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Christ will fully see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied when He sees Israel His people, and the nations, in their place of blessing, and all of the heavenly ones with Himself, and the church as His companion through eternity.
Excerpt - "And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth" (1 Kings 18:1).
When the rain was withheld at the word of Elijah three years previous to this, there was no communication recorded between the Lord and Elijah. In the book of James, we read of this occasion as a direct act of faith on the part of Elijah. He must have been instructed from passages in Deuteronomy, or elsewhere in the Word, as to what God's mind would be if the people turned to idolatry. What he did could be spoken of as faith (James 5:13-17) only because he had acted on the instruction from the Word of God. It could not be faith to do our own will even if what we were doing seemed good.
When Elijah prayed that it might not rain, he prayed earnestly because God is reluctant to chastise His people. There was no need of pleading with God to bring the rain again; this was His pleasure-to bless His people.
When Elijah prayed again after three years and six months, at the time of the evening sacrifice, "the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit" (James 5:18).
God was aware of the plight of His people and cared, even though they were sinful and disobedient in setting up two golden calves to worship instead of the true God (1 Kings 12:28-30).
"Many days" really were years. This is also true of the 1260, 1290, and 1335 "days" at the time of the coming tribulation. The Lord notes every day of sorrow through which His people pass. The angel of His presence followed them on their way to Canaan. In the coming days of restoration, to which the Psalms apply, we see, detailed, the feelings of God's earthly people as they pass through Jacob's last trouble. Many of these feelings are the same as Christ's when He was here in this world.
After seceding from Judah, Israel set up two calves to worship, one at Bethel and one at Dan. Bethel was the place where the promises were first made to Israel, who was Jacob at that time. "Dan" means "judgment." Idolatry in a worse form was added at the coming of Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, into the kingdom. Jezebel was the daughter of the king of the Zidonians. Baal worship was the religion of Zidon in that day (1 Kings 16:31). It is remarkable that Elijah lived in Zarephath, a city of Zidon, for the three years or more of famine in Israel and was sustained by a Zidonian widow and her son. There were 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the groves. Not only was idolatry introduced into Israel, but the groves were connected with the worship of intermediate beings which provoked God to jealousy.
This is a picture of coming days, after the true church is taken to glory, just before God restores Israel and takes away their sins. Idolatry will be such that the unclean spirit in Israel will take "seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first" (Matt. 12:45).
This will also be true of the professing church when they are given the great delusion because of their giving up the truth of "the mystery, Christ and the church." Man has proved himself bad under every trial, and blessing can come only where there is a new creature as the result of the death and resurrection of Christ. Faith is the door into this blessing.