MIRACLE FROM ELISHA'S BONES - A measure of the Holy Spirit actually remained for some time with Elisha's body, since all that was left was his bones. This is the only way that the miracle of reviving that dead man could have happened .

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Elisha's Bones

by Wayne Blank

"Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died ... And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet" (2 Kings 13:14, 20-21 KJV)

Elijah and Elisha

Elijah, and Elisha who succeeded him when Elijah was taken away in a "chariot of fire" were two of the most powerful Prophets of God in Bible History.

They did everything from calling down fire from heaven (1 Kings 18:37-38) to raising the dead (2 Kings 4:18-37), but as true prophets of God, their great power was of, and from, God.

As even Jesus Christ said of Himself Elijah and Elisha could do nothing of themselves, or for themselves (John 5:19,30.)

As the opening paragraph makes plain, when Elisha's natural time to die came, he suffered and died just like any other human - even though during his lifetime the Holy Spirit healed the sick and raised the dead through him.

It was the Holy Spirit of God that made it possible.

Elijah was an ordinary human being, who knew hunger (1 Kings 19:6), weariness (1 Kings 19:5), and fear (1 Kings 19:2-3), just like any other. 

After being threatened by the wicked Jezebel, he "went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers" (1 Kings 19:4 KJV).

Neither was Elisha, or any other human before or since.

The Holy Spirit Remained

In the miracle of Elisha's bones, for however long it lasted, a measure of the Holy Spirit actually remained for some time with Elisha's body, since all that was left was his bones. (There is only one recorded miracle from Elisha's bones.)

This is the only way that the miracle of reviving that dead man could have happened (back to physical life from which he would again have died later).

(This is unlike the widespread fraudulent religious industry of "miraculous relics of saints" that has been operating for centuries, right to the present day.)

Fact Finder: True believers are "sealed" with the Holy Spirit until they receive their inheritance, i.e. eternal life, which will begin at their future resurrection.

¹³ In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. Ephesians 1:13-14 English Standard Version (ESV)

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