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The word “prevailed” has different uses and the use is defined by the context meaning Elijah’s God utterly prevailed over Baal and therefore Elijah prevailed over the prophets of Baal, and that fact is driven home by Elijah by killing all the prophets of Baal (and it doesn’t say how he does this but clearly Elijah has authority in have done it. Elijah would never “prevail” over Israel in this context. He guides Israel.
Dear Don: Your question is your first sentence, and if you thought you were addressing it or answering it in the rest of your paragraph you are not. Maybe you meant to ask a different question. Why would you think Elijah would ever “prevail” over Israel? The word “prevail” means “to be greater in strength or influence. It does not mean he leads the prophets of Baal, but that is exactly what he does as prophet for Israel — he leads them as God directs him. His job was to bring the Israelites back to belief and worship of God, not the baal idols, which the 400 plus prophets had been enticing them to do. He spoke to the Israelites appealing to them to either worship God or baal. The implication was if they worshipped Baal they were no longer true Israelites and may as well stay well away from their brothers and sisters who believed in God. He pointed out that all of them were simply mouthing their belief in Israel’s God, the one True God but yet they were sacrificying to baal idols — that is the fence Elijah mentioned. You have to know that Elijah had been and was a very powerful prophet for Israel, and God always favored Elijah’s needs for help. In this case, God lit a fire that no man could light since the altar was thoroughly soaked with water. Not only that, the flames God sent burned up the water s well. .Not only did Elijah have faith that God would support the challenge he proposed, but Elijah knew that all idols have no power at al, therefore he knew that there would not be a fire lit by Baal or his minions. testing the baal idols against Our God, and had faith God would make sure of that their fires could not be lit. This was a demonstration of the power of God, not unlike the stories of Jesus’ miracles during his 3 year ministry where the seed to understanding a new power was entering the world that would change the fate of mankind to have a way to never dying. The “prevailing’ was over the 400 plus prophets and Elijah having them all killed. It is a kinder way of saying Elijah challenged the priests of Baal and all the followers that were left (if any, since this story doesn’t say in these verses whether the pagans were involved with the Israelites on this occasion) obviously supported these executions. Maybe they participated. The prophets of Baal were brought to death . — ALL the prophets of Baal were eliminated. Their livelihoods and life work was thoroughly destroyed. In so doing, all the people agreed that whichever God won this fire challenge would be their full choice who to worship.
Thanks for your response. i really was not asking a question at all. I was pondering that even thought all of the prophets of Baal were defeated Israel still walked in sinful ways. The false prophets were defeated, the sinfulness of Israel was not. Thus, the sin of Israel was not defeated. I was relating his to our tendency to continue sinning even though God has won the war for us. He has defeated evil yet we still sin. I took Elijah as an Architype of man. God wins the battle for us and yet in the next instance we run in fear. That was all but thank you for your thoughtful response. God Bless