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Elisha prophesied to a barren woman that she would have a child, and she did. She formerly made a room in her house for Elisha to stay in while he was in the area.

One day, when her son was old enough to work in the fields with his father, his head was afflicted and he cried out "My head, my head!" He died in the lap of his mother, and she laid him in the same place where Elisha slept and left him alone in that little room.

The cross is found in foreshadowing form in every Bible Story there is.

SLEEPING in the Bible represents physical death. The place where Elisha slept foreshadows the tomb where Jesus laid in death.

The affliction of the boy's head represents the attacks of the devil on our minds when we begin to become productive in the fields of labour, and reap souls.

When our minds are attacked and our salvation is threatened with death, it is time to go back to where Jesus laid. Laying the child in the bed of Elisha speaks of the mother, the church, taking us back through preaching and teaching to the experience we shared with Christ when we were buried with Him by baptism into His death. Our water baptism was a burial with Christ into His death, thereby making His death to become our deaths as well. We experienced a co-death, co-burial and co-resurrection with Jesus when we were saved. And we need our understanding reminded of this truth.

Attacks to the mind of a believer are lies from the devil. And taking us back to the place where Jesus laid in his death, by teaching us and reminding us of how WE DIED WITH JESUS, renews our minds.

Elisha came and having learned of the child's death, laid on the boy and put his mouth to the boy's mouth, his eyes to the boy's eyes and his hands to the boy's hands. This is IDENTIFICATION.

This speaks of how Christ's eyes were as good as our eyes when he died. His hands were our hands and his mouth was our mouth. We so identified with Him in our baptism into His death, that HIS DEATH BECAME OUR OWN. HIS RESURRECTION BECAME OUR OWN. And his VICTORY OVER SIN became our own! This defeats the lies that afflicted the HEAD or the MIND.

When the boy came to life, it speaks of regaining victory through Christ!

He sneezed seven times.

Sneezing physically removes the obstructions in the head. And these obstructions that were cleared out of the boy's head were likely the cause for his death and affliction in his head to begin with.

This speaks of TRUTHS of our identity with Christ in His victory THAT CLEAR OUT ALL THE LIES that OBSTRUCT our MINDS.

Praise God for men like Paul who repeatedly taught that we MUST KNOW some truths in order to overcome sin!