Elijah - Elisha

And as Elijah went by plowing, he just took off his mantle and threw it over the top of him. Because the mantle is significant of the transfer of power. And he left the oxen, Elisha left the oxen, and followed after, ran after Elijah, and said, let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I'll follow thee.

 

In other words, say goodbye to daddy and mommy. And he said unto him, go back again, for what have I done to thee? And he returned back from him, took a yoke of oxen, slew them, boiled their flesh with the instruments and the oxen, and gave them to the people, and they did eat. Then he arose and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.

 

And wherever Elijah went, Elisha went with him, carried his suitcase, his briefcase, did his secretarial work, wrote his letters, did his telephones, sent his cablegrams. But he was always with the man of God, being taught, learning, being instructed. And Ben-Hadad, the king of Syria, gathered all his hosts together.