Pictures of Christ - 15 Elijah the prophet - I kings 17 The hiding of God's servants reminds us that there is a great conflict taking place between the powers of darkness and the truth of God. God is pleased to preserve His Truth and His people. 6. Christ, like Elijah, was also withdrawn and hidden in a time of danger. This happened to Christ on a number of occasions. "And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea," Mark 3:6-7. "Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by," John 8:59. "After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him," John 7:1. "Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death. Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples," John 11:53-54. The Saviour's purpose is to "destroy the works of the devil," 1 John 3:8. The devil does not believe what the Bible says but it will take place. Just as Goliath sneered at David and rejected the idea of him suffering defeat at David's hands, so the Devil sneers at the Bible's account of his defeat. But it will happen.