00:07The messenger was a young man from Jezreel, and he had never been so close to the Queen.
00:13He stood before her, not knowing where to look.
00:23Go to the man at the gate, and say this to him.
00:27May the gods deal with me, and deal with me most severely, if by this hour tomorrow I have not
00:33done to him what he did to my prophets.
00:37Repeat it.
00:40Go to the man at the gate, and say, may the gods deal with me, deal with me, if by
00:45this hour tomorrow...
00:46Again, word for word.
00:49May the gods deal with me, and deal with me most severely, if by this hour tomorrow I have not
00:55done to him what he did to my prophets.
00:58Now go.
01:03Elijah was still standing by the wall when the young man arrived, out of breath, and delivered the message with
01:10his eyes lowered.
01:12The queen says, may the gods deal with me, and deal with me most severely, if by this hour tomorrow
01:19I have not done to you what you did to my prophets.
01:23He listened to the very end, and something within him, something that had withstood three years of drought, a king,
01:31a multitude, and fire from the heavens, gave way.
01:37It was not fear of what the young man had said, he had been threatened before, it was the weight
01:44of it all, crashing down at once.
01:47The heavens had opened, the people had fallen to their knees, and a single night away, in the palace a
01:56hundred paces from where he stood,
01:58the woman who ruled, the woman who ruled Israel was sitting exactly where she had sat before, with the same
02:05heart, writing the same sentence.
02:08Nothing had changed.
02:11Fire had fallen, and nothing had changed.
02:16His knees buckled.
02:19The exhaustion, hidden for three years behind the mission, surged up into his throat.
02:25And for the first time in Elias' life, fear spoke louder than the word.
02:33He did not answer the messenger.
02:36He did not pray.
02:38He did not call down fire.
02:42He turned and walked away.
02:46And the walk turned into a run.
