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Warren Wiersbe · Citado em PreceptAustin
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Wiersbe: God was calling Elijah to stop weeping over the past and running away from the present. It was time for him to start preparing others for the future. When God is in command, there is always hope. Gene Getz - The Lord broadened Elijah's perspective even more by telling him that he never expected him to bear Israel's problems all by himself. There were other men who would help him— Hazael, Jehu, and a man who was to have a very special place in Elijah's life: his successor, Elisha (vv. 15-17). August Konkel: The commission of Elijah is the pledge that conflict with Baal will end in victory over the house of Ahab (19:15–18). Anointing the kings of Aram and Israel is the harbinger of judgment on the nation for its political compromise and a purge of the Baal cult within Israel. The Arameans will eventually control all the territory on the east side of the Jordan, from the Arnon at the Dead Sea northward, all of Gilead and Bashan (2 Kings 10:32–33). Jehu, the successor to the Omride dynasty, carries out a total purge of the Baal cult and is rewarded with a dynasty of four generations, even though he does not institute pure Yahweh worship (10:30–31). The anointing of Elisha assures Elijah that the prophetic challenge will not end with him. (See 1 and 2 Kings - Page 303) Iain Provan: A new order is to succeed the old, and it is this order that will bring about the final victory over Baal-worship. Victory will come, in other words, as a result of political process—not through obviously spectacular demonstrations of divine power. It will arrive, not as a result of Elijah’s efforts, but through the efforts of others. Elijah’s role in the overall strategy is now clear. It is partly to fight, and he has done that well. But it is also partly (and now more importantly) to prepare the way for others. The Carmel event is only one event in a series that will stretch beyond his lifetime (cf. 2 Kgs. 8:7–15; 9–10). God has other ways of working—some of which make Elijah’s God seem almost as nonexistent as Baal (a still small “voice” being only marginally noisier than no “voice” at all, cf. Hb. qôl in 18:26, 29). The Lord also has servants other than Elijah (not least the seven thousand in Israel who have not bowed down to Baal or kissed him in veneration, v. 18; cf. Rom. 11:1–6). If the spectacular has not produced final victory, that is no reason for despair. For the overall strategy was always more long term and more subtly conceived than Elijah imagined. From the beginning it had involved the gentle but devastating whisper as well as the all-consuming fire, the quiet ways of God’s normal providence as well as the noisier ways of miraculous intervention. Elijah must be content with being part of the plan and not the plan itself (See 1 & 2 Kings - Page 8) 1 Kings 19:16 and Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place. Jehu: 2Ki 9:1-3,6-14 Elisha the son of Shaphat: 1Ki 19:19-21 Lu 4:27, Eliseus Abel-meholah: 1Ki 4:12 Jdg 7:22 1 Kings 19 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries ELIJAH TO ANOINT JEHU AND ELISHA and Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place - Elisha means "God is salvation." Elijah should have been encouraged by this word, for it would put an end to Ahab and Jezebel which he had fought for on Mount Carmel and it would also guarantee him a successor to carry on his ministry. Bob
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Wiersbe asks "if he was a faithful servant, what was he doing hiding in a cave located hundreds of miles from his appointed place of ministry?" (Bible Exposition Commentary) George Williams comments: Had his heart not been occupied with self, he would have learned that tempests, earthquakes and fires cannot accomplish what the gentle voice of love can. He should have recognized that there was no difference between his heart and that of the nation; and, that as coercion (EARTHQUAKES, ETC) failed to make him leave his cave, so it failed, and must fail, to compel men to leave their sins. (Borrow The Students Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, page 196) William