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Contents
Introduction
It seemed like a gift to humanity, a harmless pleasure meant to benefit all who partook of it. Sure, there were a few uptight naysayers who warned that tobacco might be dangerous, but they had no proof. Besides, the world is full of people who overreact, who can’t loosen up and enjoy life. If you listen to all of them, you’ll lose your mind. Most warnings from hypersensitive people turn out to be totally false.
For years, smoking was considered benign. Ever since native Americans gave tobacco to Columbus, there had always been a few detractors, but their voices went unheeded. And though suspicion of harmful side effects grew throughout the early 1900s, the general public wasn’t concerned enough to curtail the habit. In fact, smoking’s popularity grew; nearly half of American adults, particularly men, enjoyed cigarettes in the mid-1940s, including the vast majority of doctors. The habit was so entrenched that few people gave much thought to the seeming overreactions of detractors. The American Medical Association even argued in 1948 that evidence pointed more toward the health benefits of smoking, such as stress relief, than toward any physical ailments resulting from it. Huge cultural trends aren’t swayed by arguments that there might
be a problem.
At the time of the Old Testament kings, few people were really bothered by Israel’s idolatry either. Altars had been set up all over the territory of the northern ten tribes, and people freely worshiped Baal and Asherah and whomever else they wanted to worship. Did the God of Moses have a problem with that? Not as far as anyone could tell. Sure, a few prophets and priests here and there may have spoken up, but they were a distinct and easily ignored minority. Rain still fell in the right seasons, crops still grew in the fields, the building programs of kings signaled progress on every front—everyone seemed to prosper. Hardly anyone recognized that a deadly cancer had long been developing in the spiritual life of the nation. Even those with a nagging suspicion that there might be a problem weren’t concerned enough to do anything about it.
That’s where Elijah enters the stage of Israel’s history. He is a warning signal, a voice in the wilderness, alerting God’s people to their deadly practices. His message wasn’t very popular—no one who successfully declares a three-year drought on his own people gets high marks in public opinion polls—and it didn’t seem like the kind of message a loving God would speak. But it was necessary. A loving God doesn’t just sit by and watch cancer spread among his chosen people. He sends a wake-up call in the form of Elijah.
The message of Elijah—and of most of the prophets, for that matter—is that God often disciplines his people harshly, not primarily because