Tuesday, July 19, 2011


 July 20th  

Prophet Elijah (Elias)

 His birth, like the rest of his life, would be marked by fire.
When the Great Prophet Elijah was born at Tishba in the Gilead region of the ancientlandofPalestine, his father Savah witnessed an amazing sight.  While the child lay slumbering in his cradle, a radiant angel of God suddenly flickered into view.  Moving swiftly and soundlessly around the tiny infant, the angelic presence wove a shimmering fabric of fire that completely surrounded him.
Astonished, the fearful father soon noticed an even stranger event: The angel was actually feeding the baby with a flame!  What could this remarkable sequence of events portend?
Although the stricken Savah could not have known it at the time, his son Elijah (around 900-849 B.C.) was destined to READ MORE