Elijah then astonishingly had his water-drenched holocaust immediately obliterated with fire from heaven upon calling out to the true God of the universe. He then slaughtered the Baal prophets.

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I want to add that Elijah made fun of the prophets of Baal as they called to their false god. He taunted them sarcastically about whether their god was sleeping, or deaf or busy.

Baal's prophets couldn't ignite their bull, because Baal is a figment. God speaks as a murmur to Elijah, because He is the God of gentle whispers as well as the God of earthquakes.

At her table were no less than 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Baal’s consort Asherah (I Kings 16:31,21; 18:19). By her orders, the prophets of Yaweh were attacked and put to the sword ...

When the prophets of Baal failed to do so, Elijah’s God did so, resulting in the slaughter of the prophets of Baal by an angry mob. But the worship of the god was not so easily extinguished.

This manifestation also authorizes Elijah to slaughter the prophets of Baal, earning him the wrath of the local queen, Jezebel.