Sunday Sermonette: Thou shalt not make fun of the bald

While I certainly endorse this -- the 11th Commandment -- I do think God overreacts a wee, tiny bit in this case. Most of Chapter 2 is a tedious description of the death of Elijah and the transfer of Prophet-in-Chief to his successor Elishah. Like Jesus a few hundred years later, Elijah ascends bodily into heaven, in front of witnesses. This is a bit of an anomaly because the concept of an afterlife in heaven does not exist elsewhere. (Remember that Samuel was temporarily resurrected from underground.) Anyway, Elisha performs a couple of miracles to show he really is The Man. He then goes to Bethel where 42 children make fun of his bald head. So God sends two bears to rip them to shreds. Personally, I think it would have been sufficient for the bears to scare the kids a little and leave it at that.2 Now when theLord was about to take Eli ′jah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Eli′jah and Eli′sha were on their way from Gilgal.2 And Eli ′jah said to Eli′sha, “Tarry here, I pray you; for theLord has sent me as far as Bethel. ” But Eli′sha said, “As theLord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you. ” So they went down to Bethel.3 And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Eli ′sha, and said to him, “Do you know that today theLord will take away your master from over you? ” And he said, “Yes, I know it; hold your peace.”4 Eli ′jah said to him, “Eli′sha, tarry here, I pray you; for theLord has sen...
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