November 9, 2025 • 24 mins
In this episode, Bennett explores the story of Elijah, focusing on his confrontation with the false god Baal and the cultural implications of worship. The conversation delves into the themes of spiritual warfare, the slow drift into idolatry, and the importance of consistent discipleship in maintaining faith. Through the narrative of Elijah's experiences, listeners are encouraged to reflect on their own spiritual journeys and the societal pressures that challenge their beliefs.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Year Joe straight from the broadcast studio and then the
status This ain't no pret sound story. So as prophetic
encrypt the signals from the shadows of the party we
did where the TRP got secret snow parted, microphone.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Alchemists scriptures with a twist, keep the frequency seeds in
the midst We dropped fass like plagues revelations in the catus,
broadcasting truth while they trapped in surveilans wisdom with a
watchman's blade, forth what sound while your whole system faith,
blood moons that for love echoes in the pond sasquar
sompen through the fault lines of time. We ain't mainstream,
(00:37):
we ain't just stream safer with the prophets to code
the dreams. So with you turn in better guards to
mind is broadcasting seeds and we break in the design.
Then yeah, yeh yo yo, straight from the broadcast sad.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Today on broadcasting seeds, we're walking straight into one of
the loudest moments in the Bible. Elijah does not tiptoe
into history. He kicks the door in points at a
nation that has drifted into ball worship, and calls his shot.
No rain, not a drop the sky locks up like
(01:25):
a seized engine, and Israel learns what happens when you
trade living water for false gods. The text is blunt
about it. Elijah announces the drought except by my word
in One King's seventeen to one, And the land goes dry.
(01:47):
Here is where it gets wild, while the nation thirst.
Elijah survives on miraculous provision, first at the brook cherit,
then through a widow whose last handful of flowers suddenly
turns into a bottomless pantry. Read it for yourself in
(02:08):
One King seventeen two through sixteen. This is not a
campfire tale. It's a collision between a covenant keeping god
and a counterfeit system that promised rain and fertility but
could not deliver. If you want the quick background on Ball,
the name means lord or owner, and he was tied
(02:31):
to storms and crops in Canaanite religion. Good summer here
from Britannia. Israel did not just flirt with Baal. They
built him into public life, royal policy, cultural habits, rituals,
And when you hardwire a false god into your systems,
(02:53):
you eventually pay in real life. Then comes Mount Carmel.
This is the showdown. Elijah calls for a public test.
Two altars, two bowls, one rule, no fire. Whichever God
answers with fire is God. The prophets of Baal cry
out all day, they dance, they cut themselves. The mountain
(03:15):
is full of noise, and still nothing happens. Elijah steps up,
soaks his altar with water, prays once, and fire falls
from heaven. Not a spark, a consuming blast that eats
the offering, the wood, the stones, the dust, and even
the water in the trench that is one Kings eighteen
(03:39):
twenty through forty, especially eighteen thirty eight. In one moment,
the mask slips, the idol is exposed as powerless, and
the people fall on their faces. Here's the uncomfortable part.
Spectacle is not the same as surrender. The grip of
ball does not vanish because a crowd gasps. Jezebel's regime
(04:06):
still hunts Elijah in the very next chapter, and the
prophet crashes in fear in the wilderness. That is one
Kings nineteen one through four, which tells us something we
need to know, we need right now. Cultural strongholds do
not break only by fireworks. They break when hearts, change habits,
(04:31):
change and families choose who they will fear and follow
on Tuesday morning when no one is filming. So here's
our angle tonight. We're gonna read Elijah. Read Elijah not
as distant legend, but as a field manual for spiritual
warfare in the modern world. We will trace how feis false,
(04:55):
worship becomes public policy, how God dismantles propaganda with reac
and how to keep your soul steady when the aftershock
hits and Jezebel fires up the smear machine. We will
talk about altars, supply chains, weather, weather warfare rumors, and
(05:16):
why spiritual drought means a lot. Like the headlines, it
will be honest, hopeful, and a little spicy. And yes,
we will keep the humor handy, because sometimes the only
saying response to mass delusion is truth with a grin.
If you're new here, welcome to the tribe. If you
(05:39):
have been riding with me, you know the drill. Please like,
share and review the show on our app on your app. Sorry,
it costs you nothing, and it helps this little outpost
grow legs and find the people who need it. Section one,
(06:07):
the slow Drift into ball How a nation forgets who
it is so let's set the scene. Israel didn't wake
up one morning and say, hey, let's betray God and
worship a storm god with a shady resume. That's not
how spiritual collapse works. It's never dramatic at the start.
(06:27):
No villain monologue, no flashing neon signs that say you
are now departing covenant territory. It happens the slow way,
the familiar way, the way it happens the same today.
Israel was surrounded by cultures who worshiped Ball, a deity
(06:49):
marketed as the god of rain, fertility, and prosperity, and
in a region where rain meant the difference between feast
and famine. Ball wasn't just a religious pick. He was
an economic strategy. Worship him and your fields will thrive.
The promise was survival. It was convenience, a little insurance
(07:13):
policy as well. Ball was the ancient equivalent of Hey,
don't worry, the system will take care of you. All
you have to do is comply. Then comes King Ahab,
and the Bible does not mince words. It says Ahab
did more to provoke the Lord to anger than all
(07:36):
the kings before him. And that's first Kings sixteen thirty
through thirty three. He marries Jezebel, a Phoenician princess whose
family tree is rooted in ball worship, and boom. Ball
isn't just allowed in Israel, He's the state sponsored religion.
You've got temples built with government funds, state a proof priest,
(08:00):
rituals tied to agricultural policy, festivals embedded in the national calendar.
In other words, ball became the norm. The people didn't
think they were rebelling. They thought they were being practical,
the same way people say today, you don't really need God,
(08:22):
just trust the experts. Spirituality is personal, so just follow
your truth. Tradition is outdated, modern life has evolved. It
is always the small compromises stacked over time that he
rode identity. And here's where Elijah steps in, like a
(08:43):
divine interpretation and sorry, a divine interruption. He doesn't just
call down fire later on Mount Carmel. He starts by
cutting off Ball's power source rain. He attacks the claim
that ball controls the skies, and when no rain comes
(09:04):
for years, Ball is exposed as a mascot god, a
cardboard authority, a spiritual placebo. Yet the people still cling
to him, because spiritual bondage doesn't break with evidence, it
breaks with allegiance. This is why judgment begins with drought,
(09:26):
not punishment. Recalibration a force reminder, where does your help
really come from? Section two, The Mount Carmels showdown when
God answers with fire. All right, now we step into
(09:51):
Mount Carmel. This is not just a miracle story. This
is a public trial. Elijah is putting the entire belief
system of is on the stand in front of the nation.
No private visions, no whispered revelations. This is spiritual warfare televised.
(10:11):
Elijah stands alone, one prophet of Yahweh, four one hundred
and fifty prophits a ball, plus four hundred more profits
of asher Asherah hanging around the scene like spiritual lobbyists.
This is in one King's eighteen and nineteen. The numbers
(10:33):
are not in his favor. This if this were Vegas odds,
nobody is betting on Elijah, period. But that's the point.
God often chooses matchups that make no sense to human
calculation because when he moves, there won't be confusion about
(10:53):
who did it. All right, So Elijah proposed as a
very simple test. You got two two altars, no fire.
Whichever God answers by fire, he is the true God.
The prophets of Ball go first, and what we see
is one of the oldest patterns in false religion. You
(11:17):
have noise, emotion, performance, self harm, desperation in that order.
The texts say they cried out from morning until noon,
when nothing happened. Elijah does something that makes this moment
(11:40):
very human. He trash talks. He literally says, maybe your
God is busy, maybe he's traveling, maybe he's relieving himself.
That's one King's eighteen twenty seven. Yes, the Bible says
that Elijah basically looked at the national religious spectacle and says,
(12:02):
maybe Ball is in the bath on the bathroom break,
you can't tell me. Scripture is boring. The profits escalate,
They cut themselves in ritual frenzy. Blood flows. The scene
turns chaotic, violent, tragic, but still silence. Ball does not
answer because Ball cannot answer. Then Elijah steps up, and
(12:26):
this is the flex the seals that seals the moment.
He dumps water all over the offering, makes everything impossible,
makes everything impossible to ignite, and in the middle of
a drought water is valuable, so soaking the altars. Elijah saying, watch,
(12:46):
how real this is? He prays once. No screaming, no incantations,
no ritual blood letting, just trust. And fire falls from heaven.
Not a spark, not a campfire flicker. A fire consumes
(13:07):
the ball, the wood, the stones, the dust, and even
the water in the trench one Kings eighteen thirty eight.
This is God rewriting the narrative in real time. No theory,
no debate. Reality speaks. Yet here's the haunting part. Even
(13:31):
after seeing this, Israel doesn't permanently turn back. Because miracles
inspire awe but they do not guarantee loyalty. Belief is
not forged by spectacle. Belief is forged in daily alignment
and who you listen to, who you fear, and who
you follow when no one is watching. That's character. The
(13:56):
point of Carmel wasn't just fire. It was exposure, exposure
of ball, exposure of fear, and exposure of a nation's
spiritual condition. And exposure is the beginning of awakening, not
the end of it. A section three, after the fire,
(14:29):
the counter attack, and the long war for the heart,
you would think that after fire falls from heaven, after
the nation sees Ball's profits exposed and executed. After reality
itself steps into this onto the stage and Flames speaks
(14:50):
with Flame. The story would end in victory, revival, celebration,
Israel return to God and never looked back. But that's
not what happens. The very next chapter opens with Jezebel, furious, humiliated,
and dangerous, sending a message to Elijah. By this time
(15:14):
tomorrow you're dead one Kings nineteen one through two, and Elijah,
the same man who just called down fire, picks up
and runs for his life. This part matters because this
is what spiritual warfare really feels like. Breakthrough is following
(15:39):
followed by backlash. Revelation is followed by resistance. Public victory
is followed by private collapse. We've like to think courage
is a constant state, but courage is usually a moment,
and then the crash comes. Elijah goes into the wilderness
(15:59):
and ask God to let him die. He does. He's exhausted,
he feels alone. He thinks the fire didn't change anything.
And here's the lesson. Miracles don't change hearts, relationships does.
Public spectacle doesn't dismantle stronghold consistent obedience does Elijah wanted
(16:24):
a nation to turn instantly, but spiritual transformation almost never
works like that. And why because ball wasn't just a
statue or a temple. Ball was their cultural identity, social expectation, economy,
economic security, generational tradition, pure pressure, a worldview reinforced by
(16:51):
daily life. You don't break that with fireworks. You break
that with discipleship. This is why God sends Elijah not
back to the mountain for more fire, but to mentorship.
He tells Elijah to anoint Alisha Elisha, Elijah to anoint
(17:15):
Alisha a successor, a partner, a spiritual son. One Kings
nineteen fifteen through twenty one. Because the real war is
not the showdown on the mountain. The real war is
what comes after. Here is where this story hits for
(17:38):
our time. We live in a world full of balls.
No one calls them that, but they promise the same
things control, security, identity, power, and approval. They try to
shape how we think, how we value ourselves, that we
(18:00):
what we worship, and who we fear. And the truth
is modern Mount Carmel moments. The expose is the leaks,
all the whistleblowers, the supernatural breakthroughs. They wake people up.
For a moment, people gasp, but people feel it. People
(18:20):
know something is wrong, But the long term shift depends
on who teaches them next. Elijah's fire broke the lie.
Elisha's journey carried the truth forward. If you want to
(18:46):
tear down a stronghold, you don't just call down fire.
You build altars in daily life. You build habits, you
build memory, you build faith that lasts longer than a
single miracle. This is not just the story of ancient Israel.
This is a training manual for right now. All right, friends,
(19:14):
let's land this plane. Elijah's story isn't just about a
prophet yelling at the sky and calling down fire. It
is about discernment. It is about what happens when a
culture forgets who it is and who it belongs to.
It's about it's about the slow creep of counterfeits, the ideas,
(19:39):
the systems and habits that take the place of God
without ever announcing themselves as replacements. And it's about what
happens after the miracle, after the breakthrough, and after the
moment the curtain gets pulled back. Most of us have
had a Mount Carmel moment at some point in life,
(20:01):
a moment where truth hits so hard you can't deny it,
something supernatural or something simply undeniable. The moment when the
world stops for tending and reality walks into the room.
But then Jezebel moments come, the pushback, the intimidation, the
lie that says nothing has changed. Go back to sleep.
(20:25):
Here's the message Elijah's story hands us today. Fire can
wake you up, but formation keeps you awake. Biblical faith
is not built in the spectacle. It's built in the
quiet choice of who you trust day by day. So
if you're listening right now, maybe the question isn't have
(20:48):
you seen fire from heaven? Maybe the question is who
are you aligning with when the fire is gone and
the world gets loud again, Because that answer shapes your
life more than any moment of awe period. This is
broadcasting seeds, and my job isn't just to entertain you
(21:11):
with strange history, conspiracies, cryptids and Bible mysteries. It's to
remind you that underneath the stories, there is a war
for the human heart, a war for your memory, a
war for allegiance, and you are not a spectator. You
are a participant. So if this episode sparks something in you,
(21:34):
share it, send it to someone who someone you think
is waking up, leave a review, hit the like button
if you're on YouTube, because when you do that, this
little corner of the Internet grows, and when it grows,
it reaches people who think they're alone out there. Bottom
line as You're not alone, not in this fight, not
(21:57):
in this awakenings. This is broadcasting. See and I'll see
you in the next.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Let's burn tell on the throne, y'all.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
They can passed the hour he controls of rain. Now
the sky locked up and the fundl with pain.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
They show for God who carried the name.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Now they kneel to a statue.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
But what a shape.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
I'm a stancing in circles completed for a front making
for the miracles that nif came from the God and
the sand on.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
The mountain light.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Look at your king, All that noise, but the sky
don't sing.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
No fire, no power, just silence, just cowards.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
No fire. Let it fall from the sky.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Burn a lot with tony high cause and.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I are make up, pretend to run.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
When the real guy make stands.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Only one.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
You want fool watch the yolks of burns.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Who thinks sheep?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Everybody going to learn?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
No spectacle, need just one prayer, no frenzy the God
who's already there, stone mails, all the mail breaks from reality.
Your rise, your lord of storms, couldn't summon one cloud?
But yah, he answered, lightning loud, No rivals, no rivals,
just fire, pure power, little fire.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Let it fall from the sky.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Bring a lot on the Dawnay.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Got a fire.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Ain't nothing for that to run.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
What the real God makes as any one?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
God?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
After the fire, no warm.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Ain't done after the fires.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
God still one.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
To convert me, alter hear me, however, the battles with
the battles desire three desire with win.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Fall from the sky, the.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Life pro.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Fire, the present run by.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
One of the real Gatholics, that's only one. Why Why,
Why Why God,
Year Joe straight from the broadcast studio and then the
status This ain't no pret sound story. So as prophetic
encrypt the signals from the shadows of the party we
did where the TRP got secret snow parted, microphone.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Alchemists scriptures with a twist, keep the frequency seeds in
the midst We dropped fass like plagues revelations in the catus,
broadcasting truth while they trapped in surveilans wisdom with a
watchman's blade, forth what sound while your whole system faith,
blood moons that for love echoes in the pond sasquar
sompen through the fault lines of time. We ain't mainstream,
(00:37):
we ain't just stream safer with the prophets to code
the dreams. So with you turn in better guards to
mind is broadcasting seeds and we break in the design.
Then yeah, yeh yo yo, straight from the broadcast sad.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Today on broadcasting seeds, we're walking straight into one of
the loudest moments in the Bible. Elijah does not tiptoe
into history. He kicks the door in points at a
nation that has drifted into ball worship, and calls his shot.
No rain, not a drop the sky locks up like
(01:25):
a seized engine, and Israel learns what happens when you
trade living water for false gods. The text is blunt
about it. Elijah announces the drought except by my word
in One King's seventeen to one, And the land goes dry.
(01:47):
Here is where it gets wild, while the nation thirst.
Elijah survives on miraculous provision, first at the brook cherit,
then through a widow whose last handful of flowers suddenly
turns into a bottomless pantry. Read it for yourself in
(02:08):
One King seventeen two through sixteen. This is not a
campfire tale. It's a collision between a covenant keeping god
and a counterfeit system that promised rain and fertility but
could not deliver. If you want the quick background on Ball,
the name means lord or owner, and he was tied
(02:31):
to storms and crops in Canaanite religion. Good summer here
from Britannia. Israel did not just flirt with Baal. They
built him into public life, royal policy, cultural habits, rituals,
And when you hardwire a false god into your systems,
(02:53):
you eventually pay in real life. Then comes Mount Carmel.
This is the showdown. Elijah calls for a public test.
Two altars, two bowls, one rule, no fire. Whichever God
answers with fire is God. The prophets of Baal cry
out all day, they dance, they cut themselves. The mountain
(03:15):
is full of noise, and still nothing happens. Elijah steps up,
soaks his altar with water, prays once, and fire falls
from heaven. Not a spark, a consuming blast that eats
the offering, the wood, the stones, the dust, and even
the water in the trench that is one Kings eighteen
(03:39):
twenty through forty, especially eighteen thirty eight. In one moment,
the mask slips, the idol is exposed as powerless, and
the people fall on their faces. Here's the uncomfortable part.
Spectacle is not the same as surrender. The grip of
ball does not vanish because a crowd gasps. Jezebel's regime
(04:06):
still hunts Elijah in the very next chapter, and the
prophet crashes in fear in the wilderness. That is one
Kings nineteen one through four, which tells us something we
need to know, we need right now. Cultural strongholds do
not break only by fireworks. They break when hearts, change habits,
(04:31):
change and families choose who they will fear and follow
on Tuesday morning when no one is filming. So here's
our angle tonight. We're gonna read Elijah. Read Elijah not
as distant legend, but as a field manual for spiritual
warfare in the modern world. We will trace how feis false,
(04:55):
worship becomes public policy, how God dismantles propaganda with reac
and how to keep your soul steady when the aftershock
hits and Jezebel fires up the smear machine. We will
talk about altars, supply chains, weather, weather warfare rumors, and
(05:16):
why spiritual drought means a lot. Like the headlines, it
will be honest, hopeful, and a little spicy. And yes,
we will keep the humor handy, because sometimes the only
saying response to mass delusion is truth with a grin.
If you're new here, welcome to the tribe. If you
(05:39):
have been riding with me, you know the drill. Please like,
share and review the show on our app on your app. Sorry,
it costs you nothing, and it helps this little outpost
grow legs and find the people who need it. Section one,
(06:07):
the slow Drift into ball How a nation forgets who
it is so let's set the scene. Israel didn't wake
up one morning and say, hey, let's betray God and
worship a storm god with a shady resume. That's not
how spiritual collapse works. It's never dramatic at the start.
(06:27):
No villain monologue, no flashing neon signs that say you
are now departing covenant territory. It happens the slow way,
the familiar way, the way it happens the same today.
Israel was surrounded by cultures who worshiped Ball, a deity
(06:49):
marketed as the god of rain, fertility, and prosperity, and
in a region where rain meant the difference between feast
and famine. Ball wasn't just a religious pick. He was
an economic strategy. Worship him and your fields will thrive.
The promise was survival. It was convenience, a little insurance
(07:13):
policy as well. Ball was the ancient equivalent of Hey,
don't worry, the system will take care of you. All
you have to do is comply. Then comes King Ahab,
and the Bible does not mince words. It says Ahab
did more to provoke the Lord to anger than all
(07:36):
the kings before him. And that's first Kings sixteen thirty
through thirty three. He marries Jezebel, a Phoenician princess whose
family tree is rooted in ball worship, and boom. Ball
isn't just allowed in Israel, He's the state sponsored religion.
You've got temples built with government funds, state a proof priest,
(08:00):
rituals tied to agricultural policy, festivals embedded in the national calendar.
In other words, ball became the norm. The people didn't
think they were rebelling. They thought they were being practical,
the same way people say today, you don't really need God,
(08:22):
just trust the experts. Spirituality is personal, so just follow
your truth. Tradition is outdated, modern life has evolved. It
is always the small compromises stacked over time that he
rode identity. And here's where Elijah steps in, like a
(08:43):
divine interpretation and sorry, a divine interruption. He doesn't just
call down fire later on Mount Carmel. He starts by
cutting off Ball's power source rain. He attacks the claim
that ball controls the skies, and when no rain comes
(09:04):
for years, Ball is exposed as a mascot god, a
cardboard authority, a spiritual placebo. Yet the people still cling
to him, because spiritual bondage doesn't break with evidence, it
breaks with allegiance. This is why judgment begins with drought,
(09:26):
not punishment. Recalibration a force reminder, where does your help
really come from? Section two, The Mount Carmels showdown when
God answers with fire. All right, now we step into
(09:51):
Mount Carmel. This is not just a miracle story. This
is a public trial. Elijah is putting the entire belief
system of is on the stand in front of the nation.
No private visions, no whispered revelations. This is spiritual warfare televised.
(10:11):
Elijah stands alone, one prophet of Yahweh, four one hundred
and fifty prophits a ball, plus four hundred more profits
of asher Asherah hanging around the scene like spiritual lobbyists.
This is in one King's eighteen and nineteen. The numbers
(10:33):
are not in his favor. This if this were Vegas odds,
nobody is betting on Elijah, period. But that's the point.
God often chooses matchups that make no sense to human
calculation because when he moves, there won't be confusion about
(10:53):
who did it. All right, So Elijah proposed as a
very simple test. You got two two altars, no fire.
Whichever God answers by fire, he is the true God.
The prophets of Ball go first, and what we see
is one of the oldest patterns in false religion. You
(11:17):
have noise, emotion, performance, self harm, desperation in that order.
The texts say they cried out from morning until noon,
when nothing happened. Elijah does something that makes this moment
(11:40):
very human. He trash talks. He literally says, maybe your
God is busy, maybe he's traveling, maybe he's relieving himself.
That's one King's eighteen twenty seven. Yes, the Bible says
that Elijah basically looked at the national religious spectacle and says,
(12:02):
maybe Ball is in the bath on the bathroom break,
you can't tell me. Scripture is boring. The profits escalate,
They cut themselves in ritual frenzy. Blood flows. The scene
turns chaotic, violent, tragic, but still silence. Ball does not
answer because Ball cannot answer. Then Elijah steps up, and
(12:26):
this is the flex the seals that seals the moment.
He dumps water all over the offering, makes everything impossible,
makes everything impossible to ignite, and in the middle of
a drought water is valuable, so soaking the altars. Elijah saying, watch,
(12:46):
how real this is? He prays once. No screaming, no incantations,
no ritual blood letting, just trust. And fire falls from heaven.
Not a spark, not a campfire flicker. A fire consumes
(13:07):
the ball, the wood, the stones, the dust, and even
the water in the trench one Kings eighteen thirty eight.
This is God rewriting the narrative in real time. No theory,
no debate. Reality speaks. Yet here's the haunting part. Even
(13:31):
after seeing this, Israel doesn't permanently turn back. Because miracles
inspire awe but they do not guarantee loyalty. Belief is
not forged by spectacle. Belief is forged in daily alignment
and who you listen to, who you fear, and who
you follow when no one is watching. That's character. The
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point of Carmel wasn't just fire. It was exposure, exposure
of ball, exposure of fear, and exposure of a nation's
spiritual condition. And exposure is the beginning of awakening, not
the end of it. A section three, after the fire,
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the counter attack, and the long war for the heart,
you would think that after fire falls from heaven, after
the nation sees Ball's profits exposed and executed. After reality
itself steps into this onto the stage and Flames speaks
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with Flame. The story would end in victory, revival, celebration,
Israel return to God and never looked back. But that's
not what happens. The very next chapter opens with Jezebel, furious, humiliated,
and dangerous, sending a message to Elijah. By this time
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tomorrow you're dead one Kings nineteen one through two, and Elijah,
the same man who just called down fire, picks up
and runs for his life. This part matters because this
is what spiritual warfare really feels like. Breakthrough is following
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followed by backlash. Revelation is followed by resistance. Public victory
is followed by private collapse. We've like to think courage
is a constant state, but courage is usually a moment,
and then the crash comes. Elijah goes into the wilderness
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and ask God to let him die. He does. He's exhausted,
he feels alone. He thinks the fire didn't change anything.
And here's the lesson. Miracles don't change hearts, relationships does.
Public spectacle doesn't dismantle stronghold consistent obedience does Elijah wanted
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a nation to turn instantly, but spiritual transformation almost never
works like that. And why because ball wasn't just a
statue or a temple. Ball was their cultural identity, social expectation, economy,
economic security, generational tradition, pure pressure, a worldview reinforced by
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daily life. You don't break that with fireworks. You break
that with discipleship. This is why God sends Elijah not
back to the mountain for more fire, but to mentorship.
He tells Elijah to anoint Alisha Elisha, Elijah to anoint
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Alisha a successor, a partner, a spiritual son. One Kings
nineteen fifteen through twenty one. Because the real war is
not the showdown on the mountain. The real war is
what comes after. Here is where this story hits for
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our time. We live in a world full of balls.
No one calls them that, but they promise the same
things control, security, identity, power, and approval. They try to
shape how we think, how we value ourselves, that we
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what we worship, and who we fear. And the truth
is modern Mount Carmel moments. The expose is the leaks,
all the whistleblowers, the supernatural breakthroughs. They wake people up.
For a moment, people gasp, but people feel it. People
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know something is wrong, But the long term shift depends
on who teaches them next. Elijah's fire broke the lie.
Elisha's journey carried the truth forward. If you want to
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tear down a stronghold, you don't just call down fire.
You build altars in daily life. You build habits, you
build memory, you build faith that lasts longer than a
single miracle. This is not just the story of ancient Israel.
This is a training manual for right now. All right, friends,
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let's land this plane. Elijah's story isn't just about a
prophet yelling at the sky and calling down fire. It
is about discernment. It is about what happens when a
culture forgets who it is and who it belongs to.
It's about it's about the slow creep of counterfeits, the ideas,
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the systems and habits that take the place of God
without ever announcing themselves as replacements. And it's about what
happens after the miracle, after the breakthrough, and after the
moment the curtain gets pulled back. Most of us have
had a Mount Carmel moment at some point in life,
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a moment where truth hits so hard you can't deny it,
something supernatural or something simply undeniable. The moment when the
world stops for tending and reality walks into the room.
But then Jezebel moments come, the pushback, the intimidation, the
lie that says nothing has changed. Go back to sleep.
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Here's the message Elijah's story hands us today. Fire can
wake you up, but formation keeps you awake. Biblical faith
is not built in the spectacle. It's built in the
quiet choice of who you trust day by day. So
if you're listening right now, maybe the question isn't have
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you seen fire from heaven? Maybe the question is who
are you aligning with when the fire is gone and
the world gets loud again, Because that answer shapes your
life more than any moment of awe period. This is
broadcasting seeds, and my job isn't just to entertain you
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with strange history, conspiracies, cryptids and Bible mysteries. It's to
remind you that underneath the stories, there is a war
for the human heart, a war for your memory, a
war for allegiance, and you are not a spectator. You
are a participant. So if this episode sparks something in you,
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share it, send it to someone who someone you think
is waking up, leave a review, hit the like button
if you're on YouTube, because when you do that, this
little corner of the Internet grows, and when it grows,
it reaches people who think they're alone out there. Bottom
line as You're not alone, not in this fight, not
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in this awakenings. This is broadcasting. See and I'll see
you in the next.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Let's burn tell on the throne, y'all.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
They can passed the hour he controls of rain. Now
the sky locked up and the fundl with pain.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
They show for God who carried the name.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Now they kneel to a statue.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
But what a shape.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
I'm a stancing in circles completed for a front making
for the miracles that nif came from the God and
the sand on.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
The mountain light.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Look at your king, All that noise, but the sky
don't sing.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
No fire, no power, just silence, just cowards.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
No fire. Let it fall from the sky.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Burn a lot with tony high cause and.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I are make up, pretend to run.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
When the real guy make stands.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Only one.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
You want fool watch the yolks of burns.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Who thinks sheep?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Everybody going to learn?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
No spectacle, need just one prayer, no frenzy the God
who's already there, stone mails, all the mail breaks from reality.
Your rise, your lord of storms, couldn't summon one cloud?
But yah, he answered, lightning loud, No rivals, no rivals,
just fire, pure power, little fire.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Let it fall from the sky.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Bring a lot on the Dawnay.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Got a fire.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Ain't nothing for that to run.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
What the real God makes as any one?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
God?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
After the fire, no warm.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Ain't done after the fires.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
God still one.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
To convert me, alter hear me, however, the battles with
the battles desire three desire with win.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Fall from the sky, the.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Life pro.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Fire, the present run by.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
One of the real Gatholics, that's only one. Why Why,
Why Why God,
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