*"As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”* This was not the simple, if sinful, mocking of youth. These provoked Elisha to prove he was a prophet by ascending into heaven as Elijah had done. It was God, if through Elisha, who judged these young men for their blasphemous spirit. Scripture: [[2 Kings 2#^a054dc]] #jot