Elijah would have been the talk of the cable-news shows. He shows up out of nowhere, challenges the king and then vanishes. More than three years later he reappears, again highly confrontational, leading a purge of a corrupt regime. An over-used statement in our time is "Speaking truth to power." Elijah could have been the poster child for that slogan. King Ahab called him the "Troubler of Israel."
Two things stand out about Elijah's grand departure. He, like Enoch, left this life without passing through death, and there was a clear cut passing of the baton, literally the mantle, to his successor Elisha.
Great leaders are not only great in their time, they help others to be great after them.
It's STTA.
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