Bible Study-2 Ki.2:15-21 “Healing the waters”

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And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

¹⁶And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of theLordhath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.

¹⁷ And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.

¹⁸And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?

¹⁹And the men of the city…

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Bible Study-2 Ki.2:8-15 “Double Portion”

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And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground./ And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

Elijah’s role in the book of the kings is not singular since he stands as the double for the Son. The Spirit is instructing us how God had set his Salvation Plan going from the time He created the heaven and the earth. The presence of God was in the word even as the manner Elijah smote the waters, and events parted hither and thither. God had commanded Elijah three things to do and…

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Bible Study-2 Ki.2:1-7 “Gilgal, Bethel, Jericho and Jordan”

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It was time for Elijah to hand over his charge to Elisha who served as his associate. Now the Spirit is teaching how principle of Association works. Elisha has no doctrine or gospel other than what Elijah had. Where did the word come from but from God. ‘According to the word of God is one single straight line from heaven to the earth. We have four places, the command number Four is placed by the Spirit, beginning with Gilgal. What is the significance of Gilgal? “And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead,”(1 Ki.17:1) Gilgal is his cradle where God placed him. What is the significance of crossing Jordan? It is an euphemism for death. All these four places are also interchangeable in terms of the Gospel of God. (Matt.10:14; Luke 9:16)

Now for the text: vv.1-7

And it came to pass, when theLordwould take up Elijah…

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The Crimean Conundrum

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Today Crimea is seeking referendum in a move to break away from Ukraine and join the Russian Federation.

Western powers have denounced the hastily organized referendum as illegal.

Some 59 percent of Crimea’s 2 million inhabitants are ethnic Russians, the minority question which has bedeviled since the early 19 th century resonates even this very day. Nationalism of Hungary Italy against monarchies have not yet sorted the friction between majority rights and minority rule. How the nation-builders got their act wrong we can see at the Paris peace conference after World War I.

That war felled the Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires, bequeathing to the Allied victors a hotch-potch of ethnic and cultural identities clamoring for statehood. The peace pitted Wilson’s “imperative principle” of self-government for formerly subject peoples was to stop the customary tendency of European statesmen sitting over fine dining and a smoke in the billiard room redrawing…

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Capsule History-Ukraine

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Ukraine—with its rich black soil that would help it become a major grain producer—was continually carved up by competing powers. As a result their nationalism has two sides. Janus-like one looks towards the past and the other to the east.
Let us trace its history in a few sentences. In the ninth century, Ukraine, known as Kievan Rus, was becoming the early seat of Slavic power and the newly adopted Orthodox religion. But Mongol invasions in the 13th century curtailed Kiev’s rise, with power eventually shifting north into Russia to present-day St. Petersburg and Moscow. In the 16th century major swaths of the country were under the control of Poland and Lithuania, with Cossack fighters patrolling Ukraine’s frontier with Poland.
In the 17th century, war between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth resulted in more internal divisions. Lands to the east of the Dnieper River fell under Russian…

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Aesop Fables Updated- taken by the blind side

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Sorry, the story continues in Almost Aesop, Fables available through Amazon.com-b 

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Bible Study-2 Ki.1:11-17 “According to the word”

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And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.

¹⁴Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.

¹⁵And the angel of theLordsaid unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.

¹⁶And he said unto him, Thus saith theLord, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God…

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Bible Study-2 Ki.1:5-10 “If I be a man of God”

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And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

⁹Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.

¹⁰ And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

Bringing down fire from heaven on command is awesome But is it on the right side of of Christian Spirit? In the life of Jesus we have an incident that bookends this.

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Bible Study-2 Ki.1:1-4 Re-enter Elijah

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Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab./And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.³But the angel of theLordsaid to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?

Now therefore thus saith theLord, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.

Ahaziah succeeded his father to the throne of Israel. He did evil as his father.

“And he did evil in the sight of theLord, and…

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