By Elimu Assistant Team 
Describe Mount Carmel contest (1 Kings 18:17-46)
- Elijah challenged Baal’s prophets to contest to prove who the true God is.
- Elijah and Baal’s prophets agreed to offer a sacrifice of a bull to their respective gods with the understanding that “the God who answers by fire he is God.
- Baal’s prophets sacrificed a bull and put it on the altar.
- They prayed to Baal, screamed and pleaded, and cut their bodies but there was no response.
- Elijah ridiculed them to pray harder as Baal could be sleeping or away on a trip.
- Baal was told to answer his prophets’ prayers.
- When the time for Elijah came, he first repaired the abandoned altar of Yahweh.
- He then prepared an altar with twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.
- He dug a trench around the altar and poured water on the wood until it tilled the trench.
- He prepared the sacrifice and put it on the altar and then prayed to God to prove Himself the true God.
- God answered with fire and burnt the sacrifice.
- Elijah ordered the killing of Baal’s prophets.
- As a result of God’s sign, many people worshipped Him.
- Elijah prayed for rain and the three-year drought ended.
