Jericho

Once again Elijah urged Elisha to tarry, but the heart attachment is still there and they journey on together to Jericho. That city had been overthrown by Joshua and a curse was pronounced on the one who would rebuild it. So Jericho is the city of the curse. Jesus went through Jericho to reach Zacchæus. This world is under a curse, but because the blessed Lord of glory went through this world you and I have been saved. Elijah and Elisha went through Jericho, too, but Elisha was in good company. Do you have heart attachment to Christ?
Alas, the sons of the prophets were very much at home in Jericho, and they had no desire to leave there. We meet those who will lay claim to knowing all about Christ being taken up yet they are all mixed up with the systems of men. May we say like Elisha, "Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.”