"How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow Him: but if Baal, then follow him...Call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God." 1 Kings 18: 21, 24
The Israelites were "two-timing" God. They loved and worshiped Baal while only giving God their cursory affections. The moment of decision came with Elijah's confrontation. Let the God who loves you answer you by fire. They called on Baal, the devil, all day long, but he did not answer. He has no love.
But when Elijah asked God, "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. 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.
The fire of love consumes everything, like napalm nothing escapes.
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