Chariots of Prophetic Fire: Studies in Elijah and Elisha
Overview
There is a marked resemblance between our time and that of Elijah and Elisha. Chariots of Prophetic Fire shows how many of today’s Christians are again guilty of Baal worship, loose morals due to inflation-fed prosperity, and syncretism. Once again, as in the days of Elijah and Elisha, it is considered virtuous to tolerate evil and condemn those who do not.
In Chariots of Prophetic Fire, Rousas John Rushdoony challenges today’s church to resist compromise in the face of expediency and to realize that power does not lie in politics or governments but in God’s men of faith. Rushdoony encourages readers to take a stand of faith for God’s truth in a culture of falsehoods.
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- Introductory Scripture passages for each chapter
- Comparison of the failures of Israel and the modern church
- Challenges for today’s church to resist compromise
Top Highlights
“Our Lord tells us, first, that such men see nothing in history but natural processes, the daily affairs of life. God is remote and unreal, and history is a process determined by man. History is seen as man’s affair, and man feels that he is firmly in charge. Whatever religious profession men may make, they act as natural humanists and see their personal and national lives as determined by nature and man.” (Page 4)
“They halt or limp between two opinions, wanting the benefits of both without the commitment of either.” (Page 26)
“It would seem that, to many of these men, there is no harm in killing people they dislike” (Page 72)
“It was not fear on Elijah’s part that led him to flee, but rather discouragement and a loss of hope for Israel. We must never forget that the prophets loved the covenant and the covenant nation. The sins of Israel and Judah were an intense grief to them. The heart of Elijah’s cry to God is not, my life is threatened: ‘It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life: for I am not better than my fathers.’ I have no more succeeded than my fathers in the faith, the prophets before me, in arresting Israel’s apostasy.” (Page 35)
“Elijah’s day was an age of syncretism, of radical compromise between the worship of the Lord and Baal worship. The two had been blended together to make one religion, so that a refusal to see the necessity for uncompromising religion marked Israel.” (Page 1)
- Title: Chariots of Prophetic Fire: Studies in Elijah and Elisha
- Author: Rousas John Rushdoony
- Publisher: Ross House Books
- Publication Date: 2007
- Pages: 163
Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001) was was a well-known American scholar, writer, and author of over thirty books. He earned degrees from the University of California, received theological training at the Pacific School of Religion, and received an honorary Doctorate from Valley Christian University for his book The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum.
Rushdoony was an ordained minister and served as pastor at two California churches. He served for almost nine years as a missionary to the Shoshone and Paiute Indians in a remote area of Nevada. It was during this time as a missionary that Rushdoony began writing. The Institutes of Biblical Law and Commentary on the Pentateuch are just a few of the titles that Rushdoony has penned.
The Chalcedon Foundation, an educational organization devoted to research, publishing, and cogent communication of a distinctively Christian scholarship to the world at large, was founded by Rushdoony in 1965. He served as the editor of The Chalcedon Report, the monthly magazine of the Chalcedon Foundation.
Rushdoony also published the Journal of Christian Reconstruction and was an early board member of the Rutherford Institute which was founded by John W. Whitehead.