Elijah and Elisha are well known to Latter-day Saints. The prophecy that Elijah would return was foretold in each of the four books at the Latter-day Saint canon.

Indeed, Elijah visited the prophet Joseph Smith and his counselor Sidney Rigdon in the Kirtland Temple, restoring the keys of the sealing power to the earth.

Elisha may be less known, but his miracles are seen as some of the most didactic and powerful of any performed by

prophets after Moses in the Old Testament. What can we learn from these prophets and their ministries?

We'll discuss that and much more on today's episode of Abide, a Maxwell Institute podcast.

My name is Joseph Stewart. I'm the public communication specialist at the Neely Maxwell Institute

for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University.

Christian Hill is a research fellow at the Maxwell Institute.

In each week, we discuss the week's block of reading from the Church of Jesus Christ's Latter-day Saints,

come follow me curriculum. We aren't here to present a lesson, but rather to hit on a few key themes from the scripture block so as to help fulfill the Maxwell Institute's mission to inspire and fortify Latter-day Saints in their testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ

and engage the world of religious ideas. Today we are once again joined by Aaron Garner,

one of our research assistants, who studies ancient Near Eastern Studies in comparative literature

here at BYU. He's from Raymond, Alberta, and upon graduation plans to go to graduate

school to further study in these fields. Welcome back to the podcast, Aaron. Thanks. Good to be

here. Glad to have you here. So, Christian, we're looking at Second Kings chapters two through

seven today is the main focus, although there may be spill over into other sections. Could you please give

us an overview of these chapters? To begin with, I think it's useful to recognize as we approach

the stories of Elisha and Elijah that of all the types of Christ presented in the Old Testament,

it's Elijah and Elisha who foreshadow most clearly the ministries of Jesus and his

apostles. Elijah calls Elisha from his labors, just as Jesus called his apostles from their

work to come and follow him. Elijah's mantle falls upon Elisha, just as the work of declaring the

gospel fell upon the apostles. Elijah was a disciple to Elijah, a follower,

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