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The Newton church of Christ is having
Newton church of Christ
Friday & Saturday 7:00 PM
Sunday 9:30 & 11:00 AM
Tel: 828-465-3009
A Gospel Meeting
October 27th – 29th
Art Adams
From
Plymouth, Indiana
Friday & Saturday 7:00 PM
Sunday 9:30 & 11:00 AM
656 Saint James Church RD.
Newton, NC 28658
Tel: 828-465-3009
“Till There Was No Remedy”
Elisha Purifies a Spring of
Water
The Divided Kingdom
2 Kings 2:19 – 3:27
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Characters In Tonight’s Lesson...
Elijah:
 For what event is he most
remembered?
 In the NT, he appears with Christ and
Moses in the transfigeration scene
 Jesus likened him to John the Baptist
(Matt. 17)
 A father figure to Elisha
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Characters In Tonight’s Lesson...
Elisha:
 Followed Elijah for about 7 or 8 years
 Witnessed Elijah taken up into heaven
 Requested and possessed a “double
portion” of Elijah’s spirit
 Performed 12 miracles. Name one.
 Healed Naaman the leper
 Made 7 prophecies
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Characters In Tonight’s Lesson...
Jehoshaphat:
 Son of Asa
 Good king
 Removed altars and wooden poles
 Sent teachers and priests to teach the
people the law
 Allied himself with Ahab of Israel
 Scolded by God for helping Ahab in
battle with Syria
 Reigned for 25 years
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Characters In Tonight’s Lesson...
Jehoram of Judah:
 Son of Jehoshaphat
 Married Athaliah, daughter of Ahab and
Jezebel
 Wicked king
 Reigned for 8 years
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Characters In Tonight’s Lesson...
Jehoram of Israel:
 Son of Ahab, brother of Ahaziah
 Wicked king
 He persisted in the sins of Jeroboam
(golden calves)
 But, put away the poles of Baal worship
 Made alliance with Judah
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From the last lesson...
• Ahaziah died from an fall
• His brother, Jehoram, became king of
Israel
• Elijah and Elisha went from Gilgal to
Bethel then to Jericho
– The sons of the prophets told Elisha that
Elijah would be taken that day
• Elijah parted the waters of the Jordan
river and they crossed over
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From the last lesson...
• A chariot of fire came down and took
Elijah away in a whirlwind to heaven
• Elisha picked up Elijah’s cloak, struck
the waters of Jordan and crossed
back over to Jericho on dry land
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The First Days of Elisha’s Ministry
2 Kings 2:12-25
• He parted the Jordan
• He pacified some prophets by allowing
them to search for Elijah
• He purified a spring of water
• He departed Jericho and went to Bethel
• He punished some mocking youths for
their disrespect for him as a prophet
• From Bethel, he went to Mt. Carmel
and from there to Samaria
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Bethel
Elisha traveled
from Jericho to
Samaria
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Mt.Carmel
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This is the period we are studying
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King Jehoram Of Israel
2 Kings 3:1-3
Judah
 Jehoshaphat
reigning in his
18th year
 Jehoram coreigning in his 2nd
year
 His wife was the
daughter of Ahab
and Jezebel
Israel
 Jehoram (Joram)
reigning - wicked
 Ahaziah’s brother
 Son of Ahab and
Jezebel
 Reigned 12 years – evil
 Jehoram's idolatry
 Kept the sins of
Jeroboam – the golden
calves
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Judah and Israel Fight Moab
2 Kings 3:4-9
 Moabites rebelled against Israel
 Refused to pay tribute after Ahab died
 Jehoram asked Jehoshaphat for help
 Got Judah to help fight the Moabites
 The plan was to go south around the Dead
Sea to approach Moab
 Edom joined the two armies
 Edom was under the control of Judah
 Jehoram’s ineptness:
 Ran out of water for the armies and the cattle
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Jehoram’s Efforts
Against The
Moabites
Israel, Judah, and
Edom joined
together in the effort
The armies ran out
of water
Where is God when
we need Him? Our
plan didn’t work!
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Elisha and King Jehoram
2 Kings 3:10-27
• The Indignant Prophet
– The request: Seek instruction from a
prophet – 10-12
– The rebuke: Elisha wanted no part of
Jehoram – 13-14
– The reply: God sent good news of water –
15-19
– The red water: Deceived the Moabites –
20-23
– The routing: Moabites defeated – 24-27
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Kir-hareseth
Only Moabite
city left standing
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Till There Was No Remedy
The Divided Kingdom
Death of Jehoshaphat
Where We Are
Two Jorams: North and South:
Son and Son-in-law of Ahab
In Judah
• Death of Jehoshaphat -1 Kings
22:45-50
• Jehoram (or Joram) – 2 Kings 8:1624
– 8 years of evil
– Had married into Ahab’s family
– Kills his brothers – 2 Chron.21:2-4
– God arouses neighboring revolts
• Edom revolts – 2 Kgs.8:20-22
• Libnah revolts – 8:22
Judah has:
Problems
without
(Edom)
And
Problems
within
(Libnah)
See next
slide
More Problems
• Jehoram receives a letter from Elijah
– 2 Chron.21:11-15
• Invasion of the Philistines and
Arabians – 21:16,17
• Two Year Disease & Agonizing Death
– 21:18-21
• Obadiah prophesies during this time.
Till There Was No Remedy
The Divided Kingdom
Prophetic Themes
2 Kings 4
Prophetic Themes
• General Summary
– Call for repentance
– The Day of the Lord
– God’s concern for nations
– The Messiah
– A New Spiritual Order to come
Joram
• Disease and Agonizing Death of
Jehoram of Judah – 2 Chron.21:18-20
• Jehoram, son of Ahab, still reigns in
Israel
More Stories About Elisha
• Elisha Increases A Widow’s Oil – 2
Kings 4:1-7
– The widow’s crisis – v.1-2
– Elisha’s miraculous aid – 3-7
• A Shunammite Woman – 4:8-37
– A room for hospitality – 8-10
– A reward: she will have a son – 11-17
– A Trial: her son dies – 18-21
– A Testimony: Elisha is empowered by
God to raise the son from the dead –
22-37
Shunem
From Shunem to Mt. Carmel and Back
More Stories of Elisha
• Elisha Purifies Stew – 2 Kings
4:38-41
– The Poisonous Food
• Caused by wild gourds
• Purified by flour and miracle
Do you see parallels between
Elisha and Jesus?
Till There Was No Remedy
The Divided Kingdom
Elisha Feeds 100 Men
More Stories About Elisha
• He feeds 100 men with 20 loaves –
2 Kgs.4:42-44
• He heals Naaman of his leprosy –
2 Kings 5:1-27
– Disease – 5:1
2 Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, commander
of the army of the king of Syria, was a
great and honorable man in the eyes of
his master, because by him the LORD
had given victory to Syria. He was also
a mighty man of valor, but a leper.
– Determination – 2-5
2 Kings 5:2-5 And the Syrians had gone out on
raids, and had brought back captive a young girl
from the land of Israel. She waited on Naaman's
wife. (3) Then she said to her mistress, "If only
my master were with the prophet who is in
Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy."
(4) And Naaman went in and told his master,
saying, "Thus and thus said the girl who is from
the land of Israel." (5) Then the king of Syria
said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the
king of Israel." So he departed and took with
him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of
gold, and ten changes of clothing.
– Detainment – 6-8
2 Kings 5:6-8 Then he brought the letter to the
king of Israel, which said, Now be advised, when
this letter comes to you, that I have sent Naaman
my servant to you, that you may heal him of his
leprosy. (7) And it happened, when the king of
Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and
said, "Am I God, to kill and make alive, that this
man sends a man to me to heal him of his
leprosy? Therefore please consider, and see how
he seeks a quarrel with me." (8) So it was, when
Elisha the man of God heard that the king of
Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the
king, saying, "Why have you torn your clothes?
Please let him come to me, and he shall know that
there is a prophet in Israel."
– Displeasure – 9-13
2 Kings 5:9-13 Then Naaman went with his
horses and chariot, and he stood at the door
of Elisha's house. (10) And Elisha sent a
messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in
the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall
be restored to you, and you shall be clean."
(11) But Naaman became furious, and went
away and said, "Indeed, I said to myself, 'He
will surely come out to me, and stand and call
on the name of the LORD his God, and wave
his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.‘
…
– Displeasure – 9-13
(12) Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, the
rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters
of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be
clean?" So he turned and went away in a
rage. (13) And his servants came near and
spoke to him, and said, "My father, if the
prophet had told you to do something great,
would you not have done it? How much more
then, when he says to you, 'Wash, and be
clean'?"
– Deliverance – 14
2 Kings 5:14 So he went down and
dipped seven times in the Jordan,
according to the saying of the man of
God; and his flesh was restored like the
flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
– Dedication – 15-19
2 Kings 5:15-19 And he returned to the man
of God, he and all his aides, and came and
stood before him; and he said, "Indeed, now I
know that there is no God in all the earth,
except in Israel; now therefore, please take a
gift from your servant." (16) But he said, "As
the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will
receive nothing." And he urged him to take it,
but he refused. (17) So Naaman said, "Then,
if not, please let your servant be given two
mule-loads of earth; for your servant will no
longer offer either burnt offering or sacrifice to
other gods, but to the LORD. …
– Dedication – 15-19
(18) Yet in this thing may the LORD pardon
your servant: when my master goes into the
temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he
leans on my hand, and I bow down in the
temple of Rimmon--when I bow down in the
temple of Rimmon, may the LORD please
pardon your servant in this thing." (19) Then
he said to him, "Go in peace." So he departed
from him a short distance.
More Stories About Elisha
• Makes an ax-head to float –
2 Kgs. 6:1-7
• Blinds and Traps Some Syrian Soldiers
– 6:8-23
– His warnings to Israel upsets the Syrian
attack strategies
– He is threatened by the Syrian king
– He believes God’s army is always bigger
– Blinds the Syrian army
– Leads them to Samaria
– Releases them
Elisha Captures Syrians: Dothan to Samaria
Till There Was No Remedy
Divided Kingdom
The Siege of Samaria
2 Kings 6:24 - 8:6
The Siege of Samaria
• Arameans besiege Samaria
– The Plight of the people – cannibalism 6:24-29
– The Prejudice of the king – blames
Elisha and the Lord – 6:30-33
– The Prophecy of Elisha – 7:1-2
– The Panic of the Arameans – 7:3-11
– The Plunder by the people – 7:12-16
– The Passing of the Officer – 7:17-20
The Reminiscing About Elisha
Gehazi and the woman of Shunam tell
the king of Israel of Elisha’s deeds
She relocated due to Elisha’s warning. 8:1-2
She returned after the famine to get her
house and land back -8:3
She is restored her belongings when Gehazi
explains the situation to the king
Woman of Shunam Left and Returned
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