THE BATTLE IS THE LORD'S

THE GOD WHO SEES ALL

NOTE:

FROM THIS POINT OF VIEW, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE LOGICAL FOR THE LORD TO APPOINT ELIJAH, THE “SON OF THUNDER”, TO CONFRONT THE THE ENEMY ARMIES THAT INVADED ISREAL: BUT INSTEAD ,HE APPOINTED ELISHA,THE QUIET FARM BOY, ELISHA WAS LIKE THE STILL ,SMALL VOICE THAT FOLLOWED THE TUMMULT OF THE WIND, THE EARTHQUAKE, AND THE FIRE , JUST AS JESUS FOLLOWED JOHN THE BAPTIST WHO HAD AN AXE IN HIS HAND. BY DECLARING THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD AND CALLING FOR REPENTANCE,ELIJAH AND JOHN THE BAPTIST BOTH PREPARED THE WAY FOR THIER SUCCESSORS TO MINISTER , FOR WITHOUT CONVICTION THERE CAN BE NO TRUE CONVERSION.

AS ALWAYS IN SCRIPTURE,THE KEY ACTOR IN THE DRAMA IS THE LORD, NOT THE PROPHET. BY WHAT HE SAID AND DID, AS WELL AS BY WHAT HE DIDN’T DO ELISHA REVEALED THE CHARACTER OF GOD OF ISREAL TO KING JORAM AND HIS PEOPLE . JEHOVAH IS NOT LIKE THE IDOLS OF THE NATIONS FOR HE ALONE IS THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD.

I . THE GOD WHO SEES ALL (II KING 6: 8-14)

WHENEVER THE SYRIAN PLANNED A BORDER RAID, THE LORD GAVE ELISHA THE INFORMATION AND HE WARNED THE KING. BAAL COULD NEVER HAVE DONE THIS FOR KING JORAM,FOR IDIOLS HAVE NO EYES BUT THEY DO NOT SEE THE LORD SEES THIER HEARTS . MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THE NORTHERN KINGDOM OF ISREAL WERE UNFAITHFUL TO THE LORD , ANDYET IN HIS MERCY HE CARED FOR THEM “BEHOLD, HE WHO KEEPS ISREAL SHALL NEITHER SLUMBER NOR SLEEP.

A.THE KING OF SYRIA WAS SURE THERE WAS A TRAITOR IN HIS CAMP,