Elijah: The Prophet of Fire & Serenity

Sometimes we have an institutional idea of a prophet. The prophet was appointed by God, not by Man, and he was to be the voice of God primarily to his own generation and the situations into which God spoke with exhortation, often linked with prediction. Often there was a ‘school of the prophets', and it seems Elijah (‘my God is Yahweh') was head of such, passing on his mantle to Elisha.