Elijah on Mount Carmel: Lesson Five

A false god can't answer you.

The prophets of Baal called on him from morning until noon. There was no voice.

1 Kings 18:26 (KJV): And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.

At noon Elijah mocked them and told them to cry louder.

1 Kings 18:27 (KJV): And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.

They kept going until the evening sacrifice, and still nobody answered.

1 Kings 18:29 (KJV): And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.

An idol has a mouth, but it does not speak.

Psalms 115:4-5 (KJV): Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: