Prophetic Inheritance (2Kings 2)
When you read the scriptures read as a believing believer, alive to the probabilities of the Kingdom of God near at hand. Elijah the Tishbite from the region of Gilead is a great prophet of God and a man who never died; in fact he shows up in the New Testament on the Mount of Transfiguration near Damascus with Moses, Jesus, Peter, James and John. His residence however moved to the area of Israel’s first Passover in the Promised Land at Gilgal, a short distance from the ruins of Jericho by the lower Jordan River. Elijah was the mentor of Elisha, called by the Lord above prophet school students at Jericho and Bethel. He was called while working a field, plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, (1Kings 19:19) twelve is repeated in a significant manor, “and he was beside the twelfth.” Elijah throws his covering (mantle) over the plowman who then burns his bridges by slaughtering the oxen, feeds his family and friends and follows the prophet. A mantle was the official garment of ...