My post from June 30 mentioned a funny Bible thing I had read, but subsequent posts tended toward not feeling well enough to make posts and so I forgot.
HOWEVER!
I do randomly go back and read some of my own posts and I was reminded.
Thus, the funny Bible thing!
Background info- I’m doing a Bible journal this year (still undecided if I like it) and it has me bouncing from Old to New Testament.
This is why the funny happened!
One week I’m reading about Elijah and Elishah when it was Elijah’s time to go. Elishah refused to leave him and so followed him until Elijah (most likely hearing from God) tells Elishah to ask for anything and if he sees when God takes Elijah into heaven, whatever he asked for will be his.
Elishah does in fact see when God takes Elijah into heaven, is massively blessed as he’d asked, and goes back to tell other prophets who’d been waiting.
The other prophets, after hearing Elishah’s accounting, ask if they can go and look for Elijah on the surrounding mountain tops…
Why?
Why would they ask that? Do you know how weird that was to read and I reread it because I thought I’d misunderstood.
Anyways, he finally relents and lets them take a look. Of course they don’t find anything because God took Elijah up into heaven.
Fast forward a couple weeks and I’m now reading in Acts when Paul is told by God to go preach to a caravan in the middle of the desert.
He goes, does a good job and even baptizes the leader of the caravan!
THEN GOD PICKS PAUL UP AND DROPS HIM OFF IN A CITY MILES AWAY!!!
Those prophets, apparently, had a reason for asking what they did.
Exactly how many times has God just picked someone up and dropped them off somewhere that in the Old Testament that’s the first thing the prophets thought of?
Can you imagine?
I am still gobsmacked and amused by that discovery!
Read the Bible y’all, cause it’s got some funny stuff in it!
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