TODAY'S BIBLE TWEET

BIBLE TEXT: “And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back? And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words? And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.” (2 Kings 1:5-8 KJV)

BIBLE TWEET: From both the message of doom and the description of the messenger, Ahaziah knew it was Elijah, the Prophet of God, who his emissaries had encountered on their way to Ekron, to enquire of the pagan Philistines’ false god.

BIBLE TAKEAWAY: God’s true prophets are always identifiable by both sight and sound; that is, by their person and their preaching.