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The Abiding Gift of Prophecy

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    Ministrations of Love and Mercy

    In his journeys Elisha often passed a house where there lived “a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread.” As time passed, this woman said to her husband, “Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God.” Verses 8, 9. She persuaded her husband to build a small room for Elisha to occupy when visiting them. In response to this kindness, Elisha asked what favor he could do for her. She answered, “I dwell among mine own people,” thus intimating that there was nothing she needed. After she had withdrawn, Gehazi suggested that God might bless her with a child. Elisha said, “Call her.” And when he had called her, Elisha said, “About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son.” Verses 13-16.AGP 112.2

    The prediction was fulfilled. A son was born; but while he was still young, he died. In her grief, the mother hastened to Carmel where Elisha was staying, and besought him to come and restore the lad to life. “When Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead.” In praying for the restoration of life, Elisha put his mouth to the child’s mouth, and his eyes to his eyes, and his hands upon the child’s hands, and breathed into him. Then life came into the child, and he “opened his eyes.” On being told that the child was restored to life, the mother went in, and fell at Elisha’s feet, and “bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.” 2 Kings 4:18-37.AGP 112.3

    This wonderful manifestation of the power of Israel’s God was a revelation of His love for His people, and of His great desire to save them to the uttermost.AGP 112.4

    On one occasion, when visiting the school at Gilgal, poisonous gourds had by mistake been cooked for the students. This wildAGP 112.5

    gourd is supposed to have been the colocynth, which grows in abundance near the Dead Sea. It contains a “pulp intensely bitter, and, in any but minute quantities, is extremely poisonous.” When it was discovered that these poisonous gourds had been cooked, the students cried out, “O thou man of God, there is death in the pot.” Verse 40. Elisha immediately cast some meal into the pot where the gourds were being cooked, and there was no more harm in the food.AGP 113.1

    During the same visit a man brought twenty loaves of barley and full ears of corn to the school. But this was not enough for the hundred men. In Elisha’s hands, however, the food was multiplied, as in the case, centuries later, when Jesus fed a multitude. Elisha said, “Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof. So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the Lord.” Verses 42-44.AGP 113.2

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