00:00He tucked his cloak into his belt and ran barefoot through the mud of the road, ahead of the king's
00:06horses.
00:07The horses at a gallop, and he out in front, and the gap did not close.
00:13He reached the gate of Jezreel before the chariot.
00:17He stopped. He turned toward the road, his chest heaving, water streaming over his entire body.
00:24Only then did Ahab's chariot emerge from the storm and pass through the gate.
00:31Elijah stood by the wall, alone, in the rain.
00:35Three years. Fire from heaven.
00:39A people with their faces to the ground.
00:43Baal reduced to ashes.
00:46Perhaps now, he thought, the heart of Israel would turn back.
00:50Perhaps now, everything would change.
01:00Rain lashed against the palace windows, and for the first time in three years, no one gave thanks for it.
01:08Ahab told the whole story.
01:11Still wet, still with mud from the road on his boots, pacing back and forth before the queen like a
01:17man who needs to put into words what his eyes had seen, in order to believe he had seen it.
01:26The altar was soaked, four jars, Jezebel, three times, the trench full to the bream, and he prayed, a short
01:35prayer without shouting, and the sky opened.
01:38I saw the sky open, and the fire came down like a river.
01:42It ate the water, it ate the stones.
01:44Nothing was left.
01:46Not even a warm ash.
01:56And the people?
01:58Fell on their faces.
02:00All of them, shouting that the Lord is God.
02:04And my prophets?
02:08Gone.
02:10At the kitchen.
02:12All 450.
02:13The silence that followed was not born of grief.
02:17Jezebel did not mourn her dead.
02:19She tallied them.
02:21And in that tally, only one column mattered.
02:25What the enemy had done to what was hers.
02:28She rose.
02:30Her eyes reflected no remorse.
02:32They reflected fire.
02:34Not the fire that had descended on Carmel.
02:37A different kind.
02:38The fire of wounded pride, which asks no one for water.
02:45Send for a messenger.
02:48Jezebel.
02:50A messenger, Ahad.
02:52Now.
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