Daily Celestial Challenge / Tuesday-Animal Kingdom

2 Kings 2: 23-24: "Then he went up from there to Bethel, and going up by the way, some boys came out of the city, and mocked him, saying," Bald, go up! And when he looked back, he saw them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD: and two bears came out of the mount, and they tore down forty-two boys. "

Why would God allow the two of them to kill 42 boys just for yelling at Eliseo Calvo? Let's take a look. Elisha was traveling from Jericho to Bethel when a group of boys verbally harassed him. 42 is a large number of people and it was possibly an organized group that had gone out to Elisha. Their mockery involved a malicious attempt; especially in the culture of the time that urged to have respect for the elderly. Even more, the statement "¡Calvo, subir!" It has cultural relevance. First of all, the "rise" in the phrase was possibly a reference to Elijah's predecessor going up to heaven (2 Kings 2:11). In other words, they also wanted Elisha had also left and because Elijah had gone to the next world, the implication of the phrase was Elisha also disappear. In addition, the 'bald' epithet was considered in the East as contempt even if the person had hair. '"

The lepers who had their heads open, therefore, could suffer deliberate and malicious damage, something dangerous in a crowd that could well get out of hand.

Due to the challenge of the boys, their intimidating number which is a multitude of things, their veiled threat, the attitude of contempt and the fact that Elisha was the prophet of God, the Lord allowed these boys to be destroyed.