolves in disguise, will starve in the streets, on the roads, in the ditches, and will die of thirst for the Water of Life!
The brook has dried up!
God got tired of the lunatic visions, the daydreams of preachers of the message "the best for your life now, come and get it", of the "gospel" of prosperity shamelessly preached by intellectualoid pastors, gnostic leaders and guessing prophets that actually pastored nobody, because they were too busy with their business, who led no one to anywhere, and who prophesied what God had never put in their mouths!
Where is the prosperity so preached now?
The brook has dried up!
God, with a mere move of his little pinkie, allowing a worldwide disease in 2020, is judging the Church of Laodicea.
All those who used to market the Gospel of Christ are confused, lost, desperately trying to make videos to put on YouTube in order to continue their negotiations in the temple.
Well, that's over, and the brook has dried up!
May God have mercy on each one of us and that from now on we can learn to make our daily bread, that if we humbly use the ingredients that are lovingly provided to us, it will never be lacking, just as the flour and oil will never run out for the Zarephath's widow.
Amen and amen.
