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Kings 2 Elijah and Elisha
Elijah
is trying to get Elisha to stay back. Elisha will not leave because he knows
Elijah is going to leave the earth that day. Elisha wants to be present when
the Lord takes him home.
The
sons of the prophets had information that Elijah was going to leave, but Elisha
already knew it. They could not tell him anything new.
The
Lord had parted the river Jordan for Elijah and Elisha. “As they went on, there
appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them asunder; and
Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” Elisha saw it and is now taking
Elijah’s place. He demonstrates his faith by taking Elijah’s robe and hitting
the water just as Elijah done. The power is not in the robe, nor in Elijah, the
power is in God, and Elisha knows that.
The
sons of the prophets saw Elisha part the waters and return across the Jordan
River. They doubted that Elijah had really gone up, they suspected that the
Lord had dumped him in some abandoned area.
Elijah
was indeed gone, and there was no need to investigate. Elisha said, “I told you
so!”
Then
the men of the city of Jericho came to Elisha with a problem. He solved the
problem by making the bitter waters sweet.
As
he went up to Beth-el, “little children” mocked him. Elisha cursed them in the
name of the Lord, and two female bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two
children. These hoodlums who taunted Elisha were young men. They were students
of the false prophets. They were a gang that mocked and ridiculed Elisha by
calling him bald head. “Why don't you take off like Elijah did?” They were
ridiculing the truth in scripture that God will take a people out of this world.
2
Peter 3:3-4 “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days
scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of
his coming?” When gangs of young people terrorize our neighborhoods, there
should be a punishment. After the bears did their work, nobody else around
Beth-el ridiculed Elisha.
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J.
Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.
Dr.
David Jeremiah.
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