Bible Lesson: Miracles Of The Old
Testament: Elisha's Dead Bones, Causes A Dead Man To Revive.
Occasion: Miraculous
Resurrection.
Location: Samaria
Bible Text: II Kings 13:20,21 NLT
20 Then Elisha died and was buried.
Groups of Moabite raiders used to invade the land each spring.
21 Once when some Israelites were
burying a man, they spied a band of these raiders. So they hastily
threw the corpse into the tomb of Elisha and fled. But as soon as the
body touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man revived and jumped to his
feet!
An Israelite had
died, and his relatives and friends went out to bury him. Off in the
distance they saw what they believed to be Moabite raiders, come to
pillage and loot the people of God.
There would be no
time for digging a grave for their friend. Seeing Elisha's sepulcher
near by they removed the stone seal, and threw their friend in, and made haste to retreat.
But a strange thing
happened when the body of their dead friend, touched the bones of the
Prophet Elisha, their dead friend came back to life, and …..left
with them.
Miraculous
Resurrection!
“Pastor, oh how
thankful we must be for all the holy artifacts of the church, such as
“wood from the cross of Christ, holy nails of Calvary, remanents of
the crown of thorns, the holy grail, and shroud of Turin....!”
Is that what you
are thinking?
Our living God, has
destroyed religious artifacts, for fear of their being worshiped,
INSTEAD OF HIS DEAR SON, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!
Stop
here, and read the blog posting..... (Bible Lesson:) Relics-Church
Nothing, but
nothing (Idols included), are to usurp the glory and honor that
belongs to Christ alone!
Exodus 20:1-6
KJV
1 And God spake all these words,
saying,
2 I am The Lord thy God, which have
brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods
before Me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any
graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above,
or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to
them, nor serve them: for I The Lord thy God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third
and fourth generation of them that hate Me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands
of them that love Me, and keep My commandments.
Isaiah 42:8 KJV
I am The Lord: that is My name: and
My glory will I not give to another, neither My praise to graven
images.
The God we
serve is the God of resurrection!
Ezekiel 37:14
KJV
1 The hand of The Lord was upon me,
and carried me out in The Spirit Of The Lord, and set me down in the
midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them
round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley;
and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And He said unto me, Son of man,
can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
4 Again He said unto me, Prophesy
upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear The Word Of
The Lord.
5 Thus saith The Lord God unto these
bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall
live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you,
and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put
breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am The
Lord.
7 So I prophesied as I was
commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a
shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews
and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but
there was no breath in them.
9 Then said He unto me, Prophesy
unto The Wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to The Wind, Thus saith
The Lord God; Come from the four winds, O Breath, and breathe upon
these slain, that they may live.
10 So I prophesied as He commanded
me, and the Breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon
their feet, an exceeding great army.
11 Then He said unto me, Son of man,
these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our
bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto
them, Thus saith The Lord God; Behold, O My people, I will open your
graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you
into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am The
Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up
out of your graves,
14 And shall put My Spirit in you,
and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall
ye know that I The Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith The
Lord.
John 11:20-45
KJV
20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard
that Jesus was coming, went and met Him: but Mary sat still in the
house.
21 Then said Martha unto Jesus,
Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
22 But I know, that even now,
whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother
shall rise again.
24 Martha saith unto Him, I know
that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said unto her, I am The
Resurrection, And The Life: he that believeth in Me, though he were
dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and
believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?
27 She saith unto Him, Yea, Lord: I
believe that thou art The Christ, The Son Of God, which should come
into the world.
28 And when she had so said, she
went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master
is come, and calleth for thee.
29 As soon as she heard that, she
arose quickly, and came unto Him.
30 Now Jesus was not yet come into
the town, but was in that place where Martha met Him.
31 The Jews then which were with her
in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up
hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave
to weep there.
32 Then when Mary was come where
Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying unto Him,
Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
33 When Jesus therefore saw her
weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, He groaned in
The Spirit, and was troubled.
34 And said, Where have ye laid him?
They said unto Him, Lord, come and see.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then said the Jews, Behold how He
loved him!
37 And some of them said, Could not
this Man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even
this man should not have died?
38 Jesus therefore again groaning in
Himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
39 Jesus said, Take ye away the
stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto Him, Lord,
by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not
unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the
glory of God?
41 Then they took away the stone
from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up His eyes,
and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard Me.
42 And I knew that thou hearest Me
always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they
may believe that thou hast sent Me.
43 And when he thus had spoken, He
cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
44 And he that was dead came forth,
bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about
with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
45 Then many of the Jews which came
to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on Him.
Matthew 27:50-54
KJV (The scene at Calvary.)
50 Jesus, when He had cried again
with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost (His Spirit).
51 And, behold, the veil of the
temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth
did quake, and the rocks rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and
many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after
His resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto
many.
54 Now when the centurion, and they
that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those
things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was
The Son Of God.
God's people will
have victory over death, because of the “finished,” work of The
Lord Jesus Christ.
I Corinthians
15:50-58 NLT
50 What I am saying, dear brothers
and sisters, is that our physical bodies cannot inherit the Kingdom
of God. These dying bodies cannot inherit what will last forever.
51 But let me reveal to you a
wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be
transformed!
52 It will happen in a moment, in
the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the
trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever.
And we who are living will also be transformed.
53 For our dying bodies must be
transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must
be transformed into immortal bodies.
54 Then, when our dying bodies have
been transformed into bodies that will never die, this Scripture will
be fulfilled: “Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your victory? O
death, where is your sting?”
56 For sin is the sting that results
in death, and the law gives sin its power.
57 But thank God! He gives us
victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 So, my dear brothers and sisters,
be strong and immovable. Always work enthusiastically for The Lord,
for you know that nothing you do for The Lord is ever useless.
Hebrews 2:14,15
NLT
14 Because God’s children are
human beings—made of flesh and blood—The Son also became flesh
and blood. For only as a human being could He die, and only by dying
could He break the power of the devil, who had the power of death.
15 Only in this way could He set
free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.
Do you know this
wonderful Savior? His secret coming for His people, could be at any
moment.
Call upon Him now.
