After Elijah’s contest with the 450 prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel where fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and licked up the water (I Kgs. 18:38), Elijah slew them (v. 40). When King Ahab told Jezebel (who brought Baal worship to Israel). what Elijah had done, she threatened to kill him, so he ran to Beersheba where he left his servant and then went on into the wilderness and requested that he might die (I Kgs. 19:4). But an angel came and ministered to him, giving him food and water. He ate and drank and then lay down and rested . The angel later awakened him and said, “Arise, eat, because the journey is too great for you.” “He arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb (Sinai), the mountain of God” (vv. 7,8).  There he hid in a cave where God spoke to him, asking him what he was doing there, then told him to go and stand on the mountain before the LORD and the Lord passed by. There was a great wind that was literally breaking the rocks apart and then an earthquake, and then a fire, but the LORD was not in the wind or earthquake or the fire. Then came “a gentle blowing” (v. 12…KJV has “a still small voice”), and God spoke to Elijah, asking again, “What are you doing here Elijah?”  (v. 13).  Elijah gives a sad story of what had transpired and how he was the only one left that had not bowed his knee to Baal. God reminded him that there happened to be 7,000 others who had not bowed to Baal (v. 18). God is never without a witness and with God, I am never alone! God has always been in the remnant business. God told Elijah to return to the wilderness of Damascus and anoint Elisha as prophet in his place (v.16).