Texas Power Hour w/Pastor Carolyn Sissom - Elisha--In the Spirit & Pwr of Elijah

ELISHA – (In the Spirit and power of Elijah)

2 Ki. 2:15: When the sons of the prophets who were from Jericho saw Elisha, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they came to meet him, and bowed to the ground before him.

The Angel Gabriel prophesied to Zachariah concerning John the Baptist: Luke 1: 15-17: He will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb. He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. He will also go before Him (Jesus) in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

The spirit of Elijah in 1 Kings reveals a prophetic ministry of restoration that destroys the political and religious Babylon. Just as John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah, preceding the manifestation of the first coming of King Jesus, so there will arise an Elijah ministry that is preparing the way of the LORD in His second coming. This prophetic company is coming forth in the spirit and the power of Elijah.

We can all say, we have been hearing this declared for the past twenty-five years. Where are these prophets? We are blessed to live in a period of time on the earth where there is great prophetic activity. It has not always been that way on the earth. There have often been several hundred year periods of time when there was not a prophetic voice on the earth.

The contest on Mount Carmel between Elijah and the prophets of Baal reveals the supernatural, end-time conflict between God’s Kingdom and the Kingdom of darkness. I believe the spirit of Ahab is the political spirit over the government shutdown. Ahab represents political Babylon; Jezebel, religious Babylon.