DID GOD USE CHARIOTS TO TAKE ELIJAH HOME?

I believe that soon, soon now, we will be meeting our Lord and Savior in the air.  I thing that finally, our time has come to go home, to the place of our citizenship, and away from this earthly sojourn.  So, Gerlinda once asked the question kthat is the title of this article.  My answer is that I believe He did.  

In the Bible’s beautiful prophetic play, called the Song of Solomon, in Chapter 6, and in verse 12, is found the rapture of the Shulamite girl.  A Shulamite was a gentile.  This is an obvious reference to the Bride of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament.

It reads in chapter 6 verse 12, “Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the CHARIOTS of Aminidab”. (caps mine).

I know that this is describing the rapture of the gentile Bride because in verse 13a, the daughters of Jerusalem (modern Israel) says:

“Return, return, O Shulamite, return, return that we may look upon thee”.

This cry is Israel recognizing what has happened (the rapture) and wanting the Bride to come back.  Why?  In verse 13b, the Bride asks:

“What will ye see in the Shulamite?”

In other words, why do you want me, the gentile, to return, she asks?  And the daughters of Jerusalem (modern Israel) reply in verse 13c:

“As it were the company of TWO armies” (caps mine).

I believe that these two armies are the resurrected dead in Christ, and the raptured living, together at last.

So, does God use chariots?  Well, look again at chapter 6 and verse 12.  An amplified rendering of this verse says:

“Before I was aware of it, my soul was taken by the willing servants (angels)  in the chariots of Aminidab”.

At least two sources that I consulted say that “Aminidab” is not a proper name, but rather the description of a wealthy One with many, many chariots.  

I thus conclude that if chariots were good enough for Elijah, they are certainly good enough for me.

I read in one person’s visit to heaven, that transportation there is in chariots of light.  Maybe so.

This coming Passion Season, I am expecting myself and many others to be thus transported into the glories of God’s presence.

And while I hate what it portends for left behind humanity, I love what it protends for the faithful of Jesus Christ over the ages.  And again, while the watch has been tedious, and sometimes tasteless, the end product will have been very well worth it all.

One of the hymn says, “It will be worth it all, when we see Jesus”
                                         Life’s trials will seem so small, when we see Him,
                                        One look at His dear face, all sorrows will erase
                                        So we can run the race, ‘til we see Him.

To the only wise God be glory, and dominion, and power, and glory forever, worlds without end.

Maranatha


Gerry  Almond