I heard a great vort.
Even though Eliyahu Hanavi won the war against Baal at Har HaCarmel, the Jews still went back to Avodah Zorah. Eliyahu then asked Hashem to take his life. Hashem then told Eliyahu Hanavi, “you gave up hope on the Jewish people, so now you will have to visit them at the Seder, and at the Bris Millah”. The very two things that almost every single Jew, religious or not does.