How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

THE PREMONITION OF DEATH People often speak of having a premonition of a future event, or a foreboding that something is going to happen. A premonition is an advance warning of something that is going to happen. This occurred when Elijah and the sons of the prophets were given a forewarning that the prophet Elijah was to be taken alive to heaven. Elisha was following Elijah to the towns of the sons of the prophets, who all knew Elijah was going to heaven that day: Now the sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from over you today?” And he said, “Yes, I know; keep silent!” —2 K INGS 2:3 At two locations, Bethel and Jericho, “sons of the prophets” were forewarned about the departure of the great prophet to occur on that day (2 Kings 2:1–6). The text indicates that Elijah was the first to know he would be taken in a whirlwind that day (v. 1). What is interesting is that Elijah was actually taken up in a chariot with horses of fire , which Elisha saw (vv. 11–12), but the sons of the prophets at Jericho only saw the physical wind and later requested a search party to look three days for Elijah’s body (vv. 16–18). The men at Jericho saw the whirlwind, but Elisha saw the chariot of fire, which, to the natural eye, was invisible (v. 17). One man saw the invisible