![]() We follow Ezekiel as he contemplates the glories of the kingdom of God’s anointed in his vision by Chebar. We see Jeremiah carrying the woes of a nation on his heart-weeping for the daughters of Zion. His metaphor pictures lame men leaping for joy, the dumb praising God, mountains skipping like lambs, streams flowing in the desert. We will ask and seek to answer the question: What elements were brought together to make this man, who must have seemed very ordinary by human standards, a prophet of such magnitude?Īs our minds try to construct the stature of a prophet, we recall the sublime language of Isaiah. It will be our purpose to recapture, if possible, with a view to the needs of our own day, some of the factors that have made men pilgrims, and at the same time prophets, by re-examining the life and work of Elijah in the light of today’s needs and conditions. This is the case to an alarming extent today.Įlijah was, as we shall see, pre-eminently both a pilgrim and a prophet. Second: that God needs prophets, particularly in days when his priests have relaxed their office. It is the purpose of this book to emphasize two obvious facts.įirst: that God’s people are expected to be pilgrims, but that the pilgrimage has been largely abandoned. We have titled our work, Elijah, the Pilgrim Prophet. We recommend their studies to the thoughtful reader. The worldlessness of spiritually minded believers of a hundred years ago has given place to a worldliness which would have appalled Mackintosh.Ī profound debt of gratitude is owed to these earlier writers. New emphases, however, are required with newer generations. ![]() Readers of Mackintosh took time to read and absorb every succulent paragraph regardless of sentence length. Educated readers would have read Krummacher in his original German. ![]() In the 1800’s no one was going anywhere in a hurry. Capsule thoughts-capsule sentences-(for capsule thinkers?). Readers and reading habits have changed, however, and the new journalism calls for new standards of presentation. Two of these were written nearly a century ago.ĭoes truth change in a hundred years? Certainly not. Of the ten or more acceptable works on Elijah, only three-those of Krummacher, Mackintosh, and Taylor-are at all exhaustive.
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