Principles from 2 Kings 2:1-17
2 Kings 2:10 “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.”
Love, Passion, Loyalty, Commitment- Sight -Discerning the Times, Awareness of Divine Purpose.
2 Kings 2:1-2 When the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. 2 Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here; the Lord has sent me to Bethel.”
But Elisha said, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
Ruth 1:16-18 But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.” 18 When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
You can be at Bethel (House of God) and not be consciously connected to God’s intent. Knowing is the intimacy that produces God’s intent- births eternal realities. That is the knowledge that matters.
2 Kings 2:3 The company of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and asked, “Do you know that the Lord is going to take your master from you today?” Yes, I know,” Elisha replied, “so be quiet.”
Principle of “SEE” RAAH-Perceive, Verify, Investigate, to attend to, to discover, to experience, to be exhibited to (Remember Hagar called God El Roi). This is seeing the way God sees!!!
2 Kings 2:9-10 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?” Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.10 “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.”
True spiritual sons do not pursue their own desires, but rather, they carry on the vision of their spiritual father. Their actions are not self-driven, but rather, they align with God’s purpose as revealed by their spiritual father.
2 Kings verse 8 Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up and struck the water with it. The water divided to the right and to the left, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
2 Kings 2:13-14 Elisha then picked up Elijah’s cloak that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. 14 He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. “Where now is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.
2 Tim. 3:10 Now you have closely observed and diligently followed my teaching, conduct, purpose in life, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, (Teaching, Conduct, and Purpose- it’s not about teachings only it is wholly following fully convinced )
patience, love, perseverance, persecutions, and sufferings,…
1 Kings 8:19 Nevertheless, you are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own flesh and blood—he is the one who will build the temple for my Name.’
God is the Father of our spirits –
God is the Father of our spirits – it is His eternal spirit that should be resting upon us, here identified as the spirit of Elijah resting on Elisha 2 Kings verse 15 The company of the prophets from Jericho, who were watching, said, “The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.
Company of blind prophets –May we live by the proceeding Word present truth! David has shown us how to position ourselves under the constant speaking of the Lord through a lifestyle of inquiry.
Elisha’s response is fatherly, loving, kind, humble, and not arrogant. Knowledge puffs, but love builds up.
2 Kings 2:16 “Look,” they said, “we your servants have fifty able men. Let them go and look for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the Lord has picked him up and set him down on some mountain or in some valley.” No,” Elisha replied, “do not send them.”
