President Donald Trump is doing his best impersonation of the Old Testament prophet Elijah.

In I Kings, Elijah issued a challenge to the people of Israel — either follow the Lord or follow Baal. To determine the true God, Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal . They would each build an altar and sacrifice a bull, but not burn it.

“The God who answers by fire, he is God,” Elijah said.

The prophets of Baal went first. They cried out and cut themselves for hours but to no avail. Then Elijah built an altar and dug a trench around it. After cutting the bull apart, he had water dumped on the altar three times, which drenched it and filled the trench.

He then prayed for the Lord to answer, so “that this people may know that you, O Lord, are God.”

The Lord responded by sending fire that “con

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