1 Kings 19:1-2, “1-3 Ahab reported to Jezebel everything that Elijah had done, including the massacre of the prophets. Jezebel immediately sent a messenger to Elijah with her threat: “The gods will get you for this and I’ll get even with you! By this time tomorrow you’ll be as dead as any one of those prophets. And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.”
Jezebel could be a metaphor of “self-imposed” law setting expectations. Could Elijah have been evading self-imposed law? His conscience was definitely not purged from dead works. He was under the Old Covenant. He ran in fear. I am going out on a limb and saying yes. Christ told Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.”
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