It was one of those curveballs that Scripture throws at you.
The prophet Elijah, bold and fearsome, is described in later parts of Scripture in much more tender terms as the one who ‘turned the hearts of the fathers to their children and the children to their fathers’ (Mal. 4 and Luke 1). Elijah, the Baal-destroyer on Mount Carmel, has a pastoral side? Well, it’s surprising, but if you declare ‘The Lord, He is God’, a change of heart is bound to be the fruit. And how we need the spirit of Elijah today.
