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Faith in the Face of Apostasy: The Gospel according to Elijah & Elisha is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this helpful volume, Raymond B. Dillard explains the stories of Elijah and Elisha in the context of redemptive history. As prophets of God, Elijah and Elisha sought to restore God’s covenant with his wayward people. They pointed forward to a better prophet to come who would satisfy the terms of the covenant despite Israel’s covenant breaking. In the power and spirit of Elijah, John the Baptist...

that Elijah would come again (Mal. 4:5), and he presents Jesus as the new Elisha.2 The Jews of Jesus’ day apparently expected that Elijah would appear literally and physically from the grave, and so when John the Baptist was asked if he was Elijah, he replied, “I am not” (John 1:21). At least early in his ministry, John the Baptist does not appear to have been aware that he was fulfilling the role of the expected Elijah. On the other hand, Jesus described John as “the Elijah who was to come” (Matt.
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