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Monday, January 18 2010
Carmel, in Hebrew pronounced carm-ale, meaning a garden, or a park, was the name given to a highland area in Galilee running from the Mediterranean Sea to the plain of Esdraelon (there was also a town in the south, in Judea, by the same name i.e. "15:1 This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast ... 15:55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah" Joshua 15:1,55 KJV).
In the time of Joshua, Carmel in Galilee was allotted to the tribe of Asher.
"19:24 And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.19:25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph, 19:26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath" (Joshua 19:24-26 KJV)
"Elijah went up to the top of Carmel"
The prophet Elijah was sent by the LORD to warn Ahab and Jezebel that they were doing great evil (see The Fall Of Ahab and Jezebel). Their response produced a confrontation at Carmel.
"18:17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?18:18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim. 18:19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
18:20 So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel. 18:21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word." (1 Kings 18:17-21 KJV)
The showdown ended with the execution of hundreds of Satanic "prophets" of Baal (see also Baal-zebub and Beelzebub).
"18:36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. 18:37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.18:38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
18:39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
18:40 And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there." (1 Kings 18:36-40 KJV)
The LORD's prophet was given to bring drought as a punishment on the corrupt kingdom: "17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word" (1 Kings 17:1 KJV). Elijah was also given the miraculous means to make the rain return.
"18:41 And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. 18:42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, 18:43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea.And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing.
And he said, Go again seven times.
18:44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.
18:45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. 18:46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel." (1 Kings 18:41-46 KJV)
That event was mentioned in the New Testament (the King James uses "Elias" for Elijah in the New Testament).
"5:17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 5:18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." (James 5:17-18 KJV)
Fact Finder: What happened to Elijah when his given work was completed?
See Where Did Elijah Go?
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This Day In History, January 18
1486: Henry VII of England married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the houses of Lancaster and York.
1535: Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, Peru.
1644: The first recorded UFO sighting in North America, by Pilgrims in Boston.
1701: Frederick III, the elector of Brandenburg, became the king of Prussia.
1778: Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands. They were initially called the Sandwich Islands, after the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Sandwich (ironically, Captain Cook was killed and eaten by the natives of the Sandwich Islands, as was his girlfriend, Ann Butchers).
1871: The proclamation of the Second German Reich (empire). Otto von Bismarck named King Wilhelm I of Prussia as German emperor ("Deutscher Kaiser") in The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, near Paris. North and south Germany were united. Bismarck consolidated Germany under the (Protestant) Prussian Hohenzollerns, assumed the office of Reich Chancellor and was made a prince. The Second Reich lasted for 47 years, until the end of World War 1 in 1918. Adolf Hitler called his regime the Third Reich. See Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Euro!
1919: 2 months after the First World War ended, the Versailles Peace Conference in Paris opened with Woodrow Wilson of U.S., David Lloyd-George of Britain, and George Clemencea of France. Kaiser Wilhelm had abdicated and departed for exile in Netherlands where the Dutch refused to extradite him for trial as a promoter of the war. The Weimar Republic was established.
1974: Israel and Egypt signed peace agreements to officially end the Yom Kippur War which had began on the previous October 6. See United States, Britain and Israel
1977: At least 80 people were killed in Sydney when a locomotive rammed a bridge bringing it crashing down on to a commuter train. It was Australia's worst rail crash.
1991: Iraq fired at least eight missiles at Israel in a bid to drag the Jewish state into the Gulf War the day after the allies had launched Operation Desert Storm.
1995: The European Parliament endorsed the new 20-strong European Commission, marking the Strasbourg-based assembly's political birth.
