It says, and he said, I have been very jealous, this is referring to Elijah, I have been very
jealous for the Lord God of Hosts, for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,
thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword, and look what he says, and
I, even I, only am left, and then seek my life to take it away.
So what is that?
This is an exaggeration, okay?
He's like, I'm the only one, I'm the only one serving God, we're the only church with
the truth, we're the only true Christians around here, we're the only ones on fire for
God, you're exaggerating.
Don't exaggerate, okay?
And in fact, I'll prove to you it's an exaggeration, because how does God respond?
There's 7,000 prophets who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
By the way, Elijah's still a great man of God.
In fact, you know, he's a high caliber prophet in my opinion, you know, and if I were to
choose whether to stand with the 7,000 or with Elijah, I'm going with Elijah.
Because here's the thing, we know Elijah's name, we don't know the names of the 7,000.
And yeah, they may be not, you know, they're not bowing their knees to Baal, but they're
definitely not preaching against Ahab.
So I'd rather stand with Elijah, who's doing great works for God, but on the other hand,
Elijah's obviously making an exaggerated statement that's not true.
And you know what, we've all done this to a certain extent.
You always do this.
You never buy me anything for my birthday.
You always forget my birthday.
You always, is it always, is it never, seriously, you never throw out the trash.
You never do this.
Is that really the case, you know?
So obviously, you know, this is an exaggeration.
And I'll give you another example, you know, David, when he's being persecuted at the apex
of his persecution, he made this statement, I said in my haste, all men are liars.
That's an exaggerated statement.
But you can see where he's coming from because, you know, he's dealing with only liars at
that time.
But even he understood it was a statement that he made in his haste because of the fact
that he's dealing with a bunch of wicked people.
But he knows, you and I know, that not all men are liars.
You know?
It's like saying this, you know, everyone is just a reprobate.
Well, come on, chill out, okay?
Chill out.
All these old IFP people are false prophets.
No, not all of them are false prophets, okay?
Now there are false prophets there, okay?
You know?
Every, you know, just fill in the blank.
We can make exaggerated statements like that and they're not true.