NOTES for Ki1 19:12
Promising the prophet Elijah a meeting with Him, the Lord enumerates all the distinctive signs of the Epiphany, which seem to us completely natural. Of course, the Master of the heaven and the earth comes into this world, and how it would not be wind tearing mountains, earthquakes and fire. But the Bible tells us that they are all phenomena of our world accompanying the coming of the Almighty. God is not in it, asserts categorically the Bible.
Instead of all these cataclysms, obvious and terrible, the Bible proposes as God's icon a still small voice remembering the breath of very life. It is a very important moment, because we are inclined to project on God our fear in front of His Righteousness, and with this justify our estrangement from Him. God is "something different", distinct from visible demonstrations of His presence. It is a still small voice - as the breath of secrets, upsets the soul of the prophet and becomes one of the key of theological axioms, which is necessary to remember upon reading of the Holy Scriptures.