Elijah: fire from heaven

On the Mount of Transfiguration (Matt. 17:1–9), Moses and Elijah appeared with Jesus. Moses represented the law and Elijah represented the prophets. Jesus often used the phrase “the Law and the Prophets” to refer to the entire Old Testament (Luke 16:16). In our “Ten Signposts of the Bible” (see above) Elijah stands for all the biblical prophets who lived before, during, and after the exiles. We will wrap up our survey of the Old Testament by considering God’s story in the lives of the people who lived during the time of the prophets.