Elijah's Drought
ELIJAH'S DROUGHT - THREE YEARS AND SIX MONTHS
(Luk 4:25) But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in
the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up THREE YEARS AND SIX
MONTHS, when great famine was throughout all the land;
(Luk 4:26) But unto none of them was Elijah sent, save unto Sarepta,
a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
(Luk 4:27) And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the
prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
(Jas 5:17) Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and
he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the
earth by the space of THREE YEARS AND SIX MONTHS.
(Jas 5:18) And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the
earth brought forth her fruit.
(Rev 11:6) These have power to shut heaven, that it RAIN NOT IN THE
DAYS OF THEIR PROPHECY: and have power over waters to turn them to
blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
HOW LONG WILL THEY PROPHECY??
(Rev 11:3) And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they
shall prophesy A THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND THREESCORE DAYS, clothed in
sackcloth.
DIVIDE 1260 DAYS BY 360 AND YOU WILL GET THREE YEARS AND SIX MONTHS - 3.5 years.
(Jer 50:38) A DROUGHT IS UPON HER WATERS; AND THEY SHALL BE DRIED UP;
for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their
idols.
(Jer 50:39) Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild
beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell
therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it
be dwelt in from generation to generation.
(Jer 50:40) As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor
cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither
shall any son of man dwell therein.
(Jer 50:41) Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great
nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the
earth.
(Jer 50:42) They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel,
and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they
shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the
battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
(Jer 50:43) The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and
his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a
woman in travail.
(Jer 50:44) Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of
Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them
suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may
appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the
time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
(Jer 50:45) Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath
taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against
the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw
them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
(Jer 50:46) At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved,
and the cry is heard among the nations.
(Jer 51:36) Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy
cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I WILL DRY UP HER SEA, AND
MAKE HER SPRINGS DRY.
(Jer 51:37) And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for
dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
THE RIVERS OF WATERS ARE DRIED UP
(Joe 1:3) Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell
their children, and their children another generation.
(Joe 1:4) That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten;
and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and
that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
(Joe 1:5) Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of
wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
(Joe 1:6) For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without
number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek
teeth of a great lion.
(Joe 1:7) He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath
made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made
white.
(Joe 1:8) Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband
of her youth.
(Joe 1:9) The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from
the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
(Joe 1:10) The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is
wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
(Joe 1:11) Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers,
for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is
perished.
(Joe 1:12) The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the
pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the
trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from
the sons of men.
(Joe 1:13) Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye
ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers
of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withheld
from the house of your God.
(Joe 1:14) Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the
elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD
your God, and cry unto the LORD,
(Joe 1:15) Alas for the day! FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND, and
as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
(Joe 1:16) Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and
gladness from the house of our God?
(Joe 1:17) The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid
desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
(Joe 1:18) How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are
perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are
made desolate.
(Joe 1:19) O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the
pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of
the field.
(Joe 1:20) The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for THE RIVERS
OF WATERS ARE DRIED UP: and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the
wilderness.
ELIJAH SAID: THERE SHALL NOT BE DEW NOR RAIN THESE YEARS, BUT
ACCORDING TO MY WORD.
(1Ki 17:1) And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of
Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom
I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to
my word.
(1Ki 17:2) And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
(1Ki 17:3) Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself
by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
(1Ki 17:4) And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I
have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
(1Ki 17:5) So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD:
for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
(1Ki 17:6) And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning,
and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
(1Ki 17:7) And it came to pass after a while, that THE BROOK DRIED UP
BECAUSE THERE HAD BEEN NO RAIN IN THE LAND.