Elijah: What you need to know about Elijah According to the Bible

  Elijah: What you need to know about Elijah According to the Bible 

• A prophet of God during the reign of Ahab as king over Isreal

• Commanded that there be no rain at his word in Israel for a period of 3½ years

•  Prayed for rain in a contest against the prophets of baal and it rained; 1Kings 18:20-

•  Was taken up to heaven by a whirlwind 2Kings 2:1,11

•  Consumed commanders of army and their fifties on two different occasions; after they where sent by the king to arrest him for a prophecy he gave to the king in 2 Kings1:3,4,10,11