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Elisha’s Closing Ministry
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his trust in God’s omnipotent power. Always he had advanced by
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faith, and God had honored his confidence.
Elisha was not called to follow his master in a fiery chariot.
Rather, the Lord permitted a lingering illness to come upon him.
As on the heights of Dothan he had seen the encircling armies of
heaven, so now he was conscious of the presence of sympathizing
angels, and he was sustained. As he had grown in knowledge of
God’s merciful kindness, his faith had ripened into an abiding trust
in God, and when death called him he was ready.
“The righteous has a refuge in his death.”
Proverbs 14:32
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could say in all confidence, “As for me, I will see Your face in
righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness.”
Psalm 17:15
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