Respecting God and His Word in Responding to God's Man FW0831

Who is God's man with God's power, the king or the prophet? 2Kings 1 looks forward to the first serial reading in morning public worship on the coming Lord's Day. In these eighteen verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that in the battle between Israel's traitorous throne and God's faithful Word, the prophet was the man of God in whom was invested the power of God.