Back then, as now, the community’s faithlessness and foolishness, starting at the top with the King and all his court, is at fault for their current dire situation. Like everyone else at that time, Elisha is suffering through the worst financial collapse and famine Israel had since Elijah’s early days. The prophet Elisha, the successor to Elijah’s iconic and courageous reign, is linked to and employed by the same God as his predecessor. What I have is a relationship with God, who sees from the beginning to the end. I don’t have access to privileged information. None of those things are the foundation of my hope. Nor, for that matter, does my projection depend on a naive belief the law of averages suggests that we can anticipate a course correction after the last four years of frustrations, craziness, and wreckage. My prediction does not hinge on any gift to see into the future. Tomorrow will be better than today -hopefully, sooner rather than later. I firmly believe that and hope you do, too. 2 Kings 7:1-2, 18-20, MSG.īetter days are around the corner! That’s God’s word to you and me as we exit 2020 and enter2021. 20 The final stroke came when the people trampled the man to death at the city gate. The market at the city gate will be buzzing.” 2 The attendant on whom the King leaned for support said to the Holy Man, “You expect us to believe that? Trapdoors opening in the sky and food tumbling out?” “You’ll watch it with your own eyes,” he said, “but you will not eat so much as a mouthful!”ġ8 Every word of the Holy Man to the King - “A handful of meal for a shekel, two handfuls of grain for a shekel this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria,” 19 with the attendant’s sarcastic reply to the Holy Man, “You expect us to believe that? Trapdoors opening in the sky and food tumbling out?” followed by the response, “You’ll watch it with your own eyes, but you won’t eat so much as a mouthful” - proved true. This time tomorrow food will be plentiful- a handful of meal for a shekel two handfuls of grain for a shekel. 1 Elisha said, “Listen! God’s word! The famine’s over.
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