{"id":2495,"date":"2017-07-04T18:36:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T06:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2017-07-04T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T06:36:15","slug":"may-all-pay-attention-to-elisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/2017\/07\/04\/may-all-pay-attention-to-elisha\/","title":{"rendered":"May all pay attention to Elisha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A few months ago, I submitted a 2500-word response to 1 and 2 Kings as part of studying the Old Testament at college. The lecturer invited us to be as creative as possible &#8211; poems, board games, flow charts, music albums were all fair game. My response ended up being a selection of acrostic poems following the letters of the Hebrew alphabet (\u00c3\u00a0 la Psalm 119), responding to the events of 1 and 2 Kings. My favourite part was reflecting on the comparisons between Elisha and Jesus (as <a href=\"http:\/\/gotherefor.com\/offer.php?intid=28549&amp;changestore=true\">others<\/a> have also done), and how it highlights the book of Kings&#8217; importance in pointing us to Jesus, the perfect Messiah. This response is below, and I hope it whets your appetite to read more of Kings, and the Old Testament, looking for Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Mem<\/strong> \u00d7\u017e\u00e2\u20ac\u017d<\/h2>\n<p><em>A maskil. Of the Shunammite woman, 2 Kings 2-6.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>May all<\/strong> pay attention to Elisha<\/p>\n<p>Meagre farmboy turned miracle worker<\/p>\n<p>Mouthpiece of Yahweh, whose armies surround him<sup>[1]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>May all who taunt him be mauled!<sup>[2]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>May all pay attention to Elisha<\/p>\n<p>Miracle worker amidst death in the land<\/p>\n<p>Made meals for the hungry,<sup>[3]<\/sup> \u00a0restores dead to life<sup>[4]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Made way for slaves to be free!<sup>[5]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>May all pay attention to Elisha<\/p>\n<p>Minister to Gentiles,<sup>[6]<\/sup> \u00a0he made lepers clean<\/p>\n<p>Master even over Creation\u2019s sway<sup>[7]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>May all make straight paths for him!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>May all pay attention to Elisha<\/p>\n<p>Mother and father he leaves behind<sup>[8]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Model disciple who mimics his Master<\/p>\n<p>Might he lay down his life for his friends?<sup>[9]<\/sup><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>[1]<\/sup> 2 Kings 6:17<\/p>\n<p><sup>[2]<\/sup> 2 Kings 2:23-25<\/p>\n<p><sup>[3]<\/sup> 2 Kings 4:1-7, 2 Kings 2:38-41<\/p>\n<p><sup>[4]<\/sup> 2 Kings 4:32-37,\u00a02 Kings 13:20-21<\/p>\n<p><sup>[5]<\/sup> 2 Kings 4:1<\/p>\n<p><sup>[6]<\/sup> 2 Kings 5:1-16<\/p>\n<p><sup>[7]<\/sup> 2 Kings 6:6<\/p>\n<p><sup>[8]<\/sup> 1 Kings 19:19-21<\/p>\n<p><sup>[9]<\/sup> John 15:13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I submitted a 2500-word response to 1 and 2 Kings as part of studying the Old Testament at college. The lecturer invited us to be as creative as possible &#8211; poems, board games, flow charts, music albums were all fair game. My response ended up being a selection of acrostic poems &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/2017\/07\/04\/may-all-pay-attention-to-elisha\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;May all pay attention to Elisha&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,49],"tags":[294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}