Like a meteor,… which lights the whole horizon for a moment then sinks beyond the rim of the sky and is gone, Uwli-Yaw (meaning “My Almighty one is “Yaw”) the Tishbite, flashed across the darkest pages of Hebrew history,

Uwli-Yaw entered Israel’s history like a tempest and went out in a whirlwind. So great was his fame, so dramatic was his person during his own lifetime, that the notion persisted that Uwli-Yaw was caught up into the air by the Spirit of Yaw (in Hebrew the “Rauch Qôdesh”) and carried hither and yon at will, (1 Kings 18:9-15)

Uwli-Yaw served Yawhú well…. He was Yawhú’s surgical knife, lancing the festering sore of Israel’s idolatry. Uwli-Yaw was the rod of Yawhú’s hand chastening Israel for their disobedience. Uwli-Yaw was Yawhú’s mouthpiece, pronouncing the judgment of drought upon the land. Uwli-Yaw was Yawhú’s priest with the offering for the sins of the people who brought down the fire from heaven. At the mere mention of His name, we think of earthquake, storm and fire, the scourge of evil kings, and the prophet of doom.

After Solomon’s reign,… due to their sin the nation Israel was split into two realms under two kings:
1. Rehoboam stayed and ruled over the house of Judah and what was left over of the house of Benjamin.
2. Jeroboam shifted to the north and ruled over the ten tribes that had been separated from the house of David and was later known as the Samaritans.

Jeroboam, Omri then Ahab
1Kings16 :24And he bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver; then he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Samaria, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill. 25Omri did evil in the eyes of Yawhú, and did worse than all who were before him. 26For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin by which he had made Israel sin, provoking Yawhú of Israel to anger with their idols.

(They “worshipped” the oziris calf, the sun moon & planets and Amon Zues the great father of the pagan “god’s”)

2Kings10:29 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
27 "If these people go up to offer their offerings in the house of Yawhú at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn back to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and go back to Rehoboam king of Judah."
28 Therefore the king asked advice, made two calves of gold, and said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your mighty ones, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!"
29 And he set up one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
(Solomon's idolatry had prepared the people for Jeroboam's abominations!)

Jeroboam made… Shechem, capital of the northern realm.
He substituted “calf-worship” at Bethel and Dan. One at the southern and the other at the northern extremity of the land, and centered his new belief at Shechem at the foot of Garezim.

Jeroboam like… Constantine, who many years later
(in the period of time around A.D. 325 when the true Hebrew belief and the witness of Yawhúshúa Maw-shee’-akh was assimilated, and changed into rank paganism and relabeled Christianity) could not take away their belief, so he changed it to suit his own objectives.
a.) Irrespective of Yawhú’s will, he was to save his throne above all costs.
b.) Instead of Yawhú they then revered the Osiris calf, sun, moon and planets as well as Amon Zeus who was presumed to be the great father of their  mighty ones.
c.) This belief he could command, and not be commanded
d.) An easy belief appeals to carnal people and is comfortable and un-demanding.
e.) Is plenty and cheap to buy, but has nothing of use.

After Jeroboam, Omri, Ahab’s father built Samaria.
Later Sargon king of Assyria resettled northern and central Palestine and sent a priest back to preach a perverted “belief” (2 Kings 17:24-34) and also adjusted history and scripture to suit.
The Samaritans accepted only the Pentiturah.
Antiochus Epiphanes at a much later stage rededicated the Samaritan temple at mount Garasim to Zeus Exinious.
(Editers note: Words like “god”, “gods”, “worship”,
“religion”etc….apply to the heathen and are marked in “Inverted    commas”  but never in the case of the children of the Father Yaw and definitely not when revering Him.)

After Omri came Ahab & Jesebel
29In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri became king over Israel; and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria for twenty-two years. 30Now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of Yawhú, more than all who were before him. 31And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal and “worshiped” him. 32Then he set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

Ahab verses Uwli-yaw
17: 1And Uwli-Yaw the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yawhú of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word.”

Uwli-Yaw and Obad-Yaw
18: 1And it came to pass after many days that the word of Yawhú came to Uwli-Yaw, in the third year, saying, “Go, present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the earth.” 2So Uwli-Yaw went to present himself to Ahab; and there was a severe famine in Samaria. 3And Ahab had called Obadi-Yaw, who was in charge of his house. (Now Obadi-Yaw feared Yawhú greatly. 4For so it was, while Jezebel massacred the prophets of Yawhú, that Obadi-Yaw had taken one hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty to a cave, and had fed them with bread and water.)
7Now as Obadi-Yaw was on his way, suddenly Uwli-Yaw met him; and he recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is that you, my master Uwli-Yaw?” 8And he answered him, “It is I. Go; tell your master, ‘Uwli-Yaw is here.’ ”

Uwli-yaw - ahab
16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Uwli-Yaw.
17 Then it happened, when Ahab saw Uwli-Yaw, that Ahab said to him, “Is that you, O troubler of Israel?” 18And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house have, in that you have forsaken the commandments of Yawhú and have followed the Baals. 19“Now therefore, send and gather all Israel to me on Mount Carmel, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
20 So Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together on Mount Carmel. 21And Uwli-Yaw  came to all the people, and said,
“How long will you falter between two opinions? If Yawhú is almighty, follow Him;
but if Baal, follow him.”But the people answered him not a word. 22Then Uwli-Yaw said to the people,
* “I alone am left a prophet of Yawhú;
* but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
23“Therefore let them give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire under it; and I will prepare the other bull, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire under it.
*24“Then you call on the name of your “gods”,
*and I will call on the name of Yawhú; and the Almighty who answers by fire, He is The True Almighty One.”
 So all the people answered and said, “It is well spoken.”
25 Now Uwli-Yaw said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves and prepare it first, for you are many; and call on the name of your “god”, but put no fire under it.” 26 So they took the bull which was given them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying,
 “O Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice; no one answered. Then they leaped about the altar which they had made.

Israel’s folk law… tells us that it was a common practice by the Baal priests of that time, when constructing their altars, to dig a secret tunnel underneath it. The purpose of this was that one of them would enter and wait under the altar. At the appointed time when his fellow priests above would start calling to Baal to light the fire, this priest would oblige and from beneath the altar set it alight, thus creating the illusion to the onlookers, that Baal had heard and answered their plea. On this day however things went horribly wrong. Yawhú had known their treachery and placed a snake in the tunnel. This snake in turn attacked and bit the priest, whose job was to hide until the appointed time to light the fire from beneath, and thereby killing him.
Uwli-Yaw being a prophet, most probably new of their trickery and their plight.

27And so it was, at noon, *that Uwli-Yaw mocked them and said, “Cry aloud, for he is a “mighty one”; either he is meditating, or he is busy, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened.”
 28So they cried aloud, and cut themselves, as was their custom, with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them. 29And when midday was past, *they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening offering. But there was no voice; no one answered, no one paid attention.
30Then Uwli-Yaw said…. to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people came near to him.
*And he repaired the altar of Yawhú that was broken down.
31And Uwli-Yaw  took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yawhú  had come, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”
32Then with the stones he built an altar in the name of Yawhú and he made a trench around the altar large enough to hold two sheaths of seed.
33And he put the wood in order, cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood, and said,
“Fill four waterpots with water, and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.”
34Then he said,
“Do it a second time,” and they did it a second time; and he said,
“Do it a third time,” and they did it a third time.
4 X 3 =12
 35 So the water ran all around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.

36And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening offering, that Uwli-Yaw  the prophet came near and said, “Yawhú Almighty of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are the Almighty in Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word.
37“Hear me, O Yawhú, hear me, that this people may know that You are Yawhú the Almighty, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again.”
 38Then the fire of Yawhú fell and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. 39Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “Yawhú, He is almighty! Yawhú , He is almighty!”
40And Uwli-Yaw  said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let one of them escape!” So they seized them; and Uwli-Yaw brought them down to the Brook Kishon and executed them there.

The Greater Uwli-Yaw Hoshay'ah  Maw-shee' -akh

As Moshe (Moses) of old could prophesy in advance of the greater than himself, the second Moshe, that in the appointed time was to come, namely Hoshay’ah  Maw-shee’-akh

De 18:15  And Yawhú thy Almighty One will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

Even so the spirit of Uwli-Yaw who had been resurrected into a second term of life in the person of Yaw-hanan (John) the immerser was called to commission Hoshay’ah  Maw-shee’-akh  as the greater than himself namely  the second or greater  Uwli-Yaw.

Luke 1:17 "He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Uwli-Yaw, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Master."

The Greater Uwli-Yaw; Hoshay’ah  Maw-shee’-akh …came with a greater mission, and that was to fulfill what Uwli-Yaw had accomplished in the flesh to a carnal people as a type or pattern. He would now build the spiritual altar and offer the spiritual and greater offering that was forever to stand as the successful and only acceptable offering to Eternal-Y1aw, The Father for all time.
He who would call down the spiritual fire the Rauch Qôdesh over this altar of living stones with its offering and immerse it as well as the trench around the altar which held the two sheaths of seed.

Immerse with fire
JOHN 1: 29The next day John saw Hoshay’ah coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of Eternal-Yaw who takes away the sin of the world! 30“This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.’ 33“I did not know Him, but He who sent me to Immerse with water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who Immerses with the “Rauch Qôdesh” (the Spirit that separates) & WITH FIRE (MATT 3:11) 34“And I have seen and witnessed that this is the Son of Yaw- Eternal.”

The Greater Uwli-Yaw builds the spiritual altar...

.from the pattern of the basic natural altar.

Eli-Yaw of old built the first altar.
Kings 18:31And Uwli-Yaw  took twelve stones,according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yawhú  had come, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”
 32Then with the stones he built an altar in the name of “Yaw”

The Second and Greater Uwli-Yaw…Chose 12 living stones (disciples) according to the number of the spiritual tribes of the sons of the Greater Jacob (Yawhúshúa Maw-shee’-akh )

1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house (or alter), a set-apart priesthood, to offer up spiritual offerings, acceptable to Yaw-Eternal by Yawhúshúa Maw-shee’-akh .
Lu 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That Yaw-Eternal is able of these stones (people) to raise up children unto Abraham.(by adoption in the rebirth)

The twelve living spiritual stones (Disciples)  that make up the foundation of the spiritual altar (or House), on which  the Spiritual fire (The “Rauch Qôdesh”) would descend.