Feb 26, 2014 Notes from Norman ELISHA By Norman P. Grubb It happened very naturally. There was no great prayer meeting or anything because this isnt the life of great prayer meetings. This is the life of the next thing. They went out and talked and as they talked, something happened. Now that is the inner seeing. Evidently, the school of prophets didnt see it any more than the men with Paul saw it on the way to Damascus. They heard the voice, but they saw nothing. Im quite certain that anyone with Moses wouldnt have seen-that bush, because normal bushes dont operate like that one - burning without going out. There is another seeing when the Eternal One is manifested in His eternal reality and we know that only the eternal can see the Eternal One. It says he was taken up in a whirlwind. We dont know what it meant or what exactly happened, but as he went up Elisha saw something which wasnt Elijah at all. Quite apart from Elijah, he saw a chariot of fire and horses of fire, the Lord of Hosts, who has millions of angelic beings. And he rent his clothes-and cried out, My father, my father. The Chariots of Israel, the horses, Ive seen! Ive seen the inner reality. Ive seen the eternal sources, the inner person, Ive seen! Thats it! Like Moses at the burning bush, theres a very clear presentation of the establishment of the inner seeing. This is this inner union. Union is knowing. It isnt anything outer at all. My inner self is my knowing. My inner self is consciousness. I live by my consciousness. What man know the things of a man except the spirit of man within him, is how Paul put it. The spirit is the knower. What Elisha got from Elijah was interesting and curious. It was a double portion of the ability to bring things to pass quickly. Like Joshua, and like Jesus, Elisha moved into such a faith relationship, a seeing relationship that any moment he could say, Its there. He didnt pray, didnt have agonies, he didnt have to commune for the guidance. He operated. In some ways this is a perfectly natural life. This is how Jesus operated. If He needed food, He thanked the Father, split the people-up and the five loaves; became five thousand. If you need fish, put your net in on that side of the beat and you will catch fishes. I will, be thou healed. Elisha is, most like Jesus in that respect, though admittedly it was in local matters. There does seem to be a difference because Elijah dealt with great national matters and Jesus of Gethsemane was dealing with world history. That was an agony. But at least in the normal ways of life, he was able in the simplest way to speak a word of faith and say, Its there, its there.
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