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Second Kings chapter 2 verses 11 and 12

and as they still went on and talked, behold,

Chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them.

And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, the chariots of

Israel and its horsemen, and he saw him no more. Oh, what an awesome scene!

Elijah and Elisha walking alongside one another

and all of a sudden chariots of fire and horses of fire

separated the two of them like just picture that if you've ever read the story before you can almost just kind of read through this and kind of yeah I've heard the story but but think about this imagine this imagine walking with somebody one day and all the sudden in between you come chariots of fire and

horses of fire like fire chariots. Fire horses like they look like horses but they're on fire and all of a sudden

Elijah is taken up by them like who who wants to ride on a chari to fire?

Like with a horse of fire, like that that seems like it's pretty

pretty wild to be on that ride and

alisha watches it and he's like this is amazing my father my father the chariots of

Israel and its horsemen and all the sudden

Elijah is gone. What a scene!

When God brings Elijah to him.

I read this and I can't help to think about 1st Thessalonians chapter 4.

When the Bible says there is coming a day, it could be today.

Like think about this, this could happen today.

When a trumpet will sound in the sky and the dead in Christ will rise and we who are alive will rise to

meet them in the air and we will be with the Lord. Like that is going to happen one day. Jesus is coming back and

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