title: The Life of Elijah
author:  A. W. Pink 
description: Born in Nottingham, England in 1886, Arthur Walkington Pink was converted to Christ while a spiritualist medium. He briefly attended the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois, in 1810, before taking up his first pastorate at Silverton, Colorado. Little-known to the outside world, he pastored other churches in the United States and Australia before finally returning to his homeland in 1934. Settling in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, there he died almost unnoticed in 1952. By that date, however, the magazine he had started in 1922 Studies in the Scriptures was feeding several of the men who were leading a return to doctrinal Christianity, including Martyn Lloyd-Jones and Douglas Johnson (founder of Inter-Varsity) and, in book form after his death, his writings became very widely read across the world. The Trust publishes his The Sovereignty of God, Gleanings from Paul, Profiting from the Word, The Life of Elijah, and a number of titles which have been translated into Spanish.<br><br>[See also Iain H. Murray s biography of Pink The Life of Arthur W. Pink.]
zlib_text: THE LIFE OF ELIJAH
  by A.W. Pink
  Grace-eBooks.com
  
  Preface
   
  From one generation to another, the servants of the Lord 
  have sought to edify their fellow-believers by commenting on the 
  Old Testament narrative. In such ministries expositions of the life of 
  Elijah have always been prominent. His sudden appearance out of 
  complete obscurity, his dramatic interventions in the national history 
  of Israel, his miracles, his departure from earth in a chariot of fire, 
  all serve to captivate the thought of preacher and writer alike. The 
  New Testament sustains this interest. If Christ Jesus is the Prophet 
  "like unto Moses," Elijah, too, has his New Testament counterpart in 
  John—the greatest of the prophets. And even more remarkably, 
  Elijah himself in living person reappears to view when, with Moses, 
  he stands on the mount of "the excellent glory," "to speak of the 
  strife that won our life with the incarnate Son of God." What a 
  superb honour was this! As Moses and Elijah are the names whi