<TITLE>07. Par 25-29</TITLE>L-25 Now, but when he went seven days, never fetched a compass for those seven days or packed for it. They got out into the--the wilderness there, and they'd run out of water. And they were about to die. And Jehoshaphat being a righteous man, a God-fearing man, had the present sense to think, "Isn't there somebody, somewhere who could pray a prayer of faith or something for us." That's about the way of a Christian, isn't it? When he gets in trouble, he goes to thinking about prayer, or somebody who could help him. He said, "Isn't there a prophet that we could consult?"

L-26 Although he was just a little bit late. He ought of thought about that seven or eight days ago before he had left. But after all, God in His mercy. Some of them said, "Yes, here's Elisha down here. Who poured water on the hands of Elijah." In other words, he'd had some dealing with a real prophet. Elijah was a real prophet. And Elisha was wearing his mantel.
And how that a beautiful type of those two prophets. Oh, if we just had time tonight to set those things right where they should be. They're a perfect type of Christ and the Church. Elijah, a type of Christ, the mighty prophet of God. And notice, just before his going away, knowing that he was to go away, he didn't leave the nation without a witness. He made preparation for a man to take his place. God's witness.

L-27 How beautifully Christ did the same thing. Before He left, as God's witness, He made preparation of a Church. And ordained that they would be witnesses all the way through the Church age, plumb to the end of the world.
I think after he throwed a garment on him, when he was plowing, Elijah, and he killed the ox, took the yoke and so forth and made a feast, as they roasted the meat. Told his father and mother good bye and followed Elijah.

L-28 Notice, how Christians as soon as they become anointed, how they're tempted sometimes. But Elisha was a prophet, and he said... Elijah said, "You tarry here. The Lord's has called me to Gilead--Gilgal."
So he said, "As the Lord liveth and your soul liveth, I'll not leave you." I like that. Going to stay right with him. He'd started and now he's going through. We used to sing a little song.
I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few,
I've started in with Jesus, now, I'm going through.
Did you ever hear that old song? My, I used to hear that when I was just first come into the way.

L-29 Now, notice. He went on and he... Then when he went with him to the city, he said, "The Lord has sent me up to the school of the prophets." So he said, "You wait here."
Said, "As the Lord liveth and your soul liveth, I'll not leave you." On he goes to school of prophets. Second stage of the journey. Watch, to always hurrying through like this, you miss it.
But as... If they're a type, then they had to follow in correctly with the plan of Christ and the Church in this age. The second stage of the journey, they came to the educational, more spiritual group, than they had at Gilgal. The prophets, the school of the prophets, the educated. Although I never did think there was very much prophets about them.
One went out one day to find some peas and got some wild gourds. If the fellow didn't know the difference between peas and wild gourds, I don't know. All right, that's about the way some of these school of prophets gets today, don't you think so? Can't discern the difference between spiritual things and spiritualist things. All right. Notice.


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