10. He said, "I have been very jealous for The LORD, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."

11. He said, "Go out, and stand on the mountain before The LORD."Behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before The LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

12. After the earthquake a fire passed; but the LORD was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.

13. When ELIJAH heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, "What are you doing here, ELIJAH?"

14. He said, "I have been very jealous for The LORD, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."

He will go before him in the spirit and power of ELIJAH, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord."1:17Malachi 4:6

God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about ELIJAH? How he pleads with God against Israel:

ELIJAH was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.