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The Account of II Kings 2:
The lift off of the prophet.
The route (2:1–6): Traveling from Gilgal to Bethel to Jericho to the Jordan River, Elisha is repeatedly reminded that his master is going to be taken away.
Elisha repeatedly affirms his loyalty to Elijah.
The river (2:7–8): At the Jordan River, Elijah performs his final miracle by parting its waters.
The request (2:9): Elisha asks to become Elijah’s “rightful successor.”
The requirement (2:10): Elijah tells Elisha that he will receive his request if he witnesses Elijah’s departure.
The removal (2:11): As Elisha watches, a chariot of fire appears, and Elijah is carried into heaven by a whirlwind!
He parts the Jordan (2:12–14): Elisha takes up Elijah’s cloak and parts the Jordan by striking its waters with it.
H. L. Willmington, The Outline Bible (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1999), 2 Ki 2:1–18.
The focus of death in the life of Elijah...
Drought and lack of water.
I Kings 17.2
Crop failure I Kings 18.5
Famine I Kings 18.2
Livestock dies I Kings 18.5
Military attacks I Kings 20
Military defeat I Kings 20.42
Loss of Family I Kings 21.23-24
Jezebaal’s murder
450 priests of Baal
Ahab’s death
Yet we find the Prophet Elijah misses out on death.
Universal consequence of Death.
It is here that we are reminded that all of us face the same exact consequence - death.
You and I each face this same sentence - death.
Yet like Elijah our lives surrounded by death will never really know death.
I’m not talking about Rapture I’m talking about this life will end and those that know Christ will not know of death.
Elijah’s Story doesn’t end at his disappearance...
Consider the times that we find Elijah after this...
Elijah will fore run Christ’s great kingdom
John the Baptist as Elijah
Jesus is Elijah
Calvary waiting on Elijah
Then they see Elijah...
Well now they have seen Elijah.
But Jesus is telling
They get the Cross wrong because they became focused on the Kingdom first.
What is missing is that you and I when death is a part of the conversation must not look to the kingdom first but to the Cross.
For the resurrection is our hope.
The Kingdom is our certainty.
God’s plan for your death is a Kingdom that is only foretold about.
We find Elijah referenced just one more time in Scripture and it is in the obedience of two prophets.
It is never said that these prophets are Moses and Elijah.
Nor does it change anything of our promises if it is or is not.
But these prophets will not avoid death…They will enjoy resurrection.
And this is the point.
Even at the faithlessness of an Emotional prophet.
God allowed great weight to be placed on a fragile vessel.
One without whom we would not have the certainty of the sufficenecy of the Cross.
For it is in the Cross Death is beaten
It is in Christ the Cross is Validated.
It is in the Cross that the Kingdom makes sense.
To the hopeless this morning come to Christ for if he can handle your greatest enemy of Death, Hell and the grave.
You can trust him with your temporal problems.
To the lost if you can look back on the omnipotence of God’s working for our redemption you can trust him with your forgiveness.
To the faithful, You can trust a God that will show kindness even to a frail vessel like Elijah.
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