Oct 1, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 11 segments
In this episode, I sit down with Justin Peters and ask him a variety of questions. Here are some key topics we discussed. key topics The biblical story of Elijah and…
Ethan JagoHostThat's a passage that's taken out of context in 1 Kings 19, I believe it is, the story of Elijah, and he had just called down fire out of heaven and destroyed the false prophets of Baal and their altars and sacrifices and all that.
And then after that dramatic victory, Jezebel threatened his life, and so he fled into the wilderness and went into the back of the cave, and that's where he heard the voice of God.
But, but when you read the text, the still small voice that Elijah heard was not some inner impression inside his head.
It was an external audible voice, just like my voice is external and audible to you and everyone listening.
So, and he walked out of the cave so that he could hear this voice more clearly.
So everybody thinks the still small voice is some hunch, some inner impression, some prompting inside of your head.
So we've taken that completely out of context, and even in the description of it, which it's a descriptive text, not a prescriptive text, but even in the description of it, people don't understand it right.
So, so I tell people, "Let's do away with the whole still small voice thing." So, but as to when people say, "Well, God laid you on my heart.
God gave me a burden for someone or something," is it wrong to say that? I don't know that it's wrong.
I don't-- I wouldn't say that it's sinful, but I, I would say that we need to be careful about the, the language that we use, and I think a lot of people are just a little, maybe in, in a very innocent way, but a little too careless with the language that they use, and they, they don't mean anything by it.
It's just something that we've heard of, and it's kind of in the evangelical vernacular and that kinda thing.
That's a passage that's taken out of context in 1 Kings 19, I believe it is, the story of Elijah, and he had just called down fire out of heaven and destroyed the false prophets of Baal and their altars and sacrifices and all that.
And then after that dramatic victory, Jezebel threatened his life, and so he fled into the wilderness and went into the back of the cave, and that's where he heard the voice of God.
But, but when you read the text, the still small voice that Elijah heard was not some inner impression inside his head.
It was an external audible voice, just like my voice is external and audible to you and everyone listening.
So, and he walked out of the cave so that he could hear this voice more clearly.
So everybody thinks the still small voice is some hunch, some inner impression, some prompting inside of your head.
So we've taken that completely out of context, and even in the description of it, which it's a descriptive text, not a prescriptive text, but even in the description of it, people don't understand it right.
So, so I tell people, "Let's do away with the whole still small voice thing." So, but as to when people say, "Well, God laid you on my heart.
God gave me a burden for someone or something," is it wrong to say that? I don't know that it's wrong.
I don't-- I wouldn't say that it's sinful, but I, I would say that we need to be careful about the, the language that we use, and I think a lot of people are just a little, maybe in, in a very innocent way, but a little too careless with the language that they use, and they, they don't mean anything by it.
It's just something that we've heard of, and it's kind of in the evangelical vernacular and that kinda thing.
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