Emphasis Preaching Journal

The story of the assumption of Elijah is told in a style of the loftiest poetry, with an imagination at once exalted and restrained. As literature alone it ranks high among the great chapters of the Bible. And it teaches spiritual lessons of great depth and meaning. The time had come when the Lord was to remove Elijah from the scene of his tremendous labors. So he left Gilgal, where young prophets were in training, and set out for Bethel. But Elisha, whose name had not been mentioned in the record since his call to be the successor of Elijah, refused to leave him.