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Elisha asked for double portion

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Why would Elisha ask for double portion of Elijah's annointing? :dunno :shrug :confused Greed? No.


But how was Elijah possible to offer double portion of his own annointing. Take for instance, if Elijah's original annointing was x4 (all he had), Elisha asked for 2 X4. I wonder how he manufactured the extra half:dunno :shrug :confused
 
It is said that Elisha had performed exactly twice as many miracles as Elijah.... I checked into it once and it seemed to work out.

Elijah's annointing and double portion to Elisha came from God... Elijah gave it, I suppose (haven't checked) but it came from God. And yea... Sure it sounds greedy. But he wasn't doing with it what Simon the Sorcerer wanted to do with the Holy Spirit. Elisha was going to use it for God's purpose.
 
The double portion was the right of inheritance of the first-born son, and I see this passage in 2 Kings 2 as being related to that. Elisha was the first to seek to follow Elijah as his rabbi, and as such, was seeking a "double portion" of the inheritance -- the ministry to Israel -- to the surviving prophets of the time. In Elijah's statement that it would be granted if Elisha saw his master taken up by the Lord's angels represents his uncertainty that the request would be granted by God, but was as much asking God for this to be a sign to Elisha that it had been as it was a promise to Elisha. In fact, it may not have been a promise at all, but a matter to be left in God's hands.
 
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I think that was when.... Elisha followed Elijah everywhere, like a flea on a dog's back, Elijah kept telling him to stay somewhere while he went somewhere else and Elisha wouldn't stay?
 
Deborah13 said:
I think that was when.... Elisha followed Elijah everywhere, like a flea on a dog's back, Elijah kept telling him to stay somewhere while he went somewhere else and Elisha wouldn't stay?
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Yep.... That's it.
 
When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, "Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?" "Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit," Elisha replied. 2 Kings 2:9

Elisha eyes were opened to see the "The Existence of Spirit World and understood what happens in the spiritual realm determines what takes places in the natural realm.
 
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