CHARIOTS OF FIRE (7 OF 7)
Scripture: 2 Kings 2:1-25
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Title: Chariots of Fire (7 of 7)
Series: The Chronicles of Elijah
Author: Collin Wimberly
Text: 2 Kings 2
CIT - Elijah is taken to heaven in a chariot of fire.
Propostion - Believers must live in expectation of the return of Christ for the Church.
INTRODUCTION:
We come to the last chapter in the life of this remarkable man - Elijah. God has used him to call the people of Israel to repentance. He has prophesied against Kings, prayed up a drought and prayed down the rain 3 ½ years later. He has run in the power of the Spirit, and ran for his life in fear. He has know victory and personal defeat. He was, without a doubt the greatest of God's prophets to Isreal.
Now we come to the last days of his life and once again Elijah will launch out and do what no one else has done.
Missing death puts Elijah in the very rare category of "deathless departures." Only two in all the recorded history of time have exited without passing through the jaws of death.
Enoch was the first. (Genesis 5:21-24)
Elijah was the second.
The last to experience this kind of departure will be those believers who are alive on earth at the time of Christ's return. We do not know the hour, but we do know this: Those who are alive when Christ comes for his own will bypass death.
I) WE CAN BE CONFIDENT -
The context of the chapter makes it obvious that Elijah knew before hand that God was going to take him to Heaven.
Vs. 1 - A whirlwind is a gust, a windy moment. Elijah would be caught up and in that instant gone from this earth to God's presence.
It also seems clear that Elijah knew where God would come for him at Jericho.
We can have the same confidence that God is coming for us as His church.
A) CHRIST TAUGHT IT - Matthew 25:31, John 14:3
B) THE APOSTLES TAUGHT IT - I thess. 4,
C) THE GOSPEL DEMANDS IT -
a. THE DEATH OF CHRIST- Christians are said to sleep. This describes the body of the believer. The pagan culture around them unde ...
Series: The Chronicles of Elijah
Author: Collin Wimberly
Text: 2 Kings 2
CIT - Elijah is taken to heaven in a chariot of fire.
Propostion - Believers must live in expectation of the return of Christ for the Church.
INTRODUCTION:
We come to the last chapter in the life of this remarkable man - Elijah. God has used him to call the people of Israel to repentance. He has prophesied against Kings, prayed up a drought and prayed down the rain 3 ½ years later. He has run in the power of the Spirit, and ran for his life in fear. He has know victory and personal defeat. He was, without a doubt the greatest of God's prophets to Isreal.
Now we come to the last days of his life and once again Elijah will launch out and do what no one else has done.
Missing death puts Elijah in the very rare category of "deathless departures." Only two in all the recorded history of time have exited without passing through the jaws of death.
Enoch was the first. (Genesis 5:21-24)
Elijah was the second.
The last to experience this kind of departure will be those believers who are alive on earth at the time of Christ's return. We do not know the hour, but we do know this: Those who are alive when Christ comes for his own will bypass death.
I) WE CAN BE CONFIDENT -
The context of the chapter makes it obvious that Elijah knew before hand that God was going to take him to Heaven.
Vs. 1 - A whirlwind is a gust, a windy moment. Elijah would be caught up and in that instant gone from this earth to God's presence.
It also seems clear that Elijah knew where God would come for him at Jericho.
We can have the same confidence that God is coming for us as His church.
A) CHRIST TAUGHT IT - Matthew 25:31, John 14:3
B) THE APOSTLES TAUGHT IT - I thess. 4,
C) THE GOSPEL DEMANDS IT -
a. THE DEATH OF CHRIST- Christians are said to sleep. This describes the body of the believer. The pagan culture around them unde ...
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