I don't believe my eyes!

by Ben

I read 2 Kings 1-4.

Elijah is taken up to heaven alive! His servant Elisha is made to be his successor.

This section gives us Elisha who seems to have a lot of similarities to other major figures from the Bible. He heals a boy in the same way as Elijah. He feeds a hungry multitude in the same way as Jesus. But let's put these miracles aside for the moment.

This immediately brings to mind when Jesus asks the disciples who people say he is. Peter's answer of the Christ gets him off the hook. However, many of us today are still trying to figure out a question that has already been answered. We look at the Bible, and the history of Jesus, and some of us are still prone to say: "Nope. Don't think so. Couldn't be true."

No matter how much proof there is for God, the Bible, and Jesus (woot, all three youth group answers), some people just don't want to believe. You have to want to know the truth. Some choose to remain willfully blind to the truth of the gospel. This is even more incredible to me than seeing Elijah taken up into the heavens.