In times of greatest revelation the opposite evil is most pronounced. The appearance of Truth brings evil to a climax, and it is destroyed. Naboth had a vineyard which the king coveted, but he refused to sell it to him. Jezebel, with fiendish cunning, had him put to death, and Ahab took possession of the vineyard. Elijah, stern and menacing, presented himself again before Ahab.
Conscience is to the spiritual man what pain is to the physical man.
Pain is a friendly warning that physical conditions are not right, and that they must be adjusted. Conscience warns the spiritual man that he is off the track, and danger lurks everywhere to the man who has gone astray. But conscience, the friend, follows us all, and says as the prophet said to the king, I have found thee. The most fixed belief of human conception is death. And Elisha answered, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.