Monday, 29 April 2013

Wheat, what it means in the invisible world? continue...B

II Kings 6&7 ISRAEL (the grain) DELIVERED FROM SYRIA ( wild animals).
During the reign of King JEHORAM of ISRAEL, SYRIA plans a SURPRISE ATTACK upon ISRAEL. More than once maneuvers of BEN-HADAD II are FRUSTRATED BY ELISHA, who REVEALS TO KING JEHORAM EVERY MOVE OF the SYRIANS.
At first BEN-HADAD thinks that there is a traitor in his own camp. But when he FINDS OUT the real SOURCE of his difficulty he SENDS a MILITARY FORCE TO DOTHAN, surrounding it with HORSES and WAR CHARIOTS to get ELISHA.
ELISHA's ATTENDANT is struck with FEAR, but ELISHA PRAYS to GOD to OPEN the ATTENDANT's eyes, and "look! the MOUNTAINOUS REGION is full of horses and war chariots of fire all around ELISHA."
Now, as the SYRIAN hosts close in, ELISHA PRAYS for the opposite kind of miracle, "PLEASE, STRIKE THIS NATION WITH BLINDNESS." Elisha says to the Syrians, "FOLLOW ME," but the ORDER IS MENTAL RATHER THAN PHYSICAL blindness. They do not recognize ELISHA, whom they came to take, nor do they know where he is taking them.
BRINGING the SYRIANS TO SAMARIA, ELISHA PRAYS THAT GOS OPEN THEIR EYES, and the Syrians find themselves right IN THE MIDDLE OF SAMARIA BEFORE KING JEHORAM himself.
ELISHA manifests FAITH IN GOD's POWER and shows complete lack of vindictiveness when he prevents the king of Israel from killing the Syrians, for, he says, "THEY ARE LIKE CAPTIVES OF WAR." He instructs the king to FEED THEM, and they are feasted and sent home. The RESULT is :
"NOT ONCE DID THE MARAUDING BANDS of the Syrians COME AGAIN INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL."
However, later on, BEN-HADAD INVADES in force, and lays SIEGE to SAMARIA. The siege is so severe that at least one case is reported to the king in which a woman eats her own son. As the OFF-SPRING of AHAB, the "son of a murderer,"   KING JEHORAM SWEARS TO KILL ELISHA.
ELISHA, however, replies to the king's rage by telling him that FOOD supplies will be ABUNDAND
THE NEXT DAY. The king's ADJUTANT SCOFF at his prediction, causing Elisha to tell him :
"HERE YOU ARE SEEING IT WITH YOUR OWN EYES, BUT FROM IT YOU WILL NOT EAT." By a NOISE that the LORD causes to be heard in the CAMP of the SYRIANS, they are LED to BELIEVE that a GREAT ARMY of combined nations is ADVANCING against them and THEY FLEE, leaving the camp intact with all its food supplies. The ADJUTANT is put IN CHARGE of guarding the GATE at the king's orders when he FINDS OUT about the DESERTION of the SYRIANS, and there HE IS TRAMPLED TO DEATH IN THE GATEWAY OF SAMARIA when the starving crowd of Israelites rushes out to plunder the camp. HE SEES THE FOOD, BUT DOES NOT EAT FROM IT.

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